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I like festival time in Middle-earth. There is a festival for each season, and each runs about a month, so either it is festival time now, or it was last month, or it will be next month. World of Warcraft has something similar with its seasonal events. About half of each month is a festival.
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City of Heroes
The Lord of the Rings Online
Sometimes when you receive a comment, there are so many things you want to say that you cannot say any. You can do little but regard it with wonder. As with a poem or a koan, the discussion would be far longer than the original. Rather than leave the lantern beneath a bushel, in the spirit of ...
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killtenrats.com - 26 hours ago
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This week has been really “blah” all around.
There have been some exciting things. Like a possible
new boss battle in Guild Wars. The Volume 1, epic quests becoming soloable in Lord of the Rings Online. And of course, the Evil ...
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Blame November Rain
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My buddy invites me to his Ventrilo server, so we can chat while we are in our respective games. He is running his five-man dailies in WoW, I am starting a second playthrough in Borderlands.
“So, what’s this ‘playthrough’ BS? Does anything change, or do you just do the ...
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World of Warcraft
killtenrats.com - 2 days ago
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Many developers have recognized that “play as much
as you like” is leaving money on the table,
while “pay as much as you like” directs your efforts away from the unemployed and towards capturing as much consumer surplus as ...
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We Are All RMTers
The following is a guest post by Moormur.
Greetings, readers! My name is Moormur. Some of you may know me from LOTROCast or the Galactic Holofeed , podcasts I co-host both with a very able crew. I am also an avid reader of all the stuff here at Kill Ten Rats. I refrain from posting commentary ...
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The Lord of the Rings Online
Star Wars Galaxies
Turbine
killtenrats.com - 2 days ago
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So, as you might have heard, the almighty
Blizz is selling cosmetic, non-combat, just fluff pets via
their game store. Wow.com has the lowdown . I’m reading people up in arms about this already. I don’t see the problem. I actually think ...
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Much ado about not a damn thing
You may have expressed your sympathies for the NPCs in your favorite MMO. They never get to leave their shops, and their families miss them. Perhaps they do not even have shops, eternally standing in the sun and the rain in the hopes that someone will come by with frayed rat tails to sell. The ...
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One of the novellas in Dragonblight is 95% great. There is even an achievement, so the game is pushing you towards quality content (as opposed to the achievement requiring The Green Hills of Stranglethorn). This is the 20-mission chain ending in The Battle For The Undercity from the eastern ...
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World of Warcraft
I submit that the quest line in games can range from “random crap” to “epic tale.” This continuum starts with quests that have few to no links with each other, ranges through short stories and novellas of interconnected quests, and ends with a central tale that goes ...
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World of Warcraft
killtenrats.com - 4 days ago
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I see this , and I cannot help
but think of Anthony Bourdain’s view on restaurant changes.
By now, unsurprisingly, our restaurant was rapidly failing. I began to see for the first time, what I would later recognize as Failing Restaurant ...
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MMO Restaurants
killtenrats.com - 5 days ago
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Champions Online is letting everyone play for free
right now, so I thought I would give it
another shot. Patch installation only crashed once. I found the character creator improved in little ways that help, and getting from start to a finished ...
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Re-trying Champions
killtenrats.com - 6 days ago
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A feel good moment. I am always blown
away by MMO fans. They are truly some top
notch people, and their creativity is apparent in things like Halloween art contests . It’s tough competition for developers to actually compete with the masters ...
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The ArenaNet Genies
Continuing Borderlands/Torchlight week, there is an oddity with the scavenger quests (and possibly others), and it does not seem to affect everyone, which implies “bug” to me. It seems that, if you pick up quest objectives in an order other than the one in which the quest guide ...
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Welcome to another exercise in the futility of defining an MMO . It’s one thing in the MMO ’sphere that we just cannot seem to stop doing. My whole job is based on the power of words (the difference between “a” and “the” can destroy companies), and that ...
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I am not getting enough sleep lately. My apologies if I am snippy.
Work continues to demand that I show up if I want money, and then there is the rest of having a house and being a grown-up that looked much easier when I was very small. I could deal with just those, but I also enjoy our ...
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killtenrats.com - 3 days ago
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Turbine has the right to use anything from
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings .
Turbine does not have the rights to Tolkien’s other works, even Tolkien’s other works set in Middle-earth. The nine Ringwraiths appear in The Lord of the ...
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Great Moments in Copyright Law
It’s really hard for Bioware to keep the lid on anything once they start preparing their website for a reveal. Once someone finds a hidden link on the website, even if it only existed for 3 seconds, they post a screen capture of it and start a thread about it. By the time the thread is ...
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BioWare
Star Wars: The Old Republic
I played a bit of Guild Wars last night to finally ease myself in to the Halloween spirit after shaking the Borderlands dust off my mouse for a night. The servers are alive with Costume Brawl and mat farming, but there is a new addition to this year’s festivities. The Guild Wars Live ...
