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EQ2: Healing the Crypt of Agony

December 1, 2007 by Tipa

I finally got a Sebilis group with my troub; and the experience was pretty decent. The tank wasn’t quite up to tanking it — he being 72 — so we died a few times and after awhile the group broke up. I had already camped from my troub to my inquisitor to help heal, as … Read more

EQ2: Failure Cascade

November 30, 2007 by Tipa

I didn’t want to talk about Winterwing before she finished the Butcherblock quest line, but while I was messing up an alliance between the Timorous Deep and Butcherblock aviaks, I looked up and caught the end of a partial eclipse of the sun as the un-blowed-up moon Drinal passed before it. Whichever artist did the … Read more

EQ2: Okay, a Sarnak, a Goblin and a Burynai walk into a bar…

November 29, 2007 by Tipa

A Sarnak, a Goblin and a Burynai walked into a bar, and seeing all were of an adventuring type, decided to form a guild together. They went on many adventures, and after awhile, realized that though they really liked each other, they had different goals. The Sarnak loved exploring and seeing new places. The Goblin … Read more

Star Trek Online: No more Captain Kirk?

November 27, 2007 by Tipa

Via Tobolds, more news: apparently Perpetual and STO have been on deathwatch for awhile, and last-gasp development is trying to change the direction of the game to more casual. It didn’t sound very hardcore to me anyway… Free to play? Merde… This is definitely not how I saw the game being released.
Reaction on the STO Forums and [ STO Source ] has been muted. Perhaps with months of little attention to the title, it’s slowly lost fans to keep the community alive.
F13.net has some usefully cynical commentary, as usual.

Does the end of Perpetual mean an end to Star Trek Online?

November 26, 2007 by Tipa

According to this article over at Massively, Perpetual Entertainment, who recently closed down their nearly-released Gods & Heroes MMO, is about to shut down altogether. It was clear from all we’ve been hearing over the past year that they were in trouble, but who knew just how bad it was?
The dev blogs they’ve been posting have shown Star Trek Online at a somewhat early phase of development — we’ve mostly seen some level design and know little about the actual gameplay — so I doubt it would be unrealistic to think that Perpetual’s STO game hasn’t much more going for it than a design document, a demoralized development team, and the Star Trek license itself.