Alluvian EstEndrati

It is news items just like this one that (thankfully) kept me from ever giving the game a try. Very nice to provide advance warning of this sort IMNSHO.

Personally if I had that kind of disposable income, I would be funding some Kickstarter projects or something. To each their own.

And here I had recalled hearing that all the necessary funding had long since been secured for the title. Must be misremembering (or the details I saw were misrepresented).

Ahh well.

I hope the single player game is good. So good that it sells very well and re-ignites the interest in a 40k MMO project again.

The original Bard's Tale games were among some of the first computer games I ever played when I was younger. Drat that Mangar! Alas I did not discover Wasteland till long after I had played games like Fallout and such.

I am very thrilled that the Kickstarter for Wasteland 2 has already met its initial goal.

You know, up until I saw that handy picture I had no idea the leveling path for both sides was so shockingly similar/linear. At least *minor spoiler alert* some of the planets you share with the other side (sometimes with different level ranges) have very, very different stories & progressions.

Heh. A few years back I drew up a business plan (with some friendly help) for developing a Cyberpunk MMO. Given what exists on the market today, I still think the idea was fairly sound. With $30 million we would have well exceeded the funding amount we were looking for. Such is life.

These days if I personally had $30 million to spend developing a MMO, I would aim for something like "Dwarf Fortress the MMO". I am certain it would be lots of !!FUN!! (In a perfect world where I had the cash and the rights to the DF IP that is)

Misleading article title. The linked blog entry has nothing to do with the perceived 'evils' of F2P MMO models of revenue generation. Actually the article is a fairly well-written piece about how sensible the F2P model can be if it is well implemented.

A shame the folks at BioWare didn't pay close enough attention to the RvR Warzone antics that took place in WAR. I would have thought that all the keep trading fiascoes would have kept anyone else from designing a PvP system that could be so similarly exploited.

Alas the growth of F2P games and the increasing number of MMO-style games on the market is not necessarily a good thing. Before the glut of F2P it seemed there was already an over-saturation of the market in certain niches.

One of the few good things to come out of all this, is that variations on mechanics & play-systems are being tinkered with here and there. Nothing revolutionary mind you, but not all improvements to the genera will occur in a Lamarckian fashion.

It looks like BioWare has conveniently ignored (or overlooked) how to use namespaces. As the article mentioned Ultima Online made use of these, but more modern MMOs like Champions Online also have this feature.

This use of 'legacy surnames' in this fashion is downright appalling.

Statesman. No contest. If you can one-shot a Rikti battleship with a flying punch, you could totally crush Defender. In Champions (RPG) terms, Statesman is a Galactic-level character, while Defender is only a standard-level dude in a powered suit.