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I can’t stop raving about Wizardblox. Other MMOs need this pronto. It gets even better when my wife plays Wizardblox and all of the sudden I see a gift pop up on my Wizard101 screen telling me she just sent me 100 gold or so. It’s a funny hypocrisy, but I hate getting crap in game – like for Lord of the Rings Online festival gifts where I get some crappy food I will never use. Yet, when I can accrue some crap and some other niceties out of game… it feels nice. It feels rewarding.
Anyway, one thing I received through Wizardblox was a transformation potion that changed me into a Krokotopian mummy for an hour (I love how they run with their little Krok legs). I landed in the commons area of Wizard City, and my screen blew up with friend requests. I couldn’t hide in the mass of players when I was standing twice as high as them. I had to quickly run out of the zone with the annoying friend request in the middle of my screen. Continue reading Famou$ Credit
I decided to fire up Wizard101 after being reinvigorated by WizardBlox and having a bit of downtime in other games. In Lord of the Rings Online, I am tired of the solo end game (Legendary Items), and I have for the most part stopped playing except for kinship events where I still have a blast with group play (even at just three). In Guild Wars, I am trying to work on getting the elite skills titles, and I just ran out of money with just 15 more Signet of Captures to buy. ArenaNet really needs to consider more ways to spend my skill points. Anyway, I logged on Wizard101 and saw my Storm wizard ready to roll… and hit a brick wall.
Continue reading Wizard 101 – A Hard Return
Before I begin with Guild Wars 2 news, be sure to check out the huge skill balancing update to Guild Wars 1. A lot of people worked very hard on balancing extremely popular (and therefore touchy) farming skills, buffing entire lines of skills, and working on the balance across the PvP formats a bit more. Then Linsey Murdock of the Guild Wars Live Team hints on Facebook that the next big patch will be a content patch, and she will have to kill people off. My guess is she might be planning to push forward with the timeline in Guild Wars. Now, on to the future.
Continue reading Guild Wars 2 Stuff (2/26)
Congrats to Arkenor, Jeco, and Ryver. You should get the code shortly. I’ll try to do this again sometime for those that didn’t win, and next time I’ll amass more codes. :)
It’s been a slow week of thought and news. What’s really happening just doesn’t move me to write, and all the podcasts I am listening to I just find myself nodding in agreement for the most part. So….
Want to win a few Wizardblox Codes for Wizard101? I have three 400,000+ points codes (which may be a minion booster pack)  that I have won myself to give out to you. I’ll run this contest until 8:00 PM EST today. To enter either tell me here in the comments or on Twitter why your School of Magic is best. I’ll pick three at random. Please use a valid email here or follow me on Twitter so I can send you direct message with the code.
–Ravious
I am a monogamistic bloke when it comes to joining a guild for an MMO. I dislike playing alts to begin with, but being a member in two guilds for one game seems even more like alting. It seems discordant with my usual MMO goal of making human connections across the electronic ether.
My first MMO, A Tale in the Desert, doesn’t count because my one character could belong to as many guilds as I desired, which to me makes more sense than anything else. Yet, it was a smaller community to begin with. I’ll skip World of Warcraft where I mostly soloed and PUG’d anyway even if I did belong to the guild. (I still feel guilty for taking a gold, way back in the day, to buy a guild tabard I never wore.) Then I played Guild Wars.
Continue reading Guild Per Thing
In response to my teaming up with Massively to ask Community Managers about bloggers, Massively decided to backstab me and turn the tables. I felt like the Scout in the Meet the Spy video answering questions and playing with knives. Go check it out!
–Ravious
I’ve definitely succumbed to all the good tips for my iThing. It is sucking up more of my time, but that was time spent staring out a train window or watching a pot boil. I’ve always been a fan of MMO podcasts, and I’ve tried to keep up with my favorites. Yet, it feels like a pain to have to get them to my small iPod shuffle of old. It’s just so much better when I can download them directly to the iThing. So here are my favorites. Continue reading What’s Playing On My Preciousss
Valve’s lesser evil between pirates and cheaters is the former. Cheaters, in their words, are a much more serious threat. Yet, it’s really interesting to see where other companies are focusing their efforts to an exorbitant degree.
–Ravious
My wife gave me an iPod touch for Valentine’s Day. I was so surprised I was speechless. I don’t think I have ever received such a nice, unexpected gift. She gave me an iPod case first, and my first idiotic thought was not that I would get an iPod touch next… it was “well this is weird, I guess it might work with my iPod shuffle.” That’s how surprised I was.
After setting up TweetDeck and buying Wine Snob, my third thought was “how will this feed me my MMO hobby?” I tried to look for an iPhone MMO through the App Store search, and I was bombarded with what appeared to be microtransactions for some Facebook game knockoff. Searching through Google didn’t help much either. I was about to give up hope when KingsIsle posted a Facebook article on their new WizardBlox.
Continue reading MMO on the Go
One thing I love for developers to do in MMOs is utilize pre-existing content. Sure, I love new content with new lore and new mobs as much as the next guy, but I also have a soft spot for nostalgia. When big daddy Blizzard refurbishes pre-existing content and uses it as a selling point for their next expansion it must be the de rigueur. I couldn’t be happier.
There is a big difference between say Turbine’s revamping of a low level zone (which was great) and pulling the older content to the current level of play. Smoothing out some of the egregious bumps is a necessary thing in MMOs, which depend on new blood. Yet, it doesn’t really help the old players. It is nice to see a revised area when passing through with an alt, but it is more meaningful to me if the revision affects my main character.
Continue reading Fresh Paint on Old Content