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Last week's launch of Age of Wushu marked the beginning of our process leading up to our final and official review. We start the journey with a few articles dealing with our experiences as we head to the ultimate destination. Check out our Review in Progress Part 1 to see what we think so far and then lend your voice to the discussion in the comments.
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Nothing you said is wrong. This is how the first 3 hours of the game plays. They teach about skills, give you your skills, then some background on the world and school you chose. Remember the little girl with the kite? The one you try to help, who gets mad at you for messing up her scam? I'm sure you do. Don't forget the lesson she teaches. AoW is a brutal world.
Another point you made about localization. The translations are fine, but as you said the AoW game world is a completely different culture. For some things there are no words. Granted the long tutorial along with the cultural things can give you a headache. These things will seem small after you're done, and run into a real headache with a chain claw :p
About where you talk about the social aspects. AoW is an extremely social game. This can't be stressed enough. You must ask questions. You must ask for help, especially ealry on. The good thing is everyone playing has been there, so people are more inclined to help a newb. Newb is a affectionate term in AoW. People protect them like a little brother or sister.
Your last paragraph."Age of Wushu has a thousand things going on at once, and yet nothing is really happening." Step out your front door. There are a million things going on, but nothing at all. AoW is not a MMO where you leave the hotel and jump on a shuttle to the amusment park. It's a virtual world.
Imformation overload my friend. Have Bo pm me if he has some questions. Even better open up your school tab and PM you school leader or some of the elders. That's what they are there for, and war ofcourse ;)
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Joined: 6/10/09
That was a very entertaining and pragmatic review in progress Lisa. I'm looking forward to the next one.
I've been in tests before where localization was an "in progress" item and it was a real eye opener. It's interesting how hard it can be to find your way around when everything is either in a foreign language or using generated placeholders.
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Joined: 7/18/10
I really don't like the fact that you have come to a Chinese developed game, based on a ton of Chinese history, myth and popular culture, and you expect the game to explain it all to you. AoW is and always will be a niche game because of this so treat it as one.
Any fan of Wuxia knows what Jianghu is. In fact anyone who watched Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and paid attention will know what Jianghu is (clue: Li Mu Bai's entire story is about trying to leave Jianghu behind to have a normal life with Shu Lien). You can even wiki it to find out.
Yes, the game is not optimally localised. There is a lot to figure out, read, learn and experiment with. This is what games used to be like (look back at SWG which explained almost nothing when you started out) and I for one like this. It gives the game depth, makes it like a puzzle, and once you understand it you feel very satisfied and connected to what you are doing.
AoW is by no means perfect, but my god is it a step in the right direction compared to the train of MMO garbage coming out of Western developers these days.
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Joined: 8/25/12
thats how i felt for the first few days in AoW too.. i could swear at least 5 towns are named the same... and translations, oh god :P they really hurt the game when it comes to not-so-themepark series of quests (gossip quests) :/
Tutorial isnt much better really. While it does explain quite a few things, and touches different subjects, theres just too many things that tutorial throws at you in your first few hours, that every new thing sort of overrwrites old one, and in the end of it you really have no clue whats going on :P
Gossip quests are actually old school quests, where you are given just a hint by some npcs, and you gotta explore the world to solve some of those quests. It could be really interesting quest system, but AoW's translations managed to make such a mess of it.
just one example of random encounter quest dialogue, copied from AoW forums
Conversation went something like this...
End of convo.So now I have a tongue in my bag and I have no clue what to do with it.
its sort of ridiculous really :P
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Joined: 2/21/10
I can appreciate the more old school vibe I'm getting from doing research on this game. I haven't played yet, but having to look a little harder for quest solutions and having to juggle ten different pieces of information to progress actually seems appealing. However, I can also appreciate your frustration with how un-themepark-ish the game is. I have been looking for a more sandbox-like game to play because the themepark MMOs are starting to annoy me. I am intrigued...the question is if I am intrigued enough to download it and play. Hmmmm.
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Lisa, You say you were forced to group, which is not really true. Yes the part of storyline does involve a visit to mini instance, however, when you are on the quest you also get assistance from an NPC that can safely solo the whole place (you still want to assit it a bit on boss to make it faster). You do not need to group at all to do the story quests.
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Being "forced" to team during the Tutorial:
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While I can agree that the game throws a ton of different and sometimes confusing mechanics at you, like a very in depth skill system, overall it has a great feal to it unlike any other game out there.
It's refreshing to see a world built around the east asian culture and doesn't include fighting pandas. This game definitely needs time more than most other current mmo's to get use to, but eventually everything will become second nature and you will forget how complicated it once seemed.
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Joined: 11/08/12
I acutally agree with most of eveything Lisa has said here and I appreciate her opinion. While I have bought the game, and I am currently playing, I'm still on the fence. Long have I awaited a Sandbox that would take me away from Eve Online. So far, I'm hoping this is going to be it, but it's not looking good.
Wehn Lisa wrote that it seems like not much is going on, I get what she is saying. In my mind I know logically there is a lot going on, but I feel that nothing meaningful is happening. Sure I sold 100 flour, sure I sold a butt load of tomatoes.... okay. While my character is growing, I don't feel powerful, or much stronger. In Eve you feel powerful, how could you not. AoW feels like 'Second Life' based on the Chinese culture and Kung-Fu. Is that bad? No, but it's also not for everyone who enjoys a good sandbox.
