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[Guild Wars] Our guild in Guild Wars is growing at Blizzard-like speeds, 400% in just a week. Fine, we have 4 people now. If you want to join us, in Prophecies or Factions, send me an email telling me your character name and I will invite you, or leave it in the comments if you prefer. You do not need to be online in order to be invited.
We have characters in many levels and in both games. If you just want to goof off and aren’t concerned about levels, come join us. We only want to have fun and don’t care about XP or who wins a PvP battle. We will be buying a cape soon and when we can afford it we will get a hall too.
– Ethic
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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Does everyone get spam in Chinese and Japanese these days? Maybe half of these are ads for gold in WoW. It only happens to my blogging address, which is a Japanese word/phrase (depending on which version you have). My normal address just gets the normal spam every two minutes, with hot wet teen Nigerian royalty telling me I have already won all-natural herbal mortgage refinancing from lesbian tentacle-rape warnings that my PayPal account has been compromised. For all I know, the Japanese e-mail says the same thing, but I don’t want to know what the kanji for that sentence would look like. Also, sorry about setting off every alarm on your work internet filter.
: Zubon
I recently had a bit of a conversation with a friend of mine who is a producer at a game development community, and the topic was religion. There were two main threads to the chat…the first was about the use (and misuse) of religion and religious symbology in games, and the second was about making “Christian” games. Religion is one of those topics people don’t like to discuss, along with politics, mostly because people can be quite passionate about them and when you have individuals with differing views, things can get a bit out of hand…in my experience, this is because strong point of views (both in religion and politics) are usually the product of how someone has been raised, or indoctrination in the higher education system. Very rarely will you find a person who has strong beliefs, and can tell you WHY they believe so strongly. It is even rarer to find someone that can have a DISCUSSION about differing views without things turning into an arguement. Anyway, back to games…
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[City of Villains] Many former City of Heroes/Villains players were invited back for a free weekend of play, not that Issue 7 is out. My verdict from the test server: “Once all the major bugs are worked out, this will be exciting.”
Having had several days to play with it, my new verdict: “Once all the major bugs are worked out, this will be exciting.”
Continue reading CoX Free Weekend
Fix the major bugs that are found. Test for both bugs and balance. I suppose these both could be filed under “listen to your testers.” It is fine to release live with some known minor bugs; there is a trade-off between delaying content and making a more perfect union. We know that we will need to fix some things after the patch.
I know that changing something by 20% is just a minor tweak to the code, but it makes a pretty big difference if you do so after the new content has been out for several weeks, and it looks bad when players were pointing the problem out on your test boards since the day it hit the test server.
Continue reading How To Use the Test Server
Hi there, I’m Oz. No peeking behind the curtain – it’s laundry day and I’m really not dressed as fancy as I’d like. All I had left was a “Daytona Beach” t-shirt and some cutoff shorts, and it’s not a pretty sight. Tomorrow I’ll wear a suit and we can have some face time. Alrighty then? Good.
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Developers have learned that it is easier to loosen up than to tighten up. If you implement something too good or strong and then weaken it, players will cry “NERF!” forever. Therefore, developers implement things a bit weak or with rewards a bit low then dial it up. That way, you get thanks for new content followed by accolades for giving the players a gift, as opposed to complaints about how the FOTM is too overpowered followed by complaints about how they nerf everything.
Continue reading Training Your Players to Whine
Hey all. I’m Fat. Yes, blink, rub your eyes, shake your head, do whatever you need to do to ensure that you did, indeed, read that name right.
I’m nothing more than your average MMO player. I’ve been enjoying various MMOs for the last three years. My start came from Anarchy Online when a friend introduced me to it three years ago. I instantly fell in love with the game. Even though it has its problems – much akin to any MMO out there – I have been unable to escape its grasp for no longer than a handful of months at a time. No matter how much I try to rid myself of it, I always end up going back there.
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[Guild Wars] In my neverending quest to find something fun to do in my spare time, I have joined up with two fellow bloggers to create a new guild in Guild Wars. Hopefully we can be stupid and have fun and not become slaves to the grind.
The guild we started is called: Bold Legion of Geeks [BLOG]. My character is “Brother Ethic”. We are starting out fresh and are looking to have fun. If you want to join, find us or leave a comment here. It costs 100 gold to invite each person (is there a limit?) and my funds are somewhat limited so please be patient.
For now this is the original Guild Wars, not Factions. Perhaps we will expand into Factions if we are having too much fun (I do own it and it already). If you already play and are rich and want to donate to the “buy BLOG a hall fund”, feel free. Otherwise, say hello next time you see one of us. Or join us! One of us! One of us!
– Ethic