Posts Tagged ‘podcast’
July 3, 2008
Story of the Week: Guild Beta Begins
- It was an announcement that was heard ’round the world… of guild communities. The very, very long-awaited guild beta was pronounced to start in July, with beta keys flying every which way to various guilds who applied. And yet… and yet Chrono Chaos was overlooked. WE SHALL NOT BE SLIGHTED!
Beta Ticker:
- 752,553 (+8,950 from last week)
Quotes of the Week:
- “I can’t say why but believe the hype for WAR. I’ve heard from plenty of trusted people that this game’s on a solid bee-line to success. Trusted by me anyway.” ~ JoBildo
- “In truth, MMOG developers really haven’t seen anything comparable to this situation since the genre really began hitting its stride in early 2000. Even the competition between EverQuest II and the original release of WoW isn’t comparable.” ~ TTH on the WAR vs. WoW launch
New Sites & Blogs:
From EA Mythic:
Articles & Essays:
- Rock, Paper, Shotgun has yet another wrapup of the Richard Bartle thingamajigger… can we stop talking about this already?
- (If not… here’s some more from Heartless Gamer)
- Hardcore Casual helps us to avoid MMO burnout with liberal doses of cream.
- Arbitrary wonders if we bloggers should — or will — identify ourselves in game or not. Just to be on the safe side: kill anyone named “Syp”. Name-stealers, all!
- The Greenskin has bad news of a possible delay… for the Brits!
- Wrenn boils down all women in MMOs as Legit, Predators or Sl*ts. Charming!
- War Noob finds that Amazon.com is a great place to recruit for guilds.
- Werit wears a worry. It’s a small worry.
- RadarX attempts to forsee what “Coming Attractions” WAR might bring.
- Keen does a bit of analyzing the June newsletter.
- A Wall of Text picks apart — and this is true — Jeff Hickman’s spasms.
- Brotik doesn’t let a little “hasn’t actually played the game yet or gotten solid reports” stop him — he knows who’s going to be nerfed come release!
- The July newsletter grab bag will cover the Magus career, so if you have questions you’d like answered regarding the Magus, drop them in this Warhammer Vault forum thread.
- CyberVic analyzes the video Paul shot concerning creature animation.
- War Noob asks, “When the poopie hits the fan, who do you want at your side?”
- He also likes the music featured in a recent WAR video.
- JoBildo muses on what class he’s going to play.
- Massively thinks that WAR is looking much nicer — graphics-wise, that is.
- /random doesn’t think level discrepancy will be as big of an issue in WAR due to the end game.
- Scribbles of the Dark Lich does a bit of June newsletter digesting of his own.
- WAR is worth waiting for, Scribbles thinks.
- “WAR – A PvPer’s Dream?” at Word of Shadow looks past the hype train to the rich, gooey center of WAR.
- “How Players Change Over Time” is a cold, hard look at genetic mutation at Book of Grudges.
- Can good sportsmanship even exist in online games today? Massively has a great article about this subject.
- The Order Strikes Back Again at the White Tower, this time slapping dem White Lions around.
- MMOverdose looks at the calm before the storm. This is calm?
- Garthilk at WHA gives us an in-depth look at the Shaman career, including skills!
- Werit’s imagined up a pretty detailed and believable expansion pack for WAR.
- Thallian remains unconvinced why he should care about WAR.
- The Greenskin compares and contrasts expansion policy between WoW and WAR.
- Brotik is giddy with anticipation!
- War Noob is concerned about class homogenization in WAR… will it happen?
- When you go visiting a new country — or MMO — do you want to be an ignorant tourist. Heck ya!
- Snafzg reminds us of an important cautionary tale via Mythic’s Trials of Atlantis expansion.
- War Noob wonders how fast people will hit level 40 or renown 80. I wonder if we’ll start referring to ourselves as a 38/20 Goblin Shaman.
- It’s gear vs. skill time at the White Tower: Part 1 and Part 2.
- Some jerk got interviewed over at Warhammer Alliance. Pah.
- Would you kindly vote on a WAR mousepad design for Mythic? (Bioshock fans, that’s for you!)
- WAR-JOL spends some time looking at zergs in PvP and the ramifications for WAR.
