Boathammer

i know exactly what you mena i play and i play and...

2010-06-27T10:51:34.855-04:00

i know exactly what you mena i play and i play and i play dragonage and i just cant get enough of it. but i am so fed up of doing the main quests and yet i still play from the begining. over and over. there is just somthing about the game thats intoxicating, i love it so much i feel so at home in it a free world to do as i wish and say as i sish freedom and even though the grafics may not be prefection there still really good and the story lines are brilliant!!
So i understand what you mean boathammar

It's worth noting that "community" is not the same...

2010-06-04T16:08:34.075-04:00

It's worth noting that "community" is not the same thing as "grouping", forced or not. A game's community can be comprised entirely of indirect interaction.

I do think that community is important to some degree, inasmuch as a toxic community can destroy any sense of world and player economy, but grouping should never be something required for progress in a game world marketed to the mainstream. It should be there as an option, sure, like raiding, but not the only way to get things done.

Reading this makes me glad I do not play WoW any l...

2010-05-25T12:58:22.967-04:00

Reading this makes me glad I do not play WoW any longer. I'm glad you enjoy the game for what it is, but you have to realize that there are many people that consider MMO's to exist for people that want the community and camaraderie that you are so nonchalantly dismissing.

There are countless single player games, or quasi multi-player games where you can solo grind till your hearts content for the purples and achievements. At least try to encourage the traits that separate MMO's from those single player games, otherwise the devs will simply keep churning out cotton candy theme parks that will continue to disappoint.

I was wondering the same thing about PUGs. As fo...

2010-04-27T06:33:18.701-04:00

I was wondering the same thing about PUGs.

As for who suffers now, it's the hardcore types who feel forced to do everything possible on every alts. I don't know why they can't just say 'no, I don't feel like running 10 mans on my main as well as 25 mans' but apparently it isn't possible ;)

I think you really needed something more like "Kni...

2010-04-13T10:27:26.357-04:00

I think you really needed something more like "Knight Train" to be a contender.

Haha. OK, first thing is that some people will be ...

2010-03-24T05:48:23.938-04:00

Haha. OK, first thing is that some people will be following you via RSS which may not show up as a google analytic.

And second is that I'm not sure what blogger does, but on wordpress blogs, you can see who has linked to you. And most people will check out what any posts which linked back to them have to say (and then maybe add the blog to their RSS feed if they like it.)

Good article. Just to clarify though, I'm not worr...

2010-03-23T04:28:39.734-04:00

Good article. Just to clarify though, I'm not worried that there will be too little content overall. Actually, I think Cataclysm will bring more new content than any expansion to come before it, as drastically changing the old world will effectively provide a new 1-60 leveling experience.

My concern lies primarily with the end-game, should it be iterated upon in keeping with former expansions. Right now, there is a divide between raiders and non-raiders, effectively through means outside of Blizzard's control (subjective availability, etc). To these folks, they have to survive on heroics and whatever other content, without raiding playing a major part. Fewer heroics means non-raiders will burn out quicker and thereby leave the game quicker. Unless they want to make an alt, like I plan to (why not see the bulk of new content?).

Generally, I'm not worried about Cataclysm. For a player like me that enjoys leveling, it should be a good time. I just thought it'd be fun to do a bit of speculation before the weekend.

To your main point, about heroics becoming boring no matter what, I agree. Though, I think people are overestimating how much lasting power repurposed vanilla 5-mans will actually have.

You played one of the easiest (and least wanted) c...

2010-03-02T19:47:07.254-05:00

You played one of the easiest (and least wanted) classes in vanilla raiding, and based on that one experience (did you top the damage chart with your 1 spam btw?) you think raiding was easy? If you had such an easy time being the top lock in your raid, you should have rerolled to a MH or MT, and given that a shot. Lets also keep in mind that one of the issues with 40 man raiding is that 10 people carried 30 through a raid in most guilds. Which group did you belong to?

There was a reason most of the player population did not see Nax40, and its the same reason most of the player population will kill Arthus.

I wonder if one of the reasons that people felt mo...

2010-02-26T01:44:34.677-05:00

I wonder if one of the reasons that people felt more tutored in vanilla is that there were probably 5 other members of your class in the raid, plus you probably had a class leader who was responsible for keeping an eye on everyone and making sure they knew what to do.

I know I was a priest class lead in a 40 man raid and I did spend some time teaching the new guys about how to set up their UIs and what we wanted them to do.

So maybe it wasn't that the raids were hard (you're dead right about that, although healing may actually have been more technical back then in some ways) but that you had more opportunity to learn from your peers in raids -- as opposed to on websites.

Someday I'm going to figure out why people are alw...

2010-02-16T10:29:35.977-05:00

Someday I'm going to figure out why people are always present for loot rolls. The reason has to be staring me in the face, but I just don't see it.

I dislike the AH, but that is because of the money...