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Haven't played not sure I will, but I have to say I really like all the confusion im seeing. Even the reviewer and our know it all community .... confused ahhahahaaa If ifs that bogus I may just have to give it a go
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I've played this game for hours and I am done. Sorry this game is just not for most people.
Blame me for not being 'hardcore' but the game fails where it could have exceeded (Combat and Fun Factor)
Just because it is a sandbox game doesn't mean it is worth me wasting my time.
Why can't a sandbox title have more information? Why aren't the enemies fun to fight? Why are the quests so damn dull?
I posted on the game a week ago or so and was told that this game was for 'Elite gamers only'
I played and got into Fallen Earth and Eve.
Apparently you have to be an elite gamer to force yourself to like an uninteresting game that almost scrapes the fun barrier but just doesn't quite make it.
Whomever Dev'd the Autopathing should be fired and shot. The worst I have seen ever in a game in the last 20 years.
subpar fighting
subpar quests
abysmal translation
Great animation
Nice graphics.
Two Thumbs down from this Gamer.
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AoW has a lot of things going for it. And I would strongly argue that its complexity is one of those things. A sandbox game where you grasped all the main mechanis in a few hours wouldn't be very intresting in the long term. Maybe they could've laid out everything better and introduce you to mechanics slower. But that would mean they'd have to hold your hand for at least a good 10 hours, which in turn would make it feel less sandboxy out of the gate. Thus potentially scaring away their core player base.
The real weakness of AoW -and the one that made me decide not to put more time into it- is in my opinion it's combat system. It's utterly slow and dull, and not at all as tactical as the developers seem to want it to be. Were this game to have a better more involved combat system it would most likely have been a hit with me.
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I agree with the reviewer's last paragraph....summed it up perfect....
there are 1 million things in front of you yet nothing is happening. Maybe it's because I can't get out of the tutorial, but this game does NOT feel like a sandbox game at all. I've played Ryzom, Darkfall, Wurm and a few others and Im not getting the same feeling.
This game honestly feels like a less focused common asian grinder...
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Joined: 9/18/04
Sorry, this games "quests" are nothing like EQ's quest. In Everquest, you could actually talk to the NPCs by typing in different words, plus there was actual in game lore that the quests were based on.
AOW does not have that. They assume you already know what the feudal Chinese system was about (heck, everyone knows about 10th century China and its myriad of political/social factions). They do not allow you to interact with NPCs and there is nothing in game telling you what this word means or what this organization means. Plus, there are massive issues with translation.
Remember, they are playing the WESTERN version of the game. Age of Wulin is the Chinese version. It has been out for a while and is going strong.
Sorry, a crap game is a crap game. This game has interesting mechanics (just like SWG did) but in the end it is the same buggy, non descript pile of junk that SWG was.
Developer "Hey, I have an idea. Let's make a game, from an ancient culture, not translate it and then port it over to Wester audiences and we will put nothing about the lore in the actual game. We will leave everything for the players to figure out, even if they have no actual knowledge of the ancient Chinese feudal system"
Player "Excellent! Here is my money, good sir. I never really liked games that actually explained the rules to you. Why, some of the best times I have ever had in a game was trying to figure out the definition of basic game terms"
Just stop....EVE Online is the game that has massive depth and actually explains a lot AND has things written down in game for you to reference. There is the game you want. AOW is happy fun time crap fest long time.
And that is how it will end up. KABLOOIE! Game over.
But I have to admit, the PVP stuff in the game is really well done.
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Sometimes all you need is a hook to get pulled in. All I want is my orange and red Shaolin robes and I'll keep playing til I get them!
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Honestly, when I 1st played the game in beta i felt this way. My 2nd attempt, however has gone quite differently. I started over on one of the new servers (white tiger) and I joined a guild. From there on I've been learning the game with everyone else, jumping into dungeons, mini instances, some pvp, and questing and been having a blast. This game is not PvP centric, that's actually quite false.
There's a very huge PvE element to the game, in fact most PvP content are scheduled tournaments & guild wars wheras PvE can be done in a whole lot more ways between the insane amount of dungeons, mini instances, challenges, story quests (most of which you actually have to find which is my only gripe with those), professions, etc...The game is PvE heavy. Of course the game is open world pvp, but ganking is actually highly unlikely in most cases, I've rarely even been attacked by an enemy guild when I'm out doing things.
I think you're approaching the game with an attitude that's already intent on disliking it or being frustrated with it like I did the 1st time. I agree that they still have work to do, especially when it comes to localization but when you consider where it was a month ago and where it is now in that department, it's a world apart. As for gold spammers/sellers, Snail has already issued two stances on it, they make game-wide/server wide announcements every couple of hours on this, and are implementing new tech in the back end, and in the game to combat this problem. If you play the game with a more relaxed and less judgemental attitude you'll find it easier to figure out and get into. It's an MMO, so ask questions, join a guild, do things and probably most importantly DO NOT approach this game as a traditional themepark. Seriously, a lot of the gun comes when you are part of the world & community and look at it from that perspective. The game world is beautiful, huge, highly explorable. You're supposed to be a citizen of Ming dynasty China. Not an on the rails heavily guided pre-written character in a movie.