- “WAR: Behind The Career System Part 2” at MMORPG interviews Adam Gershowitz about career balancing.
- Follow that up with a swig from A Wall of Text, who loves the taunting feature.
- Massively’s found a WHA poll of potential players’ ages to be of particular fascination.
- Book of Grudges pulls for the underdog… classes, that is.
- War Noob frets about Warhammer Online’s Narrow Release Window, which is responded to by Bloghammer.
- Massively takes a look at Warhammer’s tabletop Order classes to see how they transitioned into WAR.
- Book of Grudges looks at WAR’s tactical PvP situation.
- TTH marks it as the fight of the year: WAR vs. WoW launch. Who will survive?
- The Greenskin presents another always-fascinating Forum Watch!
- The Cogworks wonders if Mythic will host a MythiCon, or something similar, after WAR releases.
- “Career Smackdown: Marauder vs. Shadow Warrior” at War Noob!
- Werit thinks the White Lion is just a weak little pussycat after all…
- The Greenskin brings you 50 Tidbits Straight From The Mouth of Josh Dresher.
- Keen wants his PvE, and he wants it NOW, or ELSE!
- GameSpot’s Pre-E3 feature mentons WAR as one of the most anticipated games of 2008.
- 1UP does a quick little hands-on preview.
- Apparently I have TEH POWAH to make a poor guy change his blog name. Sorry Vic!
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Posted in Da Newz | Tagged career, comic, comicon, delay, graphics, guild beta, identity, newsletter, podcast, pvp, shaman, white lion | 6 Comments »
June 19, 2008
Story of the Week: Baltimore Games Day 2008
- A little bit of the old, a little bit of the new: this was the mantra of the devs who came to the Games Day convention, parceling out a few new snippets of info (10 character slots! population caps! expansion in the works!) and regurgitating a lot of older stuff. Many visitors noted that 8 of the classes were unavailable to play on the show floor, including the elusive Black Guard.
Beta Ticker:
- 736,315
- +7,469 from last week
Quote of the Week:
- “Paul runs on love, kindness, and the blood of many elves!” ~ Mythic rep
New WAR Sites & Blogs:
From EA Mythic:
Misc. News:
Podcasts:
Articles & Commentary:
- Hardcore Casual deduces: we need WAR already!
- Keen’s Korner: Which class looks the most appealing? It’s a classy piece.
- Wrenn’s take on Warhammer’s graphics, over at Warhammer Peaceniks.
- War Noob asks, “…but what if WAR gets terrible reviews?” Will you still play?
- TTH has organized all their zone overviews on one handy page!
- “By the Gods!” at Warhammer Gaming Scene covers the major deities of WAR.
- “WAR for the Win” at Game Zig replies to my “How WAR Can Win” article — does he agree?
- Book of Grudges digs around in the whole “no official WAR forums” pile. Stinky!
- “MMORPG Burnout and… Anti-Burnout?” at The Greenskin gives us a lovely new gamer definition to memorize.
- Snafzg penned a follow-up, second draft analysis of the recent WHA what-class-will-you-play poll. Great reading, check it out.
- Champions of Stuff throws their hat into the ring as to release and beta speculation.
- Werit (heaven help you if you mispronounce that as “Wart”) looks at WAR’s ability for a character to level up via PvPing.
- How can you sex up the Hammerer? Book of Grudges has some kinky ideas.
- Order of Destruction wants Mythic to get a commercial out on TV, ASAP!
- Svoald comes up with a few WAR conspiracy theories. I think WAR shot JFK, after reading this.
- /random looks at how we can build a Warhammer server community.
- Dreaming a fantastic dream, The Cogworks thunks up fun ways for WAR to make alt leveling more enjoyable.
- Book of Grudges has some nice Baltimore GamesDay review quotes and info tidbits.
- Read a lengthy GamesDay review at Alpha Guild.
- More Games Day wrap-up at Only-WAR.
- “Some Pretty Good Reasons Why Warhammer Looks Like It Might Be Awesome.”
- Book of Grudges debate whether a guy’s manhood is threatened by playing a Witch Elf.
- Ten Ton Hammer’s started an Orc screenshot gallery — see how they’ve changed over time!
