Hi Garrett Martin, Recently Paste Magazine posted an article on the “Git Gud Mentality,” and how it is why people don’t take games seriously. I considered dropping a comment on the page but, frankly, the odds of it getting lost in the kerfuffle and not read or given attention by anyone outside of the mob … Continue reading “[Community] A Response To Paste Magazine’s “Git Gud” Article”
Did you know that Riot Games maintains a very small blacklist of players deemed so toxic that they are banned from having an account for life? They do, and while it takes a lot to be added to the list, the end result is that any account that can be verified as owned by said … Continue reading “[Community] Should Developers Start Blacklisting Customers?”
Before we begin, let me just get this out of the way and say that I am an Amazon Prime customer and am very happy with my service. Now on to the article. Amazon has caused plenty of ruffled feathers and heads scratched in confusion with a very odd and inconsistent new scheme to sell … Continue reading “[Community] Amazon’s Ridiculous and Inconsistent Prime-Gating”
Free servers are the MMO equivalent of regular game piracy, they’re likely never going to fully go away and developers have different approaches on how to deal with them. The gaming community is split on how private servers should be regarded, and there are plenty of legitimate and illegitimate reasons for their existence. If Nostalrius … Continue reading “[Community] The Demand For Legacy Servers”
Daum has posed a simple question to its players: Would you like it to be possible to auto-path allowing players to level up stats while away from their keyboard? We wanted to put up a simple poll to get an idea of how many people would like to see the Auto-Path Loop feature added to … Continue reading “Black Desert Online Community Votes In Pathing”
Trion Worlds has spent the better part of the past six or so months attempting to slowly detoxify the very virulent community whose actions they have actively coddled and defended as ‘in the spirit of the game,’ and that shift in management has come to a head once again with Trion reversing a trade scam against … Continue reading “Trion Worlds Punishes Impersonation Scam, Community Explodes”
What do you do when your game sells items for real money but also includes a separate offline mode that can’t reasonably be regulated by the developer? For Shroud of the Avatar, the folks at Portalarium figures that no matter what their stance on the issue, there is little doubt that hackers will figure out … Continue reading “Shroud of the Avatar Community Wants Free Offline Access To Perks”
CCP’s latest dev blog talks about coming improvements to the character bazaar, where players can buy and sell fully formed avatars in order to discourage less safe sales that would happen anyway on websites like Ebay. A majority of the updates concern the fact that the bazaar, while handy, is still too complicated for many … Continue reading “CCP Proposes Tradeable Skills, Community Not Enthused”
Editor’s note: Community is an editorial column where we discuss pressing issues in the gaming community, including outside of the MMO genre. The acknowledgement of events or actions by individuals or developers should not be misinterpreted as our approval of said actions, unless explicitly stated. If you haven’t been paying attention recently, the Payday community is … Continue reading “[Community] Blocked & Kicked: Payday Community Targets Customers”
Trion Worlds is opening up its forums to another Q&A with the Defiance development team. If you have any questions/concerns to push on the team, now is your chance to do it. This is the question collection thread for this week’s Defiance Developer Q&A. If you’d like to add your question in or you have … Continue reading “Defiance Opens Floor To Community Questions”
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