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Joined: 6/25/12
So, in defense of this game, people say it's a good thing to have less information on how to play it and what's going on? I guess I don't get the whole sandbox thing. Sound like an exercise in frustration.
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There's a nice in game guide, but no guide is gonna tell you how to take a page two of a book and sell it to somone who wants a a page one.
No guide is gonna tell you how to start a guild of friends and through alliances build it to powerhouse.
No guide is going to tell you how to control the market of one item, or how to get ahead of the trend.
Here's a good one, just happened. How to drop an Arena flag (summons the first player who accepts) on odd terran. Terran you're familiar with, instead of the standard area outside the main city, and dominate the poor soul who comes through.


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The striker saw his West Brom career stall after the farrago of his on-off transfer to QPR last January, but is determined to make the most of his second chance.
"The Cardiff fans have been great. People I've met have welcomed me and I know the great atmosphere they create," he told a press conference in Cardiff.
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Odemwingie signed on deadline day and he said there was blame on both sides for what went on in his final months at the Hawthorns.
"I'm pleased to be here and disappointed things didn't work at West Brom but I still love the fans just not the people involved," he said.
"I will take my responsibility but one side was claiming to be perfect. I think mistakes were made on their side too.
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George Soros: He trades in the shadowy international currency markets and funnels profits back to Democrats.
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DANDRIDGE, Tenn. — Mary Agnes Mullins, 70, of Dandridge, Tenn., formerly of Harts, departed this life Sunday, October 28, 2012, at Jefferson City Health and Rehab in Jefferson City, Tenn.
Born July 6, 1942, in Harts, she was a daughter of the late Robert and Lora Bell Mullins Robinson. Also preceding her in death were three brothers, George Sid Robinson, Olous Robinson and Robert Robinson, and one sister, Rosie Spry.
Those left to cherish her memory include her husband, Sidney Mullins Jr.; four brothers, Sam (Dorothy) Robinson, Willie (Diana) Robinson, Fern Robinson and Dewey (Marilyn) Robinson all of Harts, and five sisters, Halla Hamilton, Virginia (Ronald) Ferrell and Connie Grimes, all of Cleveland, Ohio, and Stella (Bob) Leet and Hazel (Reb) Adams, both of Chapmanville.
Services will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday, November 1, at Freeman Funeral Home with Arthur Hensley officiating. Burial will follow at the Robinson Family Cemetery at Perry Branch of Harts.
Visitation will be from 6-9 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
Pallbearers will be family and friends.
Freeman Funeral Home of Chapmanville is in charge of the arrangements.


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Rated 1 out of 5Â by BriBuckDag RIPPING AT THE SEAMS I absolutely ADORED this dress. I ordered it in March and waited for the weather to warm up a bit to bust it out. I wore it out to a restaurant and then the following day slipped back into it to take my engagement pictures. By the end of the day the dress has two MASSIVE holes where the lace stripes connect to the rest of the material. The material of this dress is so incredibly heavy that it is ripping the lace away from the top portion. I'm convinced this will eventually be a crop top..... I have never ONCE returned an FP purchase, but you cannot charge over 100 dollars for something that is physically falling apart at the seams. 6.28.2013
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Rated 4 out of 5Â by lapozolera runs large but really pretty I just tried this dress on and purchased it in white at my local Free People today. The stores carry it in light purple too. One of the employees there was wearing it and it looked really cute on her. She was skinny (prob around a size 4) and was wearing a size small with some white converse. It was really oversized on her but looked really good that way. I am 5'5" and a size L/US12 and I wear a size 36B bra. I tried on the large and it was really oversized. It didn't look as good on me as it did on the employee because I have full hips and a smaller chest. So, I sized down to a medium and it was more fitted but still baggy in the chest. I finally sized down to a small and settled on that size. The small was fitted on me and it was shorter than the large so that the band of lace didn't hit at my widest part of my body. I also tried the extra small and although that one fit, the sleeves were an awkwardly short length. The size small that I bought made the fit look completely different than the large! The small is fitted on top, and flowy on bottom and comes a little longer than mid thigh and the band of lace sat a little higher so that my the widest part of my body wasn't accentuated, whereas the large was flowy all over, came to my knees, and the band of lace hit at a lower spot. This dress comes with a removable slip. The slip is fitted. I cannot use the slip that came with the small because I am not a small. So I will throw the slip out and use the seamless slip in white that I already own. So, basically, if you are thin and looking for an incredibly flowy and shapless (yet beautiful) boho dress, stick to your normal size. If you are curvy like me and look better in something that is a little more fitted, go down 2 sizes. Hope this helps! 2.28.2013
Rated 4 out of 5Â by HAS2 Happy I Purchased I'm so happy I decided to purchase this dress. I really loved it when I saw it in the catalog but initially decided not to buy it because I thought it would be a little too loose for my taste. I don't mind flowy dresses but generally steer clear from anything that is truly shapeless or that is too poofy in the stomach. After continuing to admire the dress and checking out all the style pics (btw, great idea FP), I decided to give it a try. I really love the dress. I'm 5'4", 115 lbs, 34 B or C, 27" waist and 35" hips and ordered XS and am very happy with the fit. It is loose, of course, but far from shapeless and hangs in a way that is flattering. For me the fit was a tad looser than the front view photo of the lilac. XS is my usual size. If this came in an XXS on-line I think it would have narrowed the waist more, like some of the style pics seem to appear, but I am still happy with the fit of the XS. If you are on the fence with loose fitting clothes, like I am, I think this is a dress that will allow you to explore a more bohemian style but still make you feel like your figure is not completely lost in loose, boxy layers of fabric. 3.16.2013
