The Ancient Gaming Noob » Diablo III – Actual Multiplayer Action
Despite one unexpectedly long down time, all of 30 minutes long and which among other things allowed me to get my own Error 37, Diablo III seemed to be having a good night.
Unfortunately we've had a few delays in bringing the #D3 servers back online. No ETA yet, please stay tuned. bit.ly/KR1V29—
(@BlizzardCS) May 17, 2012
Hopefully they are getting things reinforced for what will no doubt be the extra heavy load that will come with the weekend.
When things were back up, I put in the Battle.net Battletags of …
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Tobold's Blog » To cite a troll
Klepsacovic from Troll Racials Are Overpowered posted something last week about TERA which corresponds very much to what I was thinking:
I've been trying to sort out quite what is wrong with the Elin. My gut isn't much help, since it just screams "oh god what is wrong with those people!?" and gut-based psychoanalysis of developers isn't usually a successful endeavor. My brain kicks in eventually and says that no children are harmed by the development or play of the game, that is it fantasy events with fantasy characters in … [Link]
MMORPG.COM News » Age of Conan: Unchained: Screenshot of the Week: Special 4th Anniversary AoC Edition!
MMORPG.com and Funcom have partnered up to give away 10 key codes good for four months of premium game time in Age of Conan. Funcom is celebrating the game's four year anniversary and we're excited to partner with them in this special edition of our Screenshot of the Week contest.
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MMORPG.COM News » General: Ether Saga Odyssey: SOTW Winner's Announcement!
We’ve pored over your awesome Ether Saga Odyssey screenshots and we're ready to announce our three winner's for the Ether Saga Odyssey Screenshot of the Week contest!
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MMORPG.COM News » DC Universe Online: Big Names Making a Return
Sony Online Entertainment has announced that three big names will reprise their roles in DC Universe Online with the Last Laugh downloadable content. Mark Hamill (The Joker), Adam Baldwin (Superman) and Arleen Sorkin (Harley Quinn) will make their return in the DLC.
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The Ancient Gaming Noob » Impressions of Diablo in the Age of World of Warcraft
The headline hints at my initial impression of Diablo III.
It is certainly, from my perspective, a mix of good and ill.
The first two installments of the Diablo series pre-date World of Warcraft by a few years and did, in fact, influence the design of Blizzard’s first MMO. Certainly not in lore nor in the graphic style, but the mechanics of the game show Diablo’s hand clearly if you care to look close enough.
Oh hey, a quest!
More than a decade later, the shoe is clearly on the other …
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MMORPG.COM News » General: RTSGuru.com | MechWarrior Tactics
In the first of a series of RTSGuru.com exclusive features from the team behind MechWarrior Tactics, Roadhouse Interactive Producer James Romanchuk takes us into the past and present of BattleTech & MechWarrior, and the future goals for MechWarrior Tactics. Check it out at RTSGuru.com!
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MMORPG.COM News » Ragnarok Online: Port Malaya Content Expansion Launched
Ragnarok Online players will want to head back into the game to check out the latest content expansion that brings Port Malaya online. Port Malaya brings new adventures for players of level 100+ with new quests, dungeons and monsters.
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MMORPG.COM News » Continent of the Ninth Seal: Tournament to Coincide with Final CBT
Webzen has announced that the world championship tournament for C9, Continent of the Ninth Seal, will begin at the same time as the final closed beta test. The events will run from May 17th through May 31st.
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MMORPG.COM News » The Secret World: Game On | The Closed Beta Weekend
Som Pourfarzaneh and Ripper X discuss the recent The Secret World beta weekend on Game On Extra, a new show spotlighting specific games, news and topics in the MMO world. Check it out on our Game On Podcast page!
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MMORPG.COM News » Diablo 3: Review-in-Progress Part One
After 12 years was Diablo III worth it? That's far too loaded a question to answer in just a single piece, so we're putting together a review-in-progress series leading up to our final review. Today, we look at Diablo III's launch day and offer our take on our experience with the game so far.
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MMORPG.COM News » AdventureQuest Worlds: Action Figures Released
Artix Entertainment has announced that it has partnered with ToysRUs to bring action figures from AdventureQuest Worlds to players everywhere. Two NPCs, Artix and Sepulchure, will be available beginning May 23rd.
