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RatHat posted:Did you guys ever get in trouble for that stuff? Or did the GMs/Developers see it as emergent gameplay? These are developers that gave players the ability to castrate eachother. I'm pretty sure it wasn't emergent gameplay but entirely intended gameplay.
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Ziji posted:Did a certain update take out all the fun or something? Because this game sounds awesome and I regret not trying it despite having it downloaded for a while now I remember that I stopped playing because it turned out that a lot of sensitive info was sent to the server in plaintext, and there started to be a bunch of reports of people's accounts getting hacked and emptied. I didn't wanna compromise my computer, so I stopped logging in. Also around that time, a newer version of the game had come out and a bunch of goons were moving over to it to experience the newer content.
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For me the biggest thing was how ludicrously laggy the game was - living in Oregon with servers in California, my ping was generally 300ms or more and regularly shot up to 1k or more, on a connection that didn't regularly lag for other games. When Age of Wulin (the EU version of Age of Wushu) came out, I had better ping to their EU servers than I did to the west coast Age of Wushu servers.
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Ziji posted:Did a certain update take out all the fun or something? Because this game sounds awesome and I regret not trying it despite having it downloaded for a while now Slow death by F2P follies. New tedious grinds, new powerful abilities that only could be bought with real money, hidden super-powerful tradable abilities (read: players would pay thousands USD to bot farmers), weak security leading to people being hacked and robbed by gold-sellers and even some players (who were never banned), more currency sinks with less possible income, bad management, slow updates, and worst of all, over a new level tier players gain intrinsic evasion bonus over people of a lower tiers, meaning no horse rules are much more difficult. All updates and patches were applied about six months after the Chinese servers in the same exact order. No accelerated schedule for critical stuff. Meaning exploits and security breaches were developed over time and then used against our servers. Also 2FA had been entirely disabled because one user back in pre-alpha testing found it annoying. One time, in an attempt to track some duped currency, they found one large fraudulent transaction and traced all touched accounts for that currency. With no time limit, length limit, or barriers. So when the entire office left for E3 they left a script running to search for every account traced and ban it. About a third of anyone that had ever sold anything on the market was banned for several weeks that it took them to sort it out. Tons of them just plain left.
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I've worked with hacking reports for a game company before, and doing a good job dealing with cases like this when only 10 to 20 people are involved, following the money through the IPs of the traders and going through and checking everyone's history to determine whether they were in on it or not, then removing currency and items bought with said fraudulent money could take hours. I can't imagine having to go through a third of your playerbase like that, even with proper tools it would take thousands of man hours. To ban them all outright, lol.
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RatHat posted:Did you guys ever get in trouble for that stuff? Or did the GMs/Developers see it as emergent gameplay? One of the few events they ran involved several GMs putting very large bounties on themselves, higher than players could issue, and then having people hunt them down for cash prizes. We decided a far better game to play would be Get Down Mr. President! and escorted them to the throne room in the Imperial City of Jinling. The amount of world messages that resulted was fantastic. (World messages cost unbound liang, the player currency mentioned earlier in the kidnapping story)
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In addition to Dinnerbot, sometimes I like to roleplay as Grunty while playing Warcraft III:
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Hahahahaha. Doing gods work son.
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Shalhavet posted:One of the few events they ran involved several GMs putting very large bounties on themselves, higher than players could issue, and then having people hunt them down for cash prizes. We decided a far better game to play would be Get Down Mr. President! and escorted them to the throne room in the Imperial City of Jinling. The amount of world messages that resulted was fantastic. This one's the post that I remember, what I love is how the GMs actually come to realize that the goons have made up their own game and are ready to join in. "So, where we going?" Magres posted:Something from a couple days ago in Wushu. On Friday night, the GMs decided to run a "Hunt a GM" type event. They used the in game bounty system, where you can put a cash bounty on the head of someone who has killed you, to put massive bounties on themselves (over three times as big as actual players can put on each other). Obviously, the pubs were all gungho to go murder the GMs and make a quick buck.
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Man, that poo poo is glorious. China game sounds like fun.
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Black desert sounds like its going to be the same way. I might play this one if its fun.
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McGiggins posted:Man, that poo poo is glorious. The key to goon supremacy was to play the game as intended. The developers wanted a kung fu fighting game and made every activity an excuse for people to start fights. The ruling Vietnamese junta had played on the original Chinese servers and knew all the wrinkles and so when the North American server launched they basically took it over and ran it as a bunch of interconnected fifedoms with zero focus on the games actual play modes. Enter the goon. Goons found china game and made a clan called Goon Tang Clan this alone was enough to make us kill on sight. Because of this goons soon found that even beginner skills and numbers in attendance could defeat even the highest levelled junta players. The hatred increased. The beggar's skills were identified and exploited. Hatred increased. Goon laughter multiplied as did our numbers. Tactics and skills were developed. Effective use of the guild combat system was developed. Fiefdoms were permanently taken over by goons. Hatred increased. We mocked the hegemony by forming a guild called Sanguine Goon to piss off people in rival guild Sanguine Moon. Hatred increased. Even as goons left due to inceasingly insufferable grind fest the more determined goons were causing havoc by doing successful hit and run strikes on even the most heavily defended treasure convoys. One 'feature' not recently mentioned was the character creator that allowed abominations such as:  A small sample of goon induced rage.      Whether the new one will be as hilariously fun for the unskilled anarchist remains to be seen.