Rated 5 out of 5Â by savannahfern Adorable, Beautiful Dress! I tried this dress on in the store because I wanted to see how it looked in person, and to ensure I got the right fit, and I definitely recommend trying it on before you buy (especially for you busty gals!). I am a 34DD, 5' 4", 148 lbs, and I needed a medium in order for the top to fit correctly. If you have a smaller chest though, then a small should definitely work. The fit is nice everywhere else too - it drapes nicely, and doesn't look like a huge lump of fabric; in fact, it looks adorable and ethereal. Another thing to note though is that this dress construction and fabric are super delicate - I tried on a medium, but it already had the lace separating from the fabric, so I asked for a different one. Be ultra gentle with the dress! Now, I did buy it, because it is adorable, gorgeous, and looks amazing, but with the fact in mind that it will need to be treated with the utmost delicacy and care. Overall, a great buy! 3.29.2013
Rated 3 out of 5Â by FP_Obsessed Not as pictured It fits strangely when you try it on. The large is too large the Medium is too large the small is too small. There is a lot of fabric in the back and it makes you look bigger than you are. It looks adorable in photos but it really is not as great when you try it on. Not worth the $$$. 3.27.2013
Rated 4 out of 5Â by silvergirl32 Great dress! I had been looking at this dress, since the look book came out and finally splurged. I absolutely love the design and the delicate nature of the lace. I ordered a size S, and it fit perfectly. Mine is a bit baggier than that shown in the picture (she is probably wearing the XS). The only issue I have is that the dress is already ripped on one of the bottom seams. I purchase alot of FP items and this is the 2nd piece of clothing that has ripped. It is upsetting given the cost of the clothing. With the exception of that, I was extremely pleased! 3.26.2013
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Tristar head trainer Firas Zahabi spoke with Canada's Sportsnet last week about the return of UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre.
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So I was looking at their f2p model and really had to laugh. According to their differences between subs and f2p players chart http://www.swtor.com/free/features you can see that their will be two distinct classes of players. The freemium players won't be able to compete in pvp(with one warzone a day limit you will never have warhero gear), meaning you will be garbage in pvp. "Thats ok, I'm a raider" you say? Well, you are not allowed to do any raids.
This means that subscription players will not let you into their guild, and why should they, you would be utterly worthless. So basically their new model is going to create a population of bums floating around the galaxy? Maybe they will allow pan handling at starports for cartel coins?
if I come off as trashing free to play, players, or subscription players, I really am not trying to accomplish that. I'm just pointing out the segregation in community that this system will create.
Did I mention that free players have limited auction house usuge? Congratulations on being broke.(see pan handling comment above)
Limited travel options? Awesome, so maybe TOR will be the first game to have hitchhiking? ###, gas, or grass?
I usually don't argue for one system or another and usually judge game's by whether or not they are fun; However I'm seriously confused by this model, wouldn't it be better to just announce that free to play is instead a free trial in an attempt to move boxs instead of coming up with this half witted attempt? Both would rake in some needed cash, but the system they are implementing just seems horrible. Am I missing something?
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At least the F2P will allow you to pretend it is Kotor 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 like they said it was prior to launch. Drop in play the stories and drop back out.
That is if they let you complete the story quests on F2P.
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Originally posted by william0532
Yes you are missing, free is not free.
In fact many "Free" games make more money than when they were subscription. That is why they when "Free" to begin with.
To answer your more specific questions. You will probably get limited access to the things you discribe-- unless you pay for it. If you want to have more access to PVP then you will have to pay. If you want premium classes then you will have to pay.
A subscription is when you pay a single price and get what you pay for .
Free to play is when you get nickel and dimed by the company until you realize you spent more money on "Free" than you would have with a subscription.
But hey, Free to play is the wave of the future... Yay?
Originally posted by SuperDonk
They do let you play to level 50 which are the end's of the main story quests. Which is kind of why I wondered why they didn't just do a free trial to level 50 model instead of this f2p setup.
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Oh SWTOR, how you brighten my day with your constant hillarity.
Originally posted by Johnie-Marz
I get the difference, but this is like a "shmashmortian" of the two. I've seen a couple free to play models where money doesn't "pay to win", but instead allows you to look different, or what not. This system, is blatantly straight forward with the negative aspects.
Has this sysem, this hybrid been used before? Especially being "same server". This setup does seem to create two different class of people in the game. Thats my biggest point. The no freeby players guild recruiting is already ongoing and its not even free to play yet.
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Joined: 2/12/12
Originally posted by Johnie-Marz
That bit in orange has to be one of the best, and most to-the-point comparisons of F2P versus P2P I've ever seen.
The thing is, you have to look at it in terms of getting the same level of gameplay and content out of each, which is something many don't do.
