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that really makes me feel wanted thanks ;(

All that aside, the server is whitelisted.  Generally, random people with day-old accounts don't get on the whitelist.

You clearly didn't read and/or understand the information in the OP, and you don't seem interested in anything but accessing the server...  why should we accomodate you?

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/04/14/final-death-world-of-darkness-mmo-cancelled/

Disappointed? Absolutely. Surprised? Not at all. There was always something fishy about how they'd talk about the game but never had anything to show. Can't really blame them though. Creating a workable, fun MMO out of what WoD is about is tough in and of itself.

I am also not surprised.  But these days, you could truncate that last sentence to:

Creating a workable, fun MMO out of what WoD is about is tough in and of itself.

Mumorpergers are a tough space to do business in now, even without accounting for WoW's 800 pound shadow cast over everything.

I can't even work out how they would keep the game from being All Griefing, All The Time between the vampires and werewolves, even without a day-night cycle.  If anyone could pull it off, I'd have bet upon CCP.

I guess it doesn't help that White Wolf didn't give them a stable foundation.  Each new major addition seemed to trump the last, as if to say "buy this book or your characters will no longer be the masters of the universe, and will suck forever!!!"  (at least with old WoD; dunno about reboot stuff)  I can remember a few friends with absurd anecdotes about WoD games, and it didn't seem like they were trying to break the game that hard...  just going by what was front-and-center in the books.

Maybe they at least developed some good code that can be used for other things?  Hopefully?

Okay thanks,it's just the job system seems like a nice feature,I wondered if any other games used it.

Outside of the digital realm, Dungeons and Dragons 3.x Ed. has a handful of basic classes (de facto jobs), and lots of prestige classes with widely varying prerequisites.

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because there's a leaderboard function and most of the songs I'm playing have no scores set except for my own. Would be nice to share some song files and compete against each other, or at least share what songs are most fun to play.
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Things like Soundcloud and Jamendo could be quite useful for making sure everyone can compete without hassle, using free-and-legal songs.  That is also an added bonus for potential dorf tourneys, as the files will be bit-for-bit identical.  The devs have previously said that variations in the levels are possible (but probably minor) between different encoding details for the same song.

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I have been sorely tempted by this game since its release...  I have an absurd amount of music, and a video game that leverages it is like pure heroin injected directly into my brain.

I wonder how Glitch Mob will play.  Also Astral Projection, 1200 Micrograms, Juno Reactor, Celldweller, Lords of Acid, KMFDM.  And Stratovarius, Nightwish, Danzig, Lacuna Coil, Rammstein, Type O Negative.  Oh, and VNV Nation, Apoptygma Berzerk, Chemical Brothers, Crystal Method, Way Out West.

Hnnnggggg.

Okay, enough of that.  I don't need to give myself a brain clot and die before I get to play it.

Only a dollar...  for a limited time...  The temptation, it is too great!  *unzips wallet*

If this affects my grades, I'm blaming you, Sappho.  ^________^

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The game is already turning into LoL insofar as there are "orthodox" ways to play

NOTHING kills a card game faster IMO then this. It is why I cannot play Yu-Gi-Oh anymore.

This happened with the early years of Magic, also.  Nowadays, what is considered orthodox in Magic just rotates on a regular basis, and is considered a feature.

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I can speak as a 4-year corp CEO that even when your members are focused, it's damn hard to keep a corp together. And even in the bay12 channel, there are a ton of different players with different play styles, some that I can't even possibly comprehend.

Yup, it is for situations like these the term "herding cats" was invented...

More to the point, it's the by-product of any volunteer structure.  Yes, I know, some corps screen applicants... but once they are in, the only thing keeping them there is the choice to stay.

I can acknowledge that the nature of the server/client relationship is gonna have some desync.  What chaps my ass is how the server handles it.  Going from "cautious steps, looking for things to plink" to "lol, you were really facegrinding that blue mob, for like 10 seconds!  oh, btw, you're dead"...  Several shades of not-fun.  The game can be difficult and challenging without the surprise corpse mechanic.  If I die because I got cocky, or misread a mob, sure, fine.  Dead.  If I die because of server shenanigans I cannot control, nor detect in time to not-die?  That's bullshit.

It was enough not-fun for me that I burned myself off the game.  Autosold and deleted everything.  (sorry, fellow dorfs... no wealth redistribution this time)

It's still looking good, but I'm a bit worried about whether there is anything interesting to do if you get through the initial surviving.

I'm sure you could engineer a catsplosion, for old time's sake. 

It seems worth keeping an eye on, but I'm with greatorder; let it be weighed and measured first.