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Protecting Paragon City
Since it was covered extensively elsewhere, I didn’t comment on last week’s news that City of Heroes is being shut down by NCSoft – you know: work, travel, yadda yadda. Dusty Monk, however, has an...
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Saving City of Heroes – linkage
This is as much for my own use as anything else – I came across this post yesterday but haven’t had time to do more than scan it. Thanks to whoever else I read who linked it in the first place, even if...
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Auction Houses: Pandering to those who hate crafting
This. Elder Game’s The Case Against Auction Houses. But I mean, what are you gonna do, not have an auction house in a modern MMO? Sure! There’s no reason every MMO should have an auction house. Lots of...
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Bees!
I always love finding references to other things – movies, books, in this case other MMOs – in games. This one made me laugh out loud. What’s the GW2 equivalent of Men in Black Vans? Filed under: Guild...
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A very merry un-blogday
Whoops. The actual blog ‘birthday’ was a month ago, August 13th. I noted that it was coming up a couple of days before the day itself and meant to do a long and involved post, but in the end Real Life...
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Dailies and dragons and pandas, oh my
Prescriptum: I was going to write this at the end of the post, but as usual I’m rambling far too much and I’m adding pictures and this post is going to be a mile long before I’m done. So: I’d like to...
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A little light reading
From Rampant Coyote’s “Why the AAA Games Industry is Screwed” – an always-interesting blog with a link to a fascinating article.RC’s post itself is short and to the point, but if you don’t have this...
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Shocked, not
This just landed in my inbox: We’ve just made a major change to the business model of The Secret World in that we no longer require a subscription to play, and have instead introduced an optional...
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Survey: Avatars
Another email. I actually got the first one a few weeks back and forgot all about it (work having been what it is) other than spending a couple of minutes checking credentials. Even a little blog like...
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Not only… but also
This has been covered by others already, but fortunately for me I never claimed to be a scoop-hound (I’m far too lazy busy with work). I’ve let it sit in my mental microwave for the last few days, and...
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TSW and Noël
Today I logged back into TSW for the first time in, uh, some months, and it made me wish I hadn’t neglected it so. After some pretty strong disorientation, that is. I always get that going back to...
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WoW – drood powa
I used to get annoyed at druids in PvP in WoW, because the little buggers are unkillable, sort of like paladins only more moonkinny. Then again, I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with droods. I...
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Game Trailery Goodness – Cyberpunk 2077
I’m not usually much of one for trailers but ohhh, this is different. This is Cyberpunk – specifically, a teaser for Cyberpunk 2077. More info here. I so wish this could be an MMO, but there are lots...
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Kickstarting Pathfinder Online
I really shouldn’t spend money when my 2012 Q4 taxes are due, but I did it anyway. Bill Murphy must have hit just the right button on Facebook because I read his post, clicked through, and pledged $35....
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Gimme some beta
Because I’ve never complained of having burned out on beta testing and I’ve never said I wouldn’t jump on hype-wagons anymore. No sirree. Anyway, that was a long time ago and I’m pretty sure the...
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I can haz RAT?
I’ve been using the same mouse for almost a decade. Why? Because I’m left-handed, which means a good mouse is hard to find; they’re all ‘ergonomic’ now, except that they’re anti-ergonomic for the...
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Sim City mildly blues
I haven’t played enough to have much of an opinion yet. However. EDIT for full disclosure – after trying to get into a game for half an hour, and then trying to create my own game for another half...
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SimCity: oh sh*t patch
So, presumably EA woke up this morning and saw the shitstorm. (Actually it’s very likely most of them worked through the night. I actually love game people, I just hate the way launches are always...
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SimCity – mea culpa
While lots of people are probably going to say this isn’t enough, it’s still nice that they’re trying to do something. The full post is worth a read – it’s pretty short, but I don’t want to reproduce...
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No Google Reader for YOU!
Yesterday when I went to read my RSS feed, I got the same popup most other users of Google Reader got: the service is going away in a few months, apparently for lack of users. Which is mildly ironic. I...
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