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The Free MMO Überlist (updated: Oct 11)

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  • T-BirdT-Bird Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Seg wrote: »
    T-Bird wrote: »
    " Lots of young boys play this game"

    There are a couple of girls in there as well, or at least they say they are girls ;-)
    As for them all being "young" they are the majority but there are a lot of 15+ people playing the game (I know, I'm one of them and I know a bunch of folks my age who also play)

    Can you think of many people over 30 who are playing it?

    A couple of people on my friends list are over 30, but I don't know if my friends list would be usable as a guide for that. All I can say is that people over 30 do play it, I suspect there are a reasonable amount of them, I'd be suprised if it was more than 5%, and that this is all wild speculation without their official demographics info
    Aldo wrote: »
    T-Bird wrote: »
    Re the RuneScape entry
    "People have been killed over this game."

    afaik only one person has died from the game and it was suicide, rather than murder.
    However people have been kidnapped and tortured over this game - http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/21/2023615-dutch-youths-convicted-of-virtual-theft

    (snip)
    just my 2p, can do a rewrite if you want it
    I'll update it for factual accuracy, I still have no idea if it's any fun, but considering I have no intention to try it out I guess I should delete that sentence.

    Thanks :-)
    As for the 'is it any good' would you be okay with a "some people like it" type mention? I know I'm biased but that many members don't get got if its as joyful to play as grating your tounge off.

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  • AldoAldo Hippo Hooray Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Thanks james and T-Bird.

    t Crapfestival: also check out Free Realms, it has a whole lot less grinding going on. Or check out Perfect World, for something slightly less girly.

    Aldo on
  • GlalGlal AiredaleRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Has anyone in Free Realms gotten their shirts/currency for registering before the 1M mark? I got the email, but in the game there's nothing to claim.

    Glal on
  • JamesDMJamesDM Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Not yet, I think I may have gotten the cash at least... is it station cash or in game cash, because I have over 300 in game cash.

    I barely play and mostly just cook or race but my name is Manu Stonehammer in game if anyone wants to play with someone their age... D:

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  • GlalGlal AiredaleRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Supposedly 200 Station Cash (getting 200 in-game money would be pointless, I had just shy of 2000 after two sessions).

    Glal on
  • AldoAldo Hippo Hooray Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    It's station cash, I dunno when it goes into your account. Also, please throw all FR stuff in the FR thread, so it gets bumped every now and again.

    Aldo on
  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Quick update: Neo Steam is currently unavailable as they "enter beta." I didn't know it wasn't already in beta, but I digress. Was it being handled by Atlus before?

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  • AldoAldo Hippo Hooray Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Quick update: Neo Steam is currently unavailable as they "enter beta." I didn't know it wasn't already in beta, but I digress. Was it being handled by Atlus before?
    take your pick: http://neosteam.gamigo.com/ http://neosteam.atlusonline.com/ http://ns.gamenetworks.com/

    Or see http://www.neosteam.com/ for a list of all publishers.

    Aldo on
  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Ok, that's really weird.

    But I trust Atlus the most, so it's worth noting that they're going to have a beta test pretty soon.

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    In fact, if you register by the 20th, you can play starting the 21st.

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  • JamesDMJamesDM Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Didn't see it on the list so...

    Cue Online
    Open beta started today, I just got the email an hour ago, seems to be a billiards MMOG by gamescampus, I checked the site briefly but as usual couldn't find a summary so you guys might want to check it out for yourselves.

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  • Page-Page- Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Seems like it's actually aimed at people who want to play online billiards. There are rankings and handicaps, but no levelling and no real cash shop (just a membership that helps with ranking and "cuemoney").

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  • GlalGlal AiredaleRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    In fact, if you register by the 20th, you can play starting the 21st.
    In fact, if you register by the 20th, you can get kicked in the balls starting the 21st.

    Glal on
  • AldoAldo Hippo Hooray Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    JamesDM wrote: »
    Didn't see it on the list so...

    Cue Online
    Open beta started today, I just got the email an hour ago, seems to be a billiards MMOG by gamescampus, I checked the site briefly but as usual couldn't find a summary so you guys might want to check it out for yourselves.
    Not an MMO for as far as I can see. Did you see the youtube clip? That stuff is ridiculous.

    http://www.youtube.com/v/WHp04zt1dy0

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  • JamesDMJamesDM Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Aldo wrote: »
    JamesDM wrote: »
    Didn't see it on the list so...

