Guild Wars 2 has announced that Pre-Orders will begin on April 10th. The standard game is $60, Delux Digital is $80, and Collectors is $150. All pre-orders will get access to the weekend beta events and a 3 day headstart. You can see all the other goodies that come with the pre-order packages HERE.
In other news Bioware is offering a free trial weekend for Star Wars: The Old Republic. The trial weekend begins Thursday, March 15th at 11am PST and ends Monday, March 19th at 1am PST. It does not apply to players who have a previously active account. The new players who sign up for this free weekend will have access to all 8 classes, the starting zones, the capital cities and PvP warzones and Flashpoints (instanced dungeons). Find out more info HERE.
Showing posts with label SWTOR. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SWTOR. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Friday, December 2, 2011
Kristin's Adventures in MMOLand Episode 4
So I had a decision to make this week. Do I, 1. Buy Skyrim, 2. Get SWTOR, 3. Resubscribe to WoW for 4.3 or 4. Get the new EQ2 expansion Age of Discovery. Since like most of America I'm poor I had to choose one and only one for right now. So I made a pros and cons list. It basically came down to which had the most options for me.
Skyrim looks pretty fun but there's a lot of talking to NPCs which isn't really my thing. I have heard so many great things about the game though. I have a friend with the game so I can just play theirs though I won't get my own Steam achievements. Plus it's single player and I love MMOs.
SWTOR ended up being really fun when I played it last weekend. A lot of the questions that I had early on were answered as I played more. But only playing to level 20 I couldn't get a full grasp on how soloable it is. Since my raiding and grouping is minimal I need a game that can keep me busy for a long time. Many games lose me once I hit max level because there's nothing to do beyond that except raid. I fear SWTOR will be like this so I would rather wait until my friends get to max level and see what they say about non raiding end game content. It also comes out only a few days before I take a holiday and so I wouldn't be able to play much until I got back.
WoW 4.3 has some fun stuff like Transmogrification and the new Darkmoon fair but DMF is only 1 week a month and since I solo most of the 4.3 content does me no good.
EQ2 Age of Discovery has a ton of new stuff like the new and improved Freeport, Tradeskill Apprentices, and Dungeon Maker. I listened to the Design your own dungeon podcast for a bit the other day and it seems that since you run the player created dungeons using avatars you can do some of them solo which is perfect for me. Plus it's more decorating. I also "know" EQ2. I know it can hold my interest long term being as there's a bazillion quests and has the best player housing available in any game. It's going free to play with the release of the new expansion which I hope brings me new friends. There's the new mercenary system coming with the expansion which will hopefully help me complete some of the not so soloable content. Plus there's always an in game event going on. Currently the New Halas City Festival is going on plus with the new expansion they're starting FROSTFELL!!!!
So looking at the pros from each game it ended up being a pretty easy decision. I went with Age of Discovery. It releases Dec 6th. I'm currently playing one of my very few evil characters so I can fully enjoy the new Freeport Revamp.
Skyrim looks pretty fun but there's a lot of talking to NPCs which isn't really my thing. I have heard so many great things about the game though. I have a friend with the game so I can just play theirs though I won't get my own Steam achievements. Plus it's single player and I love MMOs.
SWTOR ended up being really fun when I played it last weekend. A lot of the questions that I had early on were answered as I played more. But only playing to level 20 I couldn't get a full grasp on how soloable it is. Since my raiding and grouping is minimal I need a game that can keep me busy for a long time. Many games lose me once I hit max level because there's nothing to do beyond that except raid. I fear SWTOR will be like this so I would rather wait until my friends get to max level and see what they say about non raiding end game content. It also comes out only a few days before I take a holiday and so I wouldn't be able to play much until I got back.
WoW 4.3 has some fun stuff like Transmogrification and the new Darkmoon fair but DMF is only 1 week a month and since I solo most of the 4.3 content does me no good.
