Monthly Archives: July, 2011
RIFT: Celebrate good times c’mon!
RIFT is currently in its fifth and final stage of the lengthy Waves of Madness world event. And when I say “lengthy,” we’re talking about well over a month going on now. I think Trion’s overreacted just a teensy weensy bit to the complaints of shortness from the last world event, but really, it’s not …
SWTOR’s gone from suck to blow (out into space)!
So like just about every other Old Republic fan, I was watching the new dungeon/instance/flashpoint video this morning when something weird struck me. OK, I’m not the biggest Star Wars expert and I’ll admit that, but this just seems odd. At around the seven-minute mark the players arrive in the engineering room where it’s apparent …
Sick of stats
Title says it all. I’m feeling cantankerous today — RAWR SYP SMASH! — on the subject of stats in MMOs. Now, I realize that this is a completely futile thing to rail against, but I need to get it out anyway. Some days I’m just sick to death of stats. Sure, they start out with …
Hunkering down through the hype storm
I was talking with my brother-in-law the other day. He’s a major Star Wars fan who’s done a 180 on the whole Old Republic thing. Initially, he was so wedded to World of Warcraft that he wouldn’t even consider other games out there, but happily WoW’s hold has weakened on his life to where he’s …
Pay attention, or you might miss something worthwhile
Last night I finished up the first stage of many in my new LOTRO project to fully experience all of the single-player quests in each zone. With a jaunty wave and a double-check of my quest log, my Burglar finally left the Shire for the less-amiable lands of Ered Luin. Shifting my priorities from “get …
Quote of the Day
“Yep, EA Bioware have actually manage to limit digital registrations of a digital game under, according to their FAQ, the guise of some cock and bull story about wanting to maintain quality. And of course this has caused a lot of complaints and moaning and groaning around forums and blogs etc but at the end …
Late-Night Podcasting
I long ago realized that if you show up somewhere and act like you belong, then most people will just let you be. So it is with MMO podcasting — sometimes I just like to hop onto Skype minutes before someone’s show starts recording and go, “Hey! I’m here! Let’s do this puppy!” It …
Connections
My wife works in sales for a computer training company, and yesterday she was on the phone with an entire IT team at some corporation. She was just making chit-chat and knew that they were a bit geeky, so she said, “So Dan, tell me one thing: Did you order Star Wars?” “STAR WARS!!!” the …
