It's a question of scale. If you RP in public on a normal server and non-RPers who happen to be jerks are nearby they might start giving you grief, but on an RP-flagged server you get more people popping on and looking for RPers to troll them.
God forbid a server full of people like that go down, then you get stuff like the idiots from Blackrock in vanilla WoW rolling alts on Argent Dawn and converging in Ironforge to flood chat and try to crash the server.
The downside to having a tag is that it makes your server a target for trolls. And in Guild Wars 2 you can switch servers on a whim (only pay money to switch your home server for WvW, which applies to your whole account), so the lack of knowledge about an unofficial RP server isn't as big an issue since if I start on one server and then find out all the RP is happening somewhere else I can just move over there.
That was about Valve wanting companies to sell their DLC through Steam instead of exclusively through external means (i.e. Bioware only selling Mass Effect 2 DLC through their web site), not about patching. Non-Steamworks games can patch through Steam or separately - GW1 still updates through the client even if you own it on Steam.
@(Unverified) "Why would they use steam. It seems they are going to sell digital copies themselves :/ "
One of the community team members said a while ago on Twitter that they would be doing digital sales through other digital distribution sites, otherwise I'd understand it.
I don't think any digital distributors are listed on the current list at all, so I'm hoping Steam gets prepurchases later.
Have midichlorians been mentioned in any Star Wars fiction since episode 1?
If so I've never heard of it, but I don't follow the books that closely. I like to think someone somewhere realized they were a terrible idea and banned all mention of them ever again.
One Shots is back! Long live One Shots!
Apr 1st 2012 12:51PM (Massively)Ha, and my only One Shots contribution was a Toonami reference I don't think anyone got.
Storyboard: Flag a server
Mar 30th 2012 11:08PM (Massively)It's a question of scale. If you RP in public on a normal server and non-RPers who happen to be jerks are nearby they might start giving you grief, but on an RP-flagged server you get more people popping on and looking for RPers to troll them.
God forbid a server full of people like that go down, then you get stuff like the idiots from Blackrock in vanilla WoW rolling alts on Argent Dawn and converging in Ironforge to flood chat and try to crash the server.
Storyboard: Flag a server
Mar 30th 2012 9:54PM (Massively)Are there really people that resentful of RPers? I don't remember hearing about that kind of problem on, say, Landroval for LotRO.
That said, I'm not against them adding RP-flagged servers, I'm just offering my two cents one way or the other.
Storyboard: Flag a server
Mar 30th 2012 9:11PM (Massively)Blizzard opens the Mists of Pandaria floodgates for 100,000 annual passholders
Mar 30th 2012 2:16PM (Massively)Check your b.net account, I didn't get an invite email but I checked last night and the beta was there.
The Mittani gets hit with ban and resigns in wake of EVE Online controversy
Mar 28th 2012 10:59PM (Massively)Isn't this exactly what people were asking for just a few days ago?
Guild Wars 2 pre-purchase locations announced
Mar 27th 2012 10:14PM (Massively)That was about Valve wanting companies to sell their DLC through Steam instead of exclusively through external means (i.e. Bioware only selling Mass Effect 2 DLC through their web site), not about patching. Non-Steamworks games can patch through Steam or separately - GW1 still updates through the client even if you own it on Steam.
Guild Wars 2 pre-purchase locations announced
Mar 27th 2012 10:10PM (Massively)"Why would they use steam. It seems they are going to sell digital copies themselves :/ "
One of the community team members said a while ago on Twitter that they would be doing digital sales through other digital distribution sites, otherwise I'd understand it.
I don't think any digital distributors are listed on the current list at all, so I'm hoping Steam gets prepurchases later.
Making the 'jump' from Guild Wars to Guild Wars 2
Mar 26th 2012 11:31AM (Massively)WvW is as close to "open-world PvP" as it's possible to get in this game.
SWTOR devs attempt to balance the Force through nerfs
Mar 23rd 2012 11:39PM (Massively)Have midichlorians been mentioned in any Star Wars fiction since episode 1?
If so I've never heard of it, but I don't follow the books that closely. I like to think someone somewhere realized they were a terrible idea and banned all mention of them ever again.