“Ownership of anything digital is illusory, and always will be.” – Raph Koster Respectfully, I disagree and instead, assert this is the lynchpin of gaming economy that must be taken behind the toolshed, summarily shot, and buried. This is also why I genuinely fear for the longevity and health of the MMO as capable of […]
1032 hours elapsed since September 28, 2021 (1 month, 13 days). I have over 400 hours of playtime since launch. Quick calculation: roughly 39% of hours since launch, I have played. Five characters, total; four were deleted to restart on various servers (didn’t want to be bothered with the potential transfer errors, etc). The current […]
Intercept – Defeat enemy faction members and collect their tears! https://forums.newworld.com/t/ptr-pvp-faction-quest-um/529942 Seriously? Seriously. Collect their weapons. Collect their badges. Collect their rank insignia. Collect their RINGS. That you choose THIS says much… and very little of it as good a look as it seems you think. Succinctly, you have a choice to support toxicity or […]
Company: Blizzard Entertainment Payment Processor: Adyen Infraction: Inability to decline permission to retain CC data after purchase. Judged bad faith as purchase of battletag change allows this decline, but subscription does not because….? (They don’t want you to have to explicitly renew. They know you most likely will forget. They will profit from helping it […]
Simple facts reveal simple truths: Amazon, AGS, and Twitch often know who streams exploits. When pressed beyond plausible deniability, they give a 24 hour suspension to “attractions” (both protag and sploitag). Conversely, small or non-revenue streams get 1 week or greater. Just like “Facebook/Meta”, Twitter, Reddit, any other “social” media, and life over-all, there are […]
I kind of take most statements from AGS these days as mollifying noises rather than “this is what we are doing, this is why we are doing it, this is how much leeway we have on a change in direction at this time”. I’ve made my additional spend with them in accord with the perceived […]
Art really does mirror life. Sometimes, in hilariously terribad ways. I am watching a new MMORPG game collapse on itself in near real-time. And for the first time in my MMO life, I see people have come full circle on ‘entitlement’ and ‘exclusion’ in gaming. Once upon a time, you had community that really did […]
Location: Greater Everfall, errant. Period: First year’s awakening journals I have lived many lives in many worlds since long before waking and walking Aeternum. From Earth to Norrath, Midguard to the deserts of the Ireiki, through the Kodo graveyard and beyond; so many more lives and dreams of other-ness. Inevitably, the feeling of becoming empty […]
Mind you, I have no insight whatever into how you’ve designed things outside of your (very) basic lumberyard documentation. So I’m just making up contextually accurate names to point out that “each database is separate by region” does not make this “unpossible” in the least. A small and relatively basic ebus that receives and delivers […]
As the MMO genre continues to evolve in (what is now) a much more mutable industry, there are increasing signs that its stability as a genre will finally cross the threshold from closed to open persistence. The additions of data, machine, and semantic analysis are coming along in refining how well development and publishing houses […]