Ancalagon Wodell About RPG Games
Blizzard Fansite Chat
2009-09-26
2009-09-26
Are you considering alternatives or changes to the current Auction House?
We will continue to improve the auction house interface. We also plan on putting auction houses in all major cities and linking them to one another.Will high-level players be punished in some way under the new PvP system when they kill low-level players?
We aren't planning on punishing players for killing low level players; instead we would like to offer compelling incentives to players who kill appropriately level opponents. In addition, the Battlefields will be restricted to players of specific level ranges.Will new zones be introduced soon to the game and will there be instanced dungeons with those zones?
We are planning on introducing Maraudon a level 40-49 instance dungeon in Desolace in the next content patch. Our dungeon team is also working on another high-level dungeon that will be implemented in one of the upcoming patches. We are also working on additional raid content for players of specific level ranges and we expect that the most compelling PvP content will be in Battlefields.Do you plan on taking more advantage of the in-game mail system?
We are planning on using the mail system for quests in the future. In addit...
Hunter PvP Guide - Levels 1-30
2009-09-24
Updated - 4-22-05 - Made slight grammatical changes and changed the part about Track Undead only being useful to the Alliance. A fellow Hunter pointed out that Undead PCs are counted as Humanoids, only Undead NPCs are tracked using Track Undead.
Hunter PVP Strategies - Levels 1-30 by Krazagore
Some acronyms are used in the following article that might not be familiar to you, for reference, here are the acronyms and their meaning.
PvP - Person versus Person (fighting real people)
PvE - Person versus Environment (fighting computer controlled monsters)
NPC - non-player character (controlled by a computer)
PC - Player Character (controlled by a real person)
DPS - Damage Per Second
AoC/AoH/AoM - Aspect of the Cheetah/Hawk/Monkey
Introduction
The first thing to remember when engaging in PvP is that the other person is just that, a person. People make mistakes, but they also utilize techniques that are beyond a simple computer controlled monsters programming. For example, an NPC controlled Rogue won't try to run behind you to use its backstab ability, but a player controlled Rogue will. An NPC isn't smart enough to use an ability that slows you down if you flee, but a player is.
If you'...
2009-09-24
Updated - 4-22-05 - Made slight grammatical changes and changed the part about Track Undead only being useful to the Alliance. A fellow Hunter pointed out that Undead PCs are counted as Humanoids, only Undead NPCs are tracked using Track Undead.
Hunter PVP Strategies - Levels 1-30 by Krazagore
Some acronyms are used in the following article that might not be familiar to you, for reference, here are the acronyms and their meaning.
PvP - Person versus Person (fighting real people)
PvE - Person versus Environment (fighting computer controlled monsters)
NPC - non-player character (controlled by a computer)
PC - Player Character (controlled by a real person)
DPS - Damage Per Second
AoC/AoH/AoM - Aspect of the Cheetah/Hawk/Monkey
Introduction
The first thing to remember when engaging in PvP is that the other person is just that, a person. People make mistakes, but they also utilize techniques that are beyond a simple computer controlled monsters programming. For example, an NPC controlled Rogue won't try to run behind you to use its backstab ability, but a player controlled Rogue will. An NPC isn't smart enough to use an ability that slows you down if you flee, but a player is.
If you'...
Hollywood playing catch-up with videogames
2009-09-19
COLOGNE, Germany (Hollywood Reporter) - Films and videogames would seem a match made in heaven, so why are games based on hit movies so bad? Despite sharing the same demographic of devoted fans, action, sci-fi and fantasy films rarely translate into branded videogame hits.
"Movie-based games almost never work. No matter how cool the movie, the game is almost always lame," said Philipp Dollinger, a gamer reviewer for German blog Pressakey.com and one of thousands of gamers swarming the halls of the gamescom trade fair, which runs until Sunday in Cologne.
"Most are just bad imitations of better games already out there," he added.
Hollywood has been burned before in the gaming space. Just ask Brash Entertainment, the U.S. group that raised $400 million to buy up film licenses and turn them into hit games. After two major flops -- an "Alvin and the Chipmunks" game and one based on Fox's sci-fi feature "Jumper" (2008) -- Brash folded. It was a similar story for Pandemic Brisbane, the Australian outpost of the Los Angeles-based game developer, which shuttered in February after a disastrous attempt to deliver an ambitious game based on Christopher Nolan's blockbuster "The Dark Knight." ...
