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Hi Readers and fellow gamers, Well lately you have heard me ranting on Trion's business ethics and downright criminal behavior. Too strong an accusation? I think not, I'm a customer, this is my outlook, I purchased a game in good faith through a 3rd Party Authorized seller which is Steam. Steam is more of a distributor of licensed games AND F2P ones as well directly from various developers. They do not create the games just sell them like any other online store, however they also interface your games with other online so that there is a community of gamers (your friends) that you can interface with and play the games together if they are MMO or team. Pretty cool but they are not responsible for some game companies shady dealings as the ones Trion is pulling on it's customers of Defiance. I purchased Defiance for $60 bucks through Steam it was the deluxe version that came with a number of player items that you would receive once you created your account. That went smooth...

I along with a few other players I'm sure are wondering why it is Trion insists on patching and crashing at prime time? While I can understand and I really do appreciate patches to fix issues with a game that should have been corrected with all the information received from three alpha tests, I still have to wonder why it is they do these things when most people actually find time to play? Today is another such day, first the two hour patch then the 4 plus hours after the patch that the servers had to go down to repair what the patch screwed up. Unfortunately I have not worked in game company yet as I'm a 3D artist but I would suspect that having a small independent DEV only server always running and being checked by an in house testing team would be the way to go to test pre-release of patches and new content before unleashing and fucking up the entire game(s)? The following part of this column has been written many months after the top part. Since that patch and it...

I bought the full retail $60 early bird version of Defiance . Got the red Dodge ( hate dodge ), got the Quads ( love those ), got some weapons ( garbage ), and some other stuff like titles, etc. Tell ya I was hyped and ready to go after I did the Closed Alpha 3 Test. I could see the potential for this game IF they catered to both the shooter AND RP communities BUT alas it left the RP players out in the cold. So far it's a shooter and not a good one by any means . The free to play ones like APB, Blacklight and Planetside 2 to mention a few actually blow this out of the water as a shooter. Let's address the shooter aspect first then I'll talk about what the game needs to survive otherwise I see a bleak short life for this game. (The TV show is different, it's RP, acting and makes sense, everything the game doesn't). The shooter end of any shooter is usually the gun customization or modding aspect of it and in Defiance it is a disaster . Makes no firkin sens...

Frikin unbelievable, I post in the TRION forums and some asshole flames me/another guy for a simple question so I return a post but use Asterisk in the curse so it could be literally anything from a compliment to an insult but the point being there is NO indication of an insult or a provable one other than my word for it the idiot deserved it . Here's the post the forum moderator sent back to me what do you think? Do they need a lesson in the 1ST amendment or do I need one in profanity? [QUOTE= Trion_Community ]Dear Ezpikins, You have received a warning at Defiance Forums . Reason: ------- Rude to another member of the Community Greetings, We understand that you may not have been aware, but one of your posts/threads has been removed because it was a not in concert with our Code of Conduct. Under our guidelines, comments such as, [QUOTE]Guy asked a simple question don't be a *******, ***-hat .[/quote] The above quote is exactly what I posted in response ...

Lately I beta tested Defiance which I'm eagerly waiting to play. It's fun and it's release is on April 2ND.  However, I'm a bit let off by one of Trion's promotions for the game in which they, teamed up with Steam . They offer various in game rare in game items which is a wonderful idea and thing and I don't want to seem ungrateful for a bit of a head start when joining up, but in this offer Steam/Trion say you get a copy of retail RIFT by Trion and a second incentive for buying Defiance early on Steam.  Where the problem lies is how they present this offer, it comes across like your getting a free game , you even get the CD code but that's not the case. There is NO FREE play on rift it's a subscript only game UNLESS you want the vegetarians version of the game called "light" which limited you on almost half of all the playability of the monthly version. Anyways, Like I said disappointing for me. You can only afford so many monthly ga...

Wow what a gas. I have been so busy beta testing lately. There are so many new entries into the so called Free to Play arena it's not funny but some only call themselves Free to Play, not many really ARE F2P. My first stop on the beta test was War Inc . The impossible slow to log-in shooter? Finally got in. Not bad game, nice maps, decent weaponry but already plagued by pimple faced Aim-bot users. Ruins it for everyone. Next. The Secret World . WOW. Loved the zombies, cool world to explore but even the NPCs have gutter trash mouth. Too bad everyone thinks, everyone has to swear every Nine our of Ten words these days. (They truly have no concept of the use of profanity in society these days, take it from an expert.) Great movement, Good shooting action and some decent missions to boot. It has since dropped in price since going live but is not free to play. I believe they have dropped the monthly subscription fee of $12? It's now only the cost of the game which was $40-50 an...