- Khaos chooses an army (part 3). Part 3 of what? I feel like I’m loading a computer game with 15 old 5 1/4″ floppy disks.
- War Noob asks, “Should all classes move at the same speed?” Personally, I’m hoping to crawl everywhere. Maybe skip.
- Keen examines the server queues hubbub.
- “How to take criticism (from a pro)” reexamines the whole PC Gamer UK article in a new light, responding to this blog post by the author.
- Here I thought I was in Detroit that weekend…
- Werit looks at DAoC to speculate as to what incentives WAR might feature in getting people to play the underdog faction.
- The White Tower examines Destruction’s apparent domination in the gamer mindset.
- “Early Access? Bring it on!” Book of Grudges declares.
- Only-WAR goes to Games Day 2008 and brings back a personal tale of love and laughter.
- Bo from The Greenskin looks at the graphical style of different MMOs — and why some connect.
- Wrenn looks at AoC and speculates how it might affect WAR.
- War Noob looks at the three most popular WAR forums, and explains why you should care.
- How incredible, exactly, will WAR’s end game RvR be? WAR Gaming Scene reports.
- War Noob doesn’t want WAR to be as popular as WoW, and he has good reasons for it.
- “Can Warhammer Online kill the powerleveler?” Honestly? I don’t think so.
- WAR City Sieges FAQ at TTH
- Tobold looks at the server population issue and decides nobody can play.
- Hardcore Casual says “RELAX!” about server population queues
- TTH’s Top Ten Insights from Games Day 2008.
- Another convert — Gordo is joining the WAR side of the force!
- CyberVic analyzes the Zealot gameplay video from Games Day 2008.
- Book of Grudges asks, “Do we really need different server rulesets?” I, for one, would like to see a banana ruleset.
- Gear v. Skill. Who will win? Who will get the girl, and who will cry themselves to sleep at night on their huge pilla?
- JeuxOnline looks at how WAR might distinguish itself from the rest of the MMO pack.
- Order Strikes Back: Swordmasters of Hoeth. About darn tootin’ time!
- One word: ZERGHAMMER!
- TTH looks at how the human race has evolved in the past year (in WAR, of course).
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Videos:
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Posted in Da Newz | Tagged balance, comic, fluff, forums, gmaes day, graphics, play.com, podcast, population, rule sets, video, zealot | 11 Comments »
June 17, 2008
…You soon will be! Due to freak timing, I ended up on two podcasts released on the same day. I already talked about our bi-weekly ChaosCast yesterday, so today let me point you over to Warhammer Geek, where their Podcast of Reckoning #3 offers you an aural orgasm. They were kind enough to invite me onto the show for a community interview, which you can catch around minute 51 (but listen to the whole podcast!). Also, they got Wrenn from Warhammer Conflict on there, and a parody song to wrap things up.
Posted in ChaosCast | Tagged podcast | 2 Comments »
June 16, 2008
It’s time once again for the troublesome trio of WAR bloggers (Snafzg, Keen and myself) to get together and waste… er, spend three hours of a Saturday afternoon recording a Warhammer Online podcast, only to have Keen’s computer lose our audio files. Repeatedly. You have NO idea how many times we recorded the “what attracted you to WAR?” section, and how many iterations we went through. In one recording — this is true — we got into a detailed fantasy of saving Paul Barnett from a burning building and giving his mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Pity you missed out.
Listen to ChaosCast #2: Technical Difficulties, Please Stand By!
Have a listener question for ChaosCast #3? Leave it in the comments section!
Show Notes:
Posted in ChaosCast | Tagged classes, delay, podcast, poll | 5 Comments »
June 12, 2008
Story of the Week: Population Imbalance Apocalypse!
- So this all started with a poll over at WHA – “Which class will you play on release?” Many people answered. Snafzg of The Greenskin poured the results into a headache-inducing spreadsheet, and came up with the conclusion that, as it stands now, more players are looking to play the Destruction side than Order, causing an unsettling imbalance in a PvP-centric game. Site upon site, blog upon blog took this news, ripped their shirts in twain, poured ashes on their heads, and declared a population imbalance apocalypse on WAR. I like it when people get up in a tizzy over something that hasn’t actually happened yet. It amuses the Syp.
