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[MMO] Attunements, elitism and the MMO dream
Sorry for the hiatus! I am finally free of exams and the like and will come back to the blogosphere. I have missed you all :). I've been following the discussion on attunements for a while now and,...
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[GW2] Some Trinity Whining
This post is in direct response to Syl's "[GW2] Tired of Trinity Whining. Or: As if!", and a counter at that. Not very common, since I tend to agree with Syl on many topics. In this case, I believe...
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[MMO] Dealing with trolls and other “special” individuals
One of the novelties of GW2 is the way this game handles potentially irritating activities that are related to the competition aspect in MMOs, the result being a minimisation of conflictive points, and...
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[MMO] Back in Vanilla WoW – Quality-of-life handicaps
Kiting a rare spawn. While everybody is busy commending GW2 for its social breakthrough, I went back to vanilla WoW and marvelled at the tools that we have relinquished over the years. I scoured...
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The Tower of Azora and EQNext
The Tower of Azora stood in eastern Elwynn Forest, aloft on the left side of the road for the traveler headed toward Redridge Mountains. This traveler usually is a fresh level ten finishing the last...
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EQ Next – First Impressions
Of course by now you have all seen the big reveal of EQNext (part 1 - skip to minute 27 for the juicier stuff, and part 2, and Q&A). I went through it stoically (I dislike hyping-up rituals and...
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EQNext Lore Panel Analysis
I’d like to go over the topics that were brought up in the Everquest Next Lore panel (part 1 and part 2) and share with you my concerns. What I am not particularly concerned about is the question of...
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Missing World PvP in TESO and FFXIV
When I started out in WoW around the end of Vanilla I first became acquainted with World PvP. In the beginning, my dad and I, who leveled together, did our own ganking of unsuspecting victims in this...
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FFXIV: Three-monther?
On the blogosphere we no longer even discuss whether the newest MMO will succeed (as in becoming a successor, or as in being a success). We have begun to take for granted that we are there to consume...
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Challenge and Grind in MMOs
There is a certain kind of achievements that I appreciate very much: the challenge-based ones; the ones that compel you to change that mindless strategy that had until then worked fine because...
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