If you're playing a F2P MMO less, or "doing without" many of the things that you'd get automatically with a subscription, then sure, you can spend much less, or even nothing in a F2P game. If you intend to play a F2P MMO at the same level, with all the same "features" and such that you'd get for a single sub fee in a P2P MMO, you're going to be paying a lot more.
Sadly, many people don't think into it that far. They see "F2P" and that's all they care about.
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Joined: 7/15/08
I dont see any loss....It is basically a single player game anyway, who cares about raiding and pvp in swtor?
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Joined: 12/27/07
This is the problem when you mix corporate business with an art form of video games. These corps are trying to maximize profit, which is not a bad goal being a business. Though they look at it all wrong, trying to create a business model for maximum cash flow based on statistics and what works on paper. They're morons, they will never make the money back that was spent to create this game.
Originally posted by Arskaaa
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Joined: 2/12/12
Originally posted by william0532
And that separation is going to result in one of three things:
1. They're going to spend far more in the cash shop to keep themselves "on par" with others who are paying subs (or paying more in the cash shop).
2. They're going to realize that they're going to get a lot more for much less with a flat sub fee, than they could maintain via F2P/Cash Shop. So they'll just go with the subscription anyway.
3. They'll see the set up, not like either option, say "screw this" and walk away.
In a way, developers are actually helping players see the flaws in a F2P/Cash Shop system. They just do such a great job with their marketing, PR and spin, while flashing the word "FREE!" in everyone's face, that many never bother to notice or analyze what's actually going on.
Should a time come where more people start to catch on (and it seems like that may well be happening already, genre-wide), I think we could well see F2P/Cash Shops go bye-bye... at least in the MMO space. I think they are more "feasible" in a casual gaming context (think: Facebook games).
MMOs are (or should be) by nature long-term experiences. They're more a hobby that you stick with, than just a game that you pick up, finish, and then put down. A good, solid MMO can potentially keep someone playing for months or even years in some cases. Trying to nickel and dime someone for every little thing in a cash shop MMO over that length of time is just not sustainable for many people. Even with a "cash shop point" system obfuscating the actual dollar amount being sunk into the shop, eventually people are going to see how much they're actually spending month to month, and realize that they haven't really been getting the better deal with cash shops at all; they've been paying more for less.
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Joined: 11/20/11
maybe the limit on warzones will be good for world pvp.
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Joined: 7/23/08
Originally posted by SuperDonk
Hey wait.. that's actually a great idea! F2P for the people who want a Single-player story game. Monthly sub for people who want multiplayer content... Seriously, that's not a bad model at all.
Played - M59, EQOA, EQ, EQ2, PS, SWG[Favorite], DAoC, UO, RS, MXO, CoH/CoV, TR, FFXI, FoM, WoW, Eve, Rift, SWTOR, TSW.
Better than SOE's model they use with EQ1/2/Vanguard IMO. They limit item and skill tiers along with the usual lack of AH (GTN in SWTOR's case) and limits character progression.
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Joined: 12/17/07
You're surprised by that?
They have to recoup some of that absurd amount of cash dropped on the game somehow, and if that means twisting a players arm until they can touch the top of that same arms shoulder to get it? They'll obviously do it. It's why a lot of time was spent seemingly just on trying to find more ways to make players play 1-49 instead of actually expanding the 50 game. Keep rolling alts, grind through legacies and crap, and when you hit 50 just make another alt and stay subbed.
One could argue that hitting 50 probably isn't too hard (hitting the cap in MMOs nowadays is pretty much that way now), but more end-game would affect only those who were already playing for a while. Adding content between 1-50 would be more appealing to new players than adding in more end-game content. And in the end, that is what they wanted, more box sales and initials subs rather than a month or two more of those at the level cap.
The same can be seen in their F2P model. Except now instead of relying on an intelligently made shop, they are attempting to coerce everyone into paying subs now that a box is useless. Aion managed to go "truly" F2P it seems, and while I haven't played the game in a while, I also haven't heard of any complaints about it or Lineage 2, which went under the same banner. They could of easily left it at introducing new races through the cash shop on top of the usual cosmetic flair, and perhaps turning the Legacy system into some alternate unlock method, similar to Turbines F2P model.
Yet they didn't, because they don't trust that their game is even interesting or strong enough to support such a voluntary model. So instead they went with the "Freemium" route.
as an aside...
Here's a little tid-bit of some possible information on the motives for the two founders of Bioware when they left. 1 was absolutely sick of working, the negativity produced by their several recent lackluster titles had gotten to him, so he left. It's also why he is pretty much leaving the game industry in general.
The other, after Bioware was bought by EA, was more interested in just getting higher up into EA (and thus pretty much out of his own studio). When The Old Republic's failure was pinned on them by the internal EA culture, it probably hurt his chances too much to ever really get higher up, at least to him.
If the above is true, I wonder just what might of caused at least some of that fan negativity when it came to Dragon Age 2, Mass Effect 3, and The Old Republic. Also, if the above is true then it appears there was already some "segregation" going on within Bioware, at least in terms of ideals.
Doesn't change peoples outlook on EA one bit though, and neither does the things they've been doing recently.
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Joined: 5/21/08
And yet another reason not to return to SWTOR.
