Bethesda’s busy digging another grave for Fallout 76, this time by saddling the troubled online title with a problematic subscription service that is broken and faulty.
Of course, not everyone agrees with that sentiment; Belghast at Tales of the Aggronaut even thinks that this comes out to be a good deal for private server enthusiasts. “See if you have followed my blog for awhile this was what I desperately wanted at launch,” he said. “Now if you look at the price tag entirely based upon Private Worlds… it becomes honestly a bargain.”
Connor over at MMO Fallout is far more scathing and puts part of the blame on the playerbase, saying, “The players outraged over the quality of this launch have nothing to complain about. Bethesda threw your asses overboard before this game even launched, and for some reason you keep paying for another ticket to get back on the boat. You keep going back to Big Louie’s House of Turds and then complaining when the poopoo platter you ordered is covered in crap.”
Coffee Cakes and Crits: The joys of fishing in Classic WoW
“I know that playing the game by killing mobs and questing is supposed to be the fun part. And it is, I prefer to do it with full up-to-date gear and enchanted weapons. Play on!”
Mailvatar: What’s so special about ArcheAge anyway?
“If my math doesn’t fail me that’s a total of 220 available classes. Are all of those, like, good? No, of course not. But the amount of classes that are considered to be totally viable for almost any kind of content is still staggering.”
Leo’s Life: The perils of games as service
“For fully persistent games, like an MMORPG, it is near impossible to launch a true sequel without cutting your user base. EQ2 and FF14 are the only ones where this could be considered a success, and for vastly different reasons. There’s a LONG list of sequels that failed.”
Going Commando: Early Onslaught impressions
“To quickly sum up my first impressions of the story in a spoiler-free manner: It didn’t grab me quite as much as Jedi Under Siege did, but I freaking loved Ossus, so that was an incredibly high bar to clear. That said, if you asked me to rate Onslaught in comparison to all the previous story expansions so far, I’d say it’s the best one we’ve had to date.”
Contains Moderate Peril: The calm before the storm in LOTRO
“However, when returning to LOTRO from another game, it is very noticeable how the quest system is a product of its time, built upon the prevailing MMO systems and concepts of 2007.”
Precious Moments: Where do we go from WoW?
“I decided to see it as a way to check out other games I’d been ignoring or perhaps neglected since my renewed interest in WoW. After all, Blizzard isn’t the end-all be-all of gaming. Not even of the MMO genre. So I decided to dive into some hardcore research as to what game I should jump into next.”
Priest with a Cause: Classic Halloween
“It’s Hallow’s End in World of Warcraft, and I can’t help but notice how quaint the celebrations are in Classic. There are some seasonal decorations in places, such as the giant pumpkin at the entrance to the Undercity, but they are not as ubiquitous and over the top as in the live game.”
Every day there are tons of terrific, insightful, and unusual articles posted across the MMO gaming blogosphere — and every day, Justin reads as many as he can. Global Chat is a sampling of noteworthy essays, rants, and guides from the past few weeks of MMO discourse.
