Comments on: Gaming News: Starcraft 2 numbers, Torchlight 2, Gameforge buys majority of Frogster, Google Wave ditched

By: spinks

spinks — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 04:13:22 +0000

Yes, I’m sure there have been vague rumblings of a new mmo with new ip for a long time.

I’m neutral on Google Wave, I never found it very compelling. Buzz however is a different story. I love being able to share and discuss interesting news stories from my rss feed with friends (and that’s just one way to use it)

By: spinks

spinks — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 04:09:10 +0000

Unenviable because you have to read the badly written, sometimes cringeworthy cybering text. Plus people will hate you for spoiling their fun, plus you know it’s pointless because they’ll just go somewhere else or take it to whispers until you are gone.

By: Aufero

Aufero — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 04:07:30 +0000

I couldn’t see any point to Google Wave, so I can’t say I’m sad to see it go. But then I never saw any point in Twitter or Facebook, (still don’t) so I clearly don’t have much of a track record in predicting what people will find useful.

Isn’t that the same unnamed new-IP MMO Blizzard has been working on since before they merged with the Borg… er, Activision?

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 03:30:53 +0000

I don’t know that being a GM told to go in and stop cybering people is an unenviable job. It’d be quite funny to go in there and tell them to stop doing it or they’ll be banned. you’d be able to have a bit of a chuckle, as well as feel pretty good about yourself, knowing that no matter how low your life sinks, at least you won’t be them.

By: Katherine

Katherine — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 23:01:30 +0000

Tried the demo of Torchlight and already I have a list of things I want to see in the sequel. I’ll spare you the list but one thing I’d love to see is an option to play a female character that is wearing more clothes than the standard bikini-wear from the Torchlight 1 starting screen.

By: spinks

spinks — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 20:49:23 +0000

Yup, just they had the bad manners to do it on a weekend I was away. I have a few links and comments on that for tomorrow.

By: Utakata

Utakata — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:26:19 +0000

Is it also true that SOE just announced they’re working on EQ3, titled EverQuest Next? Least that’s what I got the gist over from Massively:

http://www.massively.com/2010/08/07/fan-faire-2010-john-smedley-and-the-soe-crew-talk-everquest-nex/

By: Brian 'Psychochild' Green

Brian 'Psychochild' Green — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 09:06:20 +0000

A bit of a shame about Google Wave. The thing holding me back is I use a very non-standard browser, and they didn’t support it. I could read waves, but not participate. Kind of defeats the purpose that way. :/