Currently playing: AoC, RIFT, Champions Online, DDO, LORTO, STO and Tribes: Ascend
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Joined: 7/09/12
It's shitty sure. But it's the best EA could come up with, since the people in charge are marketers & salesmen, not gamers.
They don't think about what people want or would actually enjoy, they just want what makes the most money for them.
btw, I'd hardly call SWTOR F2P, it is a freemium style game, with nothing really "free". F2P is just EA grabbing on to other successful games (who grabbed onto other games etc.). I'm gonna rage if EA ever starts using "Truly F2P" for their crappy fremium BS. Truly F2P is coined by NCSoft and means a fully free game without restrictions, with a cash shop for fluff items (Aion, LoL, etc).
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Originally posted by Karteli
Yea, most games that go from P2P to "F2P" are better off being called freemium rather than actual F2P like, for example, MapleStory and Perfect World are.
Originally posted by Draron
Actually it seems that it's pretty much the same. Since the expansion comes with level increases and free players can only progress to level 50 they will not have the skills and health that the other players do.
I get EVE's f2p model, it really doesn't impact anything. Or alot of the other f2p models, but this sysem is probably the worst I've ever heard of.
I guess a business is a business, but I don't see how this will do anything other than move some boxes off the shelve(which they need to do, they still have Collectors Editions for sell lol), but I don't see this helping with population. Pump up numbers for a couple of months, than fall back down to current or lower numbers.
Maybe it's just me, and again, I'm not dogging f2p, but this model seems counter productive in the long run. I see the short term goal, but long term, it would seem a bust.
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Joined: 11/15/09
The only luck I had today was to have you as my opponent.
I'll wait until it's free to play...my way.
Originally posted by william0532
From what I know of SWTOR's F2P (at least what's been shown so far) it doesn't limit you from purple or orange items or high level skill ranks like EQ2 and such does. We're not sure yet if SWTOR is going to include the expansion storyline content with F2P or not, as an expansion is a good half year or so away at the earliest.
The biggest thing SWTOR limits is no operations, though EQ2 locks players out of the most recent expansion as well meaning the highest tier raids.


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- Mailbox sharing related settings are configured by default in iRedMail-0.7.0, you just need to enable acl plugins in dovecot.conf, section "protocols lda {}" and "protocol imap {}".
- Not all companies will allow user to share mailboxes, it may leak confidential information, so this feature is disabled in iRedMail by default.
- Do not mistake "shared folders" for "public folders". For shared folders, users must select which folder they want to share and with who, using an interface, like the ones available with SOGo and SOGo connectors, or IMAP command line.
With Dovecot-1.2, it's possible to share your IMAP folders to other users. This article describes:
- How to enable mailbox sharing in Dovecot
- How to enable mailbox sharing in Roundcube webmail.
- How to test mailbox sharing with telnet
- For Roundcube user, there's a plugin available for roundcube-0.5, it's easy to let user manage their mailbox sharing.
- For Thunderbird user, there's a add-on available too.
You can find links in Reference section.
- iRedMail-0.7.0 or later versions.
Some explainations:
- iRedMail-0.7.0 ships dovecot-1.2, with all share folder related settings configured. But share folder is disabled by default.
- Roundcube webmail in iRedMail-0.7.0 works with share folder by default. There's no addition change required.
Configure Dovecot
With iRedMail-0.7.0 or later versions, what we need to do is just enable ACL plugins to provide folder sharing.
- Edit /etc/dovecot.conf (RHEL/CentOS) or /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf (Debian/Ubuntu/openSUSE) or /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf (FreeBSD), add ACL plugins in section "protocol lda {}" and "protocol imap {}":
|File: dovecot.conf
protocol lda { mail_plugins = ... acl } protocol imap { mail_plugins = ... acl imap_acl }
Please restart dovecot after you modified its config file.
To test shared folder, I will share my (email@example.com) 'Sent' folder to my colleague 'firstname.lastname@example.com'.
- Set a share folder with telnet.
- WARNING: Do not forget the dot before IMAP command.
# telnet localhost 143 # <- Type this. * OK [...] Dovecot ready. . login firstname.lastname@example.com passwd # <- Type this. Login with my email address and plain password. . OK [... ACL ..] Logged in . SETACL Sent firstname.lastname@example.com rli # <- Type this. Share folder 'Sent' to user email@example.com, with permissions: read (r), lookup (l) and insert (i). . OK Setacl complete. ^] # <- Press 'Ctrl + ]' to exit telnet. telnet> quit
- Log into roundcube webmail with account email@example.com. And you can see the shared folder. See screenshot here
Some more details:
- After you shared folder with 'SETACL' command, dovecot will insert a record in MySQL database.
- With OpenLDAP backend, it's stored in iredadmin.share_folder.
- With MySQL backend, it's stored in vmail.share_folder.
# mysql -uroot -p mysql> USE vmail; mysql> SELECT * FROM share_folder; +-----------------+--------------------+-------+ | from_user | to_user | dummy | +-----------------+--------------------+-------+ | email@example.com | firstname.lastname@example.com | 1 | +-----------------+--------------------+-------+
- BigMichi1's contribution
- maxie_ro's contribution
- Dovecot wiki: Mailbox sharing between users (v1.2+)
- Plugin for Roundcube webmail (0.5+): http://lists.roundcube.net/mail-archive/dev/2011-01/0000012.html
- NOTE: This plugin is shipped in Roundcubemail, since Roundcubemail-0.7.x, plugin name "acl".
