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Off and on lately, I have been having scattered thoughts about a subject about which others have surely written more coherently. The impetus was the announcement of ED around the same time as the announcement of the Nobel prize in economics. The winners this year work in game theory, and some of Thomas Schelling’s work can be summarized as, “You can be better off, either individually, or institutionally, if your choices are limited in advance. ” (Yes, it means something different in-context.)
We take it as an article of faith that games should offer more choices. When does less choice mean more fun?
Continue reading Choices = Fun?
[City of Villains] City of Villains does not have healers or tanks. The holy trinity of healer, tank, and damage? We are down two. Stop for a moment and think about what your current MMO would look like without those two.
There are characters that can heal, and some who can take some damage. Still, your Paladin is not a Priest, and my Dark/Thermal Corruptor is certainly not an Empathy Defender. Every character has some sort of damage power and some sort of defense or utility power. We are all hybrid damage dealers.
Continue reading City of Hybrid Damage Dealers
Not much to say here as I haven’t tried it, but free is free.
– Ethic
[World of Warcraft] We have just recieved our first OFFICIAL word on the expansion, which is entitled The Burning Crusade. Rather than boring you with the details or my opinions, I’ll leave you to your viewing pleasure.
Continue reading Rumors laid to rest.
[IGN Live] It was no E3, but overall I have to say IGN Live was a fun way to spend a day. I got a couple of nice freebies and saw a couple of cute booth girls. What is with all the all girl gamer groups (Frag Dolls, etc.)?
Continue reading IGN Live Quick Update
I feel that I am pretty anti-social when it comes to playing MMOs, which does tend to complicate the issue sometimes. In general, I solo because I am more comfortable with it. I enjoy having a few friends online to chat with, but usually we are all doing our own thing.
I’m the same way in real life situations. It takes a good while to get to know me, but once I’m comfortable around you a whole different person starts to show up. I don’t know why, but it often causes problems in big groups. Big groups of strangers? You’ll find me hiding in a corner looking for an exit.
Continue reading Anti-Social Multiplayer
I just wanted to thank a few websites that send traffic this way, so here are the top 5 referrers:
1. Broken Toys
2. NeenerNeener.net
3. Aggro Me
4. AFK Gamer
5. Zen of Design
Have a visit, they are all excellent sites.
– Ethic
[Kingdom of Loathing] Starting up in the Kingdom of Loathing is pretty simple. Your first quest is to visit the Toot Oriole and complete the tutorial. Your second quest gets you a familiar. Your third quest is to kill ten rats.
Well, “was.” The quest was revised last week, and while it is still rat-related, it is no longer simply “kill ten rats.” And we cried.
: Zubon
[World of Warcraft] I like to visit the Blizzard WoW forums in my “I dunno WTF to do” moods. I typically visit the class forums, which means the mage forums currently, considering that’s my main class right now.
The mage forums were actually getting pretty sickening. Mages feel forgotten and gimped, and they have no reassurance from Blizzard, beyond the promise of an invisible spell a while ago, which has not been added or even explained or hinted at when it will be added since then. Beyond that, there has not been a “blue” post yet (“blue” refers to a Blizzard rep who posts on the forums).
Continue reading Mages conspire. Blizzard is /scared.
Lately I’ve been finding EVE getting less and less fun. Many people who I knew quit weeks or months ago, I’ve had nothing but constant setbacks in which cases I lost a Raven to a level 4 mission, and in a strange turn of events, my scorpion to Concord. I’m trying my hand at an Appocalypse battleship now, this of course means I need to train up skills I didn’t previously have as a missile user, the training to fly the ship -WELL- will take about 2 months, I’ve been sitting in station doing nothing, with occasional mining, I haven’t done any pvp for 2 weeks, getting bored :/. I might go back and try WoW again, or try something new, not sure yet.
-Zxyrox