I have played hardcore. I have played casual. And let me tell you, switching from one style of play to the other is not just as simple as only logging in for a fraction of the hours. It involves a change of the way you view yourself in your MMO of choice. Being a casual [...]
Archive for March, 2010
How to switch to being more casual
Posted in general mmo, warcraft, tagged casual, cataclysm, fewer hours, hardcore, how to be casual, mindset, raid on March 31, 2010 | 3 Comments »
It came from the PUG: Only on the internet ….
Posted in general mmo, warcraft, tagged blackrock depths, chat roulette, darnassian, it came from the pug, lfg, razorfen bore on March 30, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Other than the obligatory heroic with Spinks to test out Revenge, all of my PUGs this week have been lower level ones on the various alts. I have theories as to why lower level instances feel more relaxed than level 80 heroics, and it is mostly because people simply don’t care as much. Even if [...]
In which my social game test doesn’t even last for one week
Posted in general mmo, tagged blatent, facebook games, farmville, zoo world on March 30, 2010 | 8 Comments »
I had thought following last week’s post about Farmville and Social/ Facebook Games, that I should really put my money where my mouth is and try one. So I want to talk a bit about that experience. And I’d suggest reading this alongside The Ancient Gaming Noob’s account of his time with Farmville (he had [...]
Playing with people who have more/less time to game
Posted in general mmo, lotro, warcraft, tagged casual, choices, hardcore, hours, lotro, stuff, wow on March 29, 2010 | 9 Comments »
In any MMO, there will be some people who play more, and some who play less. Unless you either always solo or always play in a fixed group who log in at the same times every week, you will hang out with both people who have more time to play and people who have less. [...]
Gryphon Chick, just can’t catch a break, can we?
Posted in general mmo, warcraft, tagged baby gryphon, calico, cat, gifts, pet, picture, tortie, toy, warcraft on March 28, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Whatever you think about the Warcraft pet store, these things do make great presents for friends who play the game. I’d never have bought this baby gryphon for myself, but I’m sure that Cuddly Cthulhu, the Beanie Baby Chinese Dragon, Kingslime key ring, and the Plastic Landshark will be glad of the company. And, long [...]
[3.33] Revenge is sweet! And whose responsibility is threat anyway?
Posted in general mmo, tanking, warcraft, tagged cataclysm, future of tanking, group coordination, instance, revenge, tanking, threat on March 26, 2010 | 22 Comments »
How is everyone enjoying the new WoW patch? It has been primarily a balancing patch (you can tell this because paladins got nothing) with the addition of a random battleground finder, and some tweaks to make crafted gear cheaper and reagents more accessible. Plus increasing the demand for frozen orbs which come from heroics (i.e. [...]
5 Challenges for Cataclysm
Posted in general mmo, warcraft, tagged beta leaks, blizzcon, cataclysm, challenges, date, hardcore, hybrid vigor, raid, rated battlegrounds, worgen on March 22, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Chris at Game by Night is dubious about whether Cataclysm can really keep Warcraft players occupied for another two years (the average time between WoW expansions up till now). Yes, there are new races and new levelling content, but once people have worked up their new alts … what then? In many ways, the most [...]
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