… you gotta learn to play it right.
Major props to the guys who did that masterpiece.
Category: General
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.Evil Behind the Curtain
The big gaming news this week is easily Activision’s firing of the Infinity Ward heads, and the storytelling lawsuit by the two fired against Activision. Infinity Ward heads the Call of Duty franchise, which is one of the three Activision franchises accounting for a gross proportion of the corporation’s income. World of Warcraft and Guitar Hero being the other two. The plaintiff documents paint a picture of pure corporate greed. It is not just the firings of the two people just prior to when they would be paid a believably significant royalty but also the immediate actions of Activision after the firings in creating a Call of Duty business unit.  Either Activision is going to very nearly slander the plaintiffs in the response or this will all get settled outside of the public eye. My popcorn bowl hopes for the former.
It brings, once again, an interesting dilemma: how important is it that a gamer’s fun is created by a good-willed corporation?
Famou$ Credit
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
Continuing Preparations for the Zombie Apocalypse
As gamers, you have likely slaughtered thousands if not millions of the virtual undead. We celebrate your preparedness. Daniel Lakeland has modeled several zombie apocalypse scenarios using rigorous statistical methods, and he estimates that we may need as many as 4 “elite zombie hunters” per 10,000 population to make up for the general apathy and lack of education concerning the zombie threat. Be ready to take your honed skills to the streets, for you may be all that keeps the death cry of humanity from being “Braaaaains.”
: Zubon
Hat tip: Gelman
Fire Up The Hype Machine
Or don’t. Anyway, Curt Schilling (of Green Monster Games 38 Studios) posted this over at the F13.net forums:
Look for something that actually matters, information wise, soon, REAL soon. Like before the end of the month soon.
They are planning to release a non-MMO console game first, that ties into the MMO later. What the “something that actually matters” applies to, we will find out soon, REAL soon. Like before the end of the month soon.
– Ethic
Gods & Heroes Pre-Orders
Ethic is too modest and shy to announce his foresight, but he picked up some Gods and Heroes pre-order boxes on the cheap after it was canceled. He gave me one, which I have kept in my desk drawer so I would be ready for the fateful day that has arrived.
: Zubon
I am so quitting this game when Dawn comes out.
Guild Per Thing
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.
Bloggers on Blogging
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
What’s Playing On My Preciousss
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
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