Goodbye Europe, Hello US Of A?

It looks like I may well be resurrecting my old RR11 Bone Dancer aka Skarbonefist in DAoC. GOA will soon be ending their maintenance of DAOC in Europe, which means that our characters from Europe will hopefully be transferred to the US servers. This of course could mean we have an active English-speaking DAoC servers again, especially if we are intergrated into the current US ones.

Now some of my guild are currently leveling new characters on the US DAoC servers, but they pretty much all have RR11+ characters sitting on the old European servers. By the way RR11 is very high on DAOC and probably equates to RR80+. It’s worth mentioning you only get RPs for killing people in DAoC, nothing else. No choo choo here, thank you.

Honestly, Warhammer doesn’t come close to the buzz I got off a good group night in DAoC. Now that’s as much about the team of people you play with, as the game, but when you were in the “zone” in DAoC RvR it’s a massive high. Though if you played like muppets it could put you in a very negative downward spiral … Yes I had some extremely stressful evenings in DAoC.

The news is here. So off you go to ponder the implications if you’re an ex DAoCer.

PS – This has me very excited.

EDIT: My BD is RR11+, not RR13. Which is a very big difference. It’s still very high. So changed the text above.

Torchlight

I picked up (Downloaded) Torchlight yesterday from Direct2Drive, for the princely sum of £7.50. Without doubt the best £7.50 I will spend this whole christmas period. It’s been along time since I’be been in the situation where I was going to play for 45 mins and then realised it’s nearly 3 hours later. That’s got to be a good sign. So if you are craving abit of Diablo style action, grab it.

Apart from that, merry christmas to one and all, regardless of faith.

That’s Skar With A K Was 1 On The 28/11/09

Who would have thought I would ever have made a year. I certainly didn’t. I honestly never had an inkling that there was so much rubbish for me to talk about. But I managed it, much to the bemusement of my wife.

So after 1 year, I have the following statistics:-

1. Posts 193

2. Views 9985

WD TV Live = Distraction

It’s been distracting me for the latter part of the week. I picked this up for a friend and needed to understand how it worked so I could provide support in the future. I know, I’m very good to him, but if I don’t do it, it will never be fully utilised and things like that really annoy me. To be honest, its also interesting to see how it shapes up compared to my personal ”White Elephant”, my windows 7 media centre.

This Concept Of Teamwork

I’d like to ask you a serious question. How hard can it be to take a keep with a warband and no defenders? Let me answer on your behalf. Bloody hard, if last nights pitiful attempt at taking 3 keeps in Tier 2 on Karak Norn, is anything to go by. I’m surrounded by idiots. Maybe that’s a bit harsh, maybe it’s just a couple who are wielding their god given stupidity like a two-handed axe. Lets list a couple of my favourite ones from the evening.

Swings And Roundabouts

That’s the funny thing about RvR, it’s so up and down. When I originally thought to report on Laminars current progress (Solely in ORvR), I had just finished a 1.5hr session on Sunday night. I’ll be honest, I wasn’t very happy at all. I hadn’t really died a lot, I was in a group with a healer and we were just managing to hold our own (Though that’s open to interpretation).  Okay we were hemmed in on the outskirts of the warcamp in Trolls Country.

Aions CrySystem.dll Issue Poked Fun At

Now given the depressing Mythic/Warhammer news over the last couple of days, I needed something to make me laugh, preferably at the expense of another MMO. Ovron, who’s a fellow guildie provide this link to a video, with Hitler venting his rage over the mass PvP crash issue in Aion, which I know absolutely nothing about and don’t even care if it’s true, but it made me chuckle and that’s what I needed. So follow the link fellow Warhammers and have a laugh, you’ll probably need it at the moment.

If you’ve seen it already, then you’ll know what I mean. It does contain some subtitled swear words, so consider your location before you open up the link.

Now Is The Time For A State Of The Game Address

Okay, it looks like the 80 people laid off at Mythic is being confirmed. For the people involved it’s a bloody disaster and for the game of Warhammer it has every indication of the last couple of nails being rammed into the coffin. You can’t lay off 40% of your staff and expect there to be no repercussions for the games involved. Not in my most positive frame of mind, can I possibly see this as a good thing.

Layoffs At EA, Implications For Mythic And Warhammer?

If anyone at Mythic would care to comment on the EA Layoffs (17% of workforce) and what this means for Mythic & Warhammer, that would be great. The sooner the better, since it will nip in the bud too much speculation and woe is to me behaviour.

It does say that the focus is to shift away from retail based games, which I would like to think means online games like Warhammer are good to go. I mean to savage Mythic would tend to undermine the point of buying the company in the first place.

If anyone has anymore solid sources of information, then please post.

EDIT: Please add to the 2nd paragraph … Ooops this is EA we are dealing with and they don’t seem to understand the concept of the long ball. How could I forget, Doh.

Endless Free Trial Coming To Europe

Good news is always pleasant, nothing more so than the arrival soon of the endless trial in Europe, but I’ve also got a nagging feeling that it’s not quite as good as it could have been.