I love the character creation, the bridge officers, the duty officer system. In STO you're the captain of a ship, with a living crew that grows and changes with you. Being part of a fleet that's big on social interaction, beach parties, and live DJs…
Really good headphones are worth the price investment (I have sennheiser, myself). Not only for the personal comfort, soundstage and reproduction, but for quality and return on investment. I've had my sennheisers for over eight years with nearly dai…
Anyone else remember Dungeon and Dragons Online's original tutorial area (before Korthos island). In that area the player was taught how to block, how to dodge, how to access their spells and learn new spells, about swimming, several things about NP…
Thinking back over the last few months, the advertisements I've seen on mmorpg.com have been: AoC, EVE, DA:O (not even a mmo), and lots and lots of F2P games (including DDO).
Only time I recall seeing LOTRO advertised was around the time of its la…
Sorry, I didn't read all the posts in the thread. But I'll toss in my opinion anyway.
The biggest problem with the "Free to play" games as a genre is the huge variety in their scale between the "free play" and the "pay play". Some games really ar…
Originally posted by inBOIL
Originally posted by evilgreen5
So I know a lot of female avatars in mmo's are actually being played by guys and I must admit, I play females sometimes too. Some people say that it's strange, but here's my justifica…
I cannot help but wonder if Turbine's splitting their Siege of Mirkwood expansion into two products is an experiment in--well, not microtransaction--let's call it megatransaction. One product included the actual content update: the new Mirkwood zone…
I've started playing on DDO again recently.
There's a number of posts on the ddo forums giving ideas and details on how a f2p player can maximize the free turbine points they receive as well as earn more. In most respects, the items in the turbine…
Recognition: For one day, all quests, in every game, are replaced with, "Thank god you're here. Kill these 10 things. Bring friends."
I love this. If a MMO does this, I'll subscribe--even a title I don't care for--for that month just to see it.
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I just want a mission where my bridge crew and myself are mysteriously changed into children then have to crawl around the ship's conduits to repel a boarding force of Klingons by throwing tribbles at them.
-w
It's been a while since I followed the multiboxing crowd in LOTRO, but I can pretty much guarantee that the 6-boxer is playing creepside*. For those not familiar, creeps are the monsters in LOTRO's version of PvP and the ability to play monsters has…
While most people regard the zones as an obstacle, I found them to be a great tool. If there weren't enough players around, I'd just switch to another zone. Too many? Switch to another zone. Having trouble with someone grabbing all the resources in …
Hmmm. I believe PWI can, technically, claim the subscriber base of all the other franchises. Though I don't condone it--it's very misleading, at the very least. PWI is a subsidiary of PWRD (the original developing company) which in turn franchises t…
Originally posted by Manchine
Originally posted by upsilonmerc
About the lack of customizable weapons. You can go to a tailor and change your weapons you just have to pay for it and you don't know what it looks like until you buy it and use it…
I found the XP "return" to be just right. The game went from easy to solo to fairly tough, requiring a lot more thought and effort. I still managed to go through the first "dungeon" (Radiation vault) solo. It was tough on a squishy sorcerer that I f…
I played on wiccana and, for the most part, the chat was extremely helpful, polite, and quite mature. As long as you stayed in /trial. The main channels were pretty much drivel. In fact, as I was playing, more than one person bought the game, had ac…
The game is only expensive if players don't have the patience to earn the in-game coins.
Last time I played PWI $30-$50 was 3-5 million game coins, which was fairly easy to farm out once you hit level 60 or so (and still possible earlier). I have …