Mythos Beta Invites

[Lissa]

Like Jarulf, I've been involved since Alpha, so I have a fistful of invites. Let me know if you want one.
When did you last play? The game started out as basically a hastily thrown-together Diablo. As I understand, the initial function was merely to test the servers for the upcoming release of Hellgate. Since then, Flagship and Ping0 have decreed that it shall be its own game, and added oodles of stuff. Most of the population involved in the beta says it's superior to Hellgate. I can't comment here, as I didn't think Hellgate was worth buying, but it WAS superior to Hellgate beta, right before release.
All in all, it's a pretty solid little timewaster. It's obviously lacking a few things, but once again, it's in beta, so I think they'll fix those. I do like the artistic style. It's kind of cartoony, but in a very deliberate tongue-in-cheek fashion instead of something that looks more accidental like the recent Warcraft games, or even Diablo II.

--me

Just as a side thread, I think HG:L is mostly dead at this point. HG:L should have been held back longer and worked on more before releasing. There were so many game breaking bugs in the game that weren't fixed until the last month or so and there are still a lot of problems that need fixing. The crew of FSS broke their own rule, "it will not ship till ready," and now they're paying the price of it (it would be interesting to see just how many subscribers they have now and how many of the founders accounts actually were purchased). To me, HG:L was just a more pretty Diablo without the thing that made Diablo fun. From accounts I have read (I haven't gotten past level 30ish normal) that the game at the end is nigh impossible in nightmare unless you have a perfect group (tank and two high end damage dealers with someone able to bring about some healing for the tank, be it a Guardian, Summoners with lots of Earth Elementals, or an Engineer with a big Drone).