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[metadigital]

only have this link at present:

linky-dink

[Judge Hades]

No.

[Musopticon?]

Fileplanet. Ugh....

 

Same goes for regular D&D-settings

[Archmonarch]

I hear its Eberron based, but still no.

[Musopticon?]

Ah, same goes for me too.

[Hurlshort]

I'm downloading it at home, but I don't have a key yet. I guess they are doing the Stress Test in waves. I'm semi-excited about this game. I loved what Turbine did for Asheron's Call, and I liked parts of AC2, but that game let me down. My expectations are tempered by the fact WoW is still really the best MMORPG by a long shot.

 

Also, I love Fileplanet. I pay like $15 every three months for super fast downloads of all sorts of media. I don't know how that isn't worth it. It's also improved vastly over the years.

[Musopticon?]

How fast? I easily get 200 kb/s from free sources. Half an hour isn't that much for 400 and some megs of content.

 

Edit: And you're a working citizen, aren't you? Major difference.

Edited November 15, 2005 by Musopticon?

[Hurlshort]

I am a working citizen. If I wasn't, I wouldn't splurge on Fileplanet, but I also wouldn't have hostility towards the service. The speed is nice, but it's also about the ease of use, the fact it's pretty much never down, and having one place to go for this junk I download. I was a free downloader for many years before I subscribed to Fileplanet, but I've never regretted the change.

 

Although Fileplanet doesn't have everything. They need to be better about grabbing new game movies and making them available.

[Musopticon?]

I was a free downloader for many years before I subscribed to Fileplanet, but I've never regretted the change.

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Poor bud, you've never known anything better.

[Darque]

Tempting... but MMOs aren't my thing.

[Musopticon?]

Just sprang to mind while thinking D&D... Anybody seen this?

 

http://volournthefatpig.ytmnd.com/

Edited November 16, 2005 by Musopticon?

[BicycleOfDeath]

Prejudices and ignorance is funny sometimes. It's actually turning out to be a damn good game. Though, you'll have the "They changed this!? IT's not D&D!!!!!!!!!!1111!!!!"

 

If you want to play D&D Online the way D&D is written, imagine playing Temple of Elemental Evil with 3,000 players. You know that 6 second round? It'd take a while.

[Volourn]

"Just srpang to mind while thinking D&D... Anybody seen this?"

 

Hehe. My fans love me, they really love me!

[Gabrielle]

Tempting... but MMOs aren't my thing.

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Plus Fileplanet is evil.

[metadigital]

This was a public service announcement. I do not commend, nor recommend, this site or game in particular or MMORPGs in general.

[Gabrielle]

This was a public service announcement. I do not commend, nor recommend, this site or game in particular or MMORPGs in general.

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Than why bother, hmmmm?

[metadigital]

This was a public service announcement. I do not commend, nor recommend, this site or game in particular or MMORPGs in general.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Than why bother, hmmmm?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

public service announcements

[Hurlshort]

I got on for a few minutes this morning. The character generation is just like NWN, so quite a bit of customization off the bat (and more character model choices, but I mean traits and all are the same.) I didn't get to play much, but the graphics are impressive. I am a bit worried about the combat pace. It's very real-timish, and I'm worried that will make it more of a clickfest then strategic use of skills.

 

I'll play more tonight and update.

[Judge Hades]

If I want to play DnD online I'll play NWN 1 then NWN 2 when it is released. Why pay a monthly fee to play DnD when yo9u can play for free. The whole idea of a DnD MMORPG is stupid and just not viable thanks to NWN.

[CoM_Solaufein]

Paying to play online is stupid. I bought the game, I paid enough money on it why screw me with online charges? I'll take NWN and Diablo any day.

[ShadowPaladin V1.0]

Depoends really. I saved a fortune when I was playing EQ online. Compared to nights out at the pub, buying other games etc.

[Hurlshort]

Anyone who disputes monthly fees in a MMORPG has no understanding of how businesses are run. If you want access to high powered servers that are stable and tested for bugs, and also given new content on a regular basis, you have to pay for it. All MMORPG's have employees to pay every month they are in business. When other games are released, there might be a skeleton crew manning patches and tech support, but it's nowhere near the infrastructure of a MMORPG.

 

I actually ran a NWN server. It was neat, but it had its share of downtime and was far from stable. It was a hobby, not a business. When I play WoW I have much higher expectations.

 

I couldn't get on DDO last night. Super high traffic, but it is a stress test. At least they've extended the test so I can play until Friday.

[Judge Hades]

Oh, I know they need the money to keep the servers up and going but that doesn't make it worth the monthly fee. MMORPGs suck by their very nature.

[Yst]

Paying to play online is stupid. I bought the game, I paid enough money on it why screw me with online charges? I'll take NWN and Diablo any day.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

We've been through this many, many times before. If you don't want a game with a full-time live development team, that's fine, and there are lots of games like that. Most RPG worlds do not have a full-time live development team and all but a few have no central server infrastructure. Many are multiplayer nonetheless.

 

However, if you want a world with a full-time live development team and active and available customer service, constantly adding content, maintaining storylines and tweaking balance while covering the costs associated with a massive central server infastructure more or less in perpetuity, they need to be paid money for their work.

 

Most MMORPGers complain incessantly about the lack of adequately reliable customer service and timely bug fixes and tweaks in their chosen MMORPGs. If these things are a concern as it is, removing the revenue stream which provides for them will not help matters.

 

I like my MMORPGs to have good regular content updates, timely bug fixes and tweaks and a reliable server infrastructure and customer service staff. I don't expect the money for those services to grow on trees.

 

I don't trust any product that offers me a costly and complex service in perpetuity at a nominal one-time fee. That's nonsense economics. I didn't believe it when the "one time fee - dialup for life" ISPs came about in the late '90s and crashed not long after, and I won't trust it now in the present.

[BicycleOfDeath]

Probably would've gotten the KOTOR Media patch, and a better quality one at that, if KOTOR2 was an MMO. *chuckles*