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I reached the point where they wanted me to download gameguard and decided I didn't want to play it that badly.
97% from now
I follow the games progression because i'm in love with the graphics and aesthetic etc, it's come quite a long way since beta, but it still seems fairly eh
they've added a ton of perks to try to get old players to come back and new players to get into it. Stuff like buffs until level 60, pick up buffs off of monsters, easier leveling, cheaper equipment, a new race, stuff like that
the next update that's coming out pretty soon apparently makes leveling so easy that it'll take you an hour to get to level 20. The faster the leveling the better, since the game revolves around the PvP endgame which starts around level 60 I think?
the only problem is the economy is FUBAR. Bots still run the game, have all the best grinding spots. It's obvious that NCSoft doesn't care about banning them, since they're everywhere and so incredibly easy to spot. Groups of 10 players all with gibberish names "dfkjlalsk;fj" running in perfect unison in perfect lines, sitting down in perfect unison, and attacking in perfect unison. Yeah, i'm sure those are real players
Since everything is so screwy, all of the high level armors and weapons are EXTREMELY expensive, and the only way for a sane person to get them without grinding like mad is to buy gold, which everybody seems to do. Not to mention the cost of keeping up with soulshots, and other mid level armors, though i'm not sure how much that'll matter at first with faster leveling
but yeah, the castle sieges and PvP clan wars/drama is what the high level players claim that makes the game great, I always think that EvE does it and does it way better even though I could never really get into that game
but i'm probably going to play this new update for a month because i'm a sucker
Ah, my bad. Thanks.
Are there any free MMOs for the mac?
That's kind of what I was trying to find out. I haven't really been able to find any so far, and apart from just google searching "free Mac MMO" I don't really know where to look.
*edit: it should be fairly easy to do, most games have a link on their front page to the system requirements.
But really, good luck finding a free MMO that's built for OSX too, I've never heard of 'em.
I wouldn't bother with Dofus at the moment, just wait for Wakfu.
Massively also does a twice weekly Mac MMO post:
http://www.massively.com/category/mmos-x
The lack of anything interesting here tells you all you need to know about MMO gaming on the Mac
Guess we'll find out in the next couple days
Do I see a new lifetime subscription coming out of them?
Wasn't the problem that they no longer control the Mythos IP, though? I think the "next few days" of project announcements will be new ideas. Getting Mythos back essentially amounts to buying it back, which I don't think they have the resources to do.
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I also think a Korean investment company is not going to sit on a piece of almost finished software all day, if this new studio has enough money I am sure they will get their stuff back.
And what level are you guys? I haven't played it in a bit, because it gets kinda nasty soloing later on, but I would love to group up with some people from around here if possible.
*European evenings.
Moving on, I am in the process of starting up Zu Online, a game that looks pretty and hey whatever, sifting through a thread with info on all classes I ran into this line that made me remember why a lot of free MMOs fail to interest people past the tutorial level:
At least the writer is honest about it, but really, they expect you to play through roughly 180 levels to stop being bored with a class? I guess the other classes are more interesting.
just throwing it out there.
I've decided chinese culture is based off of dong jokes.
I got to lev 16 after 1 hour of playing. And it looks absolutely gorgeous, I think I'll bum around a bit more in this game, if only for the art.
screenshot in spoiler
Most of the text on screen is advertisement for their cash shop, I believe. The UI looks kind of modern for this game, but if you look at the minimap you see it's made like a painting.
*edit: the ingame currency is called "bone". You ..uh.. you pay in bones.
Basically: killing a mob gives you ~50exp, doing a quest requiring you to kill 10 gives you 2,000exp and bones and equipment. You get quite a few skills early on to keep things interesting, but I mostly 1hitkill mobs at the moment.
So yeah, I just do quests now, there's flight routes between all quest hubs, so I use those to get where I want. If I am really lost I can go to my quest log and click on the name of a mob/NPC/location to make the game automatically walk me to there (including a Indiana Jones-esque line going over the minimap to draw out the route we're going to take).
Can't get to that from work, but if you're speaking about the Talisman game that was going to be for PSN/XBLA/PC, it was quietly put on hold, and the developer taken off of it months ago. I wouldn't really expect it to come out, unfortunately.
I don't know what game you're talking about. :P
I doubt this is it since this is a cash shop MMO.