Aion Introduces RMT for Plastic Surgery

Aion released their Community address, and basically introduced RMT coming to the game. How will the players take it? Will they pay real money to recreate their characters looks, or pay another real money transaction fee to switch genders?

This is only the beginning of their new Account Services feature from what I read. I am sure by years end you will be able to spend hundreds of dollars buying stuff. Is it really worth it to pay real money for plastic surgery in Aion?

I don't really understand why anyone would pay to change their character.  Didn't everyone already spend an hour creating their toon originally?  I really only see this as a way for someone to recreate themselves, or change their looks if they bought the account.  I don't really see why else you would pay to change something so minor.

So you figure with a big community address you would read some patch notes, or hear about some exciting upcoming content but not a word. It was the most uneventful announcement I have seen. What about their vision?  I am thinking that vision was their ten year vision.

Oh wait. They did announce some changes. They are revamping the website, and the forums. Aren't you excited?

Porn Industry Blames Decline on World of Warcraft

I just ran into this article on Tom's Hardware that the porn industry is now blaming World of Warcraft for their declining profits along with other online games.  I guess guys really do like Blood Elves, and Night Elves.

Is it really online gaming causing it?

Is DAoC being Energized with a shot of Adrenaline?

With GOA pulling the plug on DAoC EU will it energize the US Servers with a shot of adrenaline?  Is Mythic planning on creating new servers for them, or merging them with the current US servers?

If Mythic decides to merge all players to US servers it could really boost the servers activity levels for DAoC.  Will Warhammer follow in its footsteps soon?

I think it could really make RvR exciting again.

Why Do The Credits Roll After Hitting Renown Rank 80 in WAR?

Is the game really over when you hit that milestone in Warhammer Online?   It isn't officially over, but it makes 99% of the game pointless after you do reach renown rank 80.

I know many players who stopped playing after they hit it because RvR became boring without any goals.

With renown being worthless it takes any motivation out of taking battle objectives, keeps, zones, and cities.  You only did it before for the renown, and now that is gone.

Many players that reached renown rank 80 just stopped playing immediately with that toon.  The thought of handing out Sovereign pieces in zerg battles just made alot of players cringe.  So most just shelved their toons, and played alts until IC reached the king kill.  They would than log them in just for that.

So it defeats the main purpose of high renown rank players dropping this gear, and is the #1 reason Warhammer Online needs to add something to keep players playing once they hit renown rank 80.

I think they need to make renown ranks higher, and change the gear requirements on the RvR sets to match the new higher ranks.

I also wrote about a Nemesis Influence being implemented into the game once you reach renown rank 80 that keeps players playing.

How do you think they could keep players who are renown rank 80 playing those characters instead of alts?

League of Heroes

League of Heroes is a browser based game based on Superheroes.  Initially I thought the game was going to be kind of cool, and fun.  I was able to choose three different powers which all sounded very cool.  I pick to be a villain.

I receive my first choice for missions.  Either mug someone on the street, rob a business, or rob a bank.  I choose to start by mugging someone on the street.

This is where I started laughing.  I didn't realize it was just a text based, random event game.  It comes back, and says you successfully robbed someone for $53 dollars.  I laughed some more, and closed my browser.

I guess I never knew what a browser based game was all about.  If you want a good laugh go ahead, and give League of Heroes a try.

Welcome to WASDstomp

Welcome to my new general gaming blog.  I decided with my interest in so many new games it would be better to have a general gaming blog instead of a single game niche blog.  I look forward to talking about Aion, Warhammer, World of Warcraft, SWTOR, and other games too.