a group of adventurers on an epic quest
I will now get the highest score of any MMO pundit making predictions. Ready? “It will not go live in 2012.” Whatever we’re talking about, I’m predicting that it will slip into 2013, or later, or just never ship. The game, the expansion, whatever: not in 2012. I’m going to lose a few points, since something will ship in 2012, but I don’t see how anyone can beat my accuracy rate here.
: Zubon
I am out of town today, so let me refer you to Tesh’s post about playing online with his daughter, “How Minecraft Ruined World of Warcraft“:
She then asked if we could go catch fish in the canals, and when she made my Dwarf jump into the canal, she saw the crabs and naturally wanted to go grab them. Since we didn’t have the fishing skill or a quest to gather crabs, again, we couldn’t do much more than swim around and wish.She lost interest in the town until she happened to notice an apple tree.
Ah, to see things come full circle. She got excited and wanted to pick the apples. She is truly her father’s daughter, a quirk which is quite heartwarming. When I told her she couldn’t pick the apples, she got quiet for a while. She then announced that she wanted to play Minecraft.
: Zubon
I had enough positive recommendations for Minecraft to buy it with little more research than “it is Lego on crack with zombies that try to eat you at night.” Digging has been surprisingly entertaining, although I was excessively distracted by marking my tunnel entrance with a landmark that became a sky-shattering obelisk.
I will soon be comfortable enough to go visit others. Do y’all recommend any servers, communities, etc.? I am unfamiliar with the customs of this corner of the online world, so I would hate to find my play considered defacement of someone’s world. (I am still debating emigrating from my home TF2 server.)
: Zubon