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World's First Gold Farming RPG

Posted by Zonk on Sun Apr 01, 2007 04:19 PM
from the dispensing-with-the-illusion dept.
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Kevlar_Sindome writes "Verse Studios announced today that they have officially 'changed everything', with the release of their first game: Fool's Gold. Fool's Gold lets players take on the role of the heroic gold farmer seeking profit from gold hungry characters who seem to have an unlimited amount of money to spend, but never enough time to spend it. Touted as the first Gold Farming Role Playing Game ( GF-RPG ), Verse Studios hopes to get a jump on starting a new game genre. Fool's Gold is free for download off the Verse Studios website."
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  • Nice April Tom-Foolery on Blizzard and WoW players.
    • What kind of moron picks a site like Slashdot full of Linux users and posts a Windows and Mac-only game? April fool's indeed.
      • Well despite Linux and BSD having a higher prevalence amongst slashdotters, there are still quite a few of us who have a Windows box for gaming, or a Mac for ... looking sexy? They'll get clicks from a fairly significant number of people.
        • 'or a Mac for ... looking sexy?'

          Come now. If you aren't a gay male and think having a Mac is sexy then I am going to predict you have lots of females who view you as 'just as friend'.

          • Re: (Score:3, Insightful)

            by Kandenshi (832555)
            Bi actually =P But close enough.

            And yes, I have several female friends.

          • 'or a Mac for ... looking sexy?'

            Well some random girl commented on my sexy mac while I was at a cafe in the wee hours doing a little caffeine inspired coding one time.

            Come now. If you aren't a gay male and think having a Mac is sexy then I am going to predict you have lots of females who view you as 'just as friend'.

            Unfortunately I have lots of girls that view me as just that. Doesn't mean you can't sleep with some of them; we are the uninhibited generation and fucking your friends isn't so wierd a

          • 'or a Mac for ... looking sexy?'

            Come now. If you aren't a gay male and think having a Mac is sexy then I am going to predict you have lots of females who view you as 'just as friend'.

            Dude, chicks dig Macs. They look cool and they are more versatile when it comes to things like video editing, etc out of the box. Male slashdotters may be fine with an ancient beige box they built from dumpster dived or bargain basement parts, but some people like powerul, easy-to-use, aesthetically pleasing computers. Many

        • I downloaded it and installed it and the only thing I get is nvidia opengl driver driver component sizes mismatch. Retry to continue. Cancel to exit. Only the cancel works.
      • Because Wow and most windows games work perfectly under Cedegra?

  • Digging for Gold! (Score:5, Funny)

    by Xaositecte (897197) on Sunday April 01 2007, @04:23PM (#18568735) Journal
    Will it include the giant Nasal Passages as a dungeon?

  • Mod me insightful (Score:4, Insightful)

    by DittoBox (978894) on Sunday April 01 2007, @04:24PM (#18568747) Homepage
    Or Informative, your choice. I could use a little Karmapickmeup. A little injection bawlz if you will.

    Oh...and farming gold? Anything goes as an (MMO)RPG these days I guess.

    • Mod me Funny (Score:5, Funny)

      by causality (777677) on Sunday April 01 2007, @05:09PM (#18568959)
      Because I'm posting yet another god damned "in Soviet Russia" joke. In Soviet Russia, humor-impaired jokes mod YOU!
    • Or Informative, your choice. I could use a little Karmapickmeup. A little injection bawlz if you will.

      Oh...and farming gold? Anything goes as an (MMO)RPG these days I guess.

      I think what's more insightful would be the introduction of a +5 Rich option (even just for April Fool's). Why have a karma injection without an additional cash injection (personally, I could use both :)? They always said two was better than one.

  • actually (Score:5, Funny)

    by 42Penguins (861511) on Sunday April 01 2007, @04:27PM (#18568763)
    I downloaded and played for a bit.

    This game TOTALLY rox my sox.
    Though I'm not quite sure what that spanska.w32 message was all about...

  • Oh, I get it... (Score:4, Informative)

    by libkarl2 (1010619) on Sunday April 01 2007, @04:27PM (#18568765)
    Its a game. If I can find the story that ISN'T an April Fools Joke, I win something... Right??
  • I'm glad to see that MRPG designers are bowing to the obvious and recognizing what people do most in their games. I think my character in this game will be called King Midas.

    Now what would really be trick would be to allow gold pharmed here to be moved at some exchange rate into other games, removing the need to be doing it there.

  • Great article. slashdottit!ed
      • Of course it is a joke!

        I've learnt it the hard way: I actually did click the link, and guess what?
        NO TITS! Not a bit of a tit!

