Monthly Archives: May, 2009
Aww
Hello Syp, We at DUNGEONS & DRAGONS ONLINE™: Stormreach™ Forums would like to wish you a happy birthday today! You know, no other MMO wished me a happy birthday — what’s up with that?
/AFK – Syp’s Birthday Special Edition
*cof* Happppy birthday to meeeee… and lookit all the presents I get to open! (Actually, if you want to give me a present — and why shouldn’t you? — leave me a link in the comments section to something you think will make me laugh. And no, linking back to Bio Break isn’t valid.) Epic …
Blog of Champions
It’s not every day that a MMO company piques my interest with a marketing ploy, but I’ve got to say that Champions Online’s Daily News blog has done just that. It’s smart. It’s sassy. It talks about how the devs and the ESRB are fighting the good fight of making sure you can’t create a …
Star Wars: Trooperama
Gah, seriously BioWare… you’re making these other companies look bad when you put out incredible dev dispatch videos like this. I mean, playing a (storm)Trooper will probably be pretty low on my list of classes to try at launch, but you’re making a good case why I’m an idiot. Totally love these videos, they’re right …
Quote of the Day
“Or you can make teenagers kiss in their underpants.” ~ Sims 3 “Celebrity Edition” trailer
The MMO Deathwatch
Well, I guess Matrix Online is going to bite the big one to nobody’s surprise — except the surprise that this game kept going as long as it did. Remember, kids, SOE Station Access is more than just a great value, it’s a welfare shelter for MMOs that can’t earn a living themselves (not that …
“You’re Not Playing It Right!”
Right there, up there, is a quote that makes me absolutely cringe when it comes to online gaming. It’s not meant to be an exact quote, but more representative of a type of mentality that exists in MMOs — that there is a Right Way and a Wrong Way to be playing the game. God …
LOTRO: I… Am… Hero!
No matter how MMOs are supposed to make us feel, I hardly ever assume that I’m the big gallootin’ hero of Sherwood Forest, sauntering in to save the world and then break for a light lunch. During play, my feelings vacilitate somewhere between “paid exterminator”, “delivery boy” and “evil genius in good guy’s clothing”. Killing …
Casual Recruitment
A lot of the time I see guild recruit messages spamming chat that might as well say “INSERT TEMPLATE RECRUITMENT POST HERE” for all the originality that they give. It’s always something along the lines of: Knights of Templar is now recruiting! Casual, fun guild looking for helpful people who hate drama so much that …
LOTRO: The Boggening (er, Bloggening)
I find it interesting to see which MMOs have a rabid, wide-spread blog community and which do not: Many blogs: Eve Online, WoW, LOTRO, WAR Few, if any blogs: EQ, Age of Conan, many older titles More and more bloggers have gravitated toward the multi-game field, as I have, simply because you’re hedging your bets, …
