I am very proud of my new cloak in LOTRO. It has no stats at all, and cosmetic gear allows me to wear it and have my ‘real’ cloak hidden at the same time. But more importantly, it matches the rest of my gear perfectly. I even have a smokey black horse to go with [...]
Archive for July, 2010
Cosmetic gear – the best rewards of all?
Posted in general mmo, tagged cloak, cosmetic gear, lotro, pictures on July 15, 2010 | 15 Comments »
[Cataclysm] Specialise or die
Posted in general mmo, tanking, warcraft, tagged cataclysm, specialise, talent tree on July 14, 2010 | 21 Comments »
Blizzard have spoken before about plans for the classes and talent trees in Cataclysm, but now with a new beta patch, we have some actual talent trees to study. So the way this will work is that at level 10, you will pick one of your class talent trees in which to specialise. The other [...]
It came from the PUG: Sorry, missed the invite
Posted in general mmo, warcraft, tagged dungeon finder, it came from the pug, missed invite, queue, waiting on July 13, 2010 | 24 Comments »
Anyone who has spent much time running level 80 instances in WoW with the dungeon finder will be familiar with this scenario. You join the dungeon finder. You wait for an amount of time based on your role (tank/heal/dps) and how many other people are queueing. The dungeon finder finds you a group (hurrah!!) and [...]
Gaming News: RealID was merely a setback, Dragon Age 2 announced, Firaxis hit by layoffs, E3 Game Critics Awards
Posted in general mmo, links, tagged blizzard, dragon age 2, e3 game critic awards, firaxis layoffs, gaming news, realid on July 11, 2010 | 6 Comments »
I’ll start with my one and only World Cup joke, in honour of the World Cup finals: France, the only national side with 21 strikers. Incidentally, Paul the Psychic Octopus now has his own facebook page (we assume under his real name). WoW players love their pseudonyms Blizzard this week announced that new Starcraft 2 [...]
Are Real Names the magic bullet for cleaning up gaming?
Posted in general mmo, tagged gaming culture, magic bullet, real name, toxic on July 10, 2010 | 32 Comments »
In the wake of last week, this is the one question that sticks in my mind. Blizzard felt that requiring all forum posters to use their real names would improve forum behaviour. It was based, presumably, on psychology/ sociology studies which showed that people were more polite online when identified with their legal names. I’ve [...]
Blizzard backs down on forums – a million voices cried out and were heard
Posted in general mmo, warcraft, tagged back down, blizzard, forum, mike morhaime, real id on July 9, 2010 | 23 Comments »
This is the post, from Michael Morhaime: I’d like to take some time to speak with all of you regarding our desire to make the Blizzard forums a better place for players to discuss our games. We’ve been constantly monitoring the feedback you’ve given us, as well as internally discussing your concerns about the use [...]
Guild Wars 2 breaks the shackles of life, death, and the holy trinity
Posted in general mmo, guild wars 2, tanking, tagged death, defeated, developer blog, downed, guild wars 2, holy trinity, life on July 9, 2010 | 16 Comments »
I feel increasingly that big upcoming MMOs are now marketing to the post-WoW player base. Instead of “If you like WoW, try this too; it’s like WoW with new content/ free,” we’re getting more targeted messages which can be interpreted as, “If you liked WoW but are tired of it, try this; it’s like WoW [...]
Why B Movies make the best games
Posted in general mmo, tagged art, b movies, biobreak, games, guest post on July 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
And now for something completely different. There’s been a lot of talk recently (and not so recently) about whether games are or can be Art. And although I’m sure that some would definitely fit the bill, I have a sneaking suspicion that the best games might not be inspired by the best Art … And [...]
[RealID around the web] The future will be written in Chicken
Posted in general mmo, tagged facebook, identity, privacy, real name, realid, stalking, the future will be written in chicken, usa today, utopia on July 8, 2010 | 46 Comments »
Once in the twenty second century linguists tried to find the perfect simplification of all language. They dubbed it chicken. It has no grammar, no syntax and no ambiguities. The only word is ‘chicken’. Unfortunately it is so easy to learn everybody consequently did, dooming forever human society. These linguists were never prosecuted, indeed nor [...]
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