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Following on from my previous post about cheaters in online games I think it is worth making a link between cheating and the psychology of gaming achievement . Performers might be tempted to cheat because they crave the ego boost of achievement but are not prepared to put hard work into getting ...
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I have been playing a bit of Frontlines Fuel of War (single player ok, multiplayer pretty good) but there is some kind of bug that prevents people who bought the game through STEAM from accessing punkbuster (anti cheat) enabled servers. You can read about the bug here . While we wait for this to ...
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A commenter to RPS reminded me of Playstation's famous "Double Life" advertisement today. If you have never seen it watch it now. If you have seen it watch it again. Not only do I believe this is the greatest gaming related advertisement of all time but for me it is the clearest most ...
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Slashdot is proving to be a very fruitful source of gaming links today. First there was the link to the article about the psychology of achievement in games and now another interesting link to a Gamasutra article about the most important factors in game purchases. Most important factors ...
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There is thought provoking article by Doctor Professor on his Pixel Poppers blog about the psychology of achievement in games (discovered via Slashdot ). Doctor P points out that psychology teaches us that humanity divides into two camps when it comes to challenges. Performers love ...
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A bargain is only a bargain if you wanted the item in the first place but nevertheless €2.49 for game that was only released last year is hard to turn down. I am downloading the game now and will report on my experiences later. By all accounts it is a fairly good shooter with strong multi-player ...
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Oops - wrong blog, moved to here http://mbpbooks.blogspot.com/2009/11/druids-by-morgan-llywelyn.html
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Random rewards suck: Zubon describes the downside of random rewards in a blog post describing how he was unlucky on the roll for a desirable piece of loot 15 times out of 16 attempts even though he had a better than 1 in 6 chance. I have been there, I assume we all have and it is entirely soul ...
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Borderlands is a pretty unusual game and I have been trying to think of what other game it most reminds me of. The answer, bizarrely, is Far Cry 2. Both games are first person shooters set in large open worlds with hostile native populations. Driving features strongly in both games. Both ...
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I suppose I should have smelled a rat when the game store assistant did his best to convince me to buy Dragon Age instead of the pc version of Borderlands. I know Dragon Age is good and I will play it eventually but at the moment Borderlands with its heady blend of RPG, Shooter and Co-op is more ...
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Thanks to Slashdot I have recently become aware of a whole subculture of social networking sites for rich and influential folks. Apparently most of these work on an invite only basis. I am a little bit miffed that my invites have not yet been forthcoming. I am after all the creator of a ...
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Apologies to Syp who more usually does this sort of thing but I think Tipa deserves a gong for this one: Simply put, World of Warcraft is not part of the MMORPG genre. It is funny how much healthier the mmorpg scene looks if you do remove WOW from the picture. If you include WOW you see one ...
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( based on two single player run throughs and two pick up group multi-player run throughs. ) Graphics seems a little better than Left for dead 1 but ran just as well for me on an aging mid range machine. The maps feel bigger and less linear but it is hard to draw conclusions based on only two ...
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mindbendingpuzzles.blogspot.com - 21 days ago
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Arnold Hendrick writes thoughtful information packed articles about
the mmorpg business and one of his posts about...
"Selling Mmos" prompted me to write down a question that has been brewing in my head. The short version of the question is "What ...
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A (long) question about how Micro-transactions will ...
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First dungeon run last night: We encountered a locked door that neither I nor my cleric hireling could open. No problem. Once we had killed all the monsters we headed back to the nearest shrine and after a quick rest I swapped out " Melfs Acid Arrow " for " Knock " a spell which allows me to ...
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mindbendingpuzzles.blogspot.com - 23 days ago
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Dungeons and Dragons online has possibly the most
confusing currency system of any game I have yet...
played. In the first instance there are too many types of coins: Platinum, Gold, Silver and Copper . Copper is useless. Even at level 1 everything costs ...
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DDO: Look after the copper and the gold will look after ...
Than you to Green Armadillo for highlighting the fact that Free Realms is going to put a barrier in at level 5 beyond which you must be a subscriber to advance. As Green Armadillo himself puts it: "Free Realms is now all but officially a subscription game with a free trial, rather than a free to ...
