What I've done since March

Lord of the Rings updated to Book 7. I got to wonder around Lorien for a bit, but then it sent me right back into the depths of Moria. Blah! Turbine started having issues with lag, rollbacks, disconnects on my lotro server, Brandywine. Cleve and I decided not to renew our accounts.

Took a little break from mmo's for a couple weeks - played some ps3 and watched movies.

Gave World of Warcraft another try for a month. Started some characters on Naz'grel server because Cleve's dad and brother were on there. Yeah I played WoW cuz well basically there was nothing else to play, lol. Eventually, Cleve got tired of it because his dad only logs in weird hours like 11pm-5am and never got to play with him. So we let those accounts expire. Got my shaman up to 45. Yeah funny I love the hybrids.

A friend, Ruffian, from AoA was playing Age of Conan and we decided to try. Played for about 3 weeks, tried every class, couldn't decide on one - until I realized it was way too bloody for my taste, lol. I know I'm a wimp. Cleve was loving it, but I guess grew tired of it without me.

Hm what else did I play? I know there was something else dumb during these past months I've been so bored with current mmo's.

So Cleve activated his old Star Wars Galaxies account and started rp'ing there. About that time Lineage 2 had just released Gracia final update and had a free 2 weeks for everyone with accounts. I thought why not!

Logged in and saw nobody was online or left in Imperivm clan and I clicked the leave clan button. Amazing what 1 button in the game could do for the fun meter! I went solo for a few days, which was awesome. Then one night I was waiting for someone to come kill Shadith raid boss for my Varka quest and that's when I met TheVersus clan. They right away asked why I wasn't in a clan and offered me an invite. I thought again, why not! and I joined. They are great people. Mostly a pve/raid clan that came from Gustin. We will pvp if need be(fortress, seiges, ect) which is perfect for me! 80% of them are Greek. So I'm picking up some cool greek words in the process! I downloaded Lineage 2 on the labtop at work and try to play in the mornings with them too. But omg, the gfx suck on this thing hehe. Not to mention we have 3mb line for 15 computers at this place so that can turn into disaster quickly.

So that brings us to the present. xp'ing in L2. I'm at 78% till 79! btw, wts drac bow clean.

Hanging out with the AoA peeps on the forums and in IRC. Feel free to join us at irc.gamesurge.net in our Star Trek Online chan #STO or the SW-Tor chan #SW:TOR

Planning on doing another All out Insider podcast soon too.

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Eeek. Amazing how you forget to update your blog when it's a slow gaming news season :)


Lineage 2. Again. I almost thought I was done with it. But like they say, if you quit l2, you will be back. *rolls eyes*

Still waiting on Star Wars:TOR info, Star Trek Online beta (need a guild? join AoA!)and crying over whats left, if anything, of Stargate Worlds. (Their head dev left, and they are broke!)

More later after breakfast.

LoTRO Book 7!

Book 7: Leaves of Lórien arrives in North America on Tuesday, March 17!
Mar 13, 2009 - 1:13 PM - by Sapience
Our first content update since the release of Mines of Moria™, Book 7: Leaves of Lórien will go live in North America on Tuesday March 17! See what awaits you in The Golden Wood with our special Book 7 Spotlight. You can also view all the changes in the patch notes! Downloadable updater for non-TDM users will be available shortly.

Got a message about it from them on twitter also :) So Tuesday is the big Book 7 day. Some nice updates but nothing to get all worked up about I guess. The new 12 man is sposed to be easier than the watcher I hear? Too bad they couldn't get smart enough to put in first age barters for the watcher this update.

Hm not much else new with Lotro, cept I joined Group 3 led by Icestars for the watcher and killed him 2 times on my captain so far(far more fun than LM in watcher). Get this though - First drop was 1 shoulder 1 helm. I got helm, Cleve got shoulders. Second time same drops and I got shoulders and he got helm. mawhahaha. I told them thanks for the ingame wedding present!

