MMO Reporter Episode 52

MMO Reporter Episode 52 – Censored

For this week’s episode, we discuss WoW’s big number problem, TOR pre-launch “head start” and the censorship that it provokes in Chris, and much more.

What we did this week:

Bill
WoW – tanking dungeons
LOTRO – raid skirmish, finished story quest
Eve – started account, started tutorialHarry
EVE online: Running level 3 missions. I am now a true multimillionaire, killing bad guys. Does this make me Batman?
WoW: Switching things up by going Shadowpriest for a while. Killing things is fun and nobody yells at me.
LOTRO started new alt for static group night
Battlefield 3.
Dance Central 2 with the kids.

Chris
Rift – Dungeons with guildies to gear them up for raids.
LOTRO – Almost done volume II
DCUO – Leveling my Light based super hero.
WoW – Leveling my Holy Cow
Guild Wars – New mesmer character.
EVE – Leveling skill to pilot the mining barge Harry gave me.

News

EVE Online gets new nebulae backgrounds
http://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&nbid=3057

WoW and the BIG number problem
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/3885585/Dev_Watercooler_-_The_Great_Item_Squish_or_Not_of_Pandaria-11_4_2011#blog

Secret World goes beta in December 2011
http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/11/03/the-secret-world-beta-coming-before-christmas-forums-erupt/
http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2011/11/01/the-secret-world-unveiled-a-bit/
[Update: Funcom has responded to these rumors and says open beta will not begin before Christmas of this year.]
Discussion topic: are players entitled to an open beta?

SWTOR pre-launch guild registration hits phase 3
http://www.swtor.com/news/news-article/20111102

New criteria for guilds to be transferred into game (e.g. 4 guild members must have pre-ordered)

SWTOR Pre-launch head start will be “may be up to 5 days”

May be? Some people will get in before others, even though we all paid for the pre-order. Does the $150 pre-order mean I get to get in for 5 days, while you peons with the Digital Pre-Order only get 1?
Official confirmation

http://www.swtor.com/news/news-article/20111104-0
5 days max. Appears to be based on when you pre-ordered, not what you pre-ordered

Warhammer 40K digging deep into your pocket
http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/11/03/warhammer-40k-planning-multiple-payment-options/

“We will have not just one business model, like subscriptions. There will be other monetisation mechanisms in the game… The team there is being very thoughtful about how we maximise monetisation in this game.”

I realize that I’m nothing but a wallet to be invaded by most game companies, but I really don’t like being openly reminded of that fact.

More studio layoffs
NC soft: http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/10/27/layoffs-hit-ncsofts-north-american-offices/
Gamers First: http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/10/28/massively-exclusive-gamersfirst-speaks-out-on-yesterdays-layof/
Blizzard!!
http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/11/07/rumor-senior-titan-designer-laid-off-by-blizzard/Arenanet Dev Blog – news and notes (especially interested in Combo attacks)
http://www.arena.net/blog/guild-wars-2-development-update-by-jon-peters#more-6766

Lego Universe: The Imagination Fades – submited by wohkith on our reddit page.
http://universe.lego.com/en-us/community/newsnetwork/story.aspx?id=359519

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Swindles

Hi guys,

Thanks a lot for another great show! When public nudity in
the library was mentioned the word bookworm sprang to mind…

Harry, you mentioned your static night in your kinship and,
in a previous episode, I recall you mentioning it was a friendly, casual
kinship on Laurelin which is exactly what I am looking for on my level 30 burg.
Could you let me know where I can find more details on your kinship?

Thanks again!

Harry

Hey swindles. If you want to join our kinship (Amath-Ennin), give me a shout (character name Henric) and we can talk in-game :-)

Swindles

Hey, sounds good, I’ll hit you up. See you in game!

Maarten

Good show!
Harry is starting to come alive and it makes the show at lot better.

You even managed
to get me excited about EVE again! Damn you!
JediMasterBurst

You can create your toons on any server no matter which region your from. Basicly no region lock or IP lock. But your pre-launch guild dettermind your server.

Harry

Ah thanks for the info!

JediMasterBurst

They are preparing for several million people at launch. Its clearly expecting at least 3 to 5 million by launch day. There last Beta Weekend population was larger than most MMO’s populations total.
JediMasterBurst

For my two comment, I’m talking about Star Wars The Old Republic.
Anonymous

LOL, F-bombs much, Chris?
George Ligonis

sorry, did you seriously think that people would get weeks to play the game before it launched? you really thought that people would be able to hit 50 before the game even launched. What the fuck. really, just what the fuck, how stupid could you have been to believe that.

George Ligonis

oh and you go on about how great rift’s head start was. it was like 2 days more, jeez…..
Chris

My issue was more with the “may be up to” portion of the comment, than with the 5 days portion. The 2 differences with the Rift beta, from my perspective, were that it was 7 days, and that everyone who pre-ordered got all 7 days.

That being said, I will be making a comment on the next episode of MMO Reporter, as my co-host Josh and our guest Adaram mentioned the fact that Bioware stated from the beginning that the earlier you put in your pre-order code, the longer your head start would be. That makes my ENTIRE issue a moot point, as Bioware was upfront with the fact.

That’s something that I missed, and I will be making a point of saying that on the next show.

To be clear: I still don’t like that people will be getting into the head start at different times, but Bioware was upfront about it, so I can’t complain too much.

George Ligonis

not sure if you remember rift beta, but it was a clusterfuck of epic proportions trying to get into servers with your friends anyways.

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