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NCSoft has started the (by-invite) open beta to Dungeon Runners, which is an online-only Diablo clone. It's massively multiplayer in the same way Guild Wars is -- ie, hub areas for trade and party building, and instanced everything else.
The payment system is in the same vein as Runescape, another pseudo-MMORPG. Basically, Dungeon Runners is free to download and play as much as you want, but if you want to equip the best gear and have access to the highest-level zones and whatnot, you have to pay something like $6 a month.
Anyway, I got an invite since apparently I signed up for the beta a long time ago when I bought a copy of Guild Wars: Factions.
Anyone else playing? It's definitely a beta game -- laggy as hell due to the stress test, and not really that polished quite yet, but it's got a fantastic tongue-in-cheek take on RPGs: everything is way over the top, weapons are three times bigger than the player models that hold them, and gear has utterly bizarre prefix and suffix modifiers, for example, a "Baby Sealskin Breastplate of the Rusted Penguin," which I happened upon last night.
The payment system is in the same vein as Runescape, another pseudo-MMORPG. Basically, Dungeon Runners is free to download and play as much as you want, but if you want to equip the best gear and have access to the highest-level zones and whatnot, you have to pay something like $6 a month.
Anyway, I got an invite since apparently I signed up for the beta a long time ago when I bought a copy of Guild Wars: Factions.
Anyone else playing? It's definitely a beta game -- laggy as hell due to the stress test, and not really that polished quite yet, but it's got a fantastic tongue-in-cheek take on RPGs: everything is way over the top, weapons are three times bigger than the player models that hold them, and gear has utterly bizarre prefix and suffix modifiers, for example, a "Baby Sealskin Breastplate of the Rusted Penguin," which I happened upon last night.
