Next one:

Hint: classic, well-known 90's adventure games. With a somewhat original fighting system.

Bump! I've managed to make Steam like Ryzom - which is a nice feature that allows to use Steam's own chat/IM feature while Ryzom is running full-screen. Could be nice for having a quick OOC exchange without alt-tabbing all the way to IRC or flooding the team channel. So yeah.

Healer-smacking healer? Tentacles? Awesome! Any trial?

I play x/5 these days - weekends are given to other activities. Just poke me if you need me.

It does indeed sound fun, and I was interested in WAR for some time. But right now, with the big RP polygon of Ryzom returning and finally being able to play TR for it's sheer fun pew-pew-pew laz0r action, I'm quite content with my MMOG's and don't really look for anything new.

I am still interested in how the RvR mechanics turned out to be. So far, I've only seen one game that did it right, and that, strangely enough, was a Korean free-to-play one.

So, please, as you keep playing, share your thoughts on it. Specifically, how soon you can join the fray and gain a few victories - do you need to grind for some level and equipment, or just go out swinging the moment you make your character? Who does your victory benefit - just you, your guild, or your whole side?

Oh wait. I've gotten the link wrong. Here's the correct one.

I'll have to pass this weeks StSC. Birthday with major drinking scheduled on the weekend, and I can't miss it.

Yes, I meant paid GM's. And seeing as GM's in an RP-centric game would not only see to it that the game stays cheater-less, everyone plays by the rules or at least the LA, and save players from nasty bugs, but also monitor RP quality and sometimes interfere with gameworld's reactions, as pen-and-paper GM's would, I don't really think it's possible to keep a contingent of fan-GM's without leaking a lot of valueable plot information to the playerbase, which is bad.

I, too, think that Seed can be viable commercially. There is a niche for an RP-centric game, and it is growing.
Also, note that even without hype (I was really lucky to stumble upon it when it was in Beta, and don't recall seeing any ads), Seed did have a lot of people interested in it, but leaving during the first weeks to wait for the game to become playable.
Of course, it would require a much more GM's per player than your average MMOG to keep the RP active, and won't be able to support a big playerbase, but that would be normal for any RP-centric game.

Well, the game's still alive, although not as RP-full as I'd like it to be. But, it's been getting a lot of polish in the late patches, and GM's seem very friendly to whatever RP's left.

I still have a bunch of trial invitations available, if anyone wants to try it out.