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[SWTOR] The numbers game
So EA held an earnings call earlier this week and revealed that subscriptions for SWTOR were down by 400k from earlier this year. This still leaves 1.3m active subs, depending on how far you trust...
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[Diablo 3] Some links: Barbarian builds, comedy, metacritic scores,...
I forgot to mention yesterday how fun it is to destroy the scenery, not to mention the various barrels, in D3. I’ve seen regular barrels, water barrels and torture barrels – not quite sure what the...
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[Thought of the Day] On attunements and queues in group finders
Just in case anyone doesn’t know the term, an attunement is an archaic MMO term associated with a (possibly complex) quest that a player had to complete in order to be able to enter a specific raid or...
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Question of the Day: What are your favourite instances/ flashpoints of all time?
I have been running a fair number of flashpoints recently in SWTOR, and I’ve come to the conclusion that Kaon Under Siege might be my favourite instance/flashpoint in any MMO ever. What really makes...
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[TSW, SWTOR, WoW, CK2] Well, it’s certainly been a week.
I thought today I might sum up some experiences I’ve had in games recently. This is mostly a quick fly though, just to demonstrate how incredibly /different/ some games which are nominally similar can...
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[Quote of the Day] The problem with player driven narratives
Who wants to hear the story of me following a trail of mithril ores until I got to a cypress tree, slaughtering drakes and wolves and polar bears along the way, until I found an orichalcum ore, yay,...
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Give us this day our daily quest
Next, attach a heart shaped balloon to your dragon … (the heart does remind me of GW2) We are all creatures of routines. In any MMO you play regularly, there are routines you get into when you log in...
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Kickstarter, older games, and the packaging up of gaming nostalgia
KOTOR2 featured in the Steam Autumn Sale this week for the grand sum of £1.74. And you know what? I realise I never stopped loving this style of RPG. Let it be widely known that the long-awaited...
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[WoW] Smart storytelling in Patch 5.1 (minor spoilers)
The Horde army in 5.1 is known as the Dominance Offensive. But looking at these NPCs (dominance medic???) you have to wonder what else these blood elves are up to after dark… Patch 5.1 hit WoW...
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Emotional Labour in MMOs: things you can’t get players to do
“when people say games need objectives in order to be ‘games’, i wonder why ‘better understanding another human’ isn’t a valid ‘objective’” –Leigh Alexander (who is a really good gaming writer, if you...
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[Diablo 3] Some links: Barbarian builds, comedy, metacritic scores,...
I forgot to mention yesterday how fun it is to destroy the scenery, not to mention the various barrels, in D3. I’ve seen regular barrels, water barrels and torture barrels – not quite sure what the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
[Thought of the Day] On attunements and queues in group finders
Just in case anyone doesn’t know the term, an attunement is an archaic MMO term associated with a (possibly complex) quest that a player had to complete in order to be able to enter a specific raid or...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Question of the Day: What are your favourite instances/ flashpoints of all time?
I have been running a fair number of flashpoints recently in SWTOR, and I’ve come to the conclusion that Kaon Under Siege might be my favourite instance/flashpoint in any MMO ever. What really makes...
View ArticleClik here to view.
[TSW, SWTOR, WoW, CK2] Well, it’s certainly been a week.
I thought today I might sum up some experiences I’ve had in games recently. This is mostly a quick fly though, just to demonstrate how incredibly /different/ some games which are nominally similar can...
View ArticleClik here to view.
[Quote of the Day] The problem with player driven narratives
Who wants to hear the story of me following a trail of mithril ores until I got to a cypress tree, slaughtering drakes and wolves and polar bears along the way, until I found an orichalcum ore, yay,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Give us this day our daily quest
Next, attach a heart shaped balloon to your dragon … (the heart does remind me of GW2) We are all creatures of routines. In any MMO you play regularly, there are routines you get into when you log in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Kickstarter, older games, and the packaging up of gaming nostalgia
KOTOR2 featured in the Steam Autumn Sale this week for the grand sum of £1.74. And you know what? I realise I never stopped loving this style of RPG. Let it be widely known that the long-awaited...
View ArticleClik here to view.
[WoW] Smart storytelling in Patch 5.1 (minor spoilers)
The Horde army in 5.1 is known as the Dominance Offensive. But looking at these NPCs (dominance medic???) you have to wonder what else these blood elves are up to after dark… Patch 5.1 hit WoW...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Emotional Labour in MMOs: things you can’t get players to do
“when people say games need objectives in order to be ‘games’, i wonder why ‘better understanding another human’ isn’t a valid ‘objective’” —Leigh Alexander (who is a really good gaming writer, if you...
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[Dragon Age] Getting ready for DAI: Dragon Age Keep
*sniff* Alas poor dwarf commoner heroine, I may have temporarily forgotten you but it all comes back to me now! Any Dragon Age fans out there? Course there are! Dragon Age Inquisition is going to be...
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