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September 2, 2010
16:41
After the previous weekend’s failure at Weathertop, we decided it was time to work on getting a few levels before attempting to move on with the epic quest line again. With four of us looking at a 6 person event, we need to get well ahead of it in levels before we go back. The [...]
Source: Ancient Gaming Noob
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15:50
Fro those that are dipping their toes into the SC2 multiplayer ladders, I highly recommend taking a look here. What we’ve got there is a huge amount of SC2 replays with analysis from a gent named Day9. He really seems to know his stuff and I’ve learned a tonne just watching these things. Funny enough, [...]
Source: Common Sense Gamer (Darren)
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September 1, 2010
22:23
I took on my raid – er, ultramarathon – and completed it in a little over 23 hours. The weather was perfect, the scenery was stunning and the experience was unforgettable but it was tough and apparently about 1 in 4 runners wiped. Many thanks to those who offered well wishes and thoughts after my [...]
Achievement unlocked is a post from: Kill Ten Rats
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19:02
Is it just me, or do the unique class mechanics stand out more in Warhammer Online than in most other games? The more I reflect on it, the more I see it in other games, but it just seems more prominent in WAR. By “unique class mechanic,” I mean the special feature that guides many [...]
Unique Mechanic is a post from: Kill Ten Rats
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16:50
September 10th. That is the day that Lord of the Rings Online follows Dungeons & Dragons Online into the land of Free to Play. Or endless beginner trial. Or no-money down access. Or however you want to frame the business model that Turbine is adopting. But the change is coming. The floodgates will be open. [...]
Source: Ancient Gaming Noob
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15:19
Facebook ads are to this coming decade what 3am TV ads used to be 20 years ago; low budget and often humorous. I keep seeing ads on Facebook that make me chuckle or scratch my head, like this one. How is this different than regular paper? The Facebook ad system allows you to pick your [...]
Source: Ancient Gaming Noob
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08:55
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05:14
I have not given up on blogging, despite all appearances to the contrary. It’s just that, well, I’ve been busy. Lots of great stuff going on at work. As you may have heard, we announced our first product and have been talking about it at various shows. I know many of you are anxious for [...]
Source: Moorgard (Steve Danuser)
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01:22
Make things visible on the execution side of an action so that people know what is possible and how actions should be done; make things visible on the evaluation side so that people can tell the effects of their actions. — The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman Decoration and interaction appear in non-user-friendly [...]
Display the Options is a post from: Kill Ten Rats
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August 31, 2010
16:09
The Site This month saw another big spike in traffic due to something pretty much unrelated to the site. Cracked.com linked to a rant I wrote quite a while back about the mis-use of the term “microtransactions.” They did a humor piece about FarmVille, and somehow my post seemed relevant. Also driving traffic this month [...]
Source: Ancient Gaming Noob
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13:38
I found this interesting, if not a bit cynical (full story needs registration…): Q: How has the rising cost of making triple-A games changed production at Ubisoft? Alain Corre: The games that are not triple-A are not profitable anymore. And that’s changed in the last 18 months. When you have a triple-A blockbuster it costs [...]
Source: Common Sense Gamer (Darren)
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09:30
08:16
August 30, 2010
14:19
I played a bunch of Guild Wars this weekend as I am slowly working on my titles. 17 more Nightfall explorable areas to completely vanquish of mobs, and I will hit “I’m Very Important” from the maxed titles achievement track. This might come as a surprise to many of you who might think that I [...]
HoM-rizon is a post from: Kill Ten Rats
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09:29
08:25
August 29, 2010
05:30
03:02
Commenters elsewhere respond to Ravious’s post on the GW2 Necromancer. Within 24 hours of first Necromancer information, the comments note that Necromancers are overpowered and that Warriors will devastate Necromancers. It is not just that people are commenting on balance for a game they have never played, for which they have no stats, where the [...]
Class Wars is a post from: Kill Ten Rats
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August 28, 2010
07:12
August 27, 2010
17:34
There are always multiple ways of looking at a problem. The entertainment software industry sees the used game market, embodied by GameStop, as a bad thing. As THQ’s Cory Ledesma put it in an interview over at CVG: We hope people understand that when the game’s bought used we get cheated And Penny Arcade got [...]
