if my children were awful healers I don't know how I'd treat them.
Free-to-play or retail, this is my second favorite MMO. First favorite would have to be LotRO.
Do you mind explaining what happened? Like did they spend more time in the game than with each other? Did one quit and the other wouldn't? I've heard of people breaking up because a person won't quit an MMO, but I've never heard of two people who are together and play an MMO together breaking up.
Similar story here, only mine started off with the time-tested Sims. Then I let her play my DS, and after a while she went and got her own DS, and now she plays it every night for a bit before she goes to sleep. She's in the bedroom playing Soul Bubble right now while I finish up some stuff for work.
I tried getting her to try out MMOs a few times. She really liked City of Heroes -- until you exited the character creator and entered the actual game. I don't mind, though. So what...
It's a lot harder to get a girlfriend who's a gamer than it is to just get your girlfriend to play games with you. They don't need to raid and know all of the minor characters in MGS to have fun in games. Just play some more casual stuff, make it more about the experience of playing together than playing the game, and eventually they'll probably start enjoying it more.
It's on a case-by-case basis, obviously, but I do think it can be beneficial a lot more often than people would lead you to think. I myself like playing shooters, MMORPGs, and RTS games. Years ago, I would end up spending time alone playing them when she was out, at work late, working on a side project, etc. because I felt bad sitting there playing a game while she sat there watching TV.
But, eventually she started trying some with me. (And yes, I did start doing stuff like scra...
I used to play it, but I stopped around level 30 when I realized it wasn't nearly as good as people made it seem.
No Deckard Cain!?
As a Horde player, I'm going to have to disagree with number 10.
I also can't believe that "annoying kids and gold sellers" weren't on the list. Then again, it's probably hard to limit it at 10 things when you've been playing the game since launch. Awesome game, but it has its problems just like any other.
The main problem is Acclaim just doesn't know how to handle subscription MMOs. Buying Acclaim Coins to pay a monthly fee? It's such a stupid and obtuse method.
On the bright side, Acclaim DOES know how to handle free-to-play games. Unfortunately, that means people who were paying for Spellborn the last four or five months are going to be SOL until 2010.
I loved the original Call of Juarez, despite what reviewers said. So I'm glad to see this one get some more love.
Not good for your money if you happened to be one of the people playing (and liking) the game. You can either stop playing, or keep paying a monthly fee to pay a game that will have no developer support until 2010. And you KNOW there are going to be bugs and balance issues that need fixing.
Tony Hawk has been irrelevant for years now. Restarting a dead franchise with an expensive and space-wasting peripheral is a bad idea.
I remember playing games that use the skateboard/snowboard in arcades back in the day, and they were just a pain in the ass. I don't see this being any different.
I really like how you won't be able to fail. The fizzle rate in Wizard101 is ridiculous.
But will anyone who DOES play the game pay that much for a TENTH character? Is there really so much to do that people can have 9 characters they can't live without?
I always used my PS3 to watch stuff on Hulu, because the wifi connection makes it so I can. My consoles are in the living room, several rooms away from the router. I don't want to buy a wifi dongle for the 360 in the living room, since I have another one in the office hooked up to my second monitor.
So basically, this just makes it so that I turn on my PS3 a lot less, and just plug my laptop into the TV's HDMI port. A little frustrating that it's not going to be as easy to watch...
What I find funny is the price. I can get a new copy of Age of Conan for $15 or less at several stores. And that's what I need to pay for ONE extra character?
Awesome news about DDO, but awful way to share the news on N4G. I hate when sites just write two quick sentences, copy and paste a press release, and then do nothing more.
What this article completely ignores are what free and paying players get. If you play for free, you can't use Warforged or Drow races, the Monk (and other advanced) classes, and characters can't progress outside of Stormreach. In addition, chat, storage, and auction functions are "limited" and free ...
I asked the guy at the SOE booth showing it if the PS3 version would support keyboard and mouse and he said that at this time it's something they're considering but it's not guaranteed.
I definitely listen to my own music when I'm playing. I'll listen to the game's music for a while, but after a couple of days (if that) I get bored hearing the same things over and over, so it's time for iTunes.
I also tend to watch a lot of news or ESPN while playing, too. Like the article mentions, though, I wouldn't really do either as much if I weren't playing. So I guess in a way playing MMOs makes me listen to more music and watch more news...