2010-02-09T14:28:29.289-05:00

I dislike the AH, but that is because of the money hungry players. They should have an item cap atleast. I don't Luke the deposit fee either. I never make money so that is probably why I dislike it tho.

I honestly enjoy the AH more than any other part o...

2010-02-08T07:52:51.194-05:00

I honestly enjoy the AH more than any other part of the game, precisely because it's more sandboxy, and I feel that I can take my own direction, rather than being led around by the nose.

I play the market game in EVE, too, and one of the reasons I'm not interested in STO is the complete lack of an economy.

It's definitely the most fun part of the game for me.

As Herm Edwards so eloquently put it: "You play to...

2010-01-31T16:11:15.191-05:00

As Herm Edwards so eloquently put it: "You play to win the game!"

Don't be nice, be honest and consistent.

Side note: the captcha for this is themage. Since when are these things readable?

Yes, it seems that all MMOs are really, really hor...

2010-01-19T09:12:13.505-05:00

Yes, it seems that all MMOs are really, really horrible about teaching you how to tweak out your character, what the end game will be like, or what sort of hidden mechanics there are.

(Shameless plug (doing a lot of this lately) new blog with a post just about this topic.

Interesting predictions, I think however I would l...

2010-01-18T00:01:55.264-05:00

Interesting predictions, I think however I would like to have more instances than less, but if you are right about them being significantly better, then I will be happy with just 10. I honestly would like them to not include CC because it just makes things more difficult in randoms seeing that most people wont know what they are doing.

Josh
http://wowresourcecenter.blogspot.com/

Thanks for your kind words :)

2010-01-12T08:20:41.707-05:00

Thanks for your kind words :)

I really enjoyed reading your post here. The trial...

2010-01-10T15:32:05.180-05:00

I really enjoyed reading your post here. The trials and tribulations of which the DPS classes have expressed has certainly been an eye-opener :)

Personally, I always found the role of a tank to be more stressful, pressured and time-consuming to that of DPS. After reading everyone's great feedback though, I've come to the conclusion that that probably speaks more of my personality and character than anything else.

The key I guess is finding equality for everyone and unfortunately that's going to be hard to come by so long as MMORPGs continue to use the 'Holy Trinity' formula of tank/healer/DPS. There's also going to be a problem getting the numbers right and that will create annomosity.

Nice blog btw! :)

I feel the same way. There's nothing in the upcomi...

2010-01-04T09:05:22.027-05:00

I feel the same way. There's nothing in the upcoming MMO queue that has my interest. Bioware's Dragon Age has impressed me enough to not write off The Old Republic immediately, but I don't know how I feel about more theme park MMO's. Actually, I do know how I feel; I'm tired of them. The MMO market feels really stale and tired right now.

YOU ARE A FUCKING ASSHOLE!!! Suck it up you pansy...

2010-01-01T23:07:24.827-05:00

YOU ARE A FUCKING ASSHOLE!!! Suck it up you pansy bitch. boo hoo i bought a game and didn't know shit about it and am mad because i'm an idiot that couldn't figure out what to do. you don't need a damn healer in the beginning if you are any good at games whatsoever. and the skill points at the beginning....it's pretty self explanatory what they all do so you not understanding is just pitiful. Grow a pair and stop bitching, i'd like to see you design a game. actually no i don't, your game would suck because you are a moron. Fuck you and get a life

If I want to play hard I play my priest. If I want...

2009-12-13T11:41:37.509-05:00

If I want to play hard I play my priest. If I want to just come for the ride for loot I play my Elemental Shaman. I'm working on a rogue now and he takes a bit of attention. I have to run or die sometimes. Rogues are just button mashing fools tho

I got a kick out of this post. People always do sa...

2009-12-13T09:26:13.110-05:00

I got a kick out of this post. People always do say RL comes first as an excuse. I guess it I'd better than the old, "whopps, I disconnected. Oh well, I don't need to log back in ever. "

My favorite is when a raid is scheduled weeks in advance with the notes reading, "raid will start at 7 and end at 10." at about 9 and one wipe, 10 people suddenly have to go.

Bravo

2009-12-11T13:38:57.846-05:00

Bravo

Bioware has a great track record. Thus, TOR will ...

2009-12-05T14:40:20.628-05:00

Bioware has a great track record.

Thus, TOR will be god.

the achievement is called pilgrims peril for a rea...

2009-11-26T15:02:42.035-05:00

the achievement is called pilgrims peril for a reason

Personally I think talent trees just suck and pret...

2009-11-25T08:42:46.436-05:00

Personally I think talent trees just suck and pretty much every game that has them does the same thing. You're forced to make decisions based on what you know right at the start, that you may need to change later.

I think they should have provided some way to respec in Denerim -- but I can see why they might feel it's counter immersive.

Still, don't look for any radical new game mechanics in SWTOR, it just doesn't seem to be what they do.