WRUP: Regime Change Edition
Regular readers of the location know that the higher administration is being shifted around right here at Massively, that means that Brianna Royce will now be in cost. Whereas we'll always miss Shawn Schuster's unmistakable voice and work on the site, the change will likely seem invisible to most readers.
I, for one, want to welcome our new overlord, for whom I don't have anything but respect and admiration. By complete coincidence, this week's header picture happens to be of her favourite animal. Also, I might have despatched numerous reward baskets of fruit to her home. And I am positive we are able to all agree that earlier situations of tomfoolery shouldn't be taken under consideration when she now considers that she has complete power over me.
Transferring on from the welcoming of overlords, it's time for this week's installment of WRUP, featuring the Massively employees explaining our plans for the weekend as well as whether or not or not a graphical improve would carry us back to our first MMOs. Check out our plans past the break, and tell us what you may be up to in the feedback!
@Beau_Hindman: I will be settling down on a brand new deed in Wurm Online, persevering with to grind my teeth as I look forward to my new Laptop to get right here, and placing my exploration money the place my mouth is by finally downloading IMVU. It is a social MMO that appears very... totally different. I'm additionally nonetheless gathering my checklist of pre-World of Warcraft MMOs for protection. Fortunately I nonetheless have most of my outdated accounts!
If I up to date any graphics for a few of my favourite video games, that will mean a downgrade for many of them. I would like graphics which can be extra stylized, particularly like these in Free Realms or Clone Wars Adventures. I might like to see a "critical" sport completed with a extra stylized flair. Wurm Online can stay how it is, however I really wish to see some new avatars. I do know they're coming, but boy, I am unable to wait!
@nyphur: This weekend I will be entertaining a visiting Swedish good friend from my outdated World of Warcraft guild, working exhausting on Predestination, and attempting to persuade my housemates to play extra Guild Wars 2!
My first MMO was RuneScape, and its graphical updates have truly brought me again several occasions. I started back when it was a blocky world with 2-D goblin sprites, and the primary big 3-D update hooked me again in for a number of months. I've returned periodically to see what the sport is like, and the graphics are definitely the very first thing I search for. EVE Online has the same effect, with large graphical updates pulling people again in to attempt the game once more.
@nbrianna: I will be dividing my game time between Guild Wars 2 and City of Heroes. Double XP is on permanently in CoH, I hear, so it is the proper time to roll up a new character in time for the Positron's Ally event subsequent week.
My first MMO was Ultima On-line, and graphical upgrades did carry me again many instances. That recreation has had extra improved shoppers than any MMO I know... however these upgraded purchasers usually get abandoned by the team before they're finished as a result of a lot of the veterans just refuse to change. Very irritating!
@Eliot_Lefebvre: Metropolis of Heroes, Star Wars: The Old Republic, and the ever-well-liked Providing Help to a Liked One with a Cold. Sooner or later I'll truly play Guild Wars 2 for greater than 10 minutes at a stretch. If I'm fortunate, it will be before the end of the decade.
I'm really the unsuitable person to ask about returning to a sport for a graphical improve as a result of graphics have never been what's turned me off from a game. I did not initially leave Ultimate Fantasy XI because of the graphics; I left because the game wasn't truly enjoyable to play. If I see signs that the game I didn't like X amount of time in the past has gotten higher, I will come working proper again, however putting a brand new coat of paint on a recreation I wasn't having fun with would not lure me back.
@elixabethclaire: The key World continues to be on pause for me as I commit my time to Guild Wars 2. I'd prefer to hit eighty by the center of the upcoming week, so I will be doing plenty of PvE and WvW this weekend. I did not imply to, but I've acquired an entire agenda plotted out for my short-term "main" after she hits 80, not to mention just a little roster of who is in want of leveling after her.
Not a lot gaming for me this weekend. Maybe some The key World.
I go back and play all of my previous MMOs anyway no matter updates, although I am very a lot trying forward to Anarchy Online's eventual reskin.
@Sypster: My MMO to do listing is a mile huge at this point. I actually need to place a cap on Volume III Ebook 6 in Lord of the Rings On-line, take a look at the new Autumn Festival in RIFT, get by Egypt in The key World, and make the large bucks in Guild Wars 2.
As for graphical upgrades, properly, if Anarchy Online ever gets that newfangled redux off the ground, then you'll be able to wager I'll be first in line. It would be great to see what a barely more updated AO would appear like.
@JayeRnH: This weekend I am busy with a family journey, but in any spare time I have, I'm going to log into RIFT and grasp out subsequent to Atrophinius in the Autumn occasion simply to listen to his hilarious voice-overs. Other than that, I am going to in all probability pop into Minecraft with the youngsters so we will work on our tree house.
My first MMO was EverQuest, and I'd be more likely to return if the sport actually reverted back to the old graphics of avatars and revamped zones.
@mvmatt: This weekend is my roommate's birthday, so we have bought some mutual associates coming to remain for the weekend. In consequence, my gaming time might be going to be occupied more by split-display screen mayhem than MMO funtimes. But if the opportunity arises, I'll be splitting my time between The secret World and Guild Wars 2.
And would I return to EverQuest or Ultima Online if either one acquired a graphical update? That's a very good query. I need to say sure, but I do not know if I'd be telling the reality. I liked UO and EQ again in the day, however I feel it might take a bit more than a graphical upgrade to make me a player once more. For every charmingly dated characteristic that I fondly remember, there is a plethora of really archaic design choices that I do not assume I'd be in a position to place up with.
@MJ_Guthrie: Oh my gosh! I get to sport this weekend!! *virtually faints with pleasure* How much can I cram in? Let's see, the vote won't be in for Choose my Adventure, so The key World might be on hold until Monday. (By the best way, go vote!). To fill my weekend, I'm going to dive into GW2 more (I actually need to take a look at an Asura), begin plotting more for my EverQuest II community purchasing district in addition to take in a number of dungeons, and spread my wings in Aion to complete up some quests and perhaps even get a couple of rounds of PvP Arenas in. I additionally plan on consuming pizza. Mmm.
I would go back in the event that they'd turn the blasted servers again on! (RIP Star Wars Galaxies.)
@mackeypb: I've been taking part in more Touhou Hisoutensoku (not that any of you realize what that's), as well as League of Legends. I am currently carrying as Graves, although I'm fairly certain those studying my column already know that. It feels good to play extra airdash fighters, though; I really feel like a little bit of a void has been stuffed in my gamer coronary heart.
In order for me to return to EQ, it will take a better game, not a graphical replace. Actually, graphical updates mean almost nothing to me. If the same EQ graphics as in 2000 had been on top of the GW2 engine, I might still be down for playing it. Excessive-high quality graphics are a bonus, not a necessity.
@terilynns: I can be leaping into Star Trek Online this weekend to play a couple of Foundry missions to discuss on my UGC podcast. I will also be in Lord of the Rings On-line as I find it very enjoyable to farm and craft in that recreation. If Minecraft Gallery permits, I will be again in Glitch as well. And yes, the rumors are true: Some persons are twisting my arm to provide Guild Wars 2 a try. I might decide it up this weekend.
I am actually glad this week's query would not apply to me. My first MMO continues to be my favorite, and it's a lovely recreation -- Star Trek On-line!
At the start of each weekend, we meet up with the Massively employees members and ask them, "What are you playing this week?" (In any other case often called: WRUP!) Be a part of us to see what we're as much as in and out of game -- and catch us in the comments to tell us what you are enjoying, too!