Beta Ticker:
- 728,846 beta applicants
- +8,466 from last week
Quote of the Week:
- “Quite simply, Public Quests are raids without the bullcrap.” ~ Michael Zenke
New WAR Sites and Blogs:
Interviews:
Misc. News:
Commentaries & Articles:
- “Six ways WAR can fail” at War Noob — it’s positivastic!
- “Public Quests will radically enhance MMORPG gameplay” at Keen and Graev’s Gaming Blog and Smoothie Emporium.
- “Marketing WAR: Word of Mouse” over at Book of Grudges gives us an experienced insight into how WAR is being promoted.
- Tobold wrenches apart the joy of PQs to find the misery contained therein.
- What date will WAR release? War Noob seems to know. I think he’s a time traveler.
- The Greenskin’s done one heck of an analysis on the huge WHA poll about player’s anticipated main classes/races.
- Chain-reacting off that and starting a panic (panic in the streets!) Massively bills this as “realm imbalance fears” and urges you to stay calm and duct tape small children to the ceiling.
- Keen feels vindicated when he hears Snafzg’s statistical analysis. Why do I feel like I’m back at college? He follows that up with deep, late-college-night-like conversations about what drives people to a certain class or role.
- MMOG Nation analyzes what a population imbalance could do to WAR.
- Then Tobold comes along to pick his noggin about the topic.
- And don’t even get Champions of Stuff started…
- …but Book of Grudges will certainly end it!
- Keen and Graev host reader mail about “Casual gamers and their future in games like WAR”. I think it’s only logical to assume that gamers like those will be melted down for their basic nutrients.
- A Wall of Text decides… it’s okay to get excited for WAR now!
- Warhammer Vault dissects the Massively Speaking podcast, for better and for worse.
- Book of Grudges wonders: when to drop the NDA?
- War Noob does “Career Smackdown: Squig Herder vs. White Lion”. Surprisingly, My Little Pony wins!
- Werit Blog responds to my “Now Who’s Cloning Who?” piece with “Attack of the Clones?“, MMOG Nation wonders if there’s a bit of thievery going on, and Tobold has his own take on it as well.
- “Keeping Faith with the Warhammer Lore” over at Book of Grudges.
- “Khaos Chooses An Army (Part One)” looks into the Greenskins. Me? I like the Purpleskins myself. Then he takes a look at dwarfs in (Part Two).
- War Noob decides that he doesn’t want to be in open beta, after all. Good for him.
- Armchair Game Design uses WAR’s recently announced crafting system as a launchpad for crafting analysis as a whole.
- “How Alliances Can Save Guilds” — A book report by WGS.
- How long should a day last in WAR? War Noob has an answer, but I say 18 seconds. Or faster. Like “strobe light” fast.
- “Warhammer Online: The Very Basics” takes us “old school”. I hate that new school, anyway.
- Follow that up with a swig of “WAR Bootcamp: Know Your World” over at Werit’s. Ask for the shampoo discount, he’ll know what that means.
- The Cogworks wants to know why we’re not hearing more from the mysterious land of the NDA, and how that affects blogging.
- War Noob reviews the WAR cinematric trailer, and breaks all thumbs involved.
- “Career Smackdown: Black Orc vs. Swordmaster” over at War Noob pits these cuddly fellas together.
- Common Sense Gamer wonders how he’s going to spend the time between now and WAR.
- Should EA Mythic offer a SOE-ish “Station Pass” for its three MMOs? Snafzg says “NO!” Oh, wait, he says “yes”. That was a typo.
- “So you want to be a Dwarf?” The Cogworks asks. Since I’m already short and stout, I guess it’s a moot point.
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Posted in Da Newz | Tagged collector's edition, crafting, dwarf, imbalance, keeps, nda, podcast, population, public quest, scenarios, squig herder, trailer, wallpaper, white lion | 10 Comments »
June 5, 2008
Beta Ticker: 720,380 (up +20,125 from last week)
Quote of the Week: “We’re sort of winking at you, you know? We’re saying ‘oh, we know what you’re going to do.'” ~ Carrie Gouskos on the Tome of Knowledge
Story of the Week: Massively visits Mythic. Michael Zenke just became the most envied person in the Warhammer world, as he was invited into EA Mythic to conduct numerous interviews, play testing and investigations into WAR. A week later, and we have 15 (!) articles for his work. Here they are:
In Other News:
- /random is frustrated by the bounds of the Warhammer NDA, but I think you can read around
the lines to know he’s excited about the game.
