Summary: This week, Bill, Layanor and Harry run the ship while Chris is away sick. With a distinctly SOE tilt, lets travel through the MMO-verse. Listen now: What we did in game Layanor Mostly sat idle in the Moors on LOTRO. But it still counts as playing! I beat Orcs must die 1 and 2 Played Everquest Next Landmark EQ Next Landmark Harry EQ Next Landmark ESO Final Fantasy XIII Lightning Returns Bill GW2 alting ESO Flappy bird farewell tour www.buildwithchrome.com News Everquest Next Landmark: Celebrates Alpha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FicyyHVAzE#t=0 The game is in Alpha You can still sign up to join the game at https://www.eqnlandmark.com/beta-registration You can also purches the game here to get into the alpha https://www.eqnlandmark.com/founders-pack Smeldley: We’re a sandbox company now http://smedsblog.com/ “We all as game makers have to deal with the fact that we’re not just competing the content of WoW at launch. We’re dealing with 9 years of it. That’s a very daunting task and it makes the genre unapproachable if people try and fight that fight. Don’t get me wrong.. someone with deep pockets can still pull it off. TESO looks like it’s going to follow the content model and it’s going to have a lot of players. I’m willing to bet that it hits the same problem that SWTOR did. Just not enough to do.” “There’s a great example of this today with Eve Online. It’s a brilliantly executed system where the players are pretty much in charge of the entire game. Sure there is a lot of content for players to do, but anything that’s important in the game is done by the players. This is a shining example of how this kind of system can thrive. Our belief at SOE is that it’s smarter to head in this direction now rather than waiting. We want to innovate and let players be a part of everything we do including make the game in the first place. We’re going to take the idea of sandbox gaming and we’re putting it at the core of everything we’re doing. We’ll obviously still be making awesome stuff for players to do, but we’re going to aim very high in terms of letting players be a part of the game systems. The more emergent sandbox style content we can make the less predictable the experience will be.” Prime World soon to have a official release http://en.playpw.com/ Prime world is a Moba that lets you build a kingdom, collect skills, and level your characters. They are done testing and will have a official release soon. All players that are in the open beta right now will get 3000 gold to celebrate with. Gold is paid for with real money, and considering the most expensive character you can buy is 499 gold, this is a very nice gift. The game will be patched on release with a new map, and merge the US and Russian servers. Gameplay Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VQWriCR-gQ Escape from Lion’s Arch teaser trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJFlbegazTM DAOC*hicup* Free week for lapsed accounts http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/02/11/dark-age-of-camelot-gives-free-week-of-game-time-to-lapsed-accou/ http://www.darkageofcamelot.com/article/return-realms Bless shows off its in game beta beauty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfSk4r5Xa-4#t=0 Bless is a Story-driven fantasy MMO that has gone closed beta this week. Built using Unreal Engine 3, BLESS uses the latest in cutting-edge graphics and redefines what online games can look like. Created by a team of more than 150 world-renowned game developers and designers. BLESS strives to completely reinvent how stories are told in a MMO by making it a more profound, emotional experience. Each of the 10 races has its own personal story where decisions you make in the game ultimately affect how the world reacts around you. No word on the games release in or out of Korea, but it is one to keep on the Asian mmo radar. Offical Fansite: http://bless-source.com/ Offical Site: http://bless.pmang.com/?mKey=2&sKey=2
