1.79 patch up for DAoC

First off, Mythic warns players not to try the new epic armor quests on the herald. Seems there's an issue with not being able to actually start the quests.

From the Camelot Herald:

Please don't try to start the new epic quests at this time, at least until I can give you an update here on the Herald. And please, spread the word to those who do not read the Herald.

Many players reporting they cannot actually play, as they crash to desktop on log in. Apparently the fix for this is to connect to the test server, as Mythic didn't properly synch the builds, and some files are missing from the patcher for the Live servers.

Last of all, many players are reporting they are able to port, or are being ported, to enemy capital cities. After the initial shock of seeing the wrong zone, many took screen shots, or participated in many a PvPers dream: killing level 1 characters without repercussion.

Yep, it's another well tested MMOG patch

Let off the list, and other DUH of the day that is 8/10/05

IGN's latest top 100 games list is notable for two reasons. First, unlike the Readers List of 99 games it does not demand that I eat chicken regularly. Second, it sucks slightly less. Actually, this list, compiled by IGN's editors, isn't bad at all. Solidly historical, more than fair to PC gaming. (Remember PC gaming? No. That's OK. Neither does the industry). I was going to give it a whole "Left off the list" treatment, but there's not that much to bitch about. No Nethack, no Zork, light on adventure games in general, Warcraft and Diablo probably deserved a place, WTF no Planescape Torment, and we're just about done.

I feel compelled to mention Future Imperfect, which is actually somehow less interesting than a discussion of grammatical tenses for which no construct exists in the English language. Which is saying a lot. It's an article of pretty pictures and no substance about the future of MMOG development, and I offer it to you so that you may point and laugh.

Slashdot gives us the best title of an article ever. And the actual article isn't too bad, though the metaphor is pretty much sheer gratuity.

Microsoft is in the console market in a big way, and being the whores that we always knew the market could sustain. First there's the announcement of multiple pricing tiers on the XBox 360, with, shockingly, most of them being the expensive price point. Then, better, funnier, we're locking third party peripheral manufacturers out. Both of these are rumor and speculation, of course, of the sort that are designed to see how loudly the hoi polloi bitch. My official position? "Meh."

Also? Dungeons and Dragons Online is delayed. Not that that's news. The news is that It's going from alpha to release in six months. LOLLERSKATES!

WHORES! I mean, Daily Duh 8/9/05

Having now taken a nice, Flying Spaghetti Monster-length day break, we return with daily coverage in a sense more familiar to Intelligent Design folks. Because what image fits less with video games than intelligent design?

Someone made thousands of dollars duping in EQ2, which gives EQ2 the notable distinction of being the first MMOG where the players make more money than the developers. I mean, really. Thousands of dollars? The fuck?

The chicken speaks to Jack Thompson, and tells him that Killer 7 has sex scenes, so he must DESTROY! No, really. He's petitioning the ESRB to change the rating on a game based on IGN's account of the game. And you thought he was stupid for being a drooling anti-video game activist. But no! He's stupid for reading IGN! Which leads to the crucial question - what came first - the chicken or the Vault?

I saw the link to Ten Ways MMORPGs Will Change the Future and thought "Oh God, this will be intolerable Kosterbabble." Suffice it to say that it's not.

And finally, in the short and sweet department, Man dies after playing video games for 50 hours. Gene pool thanks him.

The Daily MY GOD THAT'S BRILLIANT

This is exactly what anybody with a brain would have expected MMOGs to become. Cross-marketing, synergy, it's everything you could want. Brilliant. Absoltuely brilliant.

Please kill me.

The Daily Duh: Special Biblical Day Edition

Some days are longer than others. If you think, for some reason, that we have not posted in a day, odds are you are simply confused about what a day is.

We've hit the required level of myopia where we must note that Corpnews made Slashdot for their claim that E3 is worthless. The best part of the original Corpnews article is when they say that Corpnews is a medium-large gaming website now. This is of interest primarily because, well, what kind of gaming blog would we be if we didn't needlessly start shit with other gaming blogs? We look forward to Corpnews's point by point response to our claims, because we are an ABSOLUTELY GINORMOUS GAMING WEBSITE THAT WILL CRUSH THEM!1!!1!!!1!!!

Speaking of Ginormous, it is the most popular word not in the dictionary, coming in ahead of confuzzled and our old favorite, woot. WOOT!

IGN has a list of all the PS3 games that are coming out. This includes such details as the fact that there will be a Final Fantasy game, possibly numbered 13. You know your news is sparse when you can't even identify the number of a game that's coming out.

There's a shocking amount of crap in this article, but it is notable for a bit a ways down when the EA guy says, "they still have a resident "fanboy" base, a group of customers that really love what they do and love their brands and they have the handheld business, which has been very successful for them. And it's hard to beat some of the names in terms of the games that they have. So are they competing with them? Yeah, because there are only so many console dollars in the world, but they are competing against them with a slightly different segment." He's talking about Nintendo there. What's striking here is that EA, the absolute least Nintendo-like company out there, understands Nintendo, and understands them better, I think, than Sony or Microsoft. What's depressing is that this probably means that EA's unending stream of crap is also deliberate - that they to are content to target a specific market and ignore the rest. When that market is "non-gamers who will buy anything with a license slapped on it," though, instead of gamers with roots that go back to the start of console gaming, there becomes something a bit, I dunno, cynical and upsetting about it.

And what kind of gaming news site would we be if we didn't note that they killed Morpheous. And, well, so? Does anyone play The Matrix Online? I mean, obviously people do, but that population, I figure, roughly mirrors the population that liked The Matrix Revolutions. So they're idiots. Not real people.

WNTAWDWTB: The Most Obvious Headline in the World

Courtesy of Slashdot.

WNTAWDWTB: Rounding Up Some Games

Ripoff, MMOG expansion, Licensed, Vapor, Vapor sequel, Sequel, Sequel, MMOG expansion, MMOG expansion, Licensed, Licensed vapor, Sequel, Remake, Sequel, Sequel, Sequel, Sequel, MMOG Expansion, Sequel, Sequel, Metroid Pinball.

WNTAWDWTB: Actually, this is normal for Microsoft and backward compatability...

Microsoft suggests XBox games may need to be recompiled to play on the 360.

An interesting definition of backwards compatability - so now they'll offer XBox and XBox 360 versions of Halo and things?

Hopefully for $500 a game.

WNTAWDWTB: You know what's missing from E3?

The Phantom! Where the fuck's the Phantom!

Not E3

Episode 3 sucks. Here it is in a nutshell:

I'm a Jedi! OH NOS MY WIFE MIGHT DIE! NOW I MUST BE A SITH! Die Jedi Die! OH OBI-WON I HATE YOU! Clang clang clang OOPS LAVA! RISE VADER! YES MASTER! BUM BUM BUM BUM BA BUM BUM BA BUM!

if you consider those to be spoilers, suck my cock.

That puts the final score for the series at 2 OK-good movies and 4 bad.

Thus we may now declare that, in truth, Star Wars sucks.

This is all.