This is good news all around. Especially with Jumpgate seemingly on the back burner.

Yup, with Jumpgate seemingly out of the picture, Black Prophecy looks to be my last real hope for a true space combat sim MMO. Please don't fail!

You really should take another look at Dungeons & Dragons Online. That game has completely turned around my viewpoint on "F2P" games.

Allods online is pretty darn good too!

The thing that gives me hope about this one is that like DDO it was not developed from the ground up to be a f2p game. The decision to change it to f2p is recent so it should be of another tier of polish.

Well, the game is free, so you can certainly go and find out if you can solo.

All classes can solo. Some are much easier/safer than others. Some are easier once you get the gist of the game so you might want to stay away from them as a first character. Or as is common with DnD, taking the first level of fighter makes playing every other class easier in the beginning.

There is not a lot of space in the dungeon design so sorcerors, wizards and the like will struggle more solo. Bow focused Rangers, on the other hand, are pretty powerful in solo and grouped play.

I don't really see any benefit to barbarians unless its at much higher levels over fighters and paladins. Monks are not available in f2p but they are definitely cool. It would be worth it to find a boxed copy of DDO for $5-10 to get the subscriber points to buy the monk class and or the drow race. The warforged I found to be meh and I never had any interest in the favored soul class.

Rogues are cool and it is worth it to take a level of rogue for the sneak attack bonus. It works well in solo (most fighter classes have a knock down or the like that will make your target vulnerable to sneak attacks extra damage) and even better in group play.

The one thing that DDO fails at that other games have done is make compelling perks for all the races. As it stands now, I really didn't find a thought provoking benefit for the halflings and the warforged are not powerful enough to make up for their immunity to standard heals. Drows are essentially 32 point builds with some drawbacks for playing certain classes. So you are essentially going to see a lot of humans running around with some elves and dwarves and drow are curiously rare since they are one of the more popular things to buy from the cash shop.

But now we are way off topic.

Yay Black Prophecy! I hope beta comes soon and is short. I can't wait to play.

Hello new trailer, you're pretty hot.

Just got my beta invite.

I think.

Yeah, that's what I got. It's not a direct invite, but I'm hoping that's what it's leaning towards.

I don't think I'm in this first round. I was never sent a download link or key, just the thing asking me to switch over my registration, which I did.

The account switching may just have been because I have a forum account and they switched the forums over to Gamigo. See this. I bet those who didn't register for the forums weren't asked to do this.

New E3 vids up, via RPS again

I thought it was live in EU only.

Can't wait!

Privateer.

Actually, I think its a bit of both. Flying around and shooting is like Privateer but there are game mechanics like EVE. For instance I believe there is something akin to null sector space where you can build and take over space stations and fight over them.