- Another week, another great Forum Watch, brought to you by The Greenskin!
- Australia now has 6,000 copies of the WAR Collector’s Edition on sale.
- A Q&A with Mark Jacobs at Venture Beat – it’s a really insightful interview that doesn’t just rehash over the same-old, same-old.
- New dwarf art is available for your discerning tastes at Warhammer Vault.
- Keen’s Korner – “Crafting a new way of Crafting”. See what he did there? I did!
- Book of Grudges asks the question we’ve all wondered: “Is PvP really just for the hardcore?”
- WAR Europe has a neat section on the website entitled “Fan Tales” for beta players to post stories.
- Josh Drescher is a nerd.
- WAR-RvR.net is taking questions about the White Lion career for next month’s grab bag — so go dump your mind there.
- Warhammer Geek’s latest parody is a subject near and dear to many a heart: “CyberSex Mistell”.
- Warhammer Vault continues to impress us with two new wallpapers: a Greenskins and White Lion throw rug!
- The Tome of WAR — a Warhammer Online mod/addon site — is in the making, and the creators want to share their vision and get feedback on this WHA thread.
- Josh Drescher gets personal. Oh yeah baby. Oh yeahhhh.
- There’s a new Warhammer novel that’s being released online, and you can read it as its published, chapter by chapter!
- Art director Greg Grimsby popped by the WHA forums to explain how the dwarfs ended up with the gyro-harness mount.
- RadarX over at TTH evaluates whether or not the $80 Collector’s Edition is worth it.
- There’s a really cool — freezer burn cool — review of WAR from the NY Comic Con. Methinks the guy liked it!
- This doesn’t have so much to do with WAR as it does MMO development as a whole, but I love this article over at Eating Bees like I love my non-existent children.
- Mania’s Arcania, a WoW Hunter Pet blog, has written up a piece on WAR’s White Lion class. Cheeky!
- Book of Grudges reports that Play.com has apparently sold out of the WAR CE.
- Warhammer Conflict’s announced a pair of new features: Richest Members and Sudoku!
- And then they had to go and add Conflict Pets just to mess my little duo news tidbit up.
- Should you update your Dxdiag file if you change your system and want to get into closed beta? A WAR dev answers the question here.
- Stop your grinnin’ and drop your linen — the newest Greenskin Forum Watch is here!
- Mugs up, ale down! A new dwarf blog is on the scene: The Cogworks!
- Three new crafting screenshots are now available at TTH, which come from the new crafting interview with Mark Jacobs. I’m lovin’ it!
- Book of Grudges chews on the new Engineer info.
- Jeff Hickman popped onto the WHA forums to calm some minds over large-scale RvR.
- The Cogworks has the latest Engineer News for you to digest.
- Hardcore Casual mulls over whether WAR will be a serious threat to WoW or… not.
- TTH has a recap of all the crafting info we’ve been handed.
- “That’s WAR!”, a new Warhammer podcast is available — if you can understand German, that is.
- “Warhammer Online: End Game” over at GameZig discusses the much-anticipated massive PvP bouts.
- Another one hooked: “Warhammer Online: My interest unlocked”
- Warhammer Conflict has another Guild Chat Event this weekend — get wooed by WAR guilds!
- James Nichols clarified how you use your Amazon pre-order codes.
- New Secret Life of Mobs comic: “Skaven Army”
- Over at Video Game Theory, they muse about how WAR’s guilds will outlast other MMO guilds by a long shot.
Posted in Da Newz | Tagged capital city, cogworks, collector's edition, comic, crafting, destruction, dxdiag, engineer, forum watch, Guilds, marauder, mounts, nda, parody, podcast, public quest, pvp, screenshots, shaman, skaben, Tome of Knowledge, wallpaper, white lion | 9 Comments »