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MMORPG.COM News » SMITE: Closed Beta Coming May 31st
Hi-Rez Studios has announced that SMITE will officially kick off its closed beta phase of development on Thursday, May 31st. Players can also pre-order some starter packs to give them a proverbial leg up once the CBT gets going.
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MMORPG.COM News » Drakensang Online: Bernd Beyreuther Talks Appealing to Fans
Drakensang Online has slowly but surely garnering attention around the MMO and action-RPG space for awhile now, even drawing favorable comparisons to that other action RPG that launched this week. In our latest interview, we talk with Drakensang's Head of Development Bernd Beyreuther. See what we discovered and then leave us your thoughts in the comments.
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MMORPG.COM News » Star Wars: The Old Republic: Community Conundrum
How should BioWare handle the server population issues plaguing Star Wars: The Old Republic? We weigh a number of options in this week's SWTOR column.
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MMORPG.COM News » Battle of the Immortals: Our Official BoI Review
Perfect World Entertainment's Battle of the Immortals opened in 2010 and has been making steady improvements ever since. We've been putting BoI through its paces. See how it measures up and then leave us your thoughts in the comments.
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The Ancient Gaming Noob » NBI – Playing Blogroll Breadcrumbs
So many people have posted actual substantial constructive advice as part of the New Blogger Initiative that I am actually a bit stunned.
There is a surprising lack of the sort of advice I dislike, the pretentious “one true way or your doing it wrong” sorts of posts that have annoyed me over the years, that I am starting to wonder what I can add.
I have another post under way that is something of a philosophical post on the subject of blogging. But since I can sum it up …
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Marketwire – NVIDIA Corporation » NVIDIA Tesla K10 GPU Accelerates Search for Oil and Gas Reserves, Signal and Image Processing for Defense Industry
SAN JOSE, CA (Marketwire) – GPU Technology Conference — NVIDIA today announced availability of the NVIDIA(R) Tesla(R) K10 GPU accelerator, designed to address the most difficult challenges in two high-performance computing (HPC) markets: seismic data processing in oil and gas exploration, and signal and image processing in the defense industry. [Link]
The Ancient Gaming Noob » Clearly Diablo III is not Out of the Woods Yet…
I actually got home, had dinner, and was able to log into Diablo III on the first try ever.
Blizzard had the servers down for emergency maintenance earlier in the day, and it appeared to have done some good. I was able to make my first character, play for a few hours, and form my early impressions of the game. Those I will cover in another post.
Then after hitting a stopping point, I decided to log out of the game and then try to log back in, just to see …
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The Ancient Gaming Noob » And Then I Missed Out on the Error 37 Party
Diablo III launch day!
However, I wasn’t going to stay up until midnight to play. I am too old for that sort of thing. But it sounds like I missed a shared experience. When I checked Twitter this morning, Error 37 seemed to be the topic of the day.
One theory…
Best. Prank. Ever. 12 years in the making! #error37 #diablo3—
Tyler Curtis (@TyLiner) May 15, 2012
Man, Diablo III is super hard. I've been playing for 30 minutes and haven't even defeated the login screen. #error37—
Lisa Brewster (@Adora) May 15, 2012 …
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The Ancient Gaming Noob » TorilMUD Adds The Tower of Kenjin
Some games just keep on going.
Originally live six years before EverQuest, TorilMUD just added another zone.
Somewhere in the southern Calimshan desert a mystery unfolds. Rumors spread like wildfires about an enormous ebon crystal tower (which not a soul can remember ever seeing, or hearing about for that matter) rising high into the skies, yet casting no shadow. Foreigners have been seen exploring the desert, all seeking to discover the mystery of The Tower of Kenjin.
In addition, some crash bugs that have been been keeping the game down …
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The Ancient Gaming Noob » Diablo III – Installer Trouble Already
Dammit!
The installer is all downloaded automatically and doesn’t give me an option to download individual packages.
The suggested fix is to download the whole f-ing 7 gigabyte installer again. That will take another 24 hours.
Wasn’t avoid a slow launch day download the reason I downloaded it in advance?
