Zhris

I don't get it.

34% of the people who own a PS3 also own a 360.

18% of the people who own a 360 also own a PS3.

How did they come up with that math?

As someone who was a huge fan of Tabula Rasa, that statement alone ensures that I'll never buy another NCsoft product again. I guess they never heard the old adage about 'Those who forget history...'

I'm personally not as concerned about the story- what bothers me is when I have a bunch of friends on server A, another on server B, and more on server F. I can't play the same game with *all* my friends without a bunch of alt-hopping.

Hopefully in 5 years I'll be buzzing off to work in my flying car.

The thing to remember about MMO's is that one of the main reasons they are different from other games is most people won't see everything. Take WoW, for example, with its 50 bazillion players. I read somewhere that maybe 5% of those have ever even *seen* Black Temple. Yes, most MMOs typically do have an 'end game', one that changes with each expansion... but most people will never see it. I bet if studies were done, the average gamer levels a character to about the first third of the lelvel cap, then starts on an alt. They may get one or two chars to max level, but that says nothing about how much of the game content they've experienced. So how do you review something like that? My suggestion is representative sampling:

* Create a character.
* Go on a raid.
* Do some PvP.
* Do some crafting.
* etc etc

You don't have to do everything in a game, but take the buffet approach and sample each of the 'important' aspects a game has. This should tell you what you need to know without spending weeks trying to get an accurate picture of the game; if the first raid is terrible, either the rest will too or the game is terribly balanced.

Most games I play, I can right-click a person's name (either the avatar or in the chatbox) and get a dropdown list to tell, ignore, etc. so it doesn't matter how goofy the name is. I assume Darkfall doesn't do that?

Dishes are for throwing. Who cares if they're clean or not?

Kerra litterboxes, now in the Station Shop!