It’s amazing how being around a good bunch of people will change your perception of a multi-player game. If you can form groups easily, then group content is great fun, and the most difficult thing about it is working out how to get everyone to the same place at the same time. Contrast that to [...]
Archive for May, 2010
How to find a good guild
Posted in general mmo, links, warcraft on May 31, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Gaming News: Shake up in Microsoft’s gaming division, EVE expansion launch, Revving up for E3, Prince of Persia on iPhone, Direct2Drive sells F2P
Posted in general mmo, links, tagged direct2drive, e3, eve expansion, gaming news, ipad, microsoft, offerpal, prince of persia, zynga on May 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
It’s been a fairly quiet news week. This is the calm before the storm of the various industry conventions held over the Summer months, of which the first up will be E3 on June 15-17 (i.e. I’ll have to make up some more news next week too). Shake Up in Microsoft’s Gaming Division A couple [...]
Characters in Multiple Guilds
Posted in general mmo, tagged alts, multiple guilds on May 28, 2010 | 10 Comments »
In a week of discussing guilds, it would be amiss to imply that everyone would have one and only one guild at a time. Certainly if you play more than one MMO, you could easily be in more than one guild. And because of the way raid guilds work in WoW, it’s not too awkward [...]
Thought of the Day: 10 and 25 man versions of the same raid instance
Posted in general mmo, warcraft, tagged 10 man, 25 man, arthas, frozen throne, same raid instance on May 27, 2010 | 15 Comments »
Last night was a very exciting one for our raid. For the first time, we were standing in front of the Frozen Throne, looking at the end boss of the expansion. Arthas is the fight we’ve been aiming for ever since we first nervously zoned into Naxxramas all those months ago. Reaching this point (and [...]
MMOs are changing — but maybe some players need to go back to their roots
Posted in general mmo, tagged future, mmo, sandbox, trend, virtual world, wolfshead on May 26, 2010 | 25 Comments »
johnnyjet@flickr.com Wolfshead, one of the most inspiring blog writers I know, has been kicking arse and taking names recently with a rant about the entire MMO industry and the way it is heading. (If you enjoy this article of his do read some more, they’re all good.) His complaint is that MMOs are not reaching [...]
On Solo Rewards for Group Challenges
Posted in general mmo, warcraft, tagged cataclysm, group, guild bound, legendary, raid, shadowmourne, solo reward on May 25, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Group content of any kind in a MMO can be seen as a social challenge. If you want the shiny mount/ quest reward/ epic then you need to find 4/9/24 other suckers to come and help you get it. Now, the standard way to do that is to either pledge your loyalty to a guild [...]
How did you find your current guild/s?
Posted in general mmo, tagged bulletin board, chat, community, finding a guild, guild recruitment, pick up group, website on May 24, 2010 | 25 Comments »
I’m planning to write a longer post this week on different ways to find guilds in games. One of the things that stands out to me is that you may need to search in different ways, depending on what you want from your guild. For example, WoW offers recruitment forums on the official boards. But [...]
Gaming News: Google App Store, Zynga ties the knot with Facebook, Aion server mergers, Blizzcon, DS to overtake PS2 in sales
Posted in general mmo, links, tagged aion, blizzcon, chrome, DS, facebook, google app store, runic, torchlight, unity, webm, zynga on May 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Google shows off some longer term plans At the I/O developer conference in San Francisco this week, Google announced their plans to launch an online web app store (for Chrome and Chrome OS). Undoubtedly games will feature heavily on the list, and Plants v Zombies and Lego Star Wars (are there any platforms on which [...]
My game provides a useful service at a reasonable fee, your game gouges gamers with RMT shenanigans
Posted in general mmo, links, warcraft, tagged cash shop, copykat, eq2, mount, mounted combat, prowler, rmt, sparkle pony, value on May 22, 2010 | 7 Comments »
These are the new Everquest 2 mounts which went on sale this week at the innovative and market testing price of $25 (aka same as the WoW sparkle pony). (I hope openedge1 is going to keep up his campaign for people to give the money to charity instead.) Reaction has been predictable. Some players love [...]
Why the mobile auction house will be good for WoW.
Posted in general mmo, links, warcraft, tagged mobile auction house, rmt, service, warcraft, working raiders on May 21, 2010 | 11 Comments »
For all that Larisa rails against Blizzard’s hapless PR and Marketing department, they’ve been smart with their press release schedule. Have you noticed there has been at least one cool piece of news per week recently (whether it is about Cataclysm or SC2 or Blizzcon) that has made the news cycle? I’m curious as to [...]
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