Demobot

No, seriously.

I'll admit I groaned inwardly at first, but it seems like the camera tech they're using goes above and beyond gimmick shots.

Also, here's video blog #3 in case you missed it (like I did).

I'd love to see people who get PAID to do this sort of thing do a better job than TonyV has. Keep up the good work Tony!

I pay $15 a month just for Ion Core Final Judgement.

Large, flying insects with spines and hard carapaces that make loud clicking noises as they fly. Never seen one in person, but just thinking about them freaks me out.

My biggest issue with the Underground trial is time. I have real-life obligations that take up a lot of my free time, and I don't like the idea of spending around an hour in that trial when I could join a Keyes and get the same rewards in much less time.

Current estimates put the wild polar population somewhere between 20,000 and 25,000. That's around 3-5 times greater than the number of tigers (of all subspecies) left in the wild. Kellogg's needs to step up to the plate.

Occam's Razor is no longer equal to the task. Clearly what we need now is Occam's Broadsword.

It'd be nice if it were a customization option. Some people have concept reasons for wanting them to be shimmery and transparent, some have concept reasons for wanting them to appear solid.

...that's not at all how Master Midnight looks in-game. Or was that intentional?

EDIT: Looks like the image was removed.

Happy Birthday Cherry!

Sometimes it's good to just take a break and try other things. I've done that a number of times since I first subscribed way back when. I always come back. But if you don't feel like logging in, you don't do yourself any favors by forcing yourself to play.

The great thing about the new payment model is that if you do cancel your subscription and take a hiatus for a few months, you can log right back in without paying a dime and check out what you've missed.

I recently read a thread (I think it was in this section of the forums) in which a player was having difficulties convincing a friend with a free account to continue playing the game due to the restrictions placed on free account communication.

So I thought to myself, "Self, how would you make the free account experience more friendly for people with VIP friends?" So naturally I answered, "Set up a buddy system."

The idea is this: allow a VIP to 'buddy up' with a free account (kinda like a level pact or sidekicking, but for accounts, not characters), which would remove some of the more burdensome chat restrictions. The free account would be able to send tells to the VIP account, trade with the VIP account, and join a single global channel that the VIP account is also in. A possibility would be to link the accounts in such a way that the free account would only be able to talk in the global channel when the VIP is also online.

Supergroups are a different animal altogether, as they aren't tied to a global name. Given that free accounts have only 2 character slots, a VIP-linked free player should be allowed to join a supergroup, but be blocked from receiving promotions.

A VIP would only be able to be buddies with a single free account at a time, and there would be a cooldown after breaking the bond before the VIP could make another free account (or that same account) their buddy.

This is just a general framework I thought up and I would love to hear suggestions and improvements. I want to see a system that can't be exploited by RMT spammers but increases the QOL for free players while still encouraging them to spend some money on the game.

I was thinking about the topic of revamping Broadsword recently, but I was thinking of just giving it the Katana treatment, i.e., entirely unique animations. With Titan Weapons coming out (possibly) sometime this year, Broadsword needs something to make it stand out other than just mechanics.

On the topic of FTL neutrinos, it's possible that relativity was the answer all along. Emphasis on 'possible', as the scientists claim that the motion of the GPS satellites in orbit was accounted for.

Hmmm... It has potential. That it's not being released in January is a point in its favor. Then again, Cloverfield, the obvious inspiration here, was a January release.