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Cross Server PuGs2010-03-25 00:00:00More importantly you can meet
friends from other servers!
and if we add that new
friendlist feature...
my friend in arena he is a frost mage and i2010-02-06 00:00:00my
friend in arena. he is a frost mage. and i was wondering if destro +urse of elems would be a good 2v2 for arena, (i really want to avoid being a typal SLSL lk) any ts ...
Player vs. Everything: Starting over2009-09-21 00:00:00switch 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.
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 the learning curve. No matter how similar a game might be to your old game, there are always going to be substantial differences. Often the user interface itself presents a problem as you learn how to move around and interact with the game world, but differences in combat, tradeskills, chatting, and everythin...
Puzzle Pirates Shows Indie Developers Can Succeed in the MMO Market2009-09-10 00:00:00and classic games background. Only a couple of us have worked in traditional games companies, and I sometimes think that this is an advantage. BIZ: How did Three Rings fund itself for the couple of years before PP launched? DJ: Founders,
friends and family. We were lucky to have enough money to see the game through to a reasonable point of risk-reduction such that we could persuade some
friends to invest. Thanks to them, we finished her!Note also that we kept costs very low during development, ramping up from 3 full-timers to 6 during the first year and a half, then staying at that level until quite recently. BIZ: What are the biggest advantages or disadvantages to being an indie developer? DJ: Firstly, I should say that I believe that Puzzle Pirates would not have been funded by any publisher, so the game owes its existence to our indie status.Beyond this, the principal advantage is that only you can ...
Player vs. Everything: Analyzing the Wrath of the Lich King news explosion2009-09-04 00:00:00start up their 55 Death Knight on the PvP servers and go around ganking the people trying to level their non-Death Knight classes on those same servers for the first time. You thought ganking was bad now? Just wait.There's another little problem this is going to create: Any number of people play on servers separate from their
friends right now. A lot of them are going to take this opportunity to switch servers and start with a new high-level character. At the same time, plenty of people will be re-rolling as Death Knights on their own server. For these two reasons, we're going to have a simultaneous influx of Death Knights on every server at the same time we have a huge outflow of traditional classes (the server hopping thing is going to make it even worse than it would be otherwise). A lot of those lost classes will probably be healers, too. Get used to seeing, "4 DKs LF Healer, any 5-man instance" in the LFG channel.There was also the implication in several of the articles that the Death Knight was a "test" to see how the introduction of high-level characters...
