Comments on: It Has to Be Said: Time Beats Money?

By: Mimika Oh

Mimika Oh — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 18:35:37 +0000

Griefing is not like PvP in one important way: both parties sign up for PvP. You’re claiming that hitting someone in the street is just like boxing.

By: At0m0 Beerbaum

At0m0 Beerbaum — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 07:55:19 +0000

I like corn.

By: Jayd3n

Jayd3n — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 01:57:13 +0000

Yep I tried Allods online, it is a piece of Shi* but I have played MMO for many years, so maybe that is why. I am waiting for some new MMO of 2010 to come out, and generally I rather pay $15 a month for a MMO than a free to play, because Free 2 Play, require big ammounts of cash to obtain the best gear, best items, and is just about the ammount of paying $295 a month Second Life Tier per month it can get just as bad, and their prices like $20 for a costume in some Free to play games is really screwed up, when they could offer bigger discounts and more options on their items, like making all items you buy account bound, so you can trade between characters when you want, and all that type of stuff, for certain items, but they wont do it because they want cash.

Over all I Like P2P MMO a lot better at standard Rates, because everyone gets a fair chance F2P they dont, and mostly MMO got boring and that is why I came to Second Life to begin with.

I Love Second Life, I just wish that Linden Lab would get rid of the people who are ruining our grid, data mining residents, Slandering residents who have done nothing wrong with BanLink/CDS systems, It Ruins our comminity, but other than that SL is Great, and Thanks to Linden Lab blocking out Neil Life, Theft has became a lot less in Second Life.

By: Emperor Norton hears a who?

Emperor Norton hears a who? — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:51:57 +0000

What SL calls greifing is what FRG MMORGs call PvP and a standard part of the game. I doubt if the Herald will find much drama there to bottom feed in with stories on which guild is ganking which guild or what toon class has been hit with the dev’s nerf bat.

By: Gundel Gaukelei

Gundel Gaukelei — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:40:37 +0000

When I was a child of about 6, I tried to explain something I had realized to my parents. And as always they were asking “How can you know?”. They had done so in the past, leaving me speechless. But this time I came up with an answer “I was eavesdropping on 3 old ladys gossip in front of the store you sent me this morning in order to buy milk”. This time, I was leaving my parents speachless. While the 3 old ladys were only a product of my childish imagination, I had realized two important things: that adults always want you to proof your point and that you can solve this by refering to a source they trust.

While gossip turned out to be sufficently proving the point of a 6 year old, in order to prove your point you would have to come up with a lot more then replacing the required market research and reliable numbers by “based on the chat, and people looking to form parties to make the quest shorter”.

The closest feasible, scientifically proven answer to the question is, based on your article: Depends!

By: Darien Caldwell

Darien Caldwell — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:04:42 +0000

First off, SL’s Premium is in no way similar to WoW’s subscription model. In WoW, the subscription is required, in SL, Premium is not required.

In fact SL’s current model more resembles Allod’s model if anything. And the results are the same. If people can avoid paying, they will, in every instance. The fact that people engaging in online games have lots of free time is kind of a no-brainer. If they had things to do, they wouldn’t even be there.

By: All Seeing Eye

All Seeing Eye — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:16:16 +0000

Or they can go pay Sony or Blizzard $15 a month and quest all they want. After a while the mind numbingly boring crap gets old.

By: V

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:00:53 +0000

Yes.

No.

Wandering Alchemist Quest?