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Filed under: Fantasy, Screenshots, Dungeons and Dragons Online, Free-to-play, Races
Any DnD fan is going to be familiar with the Drow, and it’s pretty much a given that they would be a playable race in Dungeons and Dragons Online. If you’re not familiar with them, Turbine has given us a series of beautiful screenshots with a closer look at the Drow.
The official site has a history of the Drow as well, if you are hoping for a bit more background: Most drow choose a life of adventure out of necessity, given the dangers of their homeland. Still, they greatly desire personal power, and many drow take up the mantle of adventurer seeking to satisfy their ambitions. Most drow follow the evil scorpion-god Vulkoor, though exposure to the cultures of Stormreach has brought a few of them to less malevolent deities.
If these screenshots are enough to get you interested in checking out the Drow race further you can explore more of their story and the prerequisites for unlocking them as a playable race, as well as inherent abilities and enhancements on the DDO site.
Turbine releases DDO screenshots of Drow race originally appeared on Massively on Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on November 21st, 2009 at 8:00pm by Rubi Bayer
Filed Under: ddo, ddo-unlimited, drow, dungeons-and-dragons-online, screenshots, turbine
“Companies should just stop gold farmers.” It’s a consistent complaint in many games, with “gold” replaced by your game’s currency of choice. As complaints go, it’s right around “somebody should do something about all the problems” in terms of overall utility, but heck, no one likes the practice and it should just be eliminated, right? Well, as Scott Jennings has pointed out recently, it’s not quite that easy.
As Lum points out, there are several common misconceptions about the entire process. Among them are the idea that the game company doesn’t step in because they’re getting kickbacks, which is pointed out to fail the simple test of Occam’s razor. When developers want to get more money from an existing game, there are usually better ways to run it, such as the Champions Online model or the Dungeons and Dragons Online approach. He also tackles the infamous statement that the farmers are paying customers and therefore the company has even less incentive to stop them.
So if everyone hates RMT, why is it still around? The article briefly touches upon it, but We Fly Spitfires had a recent post that articulates more specifically: more people buy gold than would necessarily admit it. Since no one will admit to it, no one ever asks, and as a result there’s a large culture of silence that publicly despises it and privately takes part. In short? As long as there’s a customer base, the farming will continue. Food for thought all around.
Filed under: Business models, Culture, Economy, Exploits, Opinion
Why RMT won’t go away originally appeared on Massively on Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 10:00am by Eliot Lefebvre
Filed Under: business-models, champions-online, co, culture, ddo, dungeons-and-dragons-online, economy, exploits, gold-farming, lum-the-mad, microtransactions, rmt, scott-jennings, we-fly-spitfires
Filed under: Fantasy, Dungeons and Dragons Online, Contests, Free-to-play
Back in October,
DDO Unlimited announced a fun little contest looking for responses to their (in)famous
Broccoli vs. Beholder video. First prize was 5,000 Turbine points and the coveted title “Gweater Dwagonmark of Fwiends”. (No, seriously. That’s a great title.) Second and third place winners received Turbine points and a “Dwagonmark of Fwiends”title as well.
The results are in, with the winning “Broccoli vs. Wraith” video keeping the Turbine staff in stitches with the expressions on Broccoli’s face and the farcical chase through the corridor and doorways. Congratulations also to second place winner Korin Geholtz for showing us Broccoli’s attack on Stormreach, and Zac C.B./Sioyin Chua for Broccoli vs. Ham with bonus points for great music.
Korin Geholz also gave us an additional treat by giving Tasty Ham his very own Facebook page. Congratulations to all of you from Massively, and thanks for the laughs!
Turbine announces the winners of the Broctober contest originally appeared on Massively on Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on November 18th, 2009 at 5:00pm by Rubi Bayer
Filed Under: broccoli, contest, ddo, ddo-unlimited, dungeons-and-dragons-online, turbine, turbine-points
Filed under: Fantasy, Screenshots, Dungeons and Dragons Online, One Shots
Know how we know you guys like Dungeons and Dragons Online? You picked it as the current adventure for our very own Shawn Schuster! He’s currently working his way through the lands of Dungeons and Dragons Online, to both enlighten and amuse. Of course, if you just want regular everyday amusement, One Shots is glad to step in when players send us funny images — like this one from Inspecta! He writes in to give us a visual pun: [This is] a screen shot of my friends and I hangin’ around the marketplace in DDO. You can almost hear the drum/cymbal on that punch line, can’t you?
Have you figured out a way to create your very own visual pun in your favorite game? Think you’ve got a groaner you’d like to unleash on the world? Don’t be shy! Send those funny screenshots in to us here at oneshots AT massively DOT com along with your name, the name of the game, and a quick description. We’ll post it out here and let everyone in on the joke.
One Shots: Another day in DDO originally appeared on Massively on Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on November 18th, 2009 at 2:00pm by Krystalle Voecks
Filed Under: ddo, dungeons-and-dragons-online, inspecta, one-shots, screenshot, screenshots, turbine
Filed under: Fantasy, Dungeons and Dragons Online, Culture, Free-to-play, Massively meta, Hands-on, Choose my Adventure
In this week’s Dungeons and Dragons Online adventures, the Critical Mass guild came across a bit of a challenge, and not in the game. With last week’s vote guiding our hero to spend his hard-earned Turbine Points on an adventure pack, not everyone in the group had those same points to spend. So we spent our playing time gaining favor, which can be turned into Turbine Points.
In lieu of an in-character story this week, I’m going to spend some time explaining Favor and the DDO store for anyone who is curious about how this all works. I’ll also explain our next poll, as I’d like you to vote on the specific Adventure Pack in which our hard-earned points will be spent. Follow along after the jump for more!
Continue reading Choose my Adventure: Doing you a Favor
Choose my Adventure: Doing you a Favor originally appeared on Massively on Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on November 18th, 2009 at 12:00pm by Shawn Schuster
Filed Under: choose-my-adventure, ddo, ddo-store, dungeons-and-dragons-online, favor, featured, polls, turbine, turbine-points, voting