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So did he want a fancy dance move or a goose? I am confused and amused at the same time. Also, what is the ding to real monies conversion? Did he pay actual money for something?
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They wanted a fancy dance move.  If only I had thought to string them along about geese after the fish schtick. I never bought in game currency but 1 ding ~ $30 US. I had as much as 6 Ding in currency from trading but most people would just straight up buy it, often using Subway gift cards!
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McGiggins posted:So did he want a fancy dance move or a goose? They were both movement skillbooks with similar looking icons. Whirlwind Step upgraded the double jump skill to triple and dropped from farmable fights against easy NPC factions. Goose was a skillbook that let the player do a quick dash on the ground and was very useful for PvP, it had a low chance of dropping from the boss in the first dungeon who summoned players as assassins.
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Saw this, first thought was immediately this thread http://youtu.be/VUNRl3kAATk
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I've never heard of Project Entropia. Is it even still around? Who was left holding the bag when their lovely bubble popped?
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But it looks so dated and horrible, it looks like second life. How is that still attracting anyone, let alone such money? Or it's just tons of people who think they're already too financially invested in the system and can't stop?
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It seems inordinately hard for free to play games to die unless they get a sequel. I never heard of entropia before either, it looks loving awful. Anyway I didn't see this get cross posted from the Rust thread and it might amuse although I haven't been reading this thread too much so who knows. Taylor Swift posted:
Rust is like Dayz with minecraft elements just like every other greenlit thing on steam if you aren't familiar with it. Its not great and I don't recommend playing it but that post made me chuckle. As I understand it they stole lots of their poo poo so the taylor swift fetish room is the cherry on poo poo sundae Goofballs fucked around with this message at 18:40 on Jan 5, 2016 |
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Baronjutter posted:But it looks so dated and horrible, it looks like second life. How is that still attracting anyone, let alone such money? Or it's just tons of people who think they're already too financially invested in the system and can't stop?
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Rust is hilarious and I love playing it. My first run on a goon server saw me come across a dude sleeping out in the open with a poo poo ton of C4 and a M16. Took them, blew him up and promptly lost a gun fight with a helicopter.
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Rust is just like all the other early access survival games as in it's poo poo in a major way but will also produce good stories every now and again. Seriously, play any one of them, throw a loving rock, they all blend together.
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Only reason I remember Rust is because originally everyone didn't even spawn with pants, so it was just naked men battling for survival in the woods, dicks waving majestically in the wind.
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Yardbomb posted:Only reason I remember Rust is because originally everyone didn't even spawn with pants, so it was just naked men battling for survival in the woods, dicks waving majestically in the wind. Er, wasn't that the whole selling point of the game? Start from nothing? Starting with pants seems dumb.
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Created this when Rust goons played Reign of Kings a while back. There are some cheap laughs, but the game is awful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm-X7wTg-ZY
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Yardbomb posted:Only reason I remember Rust is because originally everyone didn't even spawn with pants, so it was just naked men battling for survival in the woods, dicks waving majestically in the wind. And that they patched it so that your character is randomly generated based on your Steam account number, so there were a bunch of racist people whining about how they were "forced" to play a black guy.
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C.M. Kruger posted:And that they patched it so that your character is randomly generated based on your Steam account number, so there were a bunch of racist people whining about how they were "forced" to play a black guy. They're also going to include a female model that can be randomly assigned, guess how well that went over.
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The problem with all the day z clones is starting from scratch when other people can have kevlar and automatic weapons and the low rear end ttks (time to kill) in the open world so you often can and do get killed and lose hours of your progress with zero chance to respond to the person attacking you. That's what makes them exciting but mostly absolutely tedious and obnoxious.
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Soulex posted:Saw this, first thought was immediately this thread
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Chocobo posted:It didn't even mention the world first Twin Blades of Azzinoth on World of Warcraft. The first rogue to get both weapons sold his account for ten grand, and the account was banned a week later. Oh what? 
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And nowadays, hell, even a multitude of expansions ago by this point, any old rear end in a top hat with enough patience can get them easy just strolling invincibly through Black Temple on every reset. Ten large well-spent.
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Feel the hatred of ten thousand dollars! *swings* -78 HP
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rydiafan posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFxEnwHiYLg&hd=1 I like poo poo like this. Like tiny Tim one too. Just a creepy dude hanging around doing something and people wig the gently caress out.
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Hellsau posted:Er, wasn't that the whole selling point of the game? Start from nothing? Starting with pants seems dumb. The no pants made it difficult to post gameplay on youtube, which is a major part of the survival game ecosystem.
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