Sniggab Odorf

If this is true:

Later on in the thread, Istien pitched in: "Yes, I did test the horseshoe. It does what it's supposed to.

In other words, if one person can test the horseshoe, it makes me doubtful that its effect is some statistically small but not negligible improvement of drops or legacies etc. You would need to do a statistical analysis of a large data sample, and unless you collected all the data AND wrote the code to analyze it, you wouldn't say "I tested the horseshoe". Therefore, I say, the effect is something that is easy to test!

There's no need to try to expand the definition of story to include the emergent gameplay of Eve, and similar player generated content. Emergent gameplay isn't storytelling--it's emergent gameplay, it's something new, modern. You're trying so hard to hang on to the word story that you create this phrase "pre-made story", which apparently refers to all of literature, myth, folklore, movies, tv, comics, etc, just so you can suggest that there's such a thing as an "un-pre-made story"?

I agree with you that most MMOs do have quest text that seems like it was written by the devs inbetweeon coding the game. But doesn't this also mean that most MMOs--have not focused on storytelling? Bioware is going to focus on storytelling, and that's pretty different for an MMO. But I get the feeling that you think this means that Bioware is just going to give the devs more time to write the quest text.

So these hackers get into an account, and then log in to a character, and then what, they take everything that character owns and sell it to a vendor at the vendor price? And then what, they mail the gold to another character who then hangs onto it until a player on that server buys gold from the gold-seller's web site? Why can't Turbine and every other MMO company follow the gold trail?

Flaming Fists of Fury!!!

I'm interested in the crafting that I've heard good things about.

@Belmondo Oh wait, my favorite flair: the turkey head sounds cool.

Here is my contest entry comment.

LOTRO is my preference, because I like the books/movies, and because I haven't really tried DDO.

Hmm, you didn't give any details about how this Battle For Badlands actually plays out. How do they keep score? What are warlords? It looks like the RvR objectives are used, so it isn't organized 1v1 matches, but nothing is clear beyond that....

When Fiona's secret Gnoll friend began to choke on a fur ball, she attempted to perform the Heimlich maneuver, but unfortunately she had never been properly trained on it....