Being an amateur and an idiot, I am consistently playing around with the style of Falling Out. The boring white backdrop is out, and specific locations are now in. Take, for instance, the crypt office of MMO Fallout’s lawyer, the Black Wizard.
New episodes of Falling Out every sometime at the place.
Falling Out is back! And this time for good. New episodes every Monday, Wednesday, And Friday.
Now that the crew is all together, I’ve been trying to give them all something to do. Red Mage is in charge of the Falling Out comic, making sure that it is ready on time, Black Mage is working sprite art, and White Mage is playing support class. Naturally.
New episodes every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Some people take the game too seriously.
Special thanks to Ryker from the Spriter’s Resource message board for the enlarged Final Fantasy sprites. Tune in for new episodes every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Some people take the game too seriously.
Special thanks to Ryker from the Spriter’s Resource message board for the enlarged Final Fantasy sprites. Tune in for new episodes every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
I’ve gotten a bit of feedback on the fact that many of the sales listed on the sales page, those listed through Direct2Drive, have been there since June, putting them at four months on sale at least. A few asked me why I don’t remove them and just consider them permanent price cuts. Back in July I emailed Direct2Drive over whether or not the price cuts were permanent or temporary, and received this answer:
Hi Connor,
Prices can fluctuate depending on pricing offered by the developers and publishers. Some MMO’s are currently on sale and that would be a temporary discount. You can see those games at http://www.direct2drive.com/buy-mmo-pc-games-download The sale items are listed with the original price and the discount price in yellow.
Kind regards,
Rich Metcalfe
Lead Technical Specialist
Digital Distribution
So this is why I still have the games listed. Until Direct2Drive lists them as such, they are a temporary price cut. Hopefully this calms some questions.
Here at MMO Fallout, the articles usually come from one of two sources:
Where MMO Fallout truly thrives, and where my own message for this blog exists, is in talking to the players. If there is an MMO argument/debate going on in a game, you can probably bet that I am part of it in some fashion. By argument/debate, I mean an actual human conversation, not “this game sucks” or “that game is better”, although I will throw around sarcastic remarks as if I’m paid to do it.
I have been “found” a few times in the MMOs I play, as my username is virtually always Omali, or some variation of it (Omali, Jomali, and Katanda are the three most likely). The people I have talked to are very engaging, and regularly do I end up penning an article for MMO Fallout based on our discussion, however related to the actual content it is. I can find out only so much by the first option in my list of sources, many of my longest standing articles have been penned up thanks to my discussion with players (including the current NCsoft scandal. Thanks to select players, I began covering the story long before most other MMO websites picked up.
So what’s on your mind, viewers of MMO Fallout? Any questions on your mind that don’t fit into other articles? Think of this as a place to just get everything off of your chest.
I’ve poked fun at Funcom from time to time, be it their questionable business decisions, cutting prices Freddy Krueger style in a desperate grab for more subscribers, and announcing a delay on a non-dated title. I may have opened up a portal, however.
If you look at the chart above, that’s the traffic to MMO Fallout (Which excludes myself). Startled to see that spike, I dived into the statistics to find that the most searched phrase that led here was: “Age of Conan.” Whether our new visitors are existing players, or those looking for information on the title, MMO Fallout welcomes you and your hordes of buddies.
So what’s the deal, restless group of oddly silent visitors? Am I making sense or do I have the wrong picture about Funcom and their titles? Drop a comment.
I like to take some time every now and then to detail certain parts of MMO Fallout, usually terms and expressions I use, that generates the most feedback from fans. More recently, I’ve had a few questions about my consistently ending certain product articles (Star Wars Galaxies, Age of Conan, Planetside, and several others) with “More on ____’s downward spiral as it appears.” Some of the readers appear to be under the impression that I’m calling the deaths of these MMOs, lovingly pointing out that I have said from day one that I will never predict the death of an MMO.
Well they are right, at least on the last point. When I say downward spiral, I always have facts to back myself up, and I am not always referring to subscriber numbers. Take Funcom for example, who not only cut off 20% of their staff, delayed a non-dated MMO, announced a massive revenue drop, and somehow is still finding the time to develop a free to play kid MMO. When I say Funcom is in a downward spiral, I mean financially that company is in a downward spiral, that changes direction depending on your hemisphere and leads right into the septic tank.
I don’t call death because, to be honest, it’s redundant. Dwindling subscriber numbers? Yes. Financial ruin? Yes. Ponzi Scheme? Stargate Worlds. Calling death on an MMO is akin to calling yourself a soothsayer and predicting that someone would die, but they would have financial gain at some point before they do. Not when they’ll die or what the financial gain is, and all that can be chalked up as everyone dies and, generally, everyone has an income at some point in their lives. Blamo, you’re the most generalized soothsayer in all the land.
I’m proud to announce MMO Fallout now has its own message boards. Head over here, register an account, and join the discussion why don’t you? It’s quick and simple, and you don’t even need a credit card.
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