SOE Free Realms

[Lantyssa]

It was used as a noun and not a verb (an adverb?  bah, grammar... a command).  For those of us who grew up on PBS imports of British television though, we've been well enough exposed to it.

[Signe]

Ah, so it's okay because people from the US won't be offended!    

Also, NiX is from the mythical land of Canada.  Not that it makes his butt more likely to be as risk.  Just sayin.

[Righ]

Ah, so it's okay because people from the US won't be offended!

That's a common and acceptable viewpoint amongst most Americans. Even parents. It's not ideal in what appears to be a child's game made by a multinational organisation and targeted at international (English speaking) audiences. That's all I was suggesting. While imagining a character named Bugger Bottoms.

[Xanthippe]

Also, some people spell "booger" as "bugger" in the US.  I wonder if that is what the CS rep was referring to, since it's more common usage to talk about boogers than buggers?

[Merusk]

Bugger off is probably also  perceived as a variant of "Bug off" by most folks in the US.  International orginizaiton or not, you're dealing with a company and division based in the US. I'm sure grim will be informing them of their faux pas tomorrow.

[Signe]

I would be distressed if I had some bugger up my nose!   

[Righ]

Isn't "bug off' derived from "bugger off" anyhow? I blame the Bulgarians.

At least he didn't call the supposed NPCs berks.

[Nebu]

Can I ask a tupid question about this game? 

I played for a few hours last night and got a chef to level 10.  When I went back to learn race car driving, I did the tutorials and never found any quests that would help me level as a race car driver. Aren't the tutorial trainers supposed to lead you to the leveling quest lines in any given area?  You'd think this would be the case. 

It makes me laugh that I'm lost in a kids game. 

[Lantyssa]

You cannot level racing and demo derby right now.  They didn't want to hold back putting in the mini-games until they got it sorted though, because they're pretty fun.

[Nebu]

That makes good sense.  Thanks!

[Xanthippe]

Add to the list of words you cannot say:  Smedley

[NiX]

Ah, so it's okay because people from the US won't be offended!    

Also, NiX is from the mythical land of Canada.  Not that it makes his butt more likely to be as risk.  Just sayin.

Why did you bring my butt into this? His name was CHARCOAL...

[Lantyssa]

It looks like you can send tells to someone with two names now.  "/t Hazel Sleepypants Wake up! =D" managed to reach Sjofn.  I didn't get a chat window back until she replied, and she didn't show on my friends list despite accepting, but at least it works.  Sometimes.

[shiznitz]

SOE is apparently advertising this effectively since my oldest (7) asked about this and wizard101.com. They don't watch a lot of TV other than some Noggin and Disney XD.

[JWIV]

Ok.  Where the fuck is the Invert Mouse Look button? 

[Tmon]

There isn't one

[Grimwell]

I will try to discover where we stand on long term potential for inversion today.

In other news, 2 million accounts have been registered as of yesterday. 

Yes, registered accounts, not subscriptions. It's a useful statistic, but not one you can derive our level of profit from 

[tazelbain]

Revenue.

[NiX]

I'm having a hard time leveling up my ninja. Am I missing some magical way to find good quests?

[Ingmar]

Price point on the boosters for the CCG is about twice too high. The CCG game itself is decent, and has enough depth to make for fairly reasonable tournament play, I think, but $4/booster is going a bit far for what it is.

[Xanthippe]

I'm having a hard time leveling up my ninja. Am I missing some magical way to find good quests?

I have not spent much time on ninja, but my brawler is 16 now.  I think every combat job gets a couple of quests, and then "come back and see me when you're [5, 10, 15, 20]."  What you do to get to that next level is fight in appropriate dungeons.  Each dungeon seems to have nearby quests to do for that dungeon, although I'm not clear on whether one gets points for the combat job or the adventurer job.

One star dungeons are too easy.  Two star dungeons can vary greatly.  A few three star dungeons can be completed (on brawler anyway) at 15/16.

I hope this helps, but I don't know if it will.