EQ2 Age of Discovery has a ton of new stuff like the new and improved Freeport, Tradeskill Apprentices, and Dungeon Maker. I listened to the Design your own dungeon podcast for a bit the other day and it seems that since you run the player created dungeons using avatars you can do some of them solo which is perfect for me. Plus it's more decorating. I also "know" EQ2. I know it can hold my interest long term being as there's a bazillion quests and has the best player housing available in any game. It's going free to play with the release of the new expansion which I hope brings me new friends. There's the new mercenary system coming with the expansion which will hopefully help me complete some of the not so soloable content. Plus there's always an in game event going on. Currently the New Halas City Festival is going on plus with the new expansion they're starting FROSTFELL!!!!
So looking at the pros from each game it ended up being a pretty easy decision. I went with Age of Discovery. It releases Dec 6th. I'm currently playing one of my very few evil characters so I can fully enjoy the new Freeport Revamp.
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Kristin's Adventures in MMOLand Episode 3
Star Wars The Old Republic. Heard of it? If you haven't you've been living under a rock. For the past year it's been the game everyone was waiting for. A few months back Bioware announced a release date of December 20th. Beta has been going on for a while and I wasn't planning on participating because I wasn't planning on getting the game. I'm more of a fantasy fan than a Sci-Fi fan.
A friend of mine, who has done betas for the game, suggested that "it can't hurt to get into the open beta". So I applied a couple weeks ago and got in for this weekend. My friend has loved every class/race combo that she's tried so I logged in this morning for my first go at SWTOR.
I have to say I'm pleased. It's a very clean game. I turned all the graphics to max and put it on the highest resolution possible and have been running it with absolutely no lag and rather high FPS (averaging 50-55). It's very informative when it comes to starting out. There's lots of tutorial windows to read how to do things. I have run across a couple things that haven't been explained well in my opinion like the Social Points system. I do plan to look up things like these elsewhere to answer my questions. The graphics aren't very impressive. For me they're somewhere between WoW and EQ2 which are both old games and in my opinion something releasing 7 years later should have beautiful graphics (like Aion and Rift for example).
When I had watched combat videos several months ago I was less than impressed with the combat animations and spell effects but playing the game the effects are much better than the impression I got in the videos.
I have not played very far into the game and have stuck with only one class, a Sith Inquisitor. I'm going to play around with some more classes and perhaps I'll grow to like the game enough that I'll end up playing it at release. We'll see. If you're participating in the beta have fun!
A friend of mine, who has done betas for the game, suggested that "it can't hurt to get into the open beta". So I applied a couple weeks ago and got in for this weekend. My friend has loved every class/race combo that she's tried so I logged in this morning for my first go at SWTOR.
I have to say I'm pleased. It's a very clean game. I turned all the graphics to max and put it on the highest resolution possible and have been running it with absolutely no lag and rather high FPS (averaging 50-55). It's very informative when it comes to starting out. There's lots of tutorial windows to read how to do things. I have run across a couple things that haven't been explained well in my opinion like the Social Points system. I do plan to look up things like these elsewhere to answer my questions. The graphics aren't very impressive. For me they're somewhere between WoW and EQ2 which are both old games and in my opinion something releasing 7 years later should have beautiful graphics (like Aion and Rift for example).
When I had watched combat videos several months ago I was less than impressed with the combat animations and spell effects but playing the game the effects are much better than the impression I got in the videos.
I have not played very far into the game and have stuck with only one class, a Sith Inquisitor. I'm going to play around with some more classes and perhaps I'll grow to like the game enough that I'll end up playing it at release. We'll see. If you're participating in the beta have fun!
Monday, November 14, 2011
SWTOR beta codes
If you haven't gotten into the Star Wars the Old Republic beta yet and want to take part in their big weekend stress test, several sites are now giving away beta codes.
Maybe you'll see me there. Wasn't too keen on the game but might give beta a try to see if it can change my mind. Have fun all!
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