Damn you, YOU, who sent me the Blizzard scroll of Resurrection. Did you do it because you missed me? Did you do it to get phat xp rewards? (they still giving those out?) because I am a cynical blogger now, surely, it must be to taunt me. Taunt me after reading my last near brush…
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How WoW Can Milk My Cow
By “cow”, I mean “wallet”. I know, I know, it was very obvious to you all from the get go but I have at least 2.2 readers that wouldn’t have understood it so clarification was necessary. I have rambled a lot about WoW lately and what I dislike about it and how I don’t want…
This Just In! (actually already old news)
Yay? Something else to get overly excited about and (hopefully) not dissappointed in the end. Can’t wait to see what they do with it. I was a bit skeptical with Bioware at first, as a first time MMO developer, until I read the below in their FAQ “Another member of the Community is harassing me…
I Has Comics (Fully Updated with 4th)
I always wanted to do an internet comic. Only two things held me back. Artistic Talent Sense of Humour I know, those sound big, but really, this is the internet where anybody can almost fake anything. I was waiting for a WAR model viewer to be done similiar to the WoW one to cover the…
Love/Hate
Is it the new balance? For years I have had a love/hate relationship with MMO’s. I don’t have them with ANY other type of game. Just online persistent ones. On one-off games you read the review, buy, it stays the same (for the most part) you play it until it is over, and shelve it.…
I Am Losing My Head.
Part of it, literally. At first I thought that was my dwarf’s brain. Turn out it is a mouth. I guess if it was a brain it would be much smaller. The point of this picture is – this is what I am staring at while gaming right now. I busted my little dwarven butt…
A New Approach
After I gave my enthusiastic response to the gold spammer I didn’t receive another spam from any gold company the rest of the night. Coincidence?
The 6 Wheeled Car
There is a six wheeled car – it is a sedan, four door. What if I told you it gets better gas mileage, is much safer to drive, hell, it’s even cheaper than a boring old regular 4 wheeled car. Would you buy it? Probably not. Nobody wants to be the first, and 4 wheels have done…
Talk to Me, Baby.
Due to the aforementioned level block I too decided to enjoy the good part of WAR by leveling an alt through T1 and T2. My Ironbreaker (quite possibly the worst kept secret on order – holy cow durability batman!) just started in T2, my second time around the circuit. The first time it was with…
Keeping Levelling on the Level
Please note these are all assumptions on the math based on my experiences. I am even going to use handout materials. This is what the leveling curve in WAR seems to be. Each level gets incremently longer. While you breeze through the first 10 levels, the levels as you push higher feel rediculously long. While it…
BEST GUILD APPLICATION OF ALL TIME?
I am partly afraid to post this, mostly because I fear that it has already made the rounds – but it is the first I saw of it. It’s long, but worth the wait for the effort put in. Watch this now as the best guild application evah! (My apologies if this is old news,…
$0 DOWN, $199/MONTH 2.3% FINANCING
With the spammy-gold-spamertons all over WAR there is a lot of coverage in Blognation about RMT and what to do with it. I covered my thoughts on RMT here before, and to summarize – if games mechanics are made so poorly that I can only enjoy the game by buying gold then something needs to…
WHERE’S THE BEEF?
By “beef”, I mean “data”. This is a dream world post. I often dare to dream. Mythic is very proud of their meta data collection and hey, I would love them to throw some of that our way. Developers are always very protective of their data. Gamers are always very hungry to understand more. When…
THE WARbert REPORT: STONETROLL CROSSING
Stonetroll Crossing is the T2 scenario for EvC. It is a murderball/flag capture mechanic with some fun twists. At the top of the spiralling mountain in the center of the map is a “pacifier”. You have to grab the pacifier, then travel to three troll groupings around the map and “pacify” the trolls – all…
THE WARbert REPORT: MOURKAIN TEMPLE
Mourkain Temple is a Tier 2 Scenario in the Dwarves vs Greenskin Pairing. The game is very simple: get, and hold onto, the Mourkain Artifact for as long as you can. You get points for holding onto the artifact and for killing enemies. The artifact holder gets bonus points for killing while holding it, and…
THE WARbert REPORT: PHOENIX GATE
Over the next few days I am going to touch upon the three T2 scenarios and my experiences playing them. The core of the characters on the server I play on seem to be in this level range, so now is a good time to discuss how to win! My main character is a R18…
Stop The Presses!
Sharpen your pencils and get your stamps ready. It is time to contact your Congress-person, Member of Parliament, or Town Shaman. The greatest video gaming injustice of all time has been committed! We, as gamers with precious little time, cannot stand back and accept this atrocity. Who cares if there are other important things going…
Am I a Snowflake?
My experiences with my PC and gaming leads me to think I am unique. I don’t seem to have the problems that the “angry” online populace does. Visat 64? Runs like a charm. Never had a single install issue. I don’t understand all the hate. DRM? Never screwed up on my machine. I am very…
Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk!
I know I am talking a lot about WARHAMMER ONLINE lately. A lot of good! It is launching soon much to my excitement, and heck, it is the talk of the town. I too live in that town so let’s get to more talking. Using Beta/Open Beta as a reference it is hard not to already…
Perception
With the Warhammer:Age of Reckoning Open Beta underway I am curious what the initial impression is from the typical (ie: people without a preconceived fanboy or doomsday view) gamer. As mentioned before, I am looking forward to it’s release. I also have to come clean and share that my perception perhaps isn’t a very fair one.…
Get Down with RMT (yeah you know me!)
Obscure musical reference. Probably sad that I think that is obscure. Free comment post to whoever figures that one out first. Real Money Transfers. The Yankees, Bill Gates, and Jack Thompson loathe of most MMO gamers. You will probably add my name to the loathing list when I tell you that with a few changes, the…
Corrosion
My 3 year old son is in his “why?” phase. I knew this day would come, and have spent the past three years preparing for it. I refuse to give in and tell him “because I said so”, or “stop saying that”, and have mentally prepared myself for when he goes off on the “why?”…
Comparing Apples to Starfish
With Warhammer:Age of Reckoning just around the corner gaming boards accross the world have been flooded with impressions and bold predictions, on how WAR will fail, or WAR will kill WoW. I have beta tested this game for a while, and while I will spare you the 1000th review -Â I will state that I have…