Source: Ancient Gaming Noob
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12:52
Following up from the official announcement of the Guild Wars 2 necromancer, Eric Flannum, the lead developer for Guild Wars 2 was able to answer a few questions about this dark profession. The role of the necromancer in Guild Wars was not easily defined, as it straddled the line between hexer, minion master, and even [...]
Guild Wars 2 Necromancer Interview is a post from: Kill Ten Rats
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If the store is buying and selling used games in quantity on the day they are released? Well, technically “fencing” is not the same as “stealing” but… : Zubon On Another Hand is a post from: Kill Ten Rats
On Another Hand is a post from: Kill Ten Rats
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00:59
We had what is essentially the whole available team online and together in Middle-earth on Saturday night. Our group for the night was: Earlthecat – level 17 dwarf Guardian Roderigo – levl 20 human Burglar Garfinkel – level 22 elf Minstrel Enaldie – level 23 elf Rune Keeper Due to absences and alts, we have [...]
Source: Ancient Gaming Noob
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August 26, 2010
22:45
or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the grind. (Our sponsors would like to apologise in advance for the slightly more personal and self-indulgent nature of this post. Thank you for your custom.) To achieve competence in sport necessitates training. Training involves doing the same thing over and over and over and over [...]
On the treadmill is a post from: Kill Ten Rats
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19:25
… we salute you! For those about to rock… is a post from: Kill Ten Rats
For those about to rock… is a post from: Kill Ten Rats
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17:33
Yesterday, ArenaNet officially announced the necromancer profession. Of course, the fourth profession for Guild Wars 2 has been known since the gamescom demos started going public. I am happy because in Guild Wars, my main is a necromancer. I can’t say the profession is my favorite because ritualist makes the decision too close to call, [...]
I, Necromancer – Guild Wars 2 is a post from: Kill Ten Rats
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17:05
…is stupid. I understand the desire to guarantee profits. I grasp that people pay licensing fees in order to have exclusive rights within a territory. But there’s no “right to profit” anywhere that I’ve ever seen, and if we ever want to pay more than lip service to the concept of a global economy, we [...]
Source: Sanya
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15:38
…sorry…someone has to counter this BS: Stardock is often cited as making games without copy protection, having even drafted a gamer’s bill of rights. But then of course not every game is equally likely to get pirated in the first place, and with their rather complex strategy games Stardock isn’t exactly the most exposed. Nevertheless [...]
Source: Common Sense Gamer (Darren)
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10:36
09:02
07:57
I'm off to Dragon*Con (http://www.dragoncon.org/) next week. I'll be doing three (!!!) talks on Friday, two about MMOs and one about the California violent video game law in front of the U.S. Supreme Court currently.
Unfortunately PAX is the same weekend, so I won't be seeing a lot of people who might otherwise show up. But, if you're going or in the Atlanta area and want to meet up, drop me a line!
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Categories: Bloggers
07:02
How much less would your house be worth if you could never re-sell it? How about if there was no used car market, and instead you put the car in the landfill when you got a new one? Okay, that same effect applies to the price of new and used games. : Zubon Buying Used [...]
Buying Used is a post from: Kill Ten Rats
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05:30
August 25, 2010
19:15
13:23
Found a couple interesting stories this morning…and no, they do not involve that little turd Justin Bieber (…who was in Ottawa yesterday…). The first one is fascinating look at how Steam helped save a small indie developer, Introversion, from closing it’s doors: A couple of weeks rolled by and I found myself unable to accept [...]
Source: Common Sense Gamer (Darren)
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12:05
Improvements can take place through natural evolution as long as each previous design is studied and the craftsperson is willing to be flexible. The bad features have to be identified. The [designers] change the bad features and keep the good ones unchanged. If a change makes matters worse, well, it just gets changed again on [...]
A Local Peak is a post from: Kill Ten Rats
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August 24, 2010
17:55
Massive Blips is gone. I woke up this morning and found their feed down. Their site now redirects to this message (click to enlarge): Massive Blips was, until yesterday, a site that tracked and helped promote MMO related blogs. It was one of a set of similar sites under the DailyRadar brand which also included [...]
Source: Ancient Gaming Noob
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06:07
If you didn’t like the IP idea in my last post, why not just go with Forgotten Realms? Is Forgotten Realms good for everybody? (Quiet you Dragonlance weenies!) As noted over at Massively, Cryptic announced their next project, Neverwinter. This is what Cryptic has to say about the game so far: 100 years have passed [...]
Source: Ancient Gaming Noob
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