    Cue Online
    Open beta started today, I just got the email an hour ago, seems to be a billiards MMOG by gamescampus, I checked the site briefly but as usual couldn't find a summary so you guys might want to check it out for yourselves.
    Not an MMO for as far as I can see. Did you see the youtube clip? That stuff is ridiculous.

    http://www.youtube.com/v/WHp04zt1dy0

    Yeah, upon closer inspection you are right. I saw that it was gamescampus and assumed it would be like Shot Online, which is too bad because I bet it would do a lot better that way.

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  • AldoAldo Hippo Hooray Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I honestly can't imagine many people being interested in playing an arcade billiard game on the PC. I mean, I only do billiard half drunk in a pub with friends, none of us would be terribly interested in the game if it wasn't such a great way to decide who gets the night's bragging rights. Among the people who are more serious about billiard I do not think they would appreciate the arcade aspect of this, what with special moves and all.

    ---

    Now a darts MMO would be awesome. You'd get to create your own hideously overweight pro darter, you start off in smoky pubs in back alleys and slowly work your way up. As you play you get to wear fancier and fancier outfits, you can increase your stats by getting tattoos, reaching certain levels unlock special abilities such as an opening tune (starting with hardly known songs, but eventually you get to have songs like Eye of the Tiger or Born in the USA) and your own wife sitting in the audience showcasing all the emotions your avatar is unable to express through the concentration, beer and layers of fat.

    You level up by winning games, you can get exp modifiers by doing hopelessly bad interviews before doing a match. You can get extra cash after you have been beaten by becoming a commenter for the tournament or appearing in commercials for odd semi-legal products.

    There will also be mini-games such as bar fights, cussing matches and trying to climb stairs without getting a heart attack.

    End-game will exist of dart tournaments and a lot of trying to match your avatar's new found wealth with his humble background.

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  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Aldo wrote: »
    I honestly can't imagine many people being interested in playing an arcade billiard game on the PC. I mean, I only do billiard half drunk in a pub with friends, none of us would be terribly interested in the game if it wasn't such a great way to decide who gets the night's bragging rights. Among the people who are more serious about billiard I do not think they would appreciate the arcade aspect of this, what with special moves and all.

    ---

    Now a darts MMO would be awesome. You'd get to create your own hideously overweight pro darter, you start off in smoky pubs in back alleys and slowly work your way up. As you play you get to wear fancier and fancier outfits, you can increase your stats by getting tattoos, reaching certain levels unlock special abilities such as an opening tune (starting with hardly known songs, but eventually you get to have songs like Eye of the Tiger or Born in the USA) and your own wife sitting in the audience showcasing all the emotions your avatar is unable to express through the concentration, beer and layers of fat.

    You level up by winning games, you can get exp modifiers by doing hopelessly bad interviews before doing a match. You can get extra cash after you have been beaten by becoming a commenter for the tournament or appearing in commercials for odd semi-legal products.

    There will also be mini-games such as bar fights, cussing matches and trying to climb stairs without getting a heart attack.

    End-game will exist of dart tournaments and a lot of trying to match your avatar's new found wealth with his humble background.


    I'd play it.

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  • HiravaxisHiravaxis Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Aldo wrote: »
    .. please throw all FR stuff in the FR thread, so it gets bumped every now and again.

    Where is this thread?

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  • AldoAldo Hippo Hooray Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    btwaaaays if anybody happens to play iro valkyrie casually i just wanted to mention they have a 150% exp and 150% drops for a week.

    just in case, you know, some people hang out for those before levelling. I kind of do that, really. I haven't played my mage much since the last one because its really slow

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  • spookymuffinspookymuffin ( ° ʖ ° ) Puyallup WA Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Anyone playing Runes of Magic here? I've been at it for a week, and I'm having a blast. I'm curious to see if we have a guild or something I can get into.

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  • AldoAldo Hippo Hooray Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Anyone playing Runes of Magic here? I've been at it for a week, and I'm having a blast. I'm curious to see if we have a guild or something I can get into.
    there is a thread no one posts in, if you want to coordinate please use that thread instead. It's the best way to draw attention to your game.

    http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=75496&highlight=runes+magic

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  • Lord JezoLord Jezo Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Just got an email that the Neo Steam beta from Atlus is about to start.

    Free MMOs are hard to keep up with.

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  • AldoAldo Hippo Hooray Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Lord Jezo wrote: »
    Just got an email that the Neo Steam beta from Atlus is about to start.

    Free MMOs are hard to keep up with.
    Tell me about it.

    Aldo on
  • MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Free MMOs demonstrate the modern monkeys-with-typewriters theory. A lot of monkeys whacking at keyboards might not produce WoW (Shakespeare), but they may pull off an RO (Rowling) or Lineage 2 (Tolkien).

