Yesterday Blizzard decided to clear up what a Non Disclosure Agreement actually means, and asked mmo-champion to remove the Cataclysm Alpha information. Two points come to mind first: 1. The NDA isn’t just a legal agreement When a beta is under NDA, in the gaming world it mostly means in practice that people agree not [...]
Archive for May, 2010
Blizzard finally flexes some NDA muscle
Posted in general mmo, warcraft, tagged blizzard, cataclysm, mmo-champion, muscle, nda on May 12, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Working out the Guild Ranking Tables
Posted in general mmo, warcraft, tagged cataclysm, guild ox, guild ranking, wow progress on May 11, 2010 | 7 Comments »
If we know anything about gaming, it’s that players in multiplayer games love high score tables. The first time I saw one was on an arcade machine in a service station along the M1 (big motorway). I’m not sure how old I was, certainly I had to look up to see the screen. If you [...]
It came from the PUG: Even my noob alt knows how to do THAT!
Posted in general mmo, warcraft, tagged bad play, it came from the pug, noob alt, overgeared on May 11, 2010 | 18 Comments »
My tales of woe from PUGs this week concern players who clearly have lots of gear and raid experience, yet somehow fail on the most basic of tasks in instances. How exactly does that happen? I personally notice the tanking mistakes first, partly because my main is a tank and partly because everyone notices the [...]
Cheap LOTRO Lifetime Subscriptions! But what does it mean?
Posted in general mmo, lotro, tagged cheap, codemasters, harry potter, lifetime, lotro, subscription, turbine on May 10, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Codemasters surprised us this afternoon by announcing a special offer on LOTRO lifetime subscriptions. This week, you can buy a lifetime sub to the game for £75 (that’s around half the normal price, I think). It could be a clever promotion to encourage players like me who have dipped in and out of the game [...]
Gaming News: First PS3 MMO?, Cataclysm Alpha, Lucasarts Execs resign, and Games Workshop sue Fan Site
Posted in general mmo, links, tagged console, free realms, games workshop, lawsuit, lucasarts, mmo cataclysm alpha, PS3, warhammer alliance on May 9, 2010 | 12 Comments »
The local news of course is that our election on Thursday produced a hung parliament. I was practically in the news myself when our demo for electoral reform made the front pages. I still think, “What do we want? Electoral reform. When do we want it? Now!” is not very catchy. Free Realms for the [...]
End of the Expansion Blues
Posted in general mmo, tanking, warcraft, tagged bored, challenge, end of expansion blues, icc, tanking on May 7, 2010 | 13 Comments »
If there was any doubt that we were nearing the end of an expansion in WoW, the start of the Cataclysm alpha has put a line underneath it. From here on, there will be one more content patch – it will contain a small non-progression raid to dispense trinkets and other epic sparklies, some fun [...]
The battle(.net) for your real name
Posted in general mmo, warcraft, tagged battle.net, blizzard, facebook, identity, real id, real name on May 6, 2010 | 38 Comments »
Blizzard yesterday unveiled their plans for the Battle.net Real ID features. In the battle.net of the future, there are only real names and if you want to chat to people across realms/ games then you will need to use them. Not only that, but by agreeing to use the Real ID feature (and it will [...]
Good, Evil, and other Genre Conventions
Posted in general mmo, single player games, star wars, warcraft, tagged alpha centauri, alpha protocol, evil, faction, genre, good, philosophy on May 5, 2010 | 11 Comments »
I always play good characters in games. I have never set out to be evil just for the sake of it. When I murdered the child in Redcliffe (in Dragon Age) it was because I was saving the world from a worse evil. If that’s not heroic then I don’t know what is! If Mrs [...]
Looks like my husband?
Posted in funny, general mmo, tagged screenshot on May 4, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I wasn’t the one who typed that!
How do you decide on a class?
Posted in general mmo, warcraft, tagged cataclysm, class, hybrid, which class to play on May 4, 2010 | 25 Comments »
So, we’re practically on the starting blocks for Cataclysm. Blizzard have made some tentative class previews and announced plans for raid changes. They finally confirmed yesterday that the Friends and Family Alpha test of the new expansion has begun. And amidst all the intense discussions between raid and guild leaders on how to adapt to [...]
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