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• 01:29:06 RoyalFool Turbine Entertainment, best known for its work on the massively-multiplayer Asheron's Call title for Microsoft Game Studios, has secured $18 million (€14.5m) in funding from its original investors and two venture capital firms, Highland Capital Partners and Polaris Venture Partners, and plans to use part of the money to self-publish its Dungeons & Dragons Online title.
• 01:29:06 RoyalFool According to a spokesperson, the latest round of investment signalled a "total shift in business model", allowing the developer to bring Dungeons & Dragons Online almost totally in-house - with server housing, technical support, billing, quality assurance and all the rest set to be handled internally. "We're taking out the middle man between us and our fans," Turbine says, although the firm retains its partnership with Atari for retail m
• 01:29:07 RoyalFool Turbine is also working on The Lord of the Rings: Middle-Earth Online, Vivendi-Universal Games' massively-multiplayer take on the lands of J.R.R. Tolkien's novels, and some of cash from this latest round of funding will of course go towards shoring up that project.
• 01:29:59 Villi- Middle Earth Online is doomed to suck
• 01:30:28 Geimvera Samt
• 01:30:33 Geimvera AC var good shit
• 01:30:42 Villi- Truuuuuuuuust me
• 01:30:42 Geimvera Minnir mig
• 01:30:49 Geimvera En já
• 01:30:52 Villi- Ég hef heyrt SLÆMAR sögur af MEO
• 01:30:59 Geimvera Allir leikir gerðir eftir mynd eru nei
• 01:31:00 Geimvera >D
• 01:32:12 Villi- "Let me show you one thing! Whoops. It didn't work! Ah, well, let's get onto battle, then. Whoops, I went linkdead, even when only a short cable is between me and the server! Anyways, let's start the game up again. Wow. I've never seen BSOD on WinXP. Huh."
• 01:32:33 Requiem- djöfull er Lords of Everquest nákvæmlega eins og WCIII
• 01:32:42 Villi- MEO í hnotuskurn
• 01:32:42 RoyalFool No shit
• 01:32:56 Villi- Heh... War of the Ring var nú ekki minna ripoff
• 01:33:07 j0la-ScuM enter the matrix
• 01:33:10 Geimvera DarkFall er eini mmorpg sem ég hef hopes fyrir
• 01:33:13 Villi- Hell War of the Ring líktist War3 mun meir en Lords of Everquest nokkurn tímann
• 01:33:15 Requiem- satt satt
• 01:33:23 Requiem- tjékkaði líka á War of the Ring
• 01:33:24 RoyalFool Gaurarnir eru meira að segja svo bold að segja "Lords of Everquest is the first RTS game to use units that level up".... (Well, ekki alveg orðrétt, but you catch my drift)
• 01:33:29 Villi- Þúst það lá við að War of the Ring líktist War3 meira en War3 !
• 01:33:41 Requiem- leikjaiðnaðurinn er of fastur í þessu staðlaða strategy formi