A Spore Nerd Corner

What is pay to win (p2w)? Pay to win is when the game offers you something in-game for real money that give you an unfair advantage over everybody else.  Examples? Weapons that are more powerful than anything else in the game. Characters that are more powerful than anything else in game. wait times, travel times become so long that the game becomes near impossible to play without paying. What isn't it? Cosmetic items. New hair isn't going to win you anything. Experience Bonus Mounts Where things get confusing? Sometimes a game is still p2w even if you can get the items without paying. Well then how is it p2w? Really it all comes down to a balancing act. If the game is selling a super weapon and you can pay real money to get it but you can also get the game threw in game currency it's not p2w, unless, getting that in-game currency in drops few and far between making it almost impossible to get enough to buy the item. A game that has done a good job of ba...

I've only just beat Batman: Arkham City, I know, I'm super behind but slowly catching up next on the list of things to beat is Origins. But more importantly the first video of Batman: Arkham Knight has been released. That's right get the dance of endless glee out of your system. The video shows now just in game videos but supposedly actual game play. I wont tell you exactly what's in it, no spoilers, I'll let you watch and enjoy it yourself by clicking here , enjoy.

The makers of one of my favorite games ever, Bastion, has released a new game, Transistor.  Transistor is a mixture of an action game and an RPG with a little bit of a strategy game mixed into the combat system. The game has a beautiful art style all in 1080p resolution, not  to mention an amazing soundtrack. I rarely notice sound tracks but this one really stuck with me, if you want to check it out you can for free on Spotify.  Transistor also offers Steam Achievements for those of us that picked it up on Steam, Steam Trading cards and full controller support. If you're looking for a new indie game to pick up this is well worth the twenty dollar price tag, go download it now.

For those of us doing the daily bounty for the Borderlands 2 Loot Hunt, the daily bounty is Mad Mike . He can be found in the Bloodshot Stronghold  and will drop a gun called Madhous! The community kill for the day are the Goliath . They can be found in Frostburn Canyon, Bloodshot Ramparts, Tundra Express, The Fridge, Thousand Cuts, Lynchwood, Sawtooth Cauldron, and The Dust. Happy hunting.

So what's the big news for the company that has brought us games like World of Warcraft, Starcraft, and Diablo? The rumor floating around the net is the major news to be released at the upcoming Gamescom will be the first expansion for Diablo. Blizzard has just trademarked the title "The Dark Below" this is thought to be the title of the expansion. We know that that the big news is going to be about Diablo because co-founder Mike Morhaime said it was Diablo related on a earnings call earlier this month. The announcement is supposed to happen the first day of Gamescom, August 21. Gamescom takes place in Cologne, Germany from August 21-25.

For those of us who have been waiting to hear anything at all about SWTOR going free, finally Bioware let out some details about what kind of limitations we are going to be dealing with. F2P players will only be able to to do PvE Flashpoints, PvP Warzone and space missions, each three times a week. To get around this you'll be able to buy weekly passes for each that will give you unlimited access. I'm not exactly how this will effect story content but Bioware is still saying all the story content will remain free. Also they have limited the use of the Cargo Bay and your inventory storage, letting you expand both with the new "Cartel Coins." Other things that will effect the F2P people are things like subscription people will have priority to log-in, their ability to quick travel and return to their factions space station (emergency fleet pass) will both have shorter times for subscribers. Along with a few other things that all basically are their for the convenien...

I was just reading about the new profession stuff  for the the next WoW expansion and got excited. New things to farm, new items to craft and all that on top of a brand new world to explore. Then I read some of the posts after and people were complaining about having to farm new mats, and that brings me to this post and the state of gaming today. Laziness, their is no other way to put. People used to take pride in the fact that they were playing the game. They would actually do the quests, and not for some little achievement but for the gear, the money or the story the quest provided. We used to farm materials and while it got frustrating at times we all knew we were going to get something pretty cool from it, a sword or a gem that gave us better stats or just looked neat. But now it seems like less and less people want to do any of that. They want everything handed to them, or they want to sit around a town while they wait for the in game group finder, finds them a group to run ...

Oh Yeah! So finally we get another drop date for the Guild Wars 2. OK so we've had more than a couple release dates that have sent us running to the store to pre order this upcoming free to play mmorpg  that we've been waiting for, for years now. Not that I've been slightly annoyed or anything. Anyway you want to know the darn date, 8-28-12 . That's right August 28th of this year. So clear your calenders, and save up your sick days Guild Wars 2 is coming!