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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

Price Cut

Suppose people are disappointed with your product. Suppose it’s an MMORPG and people are arguing whether it’s really an MMORPG or not. People are claiming they’ve been ripped off. People are upset. Seems like a price-cut will make everyone happy right? No, not necessarily. You won’t find copies of Cryptic’s offer from a few days ago on their website. For that, you’ll have to check out forums outside Cryptic’s control like the mmorpg.com forums.

Lots of MMOs have price cuts, of course. But MMOs are not supposed to have a price cut within the first month after launch. The hardcore Star Trek fans who paid for their pre-orders weeks ago, felt ripped off. To make matters worse, many of those same fans purchased multiple copies of the game in order to secure one of every pre-order bonus item. Too bad there’s no end-game content to wear those precious limited-time cosmetic uniforms to. If there was, then the STO lifetimers would have something to do other than troll their forums.

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

Game of Thrones

HBO is going to have one more sub soon thanks to this news:

Winter is, indeed, coming.

HBO has greenlighted highly anticipated fantasy series “Game of Thrones.”

The premium network has picked up the project for a first season debut next spring (below is the first released photo from the series). Nine episodes plus the pilot have been ordered. Production will begin in Belfast this June.

Awesome.

– Ethic

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

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.

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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.

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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