As a new recruit in Stormwind, Kabalyero reported to Marshal McBride. He is the commander of the garrison and he welcomed Kabalyero by sending him out on his first quest. It seems that some Blackrock…
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With apologies to Mental As Anything (Apocalypso)
Santa Claus is playing Eve
Trying not to worry
Hearing things he doesn’t want to hear
Cause he’s in a hurry to say goodbye
To say goodbye
Santa Claus is drinking gin
Trying not to worry
Stops himself in the Noble Store
Cause he’s in a hurry to say goodbye
To say goodbye
Chorus
Monocalypso – its a special dance
Monocalypso – tell me why oh tell me why CCP’re trying to wipe the
Smile off Santa’s face
White sheets and bright lights in the sky
Shining through his window
Santa Claus is wondering why
There’s nothing on Eve Radio – it must be time
To say goodbye
Repeat chorus
Repeat verse 1
Repeat chorus
Tell me why they’re trying to wipe
Trying to wipe the smile of Santa’s face
Wipe the smile off Santa’s face and charging him a fortune
Blow the roof off Santa’s drake with store bought ammo
Blow that smile off Santa’s face and charging him a fortune
Blow the roof off Santa’s drake with store bought ammo
It’s Eve-a-clypso
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or at least if you have a Sandbox MMORPG on the market, boost your advertising.
The fuss caused by the Eve item shop isn’t anything new in the world of MMO games. Players threaten to rage-quit over the silliest of issues, and as far as the numbers show, rarely carry out that threat.
Occasionally though, players do quit en-masse. I suspect the Real ID fiasco Blizzard set in motion a while back was one of these times. Lot’s of players said they quit and indicated Real ID as the reason, and within a fairly short time, the normally unmovable Blizzard backpedaled. It’s hard to tell, though, if this was the cause because the company is in control of the stats and generally only release them when they look favorable. I doubt CCP would do any different.
Still in the case of the Eve shop debacle, there are signs that players are jumping ship.
Remember Perpetuum? I had a quick look at this game when it was released late last year, the folks there emailed me an early access key and I spent a couple of hours tooling around in my robot. My impression was that it was effectively Eve Online but groundside.
Well, it seems that the similarity to Eve is giving it a boost.
According to Massively, Perpetuum is experiencing an influx of Eve players to such an extent that the Perpetuum devs have had to put a login limit in place. That’s right. Perpetuum, a six month old game we haven’t heard that much of since release is now experiencing the (equivalent of) server queues. Even if Eve players aren’t quitting yet, they are trying out the competition.
This might be a good time for developers of other sandboxes to either announce or release their games.
Developers: Now Is The Time To Release A Sandbox MMORPG
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The sad news has come through that Star Wars Galaxies will be shutting down on December 15, 2011.
To be honest, I’m a little surprised. SOE don’t have the habit of shutting down their MMO games like NCSoft do. (NCSoft close a MMO at the drop of a hat.) With the exception of the Matrix Online, SOE haven’t dumped any of their lineup, and the Matrix was killed because they lost the IP rights to keep it going.
I wonder if that is the reason for SWG’s demise. There have been rumors for a while that Lucasarts may pull the plug on the licence. Perhaps with SW:TOR upcoming, Lucasarts feels it is time to let SWG die.
On the other hand, there was speculation during the great SOE/PSN hackattack that the dollar losses may force SOE to shut down some less profitable games. Sony as a company isn’t doing all that well, so this might well be a cause.
Still, it’s a little surprising that SWG is being shutdown without an attempt to bring it into the F2P arena. That has saved a few less well performing games. I’d think that going F2P would bring quite a few new players in. And frankly for Star Wars a cash shop could provide all sorts of marvellous cosmetic items, perhaps even including monacles. Lot’s of cash could be made. So perhaps it was a Lucasarts decision after all.
In anycase, I don’t like to see any game close down. There’s always a bunch of dedicated players who, despite the changes and trials of the MMORPG lifestyle, stick with their game year after year. It’s a sad day.
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