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  • citizen059citizen059 hello my name is citizen I'm from the InternetRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Aldo wrote: »
    Anyone playing Runes of Magic here? I've been at it for a week, and I'm having a blast. I'm curious to see if we have a guild or something I can get into.
    there is a thread no one posts in, if you want to coordinate please use that thread instead. It's the best way to draw attention to your game.

    http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=75496&highlight=runes+magic

    I just picked it back up myself; I haven't done very much yet but I think I'm going to use it as my casual, go-to game when I have spare time.

    I'll probably be updating the OP of that thread sometime soon.

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  • ArthilArthil Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I've got to agree with the rest of you guys, Dragonica is awesome.

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  • GlalGlal AiredaleRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Oh... fuck you, Free Realms. Fuck you so very much.

    "To celebrate 1M users we're giving everyone 200SC!"
    Sweet, I can buy a pet!
    "olol no, all the 200SC pets are subscribers only. But if you have 250SC, THEN you can get one! :D"
    ...cocks.

    Glal on
  • JamesDMJamesDM Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Glal wrote: »
    Oh... fuck you, Free Realms. Fuck you so very much.

    "To celebrate 1M users we're giving everyone 200SC!"
    Sweet, I can buy a pet!
    "olol no, all the 200SC pets are subscribers only. But if you have 250SC, THEN you can get one! :D"
    ...cocks.

    SOE... SOE Never Changes.

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  • AldoAldo Hippo Hooray Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    JamesDM wrote: »
    Glal wrote: »
    Oh... fuck you, Free Realms. Fuck you so very much.

    "To celebrate 1M users we're giving everyone 200SC!"
    Sweet, I can buy a pet!
    "olol no, all the 200SC pets are subscribers only. But if you have 250SC, THEN you can get one! :D"
    ...cocks.

    SOE... SOE Never Changes.

    just to get the message through to you two, my reply is in the appropriate FR thread.

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  • GlalGlal AiredaleRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    A link would help. Unless it has the world's most obscure title it's neither on the G&T nor MMO forum front page.

    Glal on
  • AldoAldo Hippo Hooray Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Glal wrote: »
    A link would help. Unless it has the world's most obscure title it's neither on the G&T nor MMO forum front page.
    Like most PA threads it's linked in the OP (I'm trying to keep up to date with this, but I don't keep track of GnT enough to see all threads), I also posted the link a few posts above yours in reply to someone else. You could have also done a forum search for Free Realms and it would have shown up.

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  • GlalGlal AiredaleRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    This forum's search is beyond terrible. But cheers, found the link.

    Glal on
  • ZandraconZandracon Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Downloaded this NeoSteam thing, checking out the character creation things and stuff. Looks like gender is locked to different races, haha.

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  • devoirdevoir Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Anyone had a fling with Warrior Epic?

    Apparently it's more Diablo-ish. You have a whole bunch of characters and if you die more than three times in a given instance, you can use that character and imbue it into a weapon or something. Content scales from 1-5 players and there's a load of loot. Also meant to look good and run well on slow machines. Haven't played it myself.

    Edit: Reading elsewhere it appears you get a single piece of loot at the end of each dungeon. Lame.

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  • Page-Page- Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Is it in a new beta or something? I played the first closed beta and it was very lacking. I mean, it was very early so only about half the characters were even playable, but the fact was that there were no drops, you had a set amount of hearts (HP) per level -- which made melee classes a huge pain since you just had to take hits -- and pots had to be bought with real money.

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  • devoirdevoir Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    It launched. From what I've read I'm not going to bother.

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  • citizen059citizen059 hello my name is citizen I'm from the InternetRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Looks like Endless Ages is dead. It was an MMOFPS that didn't appear to have many people playing.

    Wiki has this:

    Endless Ages is not available in any form. The game went off-line in February 2009. Jason Lee Chambliss, the former player who purportedly bought the rights to the game has issued no public statement about whether or not he will re-launch the game, Endless Ages' future remains in limbo.

    Also, going to the site gives you nothing but a "buy this domain" type of page.

    I gave it a try some time ago, and while the graphics were very primitive I could see where it might have been fun if there was anyone actually playing.

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  • GlalGlal AiredaleRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Page- wrote: »
    -- and pots had to be bought with real money.
    o_O
    Now that is just idiotic.

    Glal on
  • AldoAldo Hippo Hooray Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Gaia zOMG does the same thing, means you gotta man up and find a healer/roll a healer or something. :| Site of Warrior Epic is unreachable for me. :?

    Deleted Endless Ages, thanks for the heads up.

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