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I played this the first time around, on AOL. They charged by the hour back then, my first bill was something like $350.

 Grundz wrote:

 Melissia wrote:


Dunno if anyone's participating. I'll wait and see, myself. Not enough money

I guess free isn't good enough, only play games that pay you?

Don't be a jerk. Assuming that's even possible for you.

I don't have enough money to get a computer where the game actually runs at the moment. Maybe if the problems on my desktop get fixed...

If only dakka has crisp 3d graphics, sigh!!!!

 Necros wrote:
I played this the first time around, on AOL. They charged by the hour back then, my first bill was something like $350.

This does not make sense in any possible way.

 Grundz wrote:
If only dakka has crisp 3d graphics, sigh!!!!

Actually the problem isn't graphics, it's processing power.

This lappy uses a 1.5ghz single core. With THAT level of processing I pretty much have to stick with indy games.

 purplefood wrote:
Advertising!
Actually an MMO with product placement would be... odd.

Pretty sure it was Planetside or Matrix Online but some MMO that I played had adverts for Nvidia or ATi or something for a time in it ALONGSIDE a monthly fee. It was not a very popular decision IIRC.

Didn't Hellgate London have in game advertising?

 Soladrin wrote:

 Necros wrote:
I played this the first time around, on AOL. They charged by the hour back then, my first bill was something like $350.

This does not make sense in any possible way.

Neverwinter used to be an online game on AOL, back when people had phone modems that made funny noises and the interweb was just a noob.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neverwinter_Nights_(MMORPG)

AOL had an hourly fee.. I think it was like $6 an hour. When Neverwinter came out on there, I played till my card got maxed, then had to get mom to pay it off for me and made up some dumb lie about needing something for college.

I like how the crafting system is basically a cleaned up version of STO Duty officer missions. Basically you hire a minion (later minions) who will then go off and mine/gather/whatever you need and make items for you. Each task gives crafting exp, standard exp and other small bonuses and takes a while (early missions takes between 5 mins and 4 hours although if its anything like STO the later ones will take days).

It really takes the grind out of crafting and makes it a plesant little mini game that goes on in the background while you are smiting beasties. The only problem with it that I can see is that the actual crafted items are worse than drops but it is free experience so I can't complain too much.

So, worth playing or not?

Edit: This downloader is absolutely killing my bandwidth. Crippling it, really. Not like the way Steam works. Will try again later.

The gameplay mechanics felt a lot like Dragon Age 2 to me; although I haven't played it in-depth yet.

I'm trying out a rogue currently and the gameplay reminds me of diablo quite a bit.

Its more action orentated than guild wars 2 is and the combat animations look pretty nice.

Not sure what dungeons or pvp is like, the game about melts my poor laptop when I play it even on low settings. Which isn't aying much since minecraft causes my latop to overheat.

I say try it out, you get a few cool abilities pretty quickly so combat is fun right off the bat.

Tried it, hated it. Shallow game play, Pay to win x1000. Boring combat.


Back to DDO (atleast until turbine feths it up with the 'new enchantment pass, and you guys thought GW where shooting them selves in the foot, they ain't got nothing on turbines level of sillyness.)

Have they even instituted the store? I haven't seen any 'pay to win' at this point, but I wouldn't rule it out. I've just run the tutorial and slightly after it at this point.

I haven't seen any pay to win at all either...

 Necros wrote:

 Soladrin wrote:

 Necros wrote:
I played this the first time around, on AOL. They charged by the hour back then, my first bill was something like $350.

This does not make sense in any possible way.

Neverwinter used to be an online game on AOL, back when people had phone modems that made funny noises and the interweb was just a noob.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neverwinter_Nights_(MMORPG)

AOL had an hourly fee.. I think it was like $6 an hour. When Neverwinter came out on there, I played till my card got maxed, then had to get mom to pay it off for me and made up some dumb lie about needing something for college.

You are aware that apart from setting these games have absolutely no relation right? The way you said it was like it was the same game.

Well, I installed it and was hoping to play tonight, but the patcher refuses to patch the game!

Maybe sometime this weekend?

Played it. I'm level 22 now, and I can say that if you like the setting, it is definitely something you should play. If you like free MMOs, you should give it a try. Sure gameplay could be better, but it is completely free. But not pay to win. In fact, the only stuff in the store is cosmetics and mounts/companions. And you can get those for in game money too.

Is it anything different? I know you guys said the combat isn't exactly like WoW, but my brother has been harping at me to get to play an MMO with him, and since this one's free, we might as well check it out.

But I really don't want to waste my time if it's the same old same old, you know?



As for Adverts in the game, Shadowbane had them towards the end of it's existence. It wasn't bad, and just gave you more incentive to not die

Well I have never seen a game with such a horrible download speed.... it's downloading at a breakneck speed of .01 KB/s. feth this game

 Tazz Azrael wrote:
Well I have never seen a game with such a horrible download speed.... it's downloading at a breakneck speed of .01 KB/s. feth this game

Yeah well, good luck patching or logging in. Still can't even load the game, it just hangs whenever I try to load it.

But good to hear at least some people are enjoying it. I'd love to be able to actually play it, but between the patcher lagging out, and once I actually patched it the game hangs at the loading screen. Love me some DnD, but yeah, patience isn't infinite for MMOs.

Odd, I had no issues downloading it or patching it.

It seems like a decent game for f2p, but w/o classes I really want to play I can't see getting really into it.

There's a class or two yet to be released/announced I think...
What do you usually play out of interest?

 Cave_Dweller wrote:

 Tazz Azrael wrote:
Well I have never seen a game with such a horrible download speed.... it's downloading at a breakneck speed of .01 KB/s. feth this game

Yeah well, good luck patching or logging in. Still can't even load the game, it just hangs whenever I try to load it.

But good to hear at least some people are enjoying it. I'd love to be able to actually play it, but between the patcher lagging out, and once I actually patched it the game hangs at the loading screen. Love me some DnD, but yeah, patience isn't infinite for MMOs.

Yeah, had no issues whatsover. Downloaded and patched it in about 20 mins. More likely it's an issue on your side.

I had the same as Soladrin did regarding the download...

 purplefood wrote:
There's a class or two yet to be released/announced I think...
What do you usually play out of interest?

I would like to see Monk or Sorcerer. I like Evoker Wizards, and the Control Wizard is close, but this one is almost entirely Ice based with a few Arcana extras. It was fun, but didn't quite scratch that itch only throwing a lightning bolt can.

Devout cleric is a monk no?
I think it throws lightning bolts as well...
Whitey would know more about it than me...

 purplefood wrote:
Devout cleric is a monk no?
I think it throws lightning bolts as well...
Whitey would know more about it than me...

No, Monks in D&D are the martial arty type of monks.

Also, I want to see Barbarian.

 Soladrin wrote:
Also, I want to see Barbarian.

Yeah, we are missing all the 'nature' types: Barbarian, Druid, Shaman, and Warden.

What classes are there at the moment?

I've always been fond of 4e's swordmage.