[Triforcer]

Will SOE ever have to reveal Free Realms revenue in an investor's report, or will they be able to aggregate it with other revenue so nobody can ever know, or what?  2 mil in a month is impressive, but I'm still not convinced that only like 50k of those people are buying, and they are spending like 5$ a month. 

[NiX]

I have not spent much time on ninja, but my brawler is 16 now.  I think every combat job gets a couple of quests, and then "come back and see me when you're [5, 10, 15, 20]."  What you do to get to that next level is fight in appropriate dungeons.  Each dungeon seems to have nearby quests to do for that dungeon, although I'm not clear on whether one gets points for the combat job or the adventurer job.

One star dungeons are too easy.  Two star dungeons can vary greatly.  A few three star dungeons can be completed (on brawler anyway) at 15/16.

I hope this helps, but I don't know if it will.

Yeah, that helped. Didn't know there were different sets of dungeons around each town. Now I need to figure out how finding items works.

[schild]

Will SOE ever have to reveal Free Realms revenue in an investor's report, or will they be able to aggregate it with other revenue so nobody can ever know, or what?  2 mil in a month is impressive, but I'm still not convinced that only like 50k of those people are buying, and they are spending like 5$ a month. 

Why would they have to? They're part of SCEA and unless it's an astronomical number, there's no reason to brag about it. Even if it does moderately well, there's no reason to separate it out of the standard profits for the SOE division.

[gryeyes]

Is wizard one of the sub only professions?

[Falconeer]

Price point on the boosters for the CCG is about twice too high. The CCG game itself is decent, and has enough depth to make for fairly reasonable tournament play, I think, but $4/booster is going a bit far for what it is.

/signed
Price of boosters is ridiculous. It always is, even when it's Magic the Gathering Online, or Battleforge. Let alone here. It makes me hope for it (just the card game portion) to horribly fail and teach em something.

[SnakeCharmer]

Will SOE ever have to reveal Free Realms revenue in an investor's report, or will they be able to aggregate it with other revenue so nobody can ever know, or what?  2 mil in a month is impressive, but I'm still not convinced that only like 50k of those people are buying, and they are spending like 5$ a month. 

What good does that knowledge do you (or anyone else besides investors)?

All that it does, really, is fuel the SOE is failuring hur posts on their boards.

[tmp]

What good does that knowledge do you (or anyone else besides investors)?

Well, knowing it could be an argument (either pro or against) for other developers and investors who might consider this model...

[NiX]

Well, knowing it could be an argument (either pro or against) for other developers and investors who might consider this model...

Something tells me this industry doesn't work like that.

[Xanthippe]

Is wizard one of the sub only professions?

Yes, there are two combat jobs for non-subscribers, brawler and ninja.  Subscribers also receive wizard, medic and warrior.

[Xanthippe]

Yeah, that helped. Didn't know there were different sets of dungeons around each town. Now I need to figure out how finding items works.

Some items are randomly dropped in dungeons.  You can also turn in tickets for items under the ramp in Sanctuary.  Some items are earned by completing collections. 

Main bosses drop items almost always (maybe always?).

Here's a list of dungeons.
http://fr.zam.com/wiki/Category:Dungeons_(FR)

[Yegolev]

I can't explain why I spent so much time on this last night.  If levels are added to kart racing, it's all over for me.

[NiX]

Some items are randomly dropped in dungeons.  You can also turn in tickets for items under the ramp in Sanctuary.  Some items are earned by completing collections. 

Main bosses drop items almost always (maybe always?).

Here's a list of dungeons.
http://fr.zam.com/wiki/Category:Dungeons_(FR)

I was referring to vendors. Seems to be very sporadic with what level they sell. But, I have forgotten about the tickets! I probably have a ton.

[Xanthippe]

The vendor stuff - yeah, it seems ... oddly itemized.  Most of the things I've seen are level 20 items, aside from accessories and shards.

This game is so lootastic.  I love that.  I don't even sell spare loot, I keep it so that I can change outfits.  Form over function in mmos!

[Yegolev]

Is there a maximum inventory capacity?  If not, I'm not selling a goddamned thing.