This is very relevant to Blaugust. Somehow, my team at work felt creating an awesome newsletter was the best way for us to communicate to our business network of ~350 separate business units. It’s good information but a bad platform. I’d like someone great with WordPress to spend some time converting 3 multi section newsletters…
Spec Me Out! : Rogue
I have always loved playing a rogue. Generally my rogue was my “escape” character back when you were able to have those characters you went to when you needed a break from the guild, or just needed to be anonymous for awhile. I did not PVP on my rogue but instead did fun other challenges…
Spec Me Out! : A WoW Class Design Series
Yes I am on vacation, but have some extra time some mornings and like to keep up with what is going on in Blognation so will try to squeeze in a post or two. The next series of posts I write will be around class design in World of Warcraft. I won’t be talking about…
Blaugust, Good Luck!
I know it won’t come to many a surprise that Blaugust has been reborn this year and just by you reading this here I know you are in the know. We have a small little corner of a community in BlogNation and if you look at my blogroll you will find many/most of the posts recently…
Battle For Azeroth Plans
I hate to call them plans because chances are they are abandoned / forgotten before they are done. That is just how life goes sometimes, and WoW life is something else entirely. I was looking at what is in BFA and the normal “struggles” when there is a new expansion. Who to “main”? And while…
Magic The Gathering Beta Key Giveaway
I have 5 keys that I will /random off Friday, at 5pm EST. All you have to do is leave a comment below (and have a valid email address so I can send it to you if you win). I don’t keep email addresses, I don’t have a mailing list, and I won’t use it…
Mission “Impossible” Accomplished
Well, turns out I don’t completely suck. Only partially. And I had little confidence going into the weekend. When I realized the new Artifact appearances were going away in Battle for Azeroth it was enough for me to resubscribe. One of the issues I have always had with the Bear form of my druid is…
Warriors of Waterdeep
Not sure how I got on the mail list but somehow a mobile game for Dungeons and Dragons entered early access (yes, that damn thing again..) and out of sheer curiosity I downloaded it. The gist of the game is a top down, class and group based dungeon crawl. You get XP and levels and…
Hurry Before It’s Gone! : World of Warcraft
As per my normal modus operandi for World of Warcraft I was done with this expansion. Truth be told this expansion was the longest and hardest (that’s what she said?) I have played a WoW expansion since Wrath of the Lich King. It was a fun, well put together experience overall. Sure, I felt the…
(Aether) Revolting : MTGA
Well, the new MTGA decks have really kicked my ass. I dropped from a high silver in the ladder placements to right back to entry level Bronze. Turns out, like most online card games, if you don’t keep with the Joneses you get kicked out of the neighbourhood. Things were getting a bit boring anyway.…
I’ll Show You Mine : Steam Spend
Steam recently added the ability to see how much you have spent with them. Here is the link. (You have to log in and all that jazz). In the spirit of fun, and transparency (because why not) let’s see who the true spending addicts are! External Funds Used This is a sum of external funds…
Counterproductive Inducement : Battlefield 1
I have been sticking with Battlefield 1 since it is included in my annual pass for Origin. Entering an “old” game is hard as you are around a lot of players who have been playing a long time. Games like Battlefield 1 have perks and benefits for playing their games (as they should) that are…
Mind your Manners : Twitter Snitch Tagging
I am not an avid Twitter user. I have an account, I consume tweets sometimes and I even interact with some of Blognation there now and again. I wouldn’t classify myself as a regular user or even that interested in the platform – let alone take the time to blog about it. Except for an…
Paying to Fix your Mistakes: Destiny 2
Much hubaloo was made yesterday when the Destiny 2 Year 2 Roadmap was revealed. They are finally addressing some of the long standing issues and bad design decisions they made in the sequel, and it is release on September 8th, 2018. In a paid expansion, with annual pass option. Oh, hello greed! Nice to see…
Quitters : MTGA
I am annoyed with the MTGA community on a few fronts. The first I have spoken about in most of my MTGA posts about the “money is for nothing and your kicks for free” entitlement attitude on the beta forums. The doomsayers explaining that if you can’t get most things for free extremely quickly that…
Hey, What’s Going On? : Battlefield
EA recently announced the newest edition of their critically acclaimed first person shooter series, Battlefield, would be having it’s latest instalment launching in October. Weirdly named Battlefield V. I say weirdly named because they went from Battlefield 4, to Battlefield 1, to Battlefield V. They need to work on some consistency with the naming convention.…
Beta Fatigue : 2018 Version
I wrote about Beta Fatigue back in 2009. For me, then, it was the start of the changing process of how Beta tests went from actual bug hunting and shaping games to public marketing stunts. We have become even worse with beta phases lasting several years while “testers” pay for the honor of supporting a…
Free 100 : Everquest 2
I keep refreshing my sidebar to see if Bhagpuss has already made this post (or one like it) – and I think if I type fast enough that I might just beat him to the punch this time. That is probably because he is away somewhere (is my guess). Still, Everquest 2 is giving away…
Playing Second Fiddle : LOTRO
In my “bounce around in many titles” mood and mindset I did go back to Lord of the Rings Online. As mentioned here (often) but worth the review – the Warden is a class I strongly identify with thematically. I had big issues with the fact that you couldn’t play the Warden without the expansion…
Do This 4x a Day and You Go Blind
Total lie. FAKE NEWS! I was just commenting on the Magic: The Gathering forums that I am completely happy and satisfied with the pace of gold and pack accumulation as a free to play player. I felt it was important to balance out the view of what seems to be a vocal lot that if…
My Dominaria Pack Openings
With Dominaria launched for Magic:The Gathering both in “real life” and the digital world I was fortunate enough to have have saved up a lot of gold (free to play currency) to buy 8 packs. I also received three free ones, and through the first few days of winning daily contests and matches I also…
Small Update Post
I hate going a full week without posting, but that happens from time to time when I have nothing fun or exciting to write about. Both of those should be qualified a bit – things I fun fun or exciting. I have been writing about un-fun and boring things from you, the gentle reader’s perspective…
MTG Arena : Joy in Learning
The way rewards work in MTG:Arena is twofold – daily and weekly. The daily is a pretty easy to hit challenge by just playing the specified card colors, and the weekly grants you a pack of cards at 5, 10, and 15 wins. What is good about this in the early stage of the game…
MTG Arena : Hitting My Stride
I am still not “good” at the game, but I am becoming “effective”. Quotations used for loosely defined terms. What I mean is that I fully understand what is going on and have been able to create strategies on the fly with the two decks i am comfortable with. I am still not “good” because…
MTG : Arena
I finally got my closed beta invite to Magic The Gathering : Arena. I say that like I was always entitled to it and it was just a matter of time (I am, and it was, right?) but good old RNG worked in my favor in their last round of 100,000 invites. I quickly loaded…