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It is always an exciting time for MMO players when a new expansion is announced or released. Expansions unlock new lands and continents to explore and colonise, new monsters to slay, new stories to tell, and of course newer and better loot. But ...
Gaming
Warcraft
World of Warcraft
I wrote a few months ago about a player on the EU servers who had attained the previously almost unimaginable score of 10000 achievement points in WoW. This week, the story has been all over the WoW blogs about a player on on the Taiwanese servers who has completed every single achievement in ...
Gaming
World of Warcraft
Warcraft
After reading the announcements about the final two classes in Bioware’s Star Wars MMO (for more info, read Moon over Endor’s excellent summary of the Total PC Gaming article ), I’m still stuck on the notion of only having four classes on each faction. Even allowing for ...
Gaming
Star Wars
Enchanters in WoW have it great. They provide a service that is required by every single raider – one enchant on each item, replaced every time an item is replaced. And they also have the sole means of producing their own raw materials. So if you want to buy an enchantment, you have two ...
Gaming
Warcraft
Maybe I have been playing too much Dragon Age over the last few weeks (surely not!!!), but levelling a Death Knight through Dragonblight at the moment is a frustrating experience in comparison.
As Horde, you encounter Koltira the blood elf death knight in Agmar’s Hammer where he has ...
Gaming
Warcraft
spinksville.wordpress.com - 4 days ago
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Historically, a social game is one that you
played with friends so that you could socialise while...
you were playing. Board games, card games, RPGs all involve having a group of people in the same room and even if you took your gaming extremely ...
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Thought for the Day: How social are ’social’ games?
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After an epic 45 hour punctuated session of gaming, my journey in Dragon Age has come to an end … for now. It was a bitter-sweet ending — the Archdemon was slain (this surely can’t be a spoiler if you were paying any attention at all), life goes on, my fellowship of NPC companions ...
Gaming
Hurrah for Europe and for publishers who don’t realise that in these internet-enabled days, even a magazine article in *gasp* a foreign language will be translated and spread all over the net in a matter of hours. Thanks to german magazine “PC Games” (PC Spielen?), the final ...
Gaming
Star Wars
I think we can agree that yelling at people in frustration is not the best way to pass on information. (See yesterday’s post and comments.)
But when we’re playing in a group in a MMO, a lot of information needs to be communicated quickly. Are we trying to focus fire and if so, ...
Gaming
We’re actually paying attention to you. Here am I, trying to keep the bitey things off your back and when I look round you’re … standing in a fire. GET OUT OF THE FIRE!
We’re actually paying attention to you #2: dps may be nice chaps and chapesses but as soon as the fight starts, ...
Gaming
Warcraft
Tobold wrote about a week ago about players and their sense of entitlement . Do players have a right to feel entitled to easy levelling, easy loot, and accessible raiding, or is it just as much a sense of entitlement if the hardcore feel entitled to always be a quantum leap ahead of the rest? ...
Gaming
Blizzard
Warcraft
spinksville.wordpress.com - 7 days ago
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We’ve seen a lot of discussion about Blizzard’s
plans for the Icecrown patch (3.3). Fives writes the...
clearest and most heartfelt summary of them all. This isn’t just an analysis, it’s a love letter from a hardcore raid leader who sees his game on ...
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Links of the week
People already waste so much money on buying all sorts of random crap, so it’s hard to argue that a virtual pet or virtual dress is any worse value than some of the rubbish I’ve seen (presumably for people to foist on their ‘friends’) while Xmas shopping this year. ...
Gaming
I know that a lot of players feel that storytelling is a sideshow to the main event in games; it doesn’t involve gameplay, and it’s seen as fluff to keep the punters/ fanfic writers amused. I don’t agree with this view, I think the role of storytelling in games is to make encounters feel ...
Gaming
Warcraft
Blizzard have really outdone themselves with this one. The plan for opening up the Icecrown Citadel (the raid instance which is coming with the next patch) has been released. They’ve thrown the kitchen sink at it. It’ll have bosses gradually being unlocked as time goes on, bosses only being ...
Gaming
Warcraft
Blizzard
Do you remember the first character you played in your first ever MMO?
You probably didn’t bother to go look up optimal builds on bulletin boards, you didn’t care or even understand what the endgame was and you certainly had no plans for what you’d want to do with your ...
Gaming
There’s a rumour going around that the next wave of Call of Duty games will include options to buy into online subscription extras. So you’ll buy the game, and also be able to sub up for whatever services they decide to provide online. Maybe they’ll throw in some additional DLC on top.
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Gaming
Eric@Elder Game posts a typically thoughtful look at customer relations in MMOs, and especially on how some teams are very forthcoming in admitting their faults and keeping players informed about what they are doing, where others maintain a (more professional?) silence.
It is very clear that ...
Gaming
World of Warcraft
Warcraft
Blizzard
This isn’t a matter of life or death, it’s more important than that …
For many fantasy fans, it’s a crucial part of the genre that heroes be heroic and that doing good deeds is rewarded in stories. If that is important to you, you will not enjoy playing Dragon Age. ...
Gaming
I am still working my way through Dragon Age, and still thoroughly enjoying the game. While people agree in general that the game is of high quality, there is a split of opinions online as to how well it actually works … as a game. All of these games which tell stories have to provide a mix of ...