- Imap-ACL-Extension for Thunderbird, manage acls/permissions for shared mailboxes/folders on imap servers.


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The Aiken County Sheriff's Office is investigating armed robbery incidents at separate Kent's Korner convenience stores in Aiken on Tuesday night.
In the first incident, Brandon Clifford Knight, 32, was detained after he allegedly robbed a convenience store of some beer, then returned to the store – as he promised earlier – to get cigarettes, according to Capt. Eric Abdullah, a spokesman for the Sheriff's Office.
Knight was charged with armed robbery and possession of a weapon during a violent crime. He was placed in the Aiken County detention center, where he remained on Wednesday afternoon.
The incident happened at 9:25 p.m. at the Kent's Korner on Wagener Road in Aiken, Abdullah said. Officers received a call from the clerk about a suspect who held him at knife point and stole some beer.
Sheriff's deputies responded and the clerk was able to give them a description of the suspect.
"The clerk informed deputies that the suspect left in an unknown vehicle and did threaten to return for cigarettes," Abdullah said. "While sheriff's deputies were on scene, the suspect … did come back to the store where the clerk pointed him out to the deputies."
Knight was arrested on scene, Abdullah said. He had been driven back to the store by another suspect, who investigators determined had no involvement in the robbery.
The Sheriff's Office is investigating a second armed robbery on Tuesday night during which a man was shot twice.
That incident happened just before 11 p.m. in the truck parking lot of Kent's Korner on Edgefield Highway near Interstate 20, according to Abdullah.
"Responding deputies met with the witness who told them that he and the victim were standing next to their vehicles when they were approached by a black male with a gun," Abdullah said. "The witness told deputies that the suspect fired his weapon after the victim threw his coffee mug at him."
The suspect fled the area before officers arrived on the scene. The victim was transported to Georgia Regents Medical Center. His condition was not known.
Anyone with information about this case is asked to call the Sheriff's Office at 803-648-6811, or CrimeStoppers of the Midlands at 888-CRIME-SC (888-274-6372).
Teddy Kulmala covers the crime beat for the Aiken Standard and has been with the newspaper since August 2012. He is a native of Williston and majored in communication studies at Clemson University.
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If you received interest or dividend income, sold a stock or worked as an independent contractor, you'll get some version of the Internal Revenue Service Form 1099 to help you complete your tax return.
As with W-2 wage statements, most 1099 forms, such as INT and DIV versions that show interest and dividends earned, usually must be distributed to recipients by the end of January. This filing season Jan. 31 is on a Saturday, so the deadline shifts to the next business day, Feb. 2.
A new law enacted in 2008, however, pushed the mailing deadline for 1099-B forms, which detail proceeds from broker and barter exchange transactions, to Feb. 15. And since Feb. 15, 2009, falls on Sunday and Monday, Feb. 16, is the federal Presidents Day holiday, the deadline is Feb. 17 this year. If you get combined interest and dividend information on a brokerage statement, then your broker also has until the Feb. 17 deadline to get all the tax data to you on a combined year-end statement.
So while you might have to wait a bit longer this filing season, if you don't receive an expected Form 1099-INT or 1099-DIV by mid-February, contact the issuer. Give the 1099-B a few days longer before checking. In any case, a delay could mean the payer has an incorrect or incomplete address for you. Alert the issuer of the changes and ask for a reissued statement.
Get a duplicate
Even if they tell you it's in the mail, ask for a duplicate.
If February comes and goes without arrival of either the original or duplicate statement, call the IRS at (800) 829-1040 for help in getting this information.
But you don't necessarily have to wait for the statements to file your return. You generally don't have to send in the actual 1099 forms with your return. They are just issued so you'll know how much to report, with copies going to the IRS so return processors can double-check your entries. As long as you have the correct information, you can put it on your tax form without having the statement in hand.
Tracking down the data
The easiest way to get this missing data is to call the employer, bank or investment company and ask for your income information over the phone. In some cases, the amounts that would be on a 1099 are readily available from documents you already have.
For example, your bank may put a summary of the interest paid during the year on your account's December or January statement. Many financial companies make the interest figure available through customer service phone lines or Web sites. And most investment firms include the year's Form 1099 cumulative amounts as part of quarterly dividend statements.
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Ralph Sidney Vaught of West Jefferson formally of Rural Retreat, Va., passed away Monday, Dec. 3, 2012. He was 84.
He was born in Rural Retreat, Va., on Dec. 26, 1927, the son of the late Samuel Vaught and Joan Walker Vaught Hoback.
He was preceded in death by his brothers, Sam, Donnie, and David Vaught
He was a member of Charles Evering V.F.W. Post #6506 in Rosedale, Md.; American Legion #183 in Parkville, Md., and Jephthah Masonic Lodge #222 AF&AM in Baltimore, Md.; and had retired from Lockheed Martin.
