Here is a little guide for the newbie. Massively multi-player online role-playing games (MMORPG) are a genre of role-playing video game that have a very large interactive space for gamers to access. Within this space is a virtual game world, where you can assume the role of a character of your choice or creation. You control everything they do. As such these games are completely different to alternative options, like the card game based PartyPoker or Angry Birds.

The MMORPG game is different to single-player or small multi-player RPGs, because of the amount of players involved and the nature of the game. The world you enter will evolve even when you are offline. Age of Conan and World of Warcraft are just two of the MMORPG games that are available to play.

So why should you get involved with an MMORPG game of your choice?

Fun – Role-playing taps into our inner child, from back in the days when we would dress up as firemen, wizards and barbarians for the fun of it.

Social – The social interaction within the games are real, therefore you can unofficially meet a person from all the way across the world from you. Say you live in England, you can interact with a player in Japan with a similar interest. Every so often the game will require you to work within a team too, therefore you are working together with new friends from around the globe in a safe virtual existence.

Time – Time goes quickly when you are playing Age of Conan, because there is so much to do, so much to consider and many options available to you. They are great if you have a day to yourself and want to ward off boredom.

The MMORPG game for newbies hails from Living Hyboria!

The results of the campaign are really good with server activity booming … The feedback from returning players has been really good so far, and it seems that the game’s massive changes since launch is making a big difference for them. We’re very excited to see the renewed interest among former players!

It sure seems that Erling Ellingsen on Funcom is quite pleased with the result.

Re-evaluation period results in more tits hails from Living Hyboria!

Found via the excellent Broken Toys blog. More The Guild goodness in the YouTube channel.

What the MMOs Have Come To…! hails from Living Hyboria!

I’m entering with a cook a pict shot, although I doubt that is the kind of epic stuff they want to promote.

Funcom and GameRigs Launch Monthly Screenshot Competition hails from Living Hyboria!

Fury is the Living Hyboria PvP Server of Choice hails from Living Hyboria!

Rolling Out the Gallery hails from Living Hyboria!

I used to play Age of Conan, but I stopped. Not because of the broken gameplay or lack of content, but rather from boredom. Disregarding the fact that I never seem to be able to catch on all of these trendy online role-playing games out there, some part of me wants to anyway. Weird!

I need a relaxed game where I can just sit back and enjoy an XP feast with my fellow friends, along with too much time and a couple of beers. And now that Funcom is luring old players back with their re-activation campaign it was too good to pass on. Why not, it’s not like I have anything to lose.

But the road to get the game up and running again would prove to be anything but easy and enjoyable.

I didn’t have my old copy around, so I had to buy myself a new one, and since I’m in Japan, the only version they seem to be selling here is the American one, which I didn’t know. Previously I’ve been using the European one, and this was the cause of all the problems which lied in front of me.

To be honest, it wasn’t that big of a deal, but it almost made me stop trying to get back to Hyboria again.

After installing the game and going through all the necessary updates, it was time to start. But now the client refused to accept my password. No matter how many times I tried or how long I waited after the re-activation, it didn’t work. I changed my password a couple of times and restarted everything. But no. Nothing.

I was on the verge of breaking down completely, and I had composed a not so friendly hate-and-help mail to the support when I came across a tip saying that the client itself was wrong. Apparently I can’t log in with an American client if I once used an European one. With a little fixing in the localeconfig.xml file I was finally good to go. I blame no one but myself for this. Sometimes in enraged mode it’s hard to see what’s right in front of you. So, anyway…

Enter Meatmachine!

What will happen from here, I do not know. Once again I’ve joined Funcom’s slaughter feast, so no matter if I stay or not, a couple of hundreds picts will lose their lives. Brutally!

My troubled road back to Hyboria hails from Living Hyboria!

I thought it arrived last year. Anyway, nice to see that Funcom is really pushing the game in an effort to regain some of the trust they lost from players during its initial year on the market.

The experience is here! hails from Living Hyboria!

Certainly.

But this is what we got for now. We’ll bling it some more later on, when we’re not too busy playing Age of Conan or writing snarky blog posts.

So yeah, we’re getting there.

State of Living Hyboria: We’re Getting There! hails from Living Hyboria!

I also like the item comparison, it really show how 1.05 made everything a lot simpler:

The Old
Bluesteel-Mail Gauntlets
Item Type: Heavy Armor
Requirements: Level 75
Wear Location: Hands
Modifications:
4.6 Defense Rating
2 Knockback Resistance

The New
Bluesteel-Mail Gauntlets
Item Type: Heavy Armor
Requirements: Level 75
Wear Location: Hands
Modifications:
377 Armor
39 Strength
22 Constitution

No decimals or nonsense like that.

Read the full post for more.

More About the Stats hails from Living Hyboria!