MMO Updates |
- One Shots: Out in the cold
- The Daily Grind: Do you like weapon glow effects?
- Age of Wushu provides important life lessons, like how to conduct a proper kidnapping
- Transformers Universe now accepting beta sign-ups
- The Tattered Notebook: Breaking into EQII's Chains of Eternity
- The Mog Log: Stuff I'm going to miss from Final Fantasy XIV 1.0
| Posted: 18 Nov 2012 07:00 AM PST Filed under: World of Warcraft, Screenshots, Culture, Guild Wars 2, One Shots, DC Universe Online, Miscellaneous  Reader Jeremy submitted this haunting picture that works on a couple of different levels in light of the recent announcement. "Kids," he warns, "this is a warning of the harmful effects of No-No Powder. One day, you're sitting in your pleasant home street, admiring the view. Next, you're waking up naked in a tundra with nothing but your quickly diminishing dignity." Let's go on a cold, naked adventure together through the rest of this week's player-submitted pictures! Continue reading One Shots: Out in the cold
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| The Daily Grind: Do you like weapon glow effects? Posted: 18 Nov 2012 05:00 AM PST Filed under: Culture, Opinion, The Daily Grind, Miscellaneous  MMOs are replete with glowy weapons, are they not? These weapons usually include such an effect to signify them as elite or high-level. We've seen everything from a rainbow of glows to flames to crackling electricity emanate from an unsheathed weapon. But the question for today is whether or not you like it. Are glowy weapons a visual treat or an annoying distraction for you? Will you go out of your way to obtain one or are you ambivalent toward them? And if you do like them, what's your all-time favorite weapon visual effect?  Every morning, the Massively bloggers probe the minds of their readers with deep, thought-provoking questions about that most serious of topics: massively online gaming. We crave your opinions, so grab your caffeinated beverage of choice and chime in on today's Daily Grind!
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| Age of Wushu provides important life lessons, like how to conduct a proper kidnapping Posted: 17 Nov 2012 05:00 PM PST Filed under: Betas, Video, Culture, Game mechanics, News items, Free-to-play, Age of Wushu  Video games are especially known for giving players the ability to do things they could never really do in meatspace. Thanks to Age of Wushu, you can now add kidnapping to the list of dragon-slaying, spell-casting, and other things you (hopefully) don't do in real life. A recent news post details the mechanics of kidnapping offline players and selling them for profit. When players go offline in Age of Wushu, their characters become NPCs, and those NPCs are ripe for the kidnapping. Nefarious players can attempt to knock out, kidnap, and even sell offline players. While conducting these slimy activities, players will be clearly marked for the Scumbag Steves that they are, which makes them target for both heroic players and other kidnappers. Check out the link below for full details on the mechanic or skip below the cut for a video.
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| Transformers Universe now accepting beta sign-ups Posted: 17 Nov 2012 03:00 PM PST Filed under: Betas, Sci-fi, Events, real-world, News items, Free-to-play, Browser, Transformers Universe  Transformers Universe is a free-to-play title by Jagex that's aiming for a browser client release. Players will duke it out as Autobots and Decepticons. While Earth is going to be the original battleground, the game will eventually expand to the stars and beyond. [Thanks to savvy reader Jeremy for the tip!]
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| The Tattered Notebook: Breaking into EQII's Chains of Eternity Posted: 17 Nov 2012 01:00 PM PST Filed under: Fantasy, EverQuest II, Expansions, Opinion, Free-to-play, The Tattered Notebook  EverQuest II's Chains of Eternity launched this past week, and while the paint is still fresh and I'm still taking it all in, there are a few things I really appreciate with this expansion so far. If you look back at all of the past expansions and adventure packs, you'll notice there always seemed to be one or two things that were trial balloons and never really fit with the spirit of EQII. In Desert of Flames, it was the arena, while more recently in Velious, the public quests got a lot of use but always seemed to have issues (and they now seem to be off the radar entirely). Chains of Eternity is just good old EverQuest II content, and it's tailor-made for longtime players. In this week's Tattered Notebook, I'll offer up some first impressions of the new expansion and a few things that I appreciate about the game. Continue reading The Tattered Notebook: Breaking into EQII's Chains of Eternity
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| The Mog Log: Stuff I'm going to miss from Final Fantasy XIV 1.0 Posted: 17 Nov 2012 11:00 AM PST Filed under: Fantasy, Culture, Game mechanics, Opinion, Consoles, Final Fantasy XIV, The Mog Log  I also felt a great deal of frustration at the game's servers and the rather lackluster event itself, but that's kind of an irrelevant discussion. It's a lesson to learn for a next time that won't happen. Amidst all of these other feelings, I also felt a sense of sadness about certain parts of the game that are going away when it relaunches. There are aspects I'm going to miss about Final Fantasy XIV's first version, even if I know why those aspects need to be removed from a design standpoint. Today, I'm going to look back at those elements, things that we're going to be rid of that I'm still going to sort of miss in the long run. Continue reading The Mog Log: Stuff I'm going to miss from Final Fantasy XIV 1.0
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