This weekend is double-xp and welcome back in City of Heroes/Villains. Issue 17 is not live yet. The free time starts Thursday, but get your download done in advance because waiting on updates is not fun.
: Zubon
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.Wizard 101 – A Hard Return
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.
Guild Wars 2 Stuff (2/26)
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.
Wizardblox Code Contest
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
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
RMT Growing Pains
The pay shop model is very visibly in the process of learning painful lessons. This is a joke. This is a debacle. Cryptic did a last-minute emergency abort on the planned debacle of charging a subscription fee for a game lacking in content then putting all the new content in the cash shop.
I watched Cryptic pull beta content from STO to add it to the cash shop, and I couldn’t even be bothered to snark on it. Not even “fail.” You just shake your head and walk away, you know?
: Zubon
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