Allods Online was one of my favorite MMO concepts of all time. I'm looking forward to seeing what Skyforge becomes.
Now, pretend that the sentence you are reading is so witty and entertaining that you couldn't possibly exempt it from the giveawa…
Based on that it seems logical to assume that Albion cannot make that particular claim then.
Personally, I don't find that claiming "first" status increases my chances of purchasing a game. For me that falls under the same marketing jargon as "revo…
Well-documented, constructed, and thought out post.
I'm not very familiar with the games you mentioned, but they did add this qualifying statement: "with all players on one master server in one massive, sprawling world"
Does that exclude the games…
Originally posted by Quizzical The problem is that game design is fundamentally about filling in details, not just painting things in broad strokes.
For example, lately I've been working on procedurally generated animations and wanted every foot t…
Originally posted by Helleri ...Massive single server over worlds (and especially if you want any level of truly dynamic content).
Thanks for the input. I clarified in the prior post regarding the server architecture but wanted to respond to t…
Originally posted by Quizzical I think he means single server more in the sense if "you don't get asked at character creation which server you want to play on", and not "there's only one physical box that must house all server components for the ent…
Originally posted by Adrazahn The screwed up signup is easy to explain. SOE does multiple beta's, so they create one beta signup app that's configurable rather than create a new web app and database every time. This means you configure a new beta ea…
Since the BS level is per account instead of per character won't most people cap off their own BS fairly easy?
It seems much more convenient to just level up your own.
Edit: Forgot to mention that in the Beta I had my BS able to create items…
I had a similar experience as the OP.
I tried every class both in PvE and PvP and noticed that there was an ability delay. There was a .5-.75 second delay before instants would fire or a channeled ability would start.
After practice you sort of …
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Originally posted by merieke82
"It looks to be worthy of being mentioned side by side with TOR and The Secret World."
Huh?
I think it's got a fair chance of being 'better' (at least in my opinion, for …
Everyone has a different vision for what an MMO should be. While not impossible, the open source model would be difficult to apply to an MMO. The development cycle for a commercial business is 4+ years and an open source would probably be double tha…
Regarding the idea of creating modular components for PCs: It's already be done ...
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PCI
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USB
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RAM DDR, DDR2, DDR3, etc
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CPUs - hundreds? of different socket types that are…
Some great memories from the original UO:
1) Day 1 - I walked into an empty building in Brit and convinced a handful of passerbys that I was an NPC. Made a few gold pieces pretending to give training.
2) Discovered the hedge maze on my own. Mana…
It's not uncommon for any software development team to reallocate resources after key milestones. For example if all design decisions have been made and implemented and you're just fixing bugs there isn't much point paying for a full team of lead ga…
Originally posted by Lawlmonster When does SWG shut down? December 15th? I wouldn't be surprised if the next Star Wars MMO was planned to come online shortly there after, like within a few days or weeks following.
A publisher like EA would want…