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What developers could learn from Mass Effect 3

12. April, 2012Tags: Mass Effect 3, MMO Blog, MMO Industry

At the same time as Bioware were working on Mass Effect 3, they were also working on Star Wars: The Old Republic. It shows, with the latter styling itself as an evolved version of World of Warcraft, mixing the best of Bioware’s single player titles with a vast and exciting universe. If you read our Old Republic review, you’ll know that there’s very little that I think we’d want to change (with the exception of that pesky install/download size), but there are indeed things that the developers could have brought over from Mass Effect, things which MMO developers everywhere could perhaps do with learning.

Beta weekends and pre-order incentives

Posted on 09. Apr, 2012 in MMO Blog, MMO Industry

Last week, I was reading Funcom's latest press release. It was the pre-order announcement for the highly anticipated MMO "The Secret World". They offer access to the "Exclusive" Beta Weekends if you pre-order today. I remember the pre-order incentives to be real-life items but today it's more about the access to the Beta Weekends. What is a Beta Weekend and who is it really for?

Eudemons Online review

07. April, 2012Tags: Eudemons Online, MMO Blog

Eudemons Online review Let me tell you about my experience with downloading and installing Eudemons, it’s a remarkably similar story to the story I told about RODE last month and it’s just as frustrating. There are four options to choose from when downloading; you can download the .exe file directly from the developer, get the files via P2P or there are a couple of options involving torrents. The file itself is about a gigabyte, not too bad when you consider that the installation comes in at 3.2 gigabytes. So I tried the first option, it got to 800mbs (it took a long time, not because of my connection either) and became “interrupted.”