Technology Matters
MMORPG
Massive Multiplayer Gaming
Lord of the Rings Online goes free Sep 10
Aug 18th
Lord of the Rings Online was a Game you paid your hard earned money for each month to play but come September 10th – put that money away as it will go in full “Free to play” mode. Of course like most other Free to play games, to get the extra stuff, you need to spend money. You’ll be able to download the game client, create an account, and battle the forces of EVIL~! without paying one red cent.
Runes of Magic – Free to Play MMORPG
Aug 16th
You can find out more at the homepage – from what I understand, it a Free to play 3D MMORPG that plays a lot like World of Warcraft and has been going for some time. The client is 6.7Gigs to download and can take some time.
Monster 6 PC Eve Farming Rig
Apr 12th
Kotaku points the way to an MMORPG gamer who is really, really serious about EVE Online. Unlike most subscribers however, he doesn’t spend hours upon hours performing the same mundane tasks to farm gold and minerals. Instead, Zhek Kromtor has created a six-rig setup that allows him to access six separate characters and get the goods faster than the standard method.
Kromtor was originally kicked off EVE Online for software multiboxing: the act of sending a keyboard or mouse click to multiple computers or clients at the same time using software such as Synergy, Keyclone, and more. CCP banned him from the MMORPG for three days, citing “macro use.”
Hackers Bypass WoW Authenticators
Mar 8th
A new keylogger disguised as a World of Warcraft add-on is stealing account info and goods.
Last week reports of a “man-in-the-middle-attack” surfaced in regards to Blizzard’s MMORPG. World of Warcraft. Apparently hackers have created a tool that grants them access to accounts protected by an authentication tool. Once they are in control of the account, hackers can thus steal virtual gold and possessions until the account password is reset. Currently there’s no indication if the hackers gain access to data such as credit cards or other personal information.
Lineage 2 Java Server
Jan 19th
There is a game called Lineage 2, its a Korean MMORPG using the point and click movement, runs using the Unreal engine and is 3D and has been going in Pay to play now for many years, even longer then World of Warcraft by far. There is a Java Server server (the guys who wrote it only knew java) which allows anyone to run a server and play the game without paying a monthly fee for the real thing. This quick story is my few days stabbing at a laptop trying to get it to work.
Mangos (WoW Server Emulator) hits 3.3.0A (11159)
Jan 12th
If your a World of Warcraft player, you would already know that WoW has been updated to 3.3.0A and are relishing in the goodness that the update brought to you but if you mess about on your own (or others) server running Mangos – you would have been stuck behind the main stream.
Legend of Mir III – Reopens and now Free
May 7th
I seems Legend of Mir 3 although going offline from GN network has came back from Wemade themselves. It is in closed Beta and the moment and is due to move to Open Beta. The graphics back in the day (many years ago) were not so bad as they are 2D Isometric but it also means it runs on anything.
Legend of Mir Closing its Doors
Feb 1st
Legend of Mir is a 2D Isometric MMORPG which has been running for about 7 Years now. Its appeal was how easy it was to pick up and play with only having 3 Classes to choose from (Wizard, Warrior & Taoist). It was said many times it would be loosing money by the number of cheats, people selling stuff on ebay and the private servers offering free play.
Working out why my MMORPG always fail
Jul 27th
In my Time I have ran “Legend of Mir 3″, “Lineage 2″ and “World of Warcraft” and each of them has been online / offline many times with varied player bases but what is common is that every single time – the server eventually died a death and went offline.
I can explain this easy enough with the likes of MIR3, this was more of me going through the files making sure it worked and was in English then wanting to run a live server. When I did run a Live server, too much of my time / bandwidth was taken up by people playing and finding bugs. Lineage 2 came and went many times – this one was different as the whole process is open source, so no translating required on my behalf. I used to update every single day and when I found nobody logged on for weeks on end (me been the only one to have played in over a month for example) annoyed me as I kept a computer running, spent time updating it and made sure I posted what had been fixed – so a complete waste of my time.
World of Warcraft though was not as bumpy as the rest – It was online and stayed there even when nobody was playing and only had one complete wipe in that time due to bugs coming across from old characters. I can predict what is going to happen as of now in fact though:
1. Lineage 2 will fall by the wayside as 50x Exp and played too many times means its only a matter of time before I get bored of updating it.
2. WoW has a much longer life span – I have done it all before though but the low exp will keep me playing for a while yet.
I can foresee that I will end of been the only one who will play and this is why it always ends off with the servers dying.
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Now playing: The Corrs – Silver Strand
via FoxyTunes
Mangos gets to 2.4.3 Status
Jul 23rd
Yes folks – Mangos the WoW Server emulator can now support the latest Client which at this time is 2.4.3. It has been a bumpy week in regards the files and the database:
1. NPC which had Imp’s which normally do not attack you (as they are in fact an NPC themselves) did so and killed you. This was sorted by a big Database update.
2. The next problem was not coming Attack mode – this meant you did not heal and eventually died. This was fixed on a Mangos Update.
3. The Server would crash randomly – this was finally put to bed with a Aura been bugged.
I am at the moment updating every single night which is a bit extreme but I am hoping it will fix a lot of the busg we already found.
