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World of Warcraft UI Mods2010-02-20 00:00:00
World of Warcraft ui mods can be SUCH a pain. Don’t you just love it when you log into your WoW account and find that your beloved addons no... IGN Interview FFXI Producer2009-10-15 00:00:00greet people with a storyline and cutscenes and then they're motivated to do the next thing. We incorporated that into this game also. We greet them with a cutscene. The major people, including the high-level people will come up and tell the user what the world is like and give you a real easy quest. Then people who have never done and MMORPG can do that and then figure out that there are other people around you that you can ask for help and also party up with.
IGNPS2: Right now we see different companies entering the MMORPG genre such as Blizzard with their
World of Warcraft for PC. What are you emphasizing for the flavor of the Final ...
Player vs. Everything: Starting over2009-09-21 00:00:00Most of us have spent a lot of time playing our favorite games. Chances are good that unless you're totally new to the MMOG world, you've got at least one character at some ridiculously high level, armed to the teeth, sitting on a big pile of gold amongst the trophies of your slaughtered foes. You might even be part of a guild and still play that character with your guildmates on a regular basis to go topple foes of ever-increasing power. It's good to be a dragon-slaying, world-destroying, gold-hoarding demigod of awesomeness.<br />That's why it's so tough to start over, sometimes. Whether it's rolling up an alt on your current game or picking up an entirely new game, it can be really frustrating to go from a bloodthirsty, battle-hardened warrior who wades into combat swinging an enormous, glowing two-handed sword to some level 1 nobody with a leather jerkin and a knife. All of your accomplishments on your old character seem pretty far away when level 3 wolves are having you for a light afternoon snack, and a brand new grind stretches out interminably before you. Is it any wonder why plenty of players don't even bother with having alts and stick to the game they like?<br />The prospect of starting over in a new game becomes more daunting with every moment you spend in a particular game. Since MMOGs primarily reward time invested in the game, it makes sense that you'd keep playing the game that you already have so much time invested in-I think that frequent game hopping is a minority activity. This is why a fair number of people still play EverQuest, for example (aside from the fact that it's actually a really fun game). When you switch games, you don't have access to any of the resources you've accrued while playing the first one. You can't pass yourself gold, give yourself items, or count on your high-level friends to help you out.<br />But those aren't the only reasons why you wouldn't want to start fresh in a new game. The biggest barrier to starting over somewhere else is usually t...
Puzzle Pirates Shows Indie Developers Can Succeed in the MMO Market2009-09-10 00:00:00I've seen ads on Penny Arcade; do you run ads anywhere else, or rely on a quality product and the word of mouth it brings? DJ: Most of our customers have come from word of mouth. We have distribution with shockwave.com and Popcap Games, and we hope to announce more online distribution deals soon. We are also working on a retail distribution deal that should be announced soon, along with more aggressive advertising campaigns for 2005.
Ye towne squareBIZ: Do you think the MMO market explosion has helped or hurt Puzzle Pirates? DJ: I don't really think of us as directly competitive with 'core' MMOs. We may have lost a few players to
World of Warcraft, but most 'core' players who play Puzzle Pirates enjoy it precisely because it's not whacking Orcs and leveling.This comes back to choosing your battles wisely. We make no attempt to compete with the key features of new MMOs like incredible graphics ...
Blizzard Reveals Item Drop Secrets2009-09-07 00:00:00changed
World of Warcraft's item drop mechanics, but they haven't told anybody until now.
Any
World of Warcraft player knows the fatigue of killing endless waves of generic creatures to farm items you need f...
Player vs. Everything: Analyzing the Wrath of the Lich King news explosion2009-09-04 00:00:00Wow. Or more accurately,
World of Warcraft. It's all over the internet today in a big way. Blizzard released a ridiculous amount of information about their next expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, and some of the changes they've announced are pretty major. I thought I would use today's article to go over some of the most exciting announcements, discuss what makes them so interesting, and talk about what it means for the game (and for you). I'll be pointing out the links as I go along, but if you just want to go check out the articles, this post will send you everywhere you want to go and this post has a nice synopsis of all the available info in one easy place.Before I start digging in, I just wanted to mention that I would never, ever, want to compete with Blizzard as a game company. Those poor guys at Funcom... The Age of Conan release date was set for a month after Blizzard's big Sunwell patch -- it looked like they were in the clear, and they could ride people's boredom all the way to September and maybe even hold them. And then, Blizzard drops a bomb like this (ten days before AoC's release, which I'd...
Features of Brian Koppæ¯ Alliance Leveling WoW Guide (1-70)2009-08-31 00:00:00There are plenty of WoW (
World of Warcraft) guides available in the market these days but for a gamer, to choose the best one is really tough. To solve this problem, the best thing you can do is to study various reviews of these guides so as to know the features of a particular guide. If you are thinking of buying a ...
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