GOA have been running Dark Age of Camelot in Europe since the day it launched. There have been up times and down times, and legendary failures. But for those of us who played DaoC back in the day, GOA were synonymous with Mythic’s old warhorse of a MMO. That era is coming to an end. [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Dark Age of Camelot EU: The Last Battle
Posted in general mmo, tagged daoc, europe, goa on January 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
You can’t heal stupidity!
Posted in general mmo, warcraft, tagged bored healer, healing, standing in the fire, the rules, you can't heal stupid on January 14, 2010 | 42 Comments »
You have to feel sorry for overgeared healers sometimes. Trotting along behind the group, with a DS in one hand (thank you Professor Layton, rescuer of dull instance runs) and the other lazily tapping out the equivalent of Bach’s 4th Brandenburg Concerto on their healing buttons – looking up occasionally to check which instance they [...]
Thought of the Day: Effect of the dungeon finder on smaller servers
Posted in general mmo, warcraft, tagged dungeon finder, migration, pick up group raid, raid, smaller server on January 13, 2010 | 11 Comments »
My server (Argent Dawn EU) has had regular login queues over the last few weeks. On several occasions, it has also been marked as locked which means no new characters can be created there. At the same time, the server has been the source of free transfers to other RP servers. Clearly that hasn’t been [...]
Rewarding the Character vs Rewarding the Player
Posted in general mmo, star wars, warcraft, tagged achievement, advancement, character progression, rewarding the character, rewarding the player, story, swtor, xp on January 12, 2010 | 25 Comments »
It’s hardly possible to move these days in an MMO without tripping over a slew of new rewards. Emblems, xp, gear, badges, pets, titles, gold, cosmetic clothes, house decorations, mounts, achievements, quest unlocks, and so on – and with every patch, the list gets longer. And yet, not all rewards are equal. There’s been a [...]
Interacting with NPCs
Posted in general mmo, storytelling, warcraft, tagged dranosh, interacting with npcs, maltese, rocky horror, saurfang on January 11, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Some NPCs run through long and rambling introductions. Players get bored and find ways to spice these moments up. None of that is surprising, but I do find it cool that people take a Rocky Horror Show style approach to interacting with the speeches. They’re not just passing the time by talking about football or [...]
The Warcraft Alt Dilemma: Alts yesterday, alts tomorrow, but never alts today
Posted in warcraft, tagged alts, dungeon finder, levelling a character, onyxia, priest, tier 1, warcraft on January 11, 2010 | 12 Comments »
Anyone else been intrigued to try the dungeon finder for lower level alts? I haven’t had much time to play around with lower level instances myself but the few experiences I’ve had have been pretty positive. I ran an old level 15 draenei mage created at the beginning of TBC through Ragefire Chasm (previously rather [...]
On rewarding tanks and healers
Posted in general mmo, tanking, tagged healers, rewards, tanks on January 9, 2010 | 28 Comments »
Gordon of We Fly Spitfires posted a provocative guest post last week, suggesting tanks and healers should get more rewards than other characters? His thinking was that this could address both the supply and demand issue (giving better rewards encourages more people to take up the less popular roles) and also rewarding people for taking [...]
These are the Voyages of the Starship Tribblebuster
Posted in general mmo, star trek online, tagged open beta, preview, star trek online, tribble on January 8, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Star Trek Online is (still) currently due to launch on February 2nd in the US and the 5th here in Europe, less than a month from today. And as is customary, the NDA for press has been dropped before the general punters in the beta test are officially allowed to talk about their experiences. The [...]
A holiday, a holiday, the first one of the year! Best of 2009.
Posted in about me, general mmo, tagged best of 2010, best posts, birthday on January 7, 2010 | 22 Comments »
Happy Birthday, blog! ((twilight zone music)) On this day last year, I wrote my first proper post for the blog. It was our first trip into Naxxramas, and I wanted to talk about why it felt like such an edgy period getting raids started at the beginning of an expansion. It also documents my first [...]
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