Monthly Archives: August, 2009
Fun Ways To Drive Up Post and Comment Counts
Take note, aspiring bloggers! Two great tips: Outright beg for comments when you don’t feel as if you’re getting enough of them Pretend that you also moonlight as a rival blogger, and then “reveal” that it was a hoax, just because Awesome! P.S. – Why aren’t more people commenting on this post? P.P.S. – It’s …
Champions: Does This Mob Have An Appointment?
“Yes they do.” “I phoned ahead!” Sometimes if the howling is loud enough, the posts are splashed everywhere, and the sword of PR Disaster looms over a company’s head does it get things in motion. There’s little doubt on my part that Cryptic stumbled with the whole “limited” 6 month/lifetime sub thing (even so much …
Champions: PSA
A little confusion over the @NAME thing — it is NOT your account name, nor should you give it the same name (for security reasons). A commenter on Bio Break explained: “Your CO forum alias is also your @name in the game. It doesn’t have to be your account name. Choose wisely, though, as I …
DDO: SueTown Online
So… I guess people wanted me to talk about the whole “Turbine vs. Atari” lawsuit thing? I don’t know. I mean, when it comes to this blog, I’m not attempting to cover all of the MMO news out there, even of the games I’m interested in. If I have an opinion or a thought or …
DDO: New Territory
Believe it or not, but at one point in DDO’s history — shortly after launch, in fact — they had upwards of 15 servers. These had long since been condensed into the five we have today, but apparently Turbine is prepared to roll out a brand-new server for their DDO:EU launch on September 1st. It’s …
Quote of the Day
Tipa gets the Quote of the Day honors with not one, but two awesome quotes from her daily blogroll: “So much like Knights of the Old Republic that I mostly am just hoping Bioware decides to release SWTOR as a single player game. I do like how party members swap out who gets to choose …
10 Things You Need To Know Before Starting Champions
With the launch of Champions just days away, I wanted to give you a heads up on a few things that will help you right out of the gate — and that you don’t want to be kicking yourself for not finding out about after you’ve been in the game for a month or two. …
Champions: Limited Subscriptions? Yoink!
This has just got to be one of the most head-scratchingly bizarre marketing blunders that I’ve seen from a MMO company in a while, so let’s take a second and retrace the steps of how Cryptic is bungling their special promotional offers of Champions Online: About a month or so before the launch of the …
Star Wars: Player Housing Slips Out?
File this under “delicious if true”, as the folks over at SWTOR-Station reported that TOR devs mentioned housing as a possible feature for the game: “As the typical MMO features of the game were enumerated not only PvP, auction houses and crafting were mentioned, but also housing was part of this list. You can imagine …
DON’T DIS CHEESE!
Stargrace… why you bein’ a cheese hater? “Everything is bad without moderation. It doesn’t matter if it’s playing a video game or reading a book or eating cheese.” LEAVE THE CHEESE ALONEEEEE!