Edit: Okay, finding d3-0-9558-Win-final.MPQ file on my drive and deleting it got things moving again. Or not. It downloads a new copy and promptly puts up the same damn error.
Edit2: Deleting the file three times running appears to have …
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The Ancient Gaming Noob » Seeking The Origin of Cake Myths
Yesterday I decided to pull a game out of the unplayed pile… the virtual unplayed pile, since Steam is the prime holder of unplayed games for me thanks to their Summer sale. Why did I buy all those games?
Anyway, I picked one that has not only been talked to death, but has had a sequel that has also been just about talked out. So now at least I am not as far behind the curve as before.
Oh, I see where this line came from now
You see, I hadn’t …
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The Ancient Gaming Noob » The Last Weekend Before Diablo III
The installer is sitting there on my hard drive, waiting for the 15th.
Sitting… waiting…
I was ready for the game last weekend. I was feeling a bit of MMO ennui and could have used something new to dive into. I could probably go for it this weekend as well.
But we all have to wait until Tuesday.
The installer has been on my hard drive since mid-March, just waiting for its time to come. Waiting because, well… it doesn’t do anything yet when you try and install.
It does update …
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The Ancient Gaming Noob » EVE Vegas 2012 – Coming in October
EVE Online fans will return to Las Vegas again this year in an event that has been going on sporadically (to my knowledge) since 2009.
EVE Vegas 2012 – Titan not included
Full details, including links, prices, forum thread pointer, and such are at the official EVE Vegas web site.
The highlights of the event are:
A two day event made for fans, by fans Officially sanctioned by CCP but without control over content EVE player personalities and CCP Devs presenting together on one stage An open bar reception to … [Link]
The Ancient Gaming Noob » The Tug of War Between Escalation and Hulkageddon
Again, CCP_Diagoras offers up data tidbits too juicy to ignore.
This time it is a comparison of mining activity before and after the Inferno: Escalation update went live.
Inferno – The Escalation Begins
One of the notable aspects of this update was the removal of mineral drops from drone NPCs and the removal of tech I ship fittings from all NPC drops. Both of these were very significant sources of mineral in the New Eden economy.
The intent of this was to spur mining and make it a more profitable venture. …
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The Ancient Gaming Noob » Anger About Discord on Fippy Darkpaw
Hegel remarks somewhere that all facts and personages of great importance in world history occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.
Karl Marx
The surprise “no” vote on the unlock of the Gates of Discord expansion on the Fippy Darkpaw time locked progression server has some people quite annoyed. It seems like a more aptly named expansion as each day goes by.
Gates of Discord indeed
There were threats of bad in-game behavior posted to the forums, intended to protest …
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The Ancient Gaming Noob » Null Sec Mining – Starting Off on the Wrong Foot
One of the allures of 0.0 security space is all the fabulous ore you can mine out there. The prime end of the asteroid list, Arkenor, Bistot, Crokite, and the very special Mercoxit, which requires a special exhumer, the Skiff, to mine. All of these refine down to minerals that are quite valuable. You can get all the tritanium you want in high sec… if you can avoid being blown up at the moment… but for more rare minerals in large quantities, you pretty much have to go to null sec. …
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The Ancient Gaming Noob » OTEC – The Cartel Bares Its Teeth…
The spice must flow
The Spacing Guild, Dune
As usual, the hint that something was up on Sunday afternoon came in the form of a Jabber broadcast.
We’re going to be doing something special tonight at 3:00 EVE, forming up in VFK with Alphafleet. It’s special enough that I’m not telling you what we’re doing at all – except that I will personally be logging in to ‘Eve Online’ and going on this fleet, which hasn’t happened in, christ. The last invasion when I wasn’t banned, I guess.
There will be …
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The Ancient Gaming Noob » Gates of Discord Vote Fails to Pass on Fippy Darkpaw
Well the issues have been resolved and the results of the vote are up. I’m slightly surprised, but it appears that more of you wanted PoP to last a bit longer. The next vote will definitely prove interesting.
Thanks,
-Piestro
EverQuest II Community Manager
I am not sure what Piestro was doing posting to the EverQuest forums, being he is supposed to be the EQII guy now, but there he was answering the question that had come up Monday morning.
The vote for the Gates of Discord expansion ended and people …
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