Comments on: Links and News: SWTOR beta, guilds in GW2, and more

By: Stabs

Stabs — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:54:16 +0000

Sorry about that. I’ll look into it, thanks for letting me know and thanks hosting the message Spinks.

By: Aufero

Aufero — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:47:34 +0000

That story about Warcraft magazine is both typical (every large corporation I’ve ever dealt with thinks of writers as interchangeable cogs) and deeply disappointing. For the sake of my illusions, I’m going to assume those decisions were made by Activision/Vivendi management and had nothing to do with anyone at Blizzard itself.

By: boatorious

boatorious — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:51:50 +0000

Raids are not hard to PUG because they are hard — they are hard to PUG because they are designed to require preparation, coordination, and a certain level of execution from from every member of the group.

So don’t design them that way. It’s not hard — the non-MMO video game market is littered with difficult (sometimes unwinnable!) yet puggable co-op.

By: spinks

spinks — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:34:38 +0000

No prob, I find blogger to be a bit fussy about comments too sometimes, hope it gets sorted out.

By: Stabs

Stabs — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:18:18 +0000

Thanks for the mention and for sharing in the discussion.

By: Oestrus

Oestrus — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:42:41 +0000

Hi,

I tried following that link to Stabs’ post and his comment feature is sort of wonky. I tried logging in with my Google account and was told that I wasn’t able to “view the post,” even though I could clearly see it and read it. All other ways of logging in to leave a comment did not work, either.

Stabs, if you’re reading this, please update your commenting format so that I can leave a comment for you. Or please include an e-mail address or some other way to reach you on your site, so that people have way to leave feedback on your posts (positive feedback, of course) when the general website does not cooperate.

Thanks!

(Sorry if this is terribly gauche, but I know Stabs checks out your page quite a bit, Spinks. I didn’t know how else to get my point across.)

By: Redbeard

Redbeard — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:41:56 +0000

Yeah, the Sid Meier version of the Civ boardgame is now on it’s second iteration, this time by Fantasy Flight Games. (Original version was Eagle Games, and apparently had some major issues.) I always considered Sid’s claim that he never played the AH version of Civ a bit specious, since I recall it mentioned in the old Civ I playing guides that Sid was aware of the boardgame, but felt he could design a better one.

Considering that I love the old AH version of Civ and Advanced Civ, it’s a shame that Hasbro is still hanging onto the title and not letting it get reprinted.