Trailers in the gaming industry are the first step in building hype for a game. Often the trailer will come out as a teaser years ahead of the actual game. Nearly every trailer features zero actual gameplay and the vast majority are done in CGI with scenes having little or nothing to do with what [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Allods Online’
Stability is the cornerstone missing in recent MMO’s
March 8th, 2010
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Whenever I go without a MMO for long periods of time the first thing that always comes to mind is how I need a game that I can invest myself into. That’s what sets MMO’s apart from other games for me. A MMO character is something that the players should feel committed to in a [...]
Allods Cash Shop Prices Come Down
March 3rd, 2010
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Some big changes have just hit the cash shop in Allods Online. Prices have dropped significantly yet still remain slightly higher than the Russians pay. The expected result that players would welcome any cash shop change was immediately apparent within the first minute of the change. People are shouting their excitement and are now expressing [...]
Allods Adventure Log: Level 24 and my thoughts on the PvP flagging
February 28th, 2010
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Despite my lack of blog posts about Allods lately, and the extreme amount of negativity and cynicism surrounding the game from just about everyone under the sun, I’m still playing. In fact, I’m playing the game a lot. I’m now over halfway through level 24 and working through the first few waves of quests in [...]
A Ray of Hope for Allods Fans
February 23rd, 2010
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The rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated. I was not banned nor have I quit. In fact, I’m writing this while alt tabbed waiting on a quest respawn. Silly rumors floating around on twitter and other websites are untrue. Today’s communication from gPotato shed some light on a few things we’ve been having [...]
Bringing you up to speed on Allods Online’s Launch Debacle
February 20th, 2010
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What an interesting past two days this has been. I’m going to get right to it guys. I’m not interested in being a jerk or completely destroying people. I am, however, interested in presenting the facts and the truth of a situation. The bottom line right now is that Allods Online is facing some series [...]
Allods Cash Shop Blunder
February 19th, 2010
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This is not how I wanted to wake up. First the whole Tiger Woods news conference taking precedent over my morning news and now logging on to hear that a patch came overnight opening the cash shop revealing horrendous prices. None of us are surprised to find that the cash shop was hiding a secret. [...]
Allods Online Interview
February 18th, 2010
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A couple of months ago, about the time I started writing about Allods, Gala-Net contacted me and offered the chance to submit some questions to them for an interview. Long story short, it’s taken a while to get these questions back and I’ve since then revised the questions sent to them. It did take a [...]
