Monthly Archives: February, 2010
Making It As A MMO Blogger
Start a blog Talk about online games and try not to misspell “MMO” too often (“MOO!”) If you need more advice from a bunch of bloggers (including myself) who were invited to chat with Massively about several related subjects, head over there to read the piece.
Best Pun of the Day
“Mad Min-Max” From Eurogamer’s review of Fallen Earth I know journalists love them some serious puns, but man, that just made my day!
Dungeons & Microtransactions
Seriously, I think about half of the blog posts I caught up on over the weekend had to do about this insane and almost comical Allods cash shop fiasco. I’ve never seen a game go from beloved to gutter trash so quickly, but that right there is the power of horrible decisions. They had a …
Blog Rage vs. The Army of Allods
Welcome back, me! It’s always lovely to return from a weekend away from internets and twitters and bloggies to find 555 posts waiting to be read and a whole firestorm of controversy that popped up most likely because I wasn’t there to settle everyone down and read them a bed time story. People! Just because …
/AFK – Sync in Progress
Hey, folks, it could’ve been worse. I could’ve done ‘N Sync in Progress, causing your eyes to roll right out of your head. And without further ado, blog posts you must read today to avoid the mummy’s curse: Stargrace and her accent makes a podcasting debut on View From the Top podcast! Werit is pleased …
No Battle Plan Survives First Contact With The Enemy
Yesterday was… whew. You ever have one of those intensely draining days where you simply can’t do enough work to dig yourself out of the pile of work that you have? That was yesterday. I’m getting ready to take a couple dozen teens on a winter retreat this weekend, which means a mountain of planning …
“Welcome back to LOTRO…
…Now go kill 360 salamanders for a small trait upgrade.”
A Thousand Points of Discussion
It feels like it’s been a huge week, MMO news-wise, and I’ve been sitting on the bleachers for the most of it. In my defense, I’m going through a crunch week at work, and so the awesome news that Richard Garriott is bringing his unique flavor of failure talent to — of all things — …
What If You Could Only Accept One Quest?
When WoW first launched, one of the much-ballyhooed innovations that it brought was the ability to stock up on tons of quests at a cleverly-named “quest hub” and do multiple quests either at the same time or in succession. That was all well and good, but it’s only snowballed from there. Now we have games …