  • Beware of software pyrites and chalcopyrite violators!
  • For some reason I read that as girlfriend role playing game.
    • Nah, the Japanese have already made a whole bunch of really good (abd some being very creepy) dating sim games. They're more experienced and better at making those games than Blizzard would be IMO.
  • ...that I'll be hearing in my nightmares for the next 6 months:

    snatch...snatch snatch snatch.....snatch.....snatch.....snatch snatch....

    Somebody kill me.

  • Not as thorough as Progress Quest (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Jerf (17166) on Sunday April 01 2007, @04:52PM (#18568895) Journal
    Progress Quest [progressquest.com] is even more successful at extracting the core essence of MMORPGs, and distilling them down to their bare essentials in a way that enhances the playability of the game to the ultimate degree. Well, measured along one dimension, at least.

    (And it's not specifically an April Fools joke; download it and try it out, the executable is real. Windows app, generally runs absolutely perfectly in Wine.)

  • HOAX!!!!11!! (Score:5, Funny)

    by Endo13 (1000782) on Sunday April 01 2007, @05:14PM (#18568987)
    OMG this game is a hoax guys!! I installed it and my taxes still aren't done! LIES!! I DEMAND A REFUND! And it didn't even have any ponies. :(

  • mod me (Score:2, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Mod me +5 insightful please...... again, for no particular reason
  • If you lightly coat your monitor with gold spray paint you reveal the secret area! Whoa! This game even runs on Linux!

  • Not a good thing (Score:3, Informative)

    by venicebeach (702856) on Sunday April 01 2007, @05:25PM (#18569029) Homepage Journal
    I think the existence of this game is disturbing, and frankly it should not be encouraged by a link on slashdot. Gold farming is a serious issue that undermines the integrity of the games we invest our time and money in to play. This game is a slap in the face of the hard working people trying to combat gold farming. Making a hero out of the gold farmer is purely offensive.
    • Have you figured out this whole 'April Fools' thing yet? Let me help you along:

      IT IS A JOKE.

      Yes, they actually made the game, and yes, it's crap. They did it as a joke. It was never intended to draw any audience whatsoever and it does not have any political statements to make.

      IT IS A JOKE.
    • 'Gold farming is a serious issue that undermines the integrity of the games we invest our time and money in to play.'

      Some people have less time and more money. Gold farming helps to balance the game play for them. The first thing that gold farming tell you is that the game has some sort of boring repetitive time sync task that needs to be eliminated. The is true of botting and macroing. Succeeding in a game should be a combination of luck and skill, syncing more time into the game shouldn't give you an edge
  • I've been in the beta for this, and I have to say I love it. If it weren't for all the american players coming in and stealing my mobs however, it's be a lot more fun.
  • I mean, FFS, it's now well into 2 April in 10 timezones, and only about two timezones AREN'T past 1200 on 1 April.

    This April Fool's Day shit is taken waaaaay the fuck too far at times.

    • I mean, FFS, it's now well into 2 April in 10 timezones, and only about two timezones AREN'T past 1200 on 1 April.
      Slashdot is an American site and the admins are based in Michigan (or at least they used to be) so you can assume Slashdot lives and breaths on Eastern time. Frankly, 95% of the useful shit that happens in this world is geared towards the Eastern time zone so the rest of y'all can just suck it.
      • ummm, hate to break it to you, but the joke was on people in Michigan about seven hours before I made my post!

        Seriously, don't people know about the 12pm rule anymore?

  • Here are the reviews on their main page:

    Reviews of Fool's Gold

    "...this can't be for real..."

    "Simplistic amateur adventure with horrible voice work."

    "A real turd of a game."

    "Clearly this is a joke. A really bad joke."

    "This is the best game ever! 11/10!!"

    • Re:omg (Score:4, Funny)

      by Presence2 (240785) on Sunday April 01 2007, @05:28PM (#18569047)
      Damn, player names "RANGRANG" and "KEKEKEK" were already taken! *sigh*

      • Re:omg (Score:5, Insightful)

        by chebucto (992517) on Sunday April 01 2007, @04:46PM (#18568867)
        I, for one, am getting tired of people posting about how tired they are of april fools' jokes. The whiny posts start at about 12:01 AM on April 1st and only end at 11:59pm. April fools' is like Christmas for slashdot - it only happens once a year, and it is a whole day devoted to happiness and humour. If you are truly getting tired of all this, just take solace in the fact that some of us find it quite diverting.

        Others take advantage of this day to try out their new modems with SpeedBoost technology, sending data over regular phone lines at a speed of 1.5c. It's the only way to get FP when /. is moving fast!

        • Re: (Score:3, Insightful)

          by Columcille (88542) *
          If this is happiness and humor the world must be a lot worse off than I thought. I for one will be glad to see April 1 pass.

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