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If I had Mega Man’s powers, I would probably frivolously waste them like this too. Honestly though, I would feel sorry for anyone I encountered on the road whenever I’m raging a little with these abilities. Definitely would not be a pretty scene.

That was still a lifetime shorter than any power-up sequence from Dragonball Z.

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Android (Rooted): CyanogenMod, our favorite Android ROM, just released a new version that's rock solid on virtually every supported device, and brings the latest features in Jelly Bean (4.2) to Android phones and tablets that have been abandoned by their carrier or manufacturer.

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Filed under: Fantasy, Game Mechanics, MMO Industry, Opinion, Free-to-Play, The Daily Grind, Miscellaneous, Path of Exile

I'm a huge fan of isometric clickers like Diablo, Torchlight, and Titan Quest, so I admit to being secretly pleased when pseudo-MMOs like Path of Exile were approved for coverage on Massively. In fact, I jumped into Path of Exile this past weekend to give it another spin. And as soon as my new character got her first skill point, I gleefully clicked over to the skill panel, only to be confronted with the game's notorious and glorious SKILL TREE TO END ALL SKILL TREES. It's not even a skill tree. It's a skill maze. A skill constellation. A skill galaxy. The screenshot above isn't even half of what's available. It's overwhelming at level 2 to say the least.

I like complexity in character development, but I had forgotten how over-the-top Path of Exile really was, and I had to wonder whether this sort of complexity-dump scares off newcomers to the genre, or indeed, whether it's intended to scare them off, convince them the game is harder-core than they are, or possibly just entrap them with poor early game decisions. Doesn't the skill avalanche just drive gamers to tab out and look up guides, and is that really the best idea for retaining brand-new players? How complex is too complex for MMOs and pseudo-MMOs?

Every morning, the Massively bloggers probe the minds of their readers with deep, thought-provoking questions about that most serious of topics: massively online gaming. We crave your opinions, so grab your caffeinated beverage of choice and chime in on today's Daily Grind!

The Daily Grind: How complex is too complex for MMOs? originally appeared on Massively on Fri, 21 Jun 2013 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Feedly is one of our favorite RSS readers, but up until now, it's been a browser extension rather than a regular webapp. Today, Feedly is launching Feedly Cloud, the completely standalone web version of Feedly.

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Gawker Antonin Scalia Does Not Believe in Molecular Biology | io9 These two psychological tricks will get people to do you favors | Kotaku Up Close And Oh-So-Personal With The PlayStation 4 Controller | Jezebel How to Leave a Cool Digital Trail in Case Your Partner Gets Famous

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The Way of the Jade Dragon.

Jade Empire: Special Edition, BioWare's role-playing epic set in the colorful realm inspired by legends of the Orient, is available 33% off on GOG.com. That's only $9.99 for the first week.

Jade Empire: Special Edition opens the land of kung fu legends before you and lets you immerse yourself in the fantastic version of the Orient. In this RPG classic brought to you by people who gave us RPG gaming monuments like Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights, experience an epic tale of courage, power, honor, and betrayal set in one of the most colorful and suggestive gameworlds ever created. Master the unique fighting styles and train your own disciples who will rise to power along your side. Choose your own path and become a hero or a villain in your very own martial arts legend. This is the extended Special Edition of the game and it even comes bundled with an MP3 soundtrack. Don't miss this fantastic opportunity for an epic adventure!

Become the hero of your very own epic tale of far east in Jade Empire: Special Edition for only $9.99 on GOG.com. The 33% discount offer will last until Tuesday, June 18, at 9:59AM GMT.

Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, Patches, News Items, PvE, MMORPG

In the olden days of World of Warcraft, it took 40 dedicated people to down some of the game's toughest content. It wasn't easy to keep a guild stocked with the necessary number of people to make these raids possible, and Blizzard reduced raid sizes to 10- and 25-man encounters starting with the Burning Crusade expansion in the hopes of making raiding more accessible for smaller guilds and raid leaders working with busy real-life humans.

It is with this same accessibility in mind that Blizzard has just announced Flexible Raids, a new form of raid content that will debut with the game's upcoming 5.4 patch. In the simplest terms, these raids automatically adjust their difficulty based on how many players are present, supporting any number between 10 and 25. The difficulty resets week-to-week; if 22 people come one week and 13 the next, the new raiders won't be locked into last week's numbers.

A new tier of item that falls between the Raid Finder and Normal difficulties is being introduced for Flexible Raiders, and Flexible Raid lockouts will be separate from those of Normal and Heroic attempts. Blizzard has also promised additional rewards for those who participate in Flexible, Normal, and Heroic raids -- rewards that will be unavailable to Raid Finder groups.

Flexible Raiding will be made available piece by piece as Blizzard tweaks the formula. It should be launching on the test realm Soon[TM].

Flexible Raids come to World of Warcraft with patch 5.4 originally appeared on Massively on Fri, 07 Jun 2013 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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