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    12/18/09

    In reply to Star Wars: The Old Republic Just Got A Whole Lot Sandier
    I will pay Bioware 1 Billion Internet dollars if they include the line: "What's wrong with you? Did a Jawa get sand in your vagina?" in a quest that takes place on that planet.
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    12/18/09

    In reply to Star Wars: The Old Republic Just Got A Whole Lot Sandier
    The "latest" planet, hmm?

    In all honesty I would have expected Tatooine to be the first. Or perhaps Coruscant (sooooooooo pretty!).
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    12/18/09

    @dracosummoner: Coruscant was first.
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    12/18/09

    @deanbmmv:

    I did notice Coruscant, thanks. That's so awesome that Bioware's implementing Coruscant ...
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    12/18/09

    In reply to Star Wars: The Old Republic Just Got A Whole Lot Sandier
    I hate the old republic, it's so... not out yet. but dragon age origins is not not out yet, that is why i love dragon age origins.
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    12/18/09

    In reply to Star Wars: The Old Republic Just Got A Whole Lot Sandier
    I will be buying a graphics card to play this game. Keep dribbling, guys...
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    12/18/09

    In reply to Star Wars: The Old Republic Just Got A Whole Lot Sandier
    Did Bioware announce any means of fast travel or mounts, yet? I'm not looking forward to running around on foot if I do indeed sub in this game.
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    Image of Paradox me Paradox me
    12/18/09

    @Trey: Star Wars Galaxies had shuttleports, swoop bikes and speeders, so I'm hoping they take some inspiration from that.

    It'd be pretty silly if in a Star Wars game you had to walk everywhere.
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    12/18/09

    @Paradox me:
    Obi Wan:"Well that smuggler wouldn't accept 1,500 credits now and more later"
    Luke "So how are we going to rescue the princess?"
    Obi Wan"Looks like we'll have to walk to Alderaan"
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    Image of gundaman gundaman
    12/18/09

    @deanbmmv: They could always just bet everything on a pod race and get lucky... *sigh*
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    12/17/09

    In reply to Aion Speeds Things Up With Double XP Weekends
    Does anone know, who introduced Double XP Weekends for the very first time?
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    12/16/09

    In reply to Aion Speeds Things Up With Double XP Weekends
    That Aion is a recent localisation of a game released in South Korea over a year ago may suggest that Korean fans are much more tolerant of xp grind than we are.

    Now I'll only have to kill ~500 critters to get my three level 22 characters to the Training Grounds instead of 1,000.

    Zzzzzzzz....
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    Image of vorpal_raddish vorpal_raddish
    12/15/09

    In reply to EverQuest Launches Its Sixteenth Expansion
    Good to see the old beast is still chugging along.
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    Image of ForkInSocket ForkInSocket
    12/15/09

    In reply to EverQuest Launches Its Sixteenth Expansion
    The original EQ was like a great undiscovered indie band: raw, inspired, loads of potential just begging to be tapped...

    ...only to sell out to Sony and start producing power pop.
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    Image of Nulls Nulls
    12/15/09

    In reply to Aion Speeds Things Up With Double XP Weekends
    It is too little too late for me at least. Maybe if they did this at launch I would have considered putting up with the bot spam and stuck around longer than the first month.

    I know the bot spam probably got better and if I were in a guild that ran things then the game isn't that bad. But the reality is most people aren't in well organized guilds in mmorgps.

    Even in WOW, the king of mmorpgs pubs groups are frustrating, not fun and generally hated.

    The core part of Aion is the abyss, it is a shame that in order to get to the real game you have go through an annoying grind and then find out your reward is an even more annoying grind.
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    12/15/09

    In reply to Aion Speeds Things Up With Double XP Weekends
    Funny thing is, the game doesn't get all that grindy until level 35. Go figure. People who take advantage of this will be in for a rude awakening once you hit 35 and have to run Mist Mane a hundred times.
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    12/15/09

    @Telecinision: Yo dude... the most fanatical hard core leveler I knew in WoW gave up on that game because of how grindy it is at lvl 35. Apparently you just straight up run out of quests... ? What is that! O_o
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    Image of MugiMugi MugiMugi
    12/15/09

    @holidays! cat: There is quests, but quests won't cover 100% of the XP of the level above that point, but there is so many more things to do to get XP anyway, like go and run an instance run good XP eg. At 37 there is many group quests who gonna take quite a while and overall to finnish them you get a few levels to.

    However after 40+ specially 45+ your not going to see very many quests, but there is still quite a lot of things to do. 45 you have like 4 instances to run and have fun with.

    But the average MMO player want all gear everything within the first hour they play an MMO, they want it served and reached end game at once.
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    12/15/09

    @holidays! cat: I'm pretty much out of quests around 40, apparently it picks up from 40-45 because the Steel Rake instance gives good xp, but then the last five levels are just terrible.
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    Image of Godmars Godmars
    12/15/09

    In reply to Massive Free Realms Update Brings Tiny Dinosaurs
    Wonder if the PS3 version is still on.
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    Image of PvtWeaksauce PvtWeaksauce
    12/15/09

    In reply to EverQuest Launches Its Sixteenth Expansion
    So did the EQ userbase just deny the fact that Everquest 2 ever existed?
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    Image of Chanaluss Chanaluss
    12/15/09

    @PvtWeaksauce: well...TECHNICALLY theyre 2 different timelines, so in a sense, yes.
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    12/15/09

    @PvtWeaksauce: Yes, we did.
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    Image of SpearXXI SpearXXI
    12/15/09

    In reply to EverQuest Launches Its Sixteenth Expansion
    I wonder if World of Warcraft is going to get 16 expansions? I kind of miss playing EQ because I only got to level 18 on my highest toon back in the day. I wonder how much it costs just to buy all of those xpacs wow.
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    12/15/09

    @SpearXXI:

    Blizzard's never been too 'big' on expansion packs, I don't think. Warcraft II had one, and I don't think that that one was even a standalone edition. Warcraft III had one, Starcraft had one, Diablo II had one ... Diablo 1? Is Hellfire a Blizzard expansion?

    If World of Warcraft gets sixteen expansions (considering it hasn't even gotten its third yet), that will probably take a game life of ... wow. Even longer than EverQuest has been around, that's for sure ...
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    Image of Grimskull89 Grimskull89
    12/15/09

    @dracosummoner: Well in roughly the same amount of time, Eq2 has gotten 5 expansions (and soon a 6th expansion). WoW has barely cranked out 2, with a 3rd on the way.

    And with Blizzard's merge with Activision.. I would imagine they would try to pinch every nickel and dime out of their gaming base... so they might someday get to 16 expansions :/
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    Image of vleramus vleramus
    12/15/09

    @dracosummoner:WC2: Beyond the Dark Portal. Also, they released a map pack... I believe it was calle "The Next 70 Levels". Just, you know, throwing that out there.
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    12/15/09

    @vleramus: @chris.babin:

    That's it. Thank you. I own the WCII Battle.Net edition, but I couldn't remember if "Beyond the Dark Portal" was always bundled with the original WCII (once the expansion came out, that is) or not.
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    12/15/09

    @Grimskull89:

    I did forget about the Activision factor.
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    12/15/09

    In reply to EverQuest Launches Its Sixteenth Expansion
    Anal [underfoot]
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