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I came across an old post today on Terra Nova. Part of it hit the nail on the head as to why I prefer EVE over WoW. Let me share that part with you.
WoW (and too it symbolizes so much in the genre) is a place that reeks of fun and playfulness on the surface, but once ensnared, players are led into a deception that spells W*O*R*K. Eve-Online on the other hand is Icelandic with Calvinist overtones – yet in this confining straightjacket there is opportunity to find one’s own way towards a demeanor of play. One represents a fall into an abyss, the other, a rise from one to redemption…
Most all MMOs out there that I have played go for the fun and easy right off the bat. Levels ding several times a night. New skills and new armor in a flurry of action. Fast forward a few months and it’s days to get a level and you are still wearing that same ugly cloak you found 2 weeks ago. EVE on the other hand starts out kind of rough and ugly. Confusing at times and seeming as if there is nothing to do. Fast forward a few months and you can go from a hardcore ice miner to a covert-ops pilot sneaking behind the enemy forces in the time it takes to dock and switch ships.
Yes, I am an EVE fanboy and I hope more MMORPGs can find a way to make a game keep getting more fun as you play it, like EVE does.
– Ethic
[World of Warcraft] Been kind of feeling burnt out of gaming lately. I’ve been working two jobs racking up 65 hours a week on a regular basis and when I get free time all I want to do is sleep. Having said that, my wife recently mentioned that she wanted to play World of Warcraft some more.
My account has been inactive for a while, but I thought about it. If I bought a second account, we could play together. I ran the option by her and she thought it sounded like something fun for us to do together. I found a copy of WoW on sale at the local game store and it’s sitting here on top of my copy of Half-Life2 Episode 1 and a book “Small Stakes Hold ’em”. HL2e1 is something I actually finished playing recently, but the book has yet to be cracked open (poker is one of my other hobbies). I’m just waiting for the word from her to fire up both computers down here in the nerdcenter of the house. I imagine I’ll have some things to write and perhaps I’ll even have her write a post or two.
We shall see.
– Ethic
A Tauren, an Orc, and a Night Elf walk into a bar. The Gnome walks right under it.
: Zubon
Has anyone out there played the World of Warcraft board game? It comes with more than a dozen types of cards, four pages of tokens to punch out, reference sheets for classes and monsters, a big stack of miniatures, and an instruction book of about 25 pages. It is designed for 6 players, with variants for smaller groups. Minimum table space needed is about two standard card tables; the board itself takes up one.
After fumbling through trying to set up a first game this weekend, our consensus seemed to be that we could just play WoW. I have played some pretty complex board games and war games, but is it worth learning it all for the WoW board game? If you don’t play WoW?
: Zubon
With the final few months closing in until WoW’s first expansion, this has become a frequent topic with my WoW-playing friends. Many of them are refugees from one game or another, and remember at least one expansion of said game. Those hardened folks who are EQ vets remember the original slow pace of expansions before it became a 6-month marketing gimmick. EQ is the one I’m most familiar with, and I look with great trepidation at the upcoming expansion. (for those who feel it’s needful, feel free to go read the infamous ‘mud wimping’ article and come back. I’ll be at the next paragraph.)
Continue reading The Burning Kunark Legion
[World of Warcraft] When I last left my guildmates, the group I was in continued to play together that night and it appears they got to level 9. I logged out at level 6.
Therefore, I’ve been playing a little catch up by fighting solo. I managed to get to level 8 over the past few days, but it is not fun by myself. I really prefer a group. I have a few quests that I can’t solo. I wish WoW had the LFG tool that DDO has. It is pretty sweet really. You go into your quest panel and find a quest you want to do. In that panel is a looking for group toggle. Basically it tries to find a group that wants to do the same quest you do. WoW could really use this. Instead you need to spam the chat channels or stand around near the quest area and hope someone comes along.
Level 8 and no PvP combat yet. Although a high level gnome was following me around for a while.
– Ethic
[World of Warcraft] I caught wind of Kwip and the gang over at NeenerNeener.Net rerolling on a PVP server in WoW and I thought I’d give it a shot too. I came home from work and logged in only to find my account had expired today. So I reactivated (gasp!).
I managed to grab my name (Ethic) and rolled up an undead priest. Since Kwip was trying a tauren, I ran my ghostly form (dead undead?) over to the tauren beginner area and paid my dues to the spirit resurrection thing-a-ma-creature. I soon joined up with the gang and we created a guild. A party of 4 was formed and off we went.
Continue reading Vacation Cut Short, Film at 11
In case you had not heard, World of Warcraft has 6.6 million subscribers. That works out to about $99,000,000/month in revenue. Here is a picture of how that makes other, hugely successful games look like a bunch of chumps.
Think about that for a moment. 0.1% of the planet plays World of Warcraft. The entire population of the planet Earth, including Tibetan monks, tribesmen on the plains, researchers in Antarctica, and the Amish: 1 in 1000 people plays World of Warcraft.
: Zubon
As I close in on 60 with my first WoW character, I’ve of course started a small army of alts. There’s the token overpowered-class-I-didn’t-pick, which always happens. Greener grass and all that. Also I picked a healer class, because somewhere, deep inside, I live to bandage people I guess. Also, I have the normal stealth alt, the one next to no one knows about, where I can go when I want to “get away”. As I look at my character selection screen, I begin to wonder why so many of us deliberately do this to ourselves.
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[World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade] Well it appears the rumors were true… kind of. The new Alliance race will be the Draenei. They will be the biggest characters on the Alliance side which should go to addressing the size imbalance between Alliance and Horde. They are, however, not the “ugly” race some speculated would be added to the Alliance to give them an edgier look and attract a different type of gamer to Alliance similar to how many feel the Blood Elves are a “pretty” race for the Horde. The Draenei character models unveiled so far look nothing like the long-faced pudgy-Orc looking guys currently in the game (those guys, according to the backstory, are mutated sub-species). Personally I think they look pretty darn cool. They look to be larger than human, but not quite the size of Taurens. This will probably trigger more complaints from the “Blizzard favors Alliance” crowd as the new Alliance race will be a cool looking new addition to the Warcraft universe while the Blood Elves are palette swapped Night Elves. But we all know by now the same guys complaining will be first in line to buy the expansion anyways.
Check out the Draenei here.