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| Monday, July 6th, 2009 | |
| 11:55 pm [meagenimage] |
IT WAS ALL A SOCIAL EXPERIMENT GUYS http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2 P.S. BUY MY BOOK |
| Thursday, May 7th, 2009 | |
| 1:20 pm [lidane] |
More Eurogamer/Darkfall wankery... Previously on As the Srs Bsns Turns -- --Eurogamer sends a reviewer into Darkfall to play the game. Reviewer gives DF a 2/10. --Fanboys and the game's lead designer both nerd rage over the review --Eurogamer offers to bring in a second reviewer to placate the developers, only to get more nerd rage in response. On today's episode: --Someone in Darkfall creates a Eurogamer.net clan in the game, with every clan then declaring war on them. --Similar declarations of war end up on YouTube --The lead designer of Darkfall flounces and officially declines a second review from Eurogamer. ( Screw you guys! I'm going home! ) Given the sheer level of vitriol from the developer over this single review, I'm guessing there's a lot more going on behind the scenes. A bad review, or even an unfair one, shouldn't provoke this level of anger this quickly. My guess? They're in deep financial shit and overreacting like this might give them some cover if the game goes under soon. They can blame it on Eurogamer's review rather than on anything they did. I might be wrong, but that's the sense I'm starting to get about all this. |
| Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 | |
| 4:03 pm [lidane] |
Eurogamer reviews Darkfall. Srs bsns ensues. For those who don't know, Darkfall is a small indie MMO which bills itself as a hardcore, FFA PvP world with full player loot. It's supposedly not for the faint of heart and for those who want to be challenged. It's also got a long, glorious history of wank for a variety of reasons: (1) an 8+ year development cycle, (2) a promised release date of Jan. 22nd being pushed back to Feb. 25th after the lead developer, Tasos Flamboursas, claimed in December that the game was, "more ready for launch than most, if not all of the MMORPG titles at the same stage that I've personally sampled and it has been for quite some time." (3) a botched launch that included people who pre-ordered the game not having access, multiple charges on credit cards, etc.(4) player complaints about non-existent customer support and rampant cheating, and whole other host of issues. Being an FFA PvP game, it's filled with the usual suspects of that crowd-- griefers, hackers, exploiters, roaming bands of players that zerg n00bs and anyone unfortunate enough to be in their way, etc. It also has the requisite wank on its official forums that goes along with FFA PvP. Also, the game exists in a limbo called "Closed Retail". Basically, Darkfall can only be purchased via download from the developers, but only whenever they announce more sales on their website, and with a limited number of slots being available for purchase at a time. With all that in mind comes the latest bit of wankery-- the Eurogamer review of Darkfall in which they give the game a 2 out of 10. Fanboys begin nerd raging about the review and final score, even trolling the comments section at the Eurogamer site. Normally, that would be bad enough, but Tasos gets mad and gets his own nerd rage on: http://forums.darkfallonline.com/showth ( Excerpt under the cut ) I'm sure this will all end well. Heh. Edit #1: Edit #2: Eurogamer responds to Tasos and stands by their reviewer, disputing the claim that the guy didn't play the game at all, but also says they will bring in game journalist Kieron Gillen to write a second review. That's not good enough for Tasos, however, and he nerdrages again: http://forums.darkfallonline.com/showth It just keeps getting better. I think I need to stock up on popcorn. |
| Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 | |
| 12:49 am [kylenne] |
World of Wankcraft: Wrath of the Bitch King This is an epic, epic tale of guild wank and the seedy world of e-sports, my friends. A tale of weeping e-peens and betrayal, pay-for-play and Arab sheiks (no, rly.). I'll attempt to do it justice without a flowchart. It's long, but I swear to Baby Thrall, it's worth it. Our Cast: -Nihilum. An infamous Horde guild on Magtheridon EU. Suffice it to say this guild was considered by a lot of people to be the best ZOMG HARDK0R3 guild in the world. They were best known for a streak in which they got all the world firsts in PvE content, starting from Gruul's Lair, including being the first guild to clear Black Temple. They were also world champions in PvP at this year's Blizzcon. Nihilum is extremely Srs Bzns, in a scene full of much Srs Bzns, and have been no stranger to wank in the past. Previous kerfluffles involved them allegedly not allowing female players in the guild, an April Fool's flounce that left their many fanboys crying into their Mountain Dews, and allegations of intentional bug exploitation in their world first kill of Lady Vashj. They've also been dogged for years by rumors of gold buying, and that their guild leader, Kungen, has made guildies pay his RL bills (keep this in mind for later). To put it bluntly, wank wafts around these guys like funk in the air of your local con. -Curse/SK Gaming. Another uber hardkore EU guild, Curse started on a different server. I won't get into all the wanktabulous history of this guild, except to say that back in the day, somewhat hilariously, they accused Nihilum of stealing credit for the world first downing of Archimonde. At some point down the line, they got invited into SK Gaming, a German team somewhat notorious in the European e-sports scene, and accepted, becoming known simply as SK Gaming. SK has had similarly scandalous rumors swirling around it; theirs involved a Mysterious Benefactor acting as sugar daddy to its leaders with real life money (again, keep this in mind for later). Fast forward to the fall of '08, when members of Nihilum and Curse-now-SK merged to form the super-guild Ensidia. Ensidia's founding mission was to get all the world firsts for raid content in Wrath of the Lich King when it came out. Given the respective histories of these two guilds, it couldn't have possibly gone wrong, hmm? ( THEY WERE NOT PREPARED. ) Current Mood: Amazed |
| Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 | |
| 3:05 am [haunted] |
This isn't quite wank yet, but I'm posting it here rather than at clairvoyantwank because we need the activity. Over at the LJ community for City of Heroes, a debate is going on as whether we should be discussing information possibly leaked out from under a NDA about the upcoming changes to the game. Already we have such gems as: ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ebenbrooksDon't care. Benefiting from wrong activity is wrong. rogh_senseiOr, to use the example of my former psych professor, a man breaks into a pharmacy to steal medicine that his wife needs to survive that he CANNOT obtain by any legal means. Is that still wrong? ebenbrooks seems pretty anxious to push his view. Paranoid beta tester, perhaps? And does anyone know if the comm has some sort of special relationship with the game devs or something? "If NCSoft decides that we're not trustworthy...what then?" seems to imply there's something for the comm to lose. |
| Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 | |
| 12:56 am [meagenimage] |
Waah! Change is scary and bad! All right, let's get this place going! City of Heroes is gearing up for their latest free update, Issue 13: Power and Responsibility. While the Test Server is in Closed Beta (only those chosen through an obscure arcane process may log in to see the new stuff), articles and previews about the new stuff get posted regularly. The latest news is about the Sweeping PvP Changes, and if you know *anything* about MMOs, that one phrase should be enough to let you know you're in for one wanky treat. Quoth Frank "Castle" Grubb, the "powers guy" of the CoH devteam:( We're making sweeping changes to PvP so newbies aren't quite as outclassed anymore. ) Quoth the playerbase: ( What you're doing is COMPLETELY CHANGING PvP! And I won't pwn as much as I do now! Waaah! ) That's some hand-picked stuff from the first 30 pages. |
