Monthly Archives: September, 2009
Getting Into A Guild (Part 2)
This is a continuation of a poll I posted last week, asking readers for their most common method of finding guilds. Here’s a breakdown of the results, along with my personal experiences in these areas: 29% Research or Post on Forums This was by far the largest percentage, which surprised me just a bit — …
Living the Apocalypse
One of the reasons that I’ve gotten so into Fallen Earth is that it’s tapped into a longstanding fascination of mine: post-apocalyptic settings. I dig movies like Doomsday, Mad Max and (naturally) Solarbabies, watch TV shows like Jericho, and I’m an avid reader of “quiet Earth” books like The Road, The Stand, The Dark Tower. …
The Barrens Chat Hypothesis
This states that the first few weeks following any MMO’s launch will see a large increase of trolls, troublemakers and flamers populate general/regional/zone chat with inflammatory arguments that typically revolve around sex, religion, politics, Chuck Norris and a 3rd grader’s understanding of how the world actually works. Then things get better as their stupidity kills …
LOTRO: Siege of Sherwood Forest
Wow, it’s been a while since we’ve talked about LOTRO in any way, shape or form on this blog, huh? That doesn’t mean I dislike the title — on the contrary, it’s one of the more solid and interesting fantasy MMOs out there. I just hit a point where I didn’t want to progress any …
TOR Opens The Door For Beta Signups
I’m sure nobody else will post this today, so I guess it’s up to me: Star Wars TOR has officially announced beta signups, and you can go here to throw your name into the hat to be a tester. There’s also a vague FAQ thing that tells you more or less what you could’ve figured …
Tuesday Tidbits
Because sometimes you don’t want to talk a lot about one thing, so you spread the linguistic love around. Apparently Funcom is laying off 20% of its workforce, a move that will undoubtably (further) shake confidence in the MMO developer. What’s worse is that this will bump The Secret World’s development back a few month …
Bah! Humbug! Aion!
Some of the readers of Bio Break have wondered why I grouse in the direction of Aion, especially since I don’t play it. Partially, I enjoy tweaking the nose of other gamers who hold their favored pet up as nigh-perfect, because if they’re going to be so critical of games I play and oblivious to …
Leaders and Legacies
In seminary this semester I’m taking a class on biblical leadership principles, which has really gripped me as an interesting topic. One of our first assignments was to take a DISC assessment test and analyze our own leadership style from it. My results weren’t very surprising to me: I’m mostly a C/S (careful, steady), someone …