2009-09-19
COLOGNE, Germany (Hollywood Reporter) - Films and videogames would seem a match made in heaven, so why are games based on hit movies so bad? Despite sharing the same demographic of devoted fans, action, sci-fi and fantasy films rarely translate into branded videogame hits.
"Movie-based games almost never work. No matter how cool the movie, the game is almost always lame," said Philipp Dollinger, a gamer reviewer for German blog Pressakey.com and one of thousands of gamers swarming the halls of the gamescom trade fair, which runs until Sunday in Cologne.
"Most are just bad imitations of better games already out there," he added.
Hollywood has been burned before in the gaming space. Just ask Brash Entertainment, the U.S. group that raised $400 million to buy up film licenses and turn them into hit games. After two major flops -- an "Alvin and the Chipmunks" game and one based on Fox's sci-fi feature "Jumper" (2008) -- Brash folded. It was a similar story for Pandemic Brisbane, the Australian outpost of the Los Angeles-based game developer, which shuttered in February after a disastrous attempt to deliver an ambitious game based on Christopher Nolan's blockbuster "The Dark Knight." ...
Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath for Xbox 360 Has Gone Gold
2009-09-16
Kane is invading the Xbox 360, and he's bringing the ultimate console RTS experience with him! The follow up to last year's Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars*, Kane's Wrath has gone gold for the Xbox 360, and will be shipping on June 23, 2008 with an MSRP of $39.99. Gamers who pre-order Kane's Wrath from Gamestop.com will receive an exclusive talking Kane Bobblehead doll (available while supplies last).
Featuring the all-new CommandStick interface, a revolutionary control scheme built fr...
2009-09-16
Kane is invading the Xbox 360, and he's bringing the ultimate console RTS experience with him! The follow up to last year's Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars*, Kane's Wrath has gone gold for the Xbox 360, and will be shipping on June 23, 2008 with an MSRP of $39.99. Gamers who pre-order Kane's Wrath from Gamestop.com will receive an exclusive talking Kane Bobblehead doll (available while supplies last).
Featuring the all-new CommandStick interface, a revolutionary control scheme built fr...
World of Warcraft patch 2.4.3 notes forecast cheap mounts, fun pets
2009-09-08
We all knew that World of Warcraft patch 2.4 was going to be the last major milestone before Wrath of the Lich King released. Who could have forseen that Blizzard would be making such major changes to the original gameworld in the newest changes to the PTR? Massively's sister site WoW Insider has the full patch notes for 2.4.3, and there are a number of really interesting tweaks going on there.
Mounts are now available at level 30, and it only costs 35 gold to grab the Apprentice Riding skill. You have to figure thi...
2009-09-08
We all knew that World of Warcraft patch 2.4 was going to be the last major milestone before Wrath of the Lich King released. Who could have forseen that Blizzard would be making such major changes to the original gameworld in the newest changes to the PTR? Massively's sister site WoW Insider has the full patch notes for 2.4.3, and there are a number of really interesting tweaks going on there.
Mounts are now available at level 30, and it only costs 35 gold to grab the Apprentice Riding skill. You have to figure thi...
WoW: Lich King Recommended Specs Released
2009-09-04
Blizzard has posted updated PC and Mac user specifications today via the official World of Warcraft forums for the impending expansion, Wrath of the Lich King. User comments to the thread note that the revised specs are more intensive for Mac users than PC users. The blue post states up front that while these are recommended specs, they are certainly not required to be able to play the game. PC System Requirements OS: Windows XP (Service Pack 3), Windows Vista (Service Pack 1) Processor: Minimum: Intel Pentium 4 1.3 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 1500+ Recommended: Dual-core processor, such as the Intel Pentium D or AMD Athlon 64 X2 Memory: Mini...
2009-09-04
Blizzard has posted updated PC and Mac user specifications today via the official World of Warcraft forums for the impending expansion, Wrath of the Lich King. User comments to the thread note that the revised specs are more intensive for Mac users than PC users. The blue post states up front that while these are recommended specs, they are certainly not required to be able to play the game. PC System Requirements OS: Windows XP (Service Pack 3), Windows Vista (Service Pack 1) Processor: Minimum: Intel Pentium 4 1.3 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 1500+ Recommended: Dual-core processor, such as the Intel Pentium D or AMD Athlon 64 X2 Memory: Mini...