Nox

Lifetime sub?? Hehehe. After all the debacles we've seen in the past few years of mmorpg releases, you would think it would be hard to find takers of the lifetime sub.

But I'm sure there will be.

I like the updates they've been releasing for the past few weeks. I'm definitely looking forward to DF2.

I still think of re-subbing to DF pretty often, since it gave me the most fun of any mmorpg I've played. I think DF is just basically in stasis till DF2 comes out and they pull the plug on DF.

How about the company doing their job and monitoring the community to make sure it abides by the TOS? Isn't that supposed to be what we are paying for with the sub fee anyway?

We don't need to pay "extra." The hell with that. We pay a sub and the GMs do what we pay them to do (i.e., enforce the rules, for example on a rp server, for names, etc. or on a regular server for racist, sexist, anal, homophobic in global or in abuse of trade channels). How about that?

@Yarg2011

Why? Can you support your assertion? I think I'm being rationale here and I'm open to a rational rebuttal. But just an unjustified blanket statement that in your opinion my comment is inane seems somewhat lacking.

Let's see what you've got Yarg2011.

"Should"? Are you asking about "should" in a free market capitalist society?

It would be more accurate to ask "do you want," and the answer would be yes. But "should" has nothing to do with it, where the rule is supply and demand. If people pay for new expansions that don't include old expansions, then of course, that is what you will get more of.

Yes. It should be "policed." But that would be customer service, wouldn't it?

My uni students almost always laugh if they find out I play any kind of game on a computer.

Looks like Jake is about to force choke someone.

Since I have only 2 RL friends who play an MMORPG (a game which I no longer play), it is hard to find a good group. I always envy those people who can play with RL friends and family.

It is still possible to group, of course, but it is a lot harder and takes up more unproductive time winnowing through the undesireables. There are a lot in popular games these days. For example, in a game I have been playing recently, you can buff strangers and they can't be bothered to return buff you. I know I sound like an old fart, and I am, but just a couple of years ago even, it was just common practice to buff someone else if you could and you ran into each other out in the wilds. Now I sometimes buff, and before they can run too far away if they don't buff me, I send a tell asking for a buff, just to experiment. In this particular game, after asking, I get a buff 50% of the time.

In groups, you get a lot of spacebar jumpers and they only care about their lootz. It makes me sad and I am very close to cancelling this game.

Grouping should make accessing certain content easier, like in RL. But someone who is truly clever and resourceful should be able to find a way to solo it if they figure out some kind of trick. People should not be arbitrarily banned from content just because they are not in a group. It should be hard to solo, but possible.

Of course, grouping is better, but because of the blind rush for cash these days, quantity of players trumps quality of community. Recent games seem not to care about giving sufficient tools to promote community. I am thinking of a specific new game, which I will not mention, but which many readers will know.

@xBludx

But I WILL play this and these vids look f--king awesome.