He is survived by his wife, Diana Vaught of West Jefferson; daughters and sons-in-law, Monette and Mark Senter of Galax, Va., Yvonne and Niels Andersen of Raleigh; brothers and sisters-in-law Paul and Pat Vaught of Baltimore, Md., Douglas and Judy Vaught of Stewartstown, Pa., Gene Vaught of Baltimore, Md, Jack and Susan Hoback of Street, Md., Harvey and Pat Hoback of Baltimore, Md; sisters and brothers-in-law, Penny and Ed Peary of Fallston, Md., Barbara Vaught of Baltimore, Md.; four grandchildren, William Sidney Senter, Jordan Drew Senter, Jackson Noah Oechsle and Celia Love Oechsle; and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012, at the Lindsey Funeral Home with Wayne Barker officiating. Interment will follow in the Fairview Church Cemetery.
The family will receive friends Saturday at the Lindsey Funeral Home from 11 a.m. until time of the service.
Memorials may be made to Fairview Church Cemetery Fund c/o Charles Slagle P.O. Box 63 Rural Retreat, VA 24368 or the charity of your choice.
Lindsey Funeral Home, Rural Retreat, Va., is handling the arrangements.
Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.highlandfuneralservice.com


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Kamanari is a new awesome-er pagination doohickey for Rails 3. Apparently it is making developers' lives more awesome especially in regards to Ajax-y type things. Check it out!
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As one of the Charleston area's biggest employers, publicly traded KapStone Paper and Packaging Corp. is certainly a stock of local interest.
The interest intensified last week.
Shares of the papermaker and North Charleston mill owner shot up Monday after it announced it is buying Longview Fibre Paper and Packaging Inc. in an all-cash deal valued at $1.03 billion.
Shares of the Big Board-listed "KS" jumped $5.40, or 18 percent, to close at $35.12, after peaking at $35.76 earlier in the day.
Like KapStone, Washington-based Longview makes containerboard and corrugated containers, as well as specialty papers. mostly at mills spread over a few Western states.
"Acquiring Longview is an outstanding opportunity for numerous reasons," said CEO Roger Stone, a paper industry veteran who's the "Stone" in KapStone. "The acquisition immediately adds value for our shareholders by increasing earnings and generating very strong free cash flow. The deal is accretive to our bottom line from Day 1. Our balance sheet, which was strong going into this transaction, remains strong after the acquisition."
Northbrook, Ill.-based KapStone has come a long way since going public and netting $113 million as an upstart with no operations in the summer of 2005. For $6, investors received one share of the new business and the rights to buy two more at $5 a pop by Aug. 15, 2009.
In essence, KapStone was offering 300 shares for $1,000.
Under that buy-in scenario, anyone who risked a flat grand and held on saw that modest grubstake climb to more than $11,400 as of Friday.
Not bad. But investors who jumped in when the stock hit bottom — $1.05 in early 2009 — did even better. A timely $1,000 investment at that all-time-low point would have soared in value to more than $36,000 at the end of last week.
The run-up comes just a couple of weeks ahead of the fifth anniversary of KapStone's $471 million purchase of MeadWestvaco Corp.'s local paper and wood chip businesses.
That sale included what is now one of the company's flagship moneymakers: the familiar 76-year-old mill on the Cooper River, where KapStone is shelling out $29 million to upgrade a key piece of machinery.
Whether the stock can continue on its trajectory after the Longview acquisition is debatable, though the early reaction has been bearish.
Deutsche Bank downgraded the shares Wednesday to a "hold" rating from a buy recommendation.
Separately, an investment professional analyzing KapStone's stock on Seeking Alpha, a financial website, also is on the sidelines.
"After shares have more than doubled over the past year, and shareholders have fully priced in the benefits from the announced deal with Longview, there is not much upside potential left," says the unidentified author.
Perhaps, but the climb out of the abyss three years ago has been impressive. On paper, at least.
Reach John McDermott at 937-5572.
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My little girl LOVES sandwiches. It actually works out very well, considering her mom and dad are constantly on-the-go, but sometimes, even a kid who loves sandwiches can grow weary of the standard PB&J or Grilled Cheese. I recently picked up an AMAZING little cookbook that I wish I had found earlier, called The Petit Appetit.
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The Aiken Department of Public Safety on Wednesday and Thursday responded to vehicle break-ins on Dillon Avenue, Abbeville Avenue and Aldrich Street.
A 29-year-old Aiken man was detained for driving under the influence on Friday after being pulled over on Kershaw Place for not having a valid license plate.
The Aiken County Sheriffs Office responded to burglaries on Cherokee Drive and Dogwood Drive in North Augusta, Ridge Crest North in Aiken and Atomic Road in Beech Island.
The Aiken County Sheriffs Office is investigating vehicle break-ins on West Five Notch Road in North Augusta, Oakdale Drive in Beech Island, and Cherokee Drive in North Augusta.
A vehicle was reported stolen from Seminole Drive in North Augusta on Thursday.
A 15-year-old student was detained for simple possession of marijuana on Thursday. A witness said the suspect reportedly handed him a receipt rolled around a leafy green substance but that he dropped it after realizing what it was. A faculty member saw the suspect pick the cigarette up again.
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Have you ever had a bunch of windows open in your browser window doing research for a client that you just don't have time to thoroughly read but want to save and read at a later date?
This happens to me all the time be it for business or personal internet research.
Did you know that if you use Google Chrome you can save all these open tabs/windows into one bookmark folder and then open them all up again all at once when you have time to finish your research? How cool is that?


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