A thing I ask you to do because it would profit me personally.

[theweaselking]

So, the MMO Neverwinter is giving players mad bonuses based on people who watch this youtube video before August 16th. If you have a few minutes, click the video and add a view or two to it. And if you decide you want to play the game, I know some people who are into it and can hook you up with a friendly bunch of people.

But mostly, please click the link a time or two so I can get my in-game boosts on.

Comments

[ashbet]

Done! Assuming that this link has identifying info that links it to your account, so that you can accrue the swag? :)

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

I tweeted it; how 'bout that?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Nope, it's just "total views". Everyone in the game gets loot if the youtube video gets 80K, 100K, 120K, etc views.

This is not for me personally, it's for me personally AND every other player. It's philanthropic!

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

The narration is a bit... over-wrought.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I haven't listened to it. I've opened it in the background (on mute) to get free play counts, and I've read the dev blogs about it. But I haven't actually WATCHED the video.

I'm interested in the expansion, and want the bonuses for many views. But actually viewing it that many times seems painful.

[dreamshade.livejournal.com]

With that narration, I was just waiting for this to turn out to be a rickroll.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I'm not THAT stupid.

But seriously: It needs "views", not listens, to profit me personally. Opening it in a background tab, muted, is fine!

The expansion itself has me excited, as a player. I'm looking forward to the expansion and very excited! The trailer, well, fuck the trailer. Nobody cares, inherently. But they've added prizes to all players for total views on the trailer, and I want those prizes.

[brithistorian.livejournal.com]

Done. I didn't listen to is, but I did watch it. It looks nice, but right now I need a new MMO about like I need a hole in the head. ;) Good luck with getting your boosts.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I was waiting for the dates for the Monster Truck Rally. It was *that* kind of voice.

[andrewducker]

Clicked!

[zenicurean.livejournal.com]

Clicked it! (And the narrator desperately trying to make crafting materials sound exciting while epic music booms was worth it.)

[frith]

I thought of it more as a false military tough intonation. Like it was trying to sell G.I. Joe toys.

[thornae.livejournal.com]

To me, it sounded like someone trying very hard to do the "In A World..." voice, and rather missing the mark.



"In a world... where there are... Strongholds ... Players ... and other Players... create... Strongholds ... and do ... stuff.
Coming soon to MMORPG near you."

[kafziel.livejournal.com]

It's funny because the crafting - the important crafting, anyway - is the opposite of exciting. Either you try to put the enchantment on the item, and have a 1% chance, or you try to put the enchantment on the item and spend $10 for a booster, and have a 100% chance. There's no thrilling risk there!

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Not exactly true.

You put enchantments into items, no failure possible, for free. You remove them from items, no failure possible, for a small amount of gold (which is basically free, since gold is in infinite supply and has NO PURPOSE other than this.)

When upgrading an enchantment, there's a chance, based on the enchantment's new level, of failing and costing you your components. It starts at 95% success and goes down, eventually bottoming out somewhere around 10% chance of success.

(Weapon enchantments are different, they're 1% success rate always.)

There's two kinds of wards: Preservation Wards (common in-game, available in packs of 10 for a few bucks of realmoney) cause you to lose *only the Ward* instead of your components if your refining fails. They're dirt common, nobody pays money for them, everyone uses one on anything with an even slightly expensive component.

Coalescent Wards (rare in-game but also very rarely needed, available for ~$10 realmoney if you're desperate but NOBODY buys them that way because they're rare, but almost always available before you need another one) cause your success rate to be set to 100%. You only ever use these on the 1% shots.

Finally, there's also the refining stuff you need to do *before* you can upgrade an enchantment. Originally, you needed 4 of an item to upgrade it - 4 rank 1s to get one rank 2, 4 rank 2s to get a rank 3, etc. That was changed so you can feed in anything for points towards upgrading, so now you can upgrade your Rank 8 enchantment by feeding it ten thousand Rank 1s if you want to, and you don't have to match enchantment types (although you get bonus points if you *do* match). At higher levels, that's the killer: When you're getting Rank 5 drops, raising something to Rank 9 takes a LOT of drops, and so now there's a lot more items around that give a huge boost - stones that give 5000 points for a Union-category Artifact (1000 for anything else), stones that give 12500 points for an enchantment but only 2500 for any artifact, etc.

That's the kind of stuff the trailer is talking about.

[kafziel.livejournal.com]

Ah, true, it is upgrading the enchantment before you stick it in. Still, that's only true to rank 9 - rank 10 is 5%, rank 11 is 3%, and there's the six epic ranks all at 1% above that.