Otherwise, we got a new ps3 and guitar hero world tour - but that's not an mmo so we wont discuss it here :p

Champions in June and Star Trek next January? Sweet!

source: http://www.tentonhammer.com/node/63915

Champions in June and Star Trek next January? Sweet!
The sneaky folks over at Gamestop have listed their pre-order launch dates for Champions Online and Star Trek Online. Thanks to the keen eyes of our very own William Heartsill, the Ten Ton Hammer staff can tell you that Champions Online (at least according to Gamestop) is set to release on June 2, 2009, and Star Trek Online is slated for January 26, 2010.

Here are the appropriate links:

Champions Online
Pre-order Ships 6/2/2009
http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=73922

Star Trek Online
Pre-order Ships 1/26/2010
http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=73923

Money and stuff

NcSoft released their 2008 report.

NCsoft® Corporation (KSE: 036570.KS) today reported earning results for 2008. On a consolidated basis, sales came to KRW 346.6 billion (US$ 248.6 million), operating profit KRW 42.2 billion (US$ 30.3 million), and net profit KRW 27.2 billion (US$ 19.5 million). Sales increased 5% year over year, and operating profit, pre-tax profit, and net profit decreased 15%, 31% and 40% respectively.

For the fourth quarter 2008, consolidated net sales recorded KRW 99 billion (US$ 71.0 million), operating profit KRW 9.9 billion (US$ 7.1 million), pre-tax profit KRW 13 billion (US$ 9.3 million), and net profit KRW 8 billion (US$ 5.7 million). The previous quarter sales were KRW 78.3 billion (US$ 56.2 million), operating profit KRW 4.6 billion (US$ 3.3 million), pre-tax profit KRW 8.9 billion (US$ 6.4 million), and net profit KRW 5 billion (US$ 3.6 million). The sales and operating profit increased 26% and 117% respectively quarter over quarter and pre-tax profit and net profit increased 46% and 60% respectively.

Decrease in profit despite the increase in sales is primarily due to limited market exposure for Aion™, which launched later than expected in Korea, as well as increased marketing spend for the Aion launch and updates to the Lineage® series. Launched in November, Aion exceeded expectations in a short period on the market. This, plus the growth in Lineage series sales in Japan and the foreign exchange rate were the primary reasons for the quarter over quarter sales growth.

I want a kitty!

I'm extremely bored and I have a headache! /whine

So, this was my first week of working 8-5 instead of 5-2 and it's amazing how much extra time I feel that I have at night lol. I can actually go ingame now and finish the party I'm in without having to go to bed at 8pm :)

Got this weekend off, was planning on trying to get Jesenia to 59 or 60 in Lotro, BUT we know how that goes when I try to plan something in game :) Book night was almost a disaster last night. Got just enough people to help Haremin(who got an attitude about nobody in kin helping him) with book 2.4.7, then I gave up after that cuz everyone seemed to be igmoring me or doing DD instance runs. BTW there are some cool videos of our friday night fun events on the main page of AoA. Tonight is gonna be something like Simon Says with Titles. I'll take screens.

Diablo 2 !?

I resorted to playing Diablo 2 last night. But it was really fun.

I had forgotten I even owned it (I even found Diablo 1) when I stopped by my moms this weekend. Cleve pointed out since the internet is still dead I should go through my old pc games and see if we could find anything entertaining. Even though all these cd-roms were labled windows 95/98 we decided to test it and see how they worked on windows xp and vista lol. I ended up bringing home 2 copies of diablo 2, diablo 1, legacy of kain, the sims, quake 3 arena, need for speed 1, and whatever old school game I'm forgetting.

I figured we probly wouldnt have a problem getting it to work on xp, so I tried to install it on the vista first, well cuz, ya know... it's vista. It was pretty funny when it checked to see if i have DirectX 6 installed. And it told me my nVidia 9800 GT was good enough to play it, lol! Of course when I opened it Vista gave me the "this may not be compatable, continue anyway" speech. But the Intro movie and the game played awesome. The cd-rom lagged once. (weird actually playing a game nowadays through a cd). I was actually so surprised that the cgi movie looked so well for being made in 2000!

Anyway, Cleve installed his copy on xp and we tried to play with each other through TCP/IP (since we didn't have internet, but have the network)and we had to open a couple ports and it worked! It was good times and if the net isnt back up tonight I'm kinda looking forward to playing it again to pass the time hehe.

Wonder if Diablo 1 will work on Vista.