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I'm not buying either of the two pets on offer. I expect them to be fun for about 5 minutes, and most of that fun you can experience by watching somebody else's pet, and save your money. The $5 to charity deal (limited time offer, and only valid for one of the two pets) is a scam. If you ...
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In an extremely predictable sequence of events dictated by Murphy's Law, I first bought Dragon Age: Origins via Steam, and promptly got an e-mail from EA's marketing people saying that they decided to send me a review copy after all, and that it's in the mail. In hindsight of course I should ...
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Electronic Arts
tobolds.blogspot.com - 2 days ago
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A lot of people have previously argued that
while Blizzard will take extra money from you for
services like server moves or race changes, they aren't selling you any virtual items for real money. That isn't true any more. Via MMO-Champion and WoW.com ...
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Blizzard introduces microtransactions
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tobolds.blogspot.com - 3 days ago
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So Dragon Age: Origins is all over the
internet today, having been released in the USA yesterday.
Europe only gets the game this Friday, which is one reason why I'm not yet playing it. The other reason is more complicated: Since some time somebody ...
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Dragon Age: Absence
How come that every time an outage of Blizzard's servers in mainland China is reported, some people reply with comments about the effect that has on Chinese gold farmers? Isn't it blindingly obvious that if you wanted to shut out gold farmers of whatever nationality, you'd need to close down the ...
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Blizzard
Reuters reports that Blizzard's trouble in China aren't over yet. The General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP) regulator ordered the Chinese distributor of WoW to "suspend charging users to play the game, and disallow new account registrations" . Activision shares promptly dropped ...
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Champions Online
Freixa alerted me to the announcement of Magic: The Gathering - Tactics , which is an online 3D turn-based strategy game developed by Wizards of the Coast and SOE, to be released in early 2010. Now my heart should be jumping for joy, because I was a big fan of Magic, and I love turn-based ...
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Sony Online Entertainment
CNN Tech has an interesting article about the fear of digital rejection , with people reacting strongly to seemingly trivial acts, like being defriended by somebody on Facebook. I personally once got extremely annoyed about having been kicked out of a pickup group; silly, because I knew I was ...
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My excursion into the world of Facebook games was a short one, I'm already quickly losing interest. While Teut let me know that social network farming games are all the rage in China , I still have problems understanding what the fun is supposed to be. I click once to plow my field, once to ...
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When playing a lower level character in World of Warcraft, one thing that constantly surprises me is how separated the fixed, NPC-based economy has become from the variable, player-based economy. Looting a level 30ish mob gives my character around 1 silver worth of cash and vendor loot. But ...
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In February this year I bought a new computer . High-end system, except for the graphics card, a Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX (1 GB), which even at the time was more upper mid-range. So the idea was to replace it when I could find a better card without the ridiculous price tag of a GTX 285 or 295. So ...
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I log on my level 80 characters in World of Warcraft every day, but most of the time only to do things like the daily jewelcrafting quest, or alchemy transmutes with 23 hours cooldown. The rest of the time is spent between working on my inscription business, and playing alts, with my paladin ...
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tobolds.blogspot.com - 9 days ago
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World of Warcraft has been patched quite often
in the last 5 years, and even big content
patches aren't all that rare. Which is why generally patches aren't exciting me much any more. Sure, adding more dungeons and raid dungeons is nice, but ...
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What patch 3.3 really changes
I had a short look at Torchlight yesterday, and it was a pleasant surprise. I could get it via Steam the day it came out (initial plans had been a Steam release 30 days later), and for once as a European I didn't have to overpay much: 15 Euro, which today is equivalent to $22.50, and thus not ...
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Electronic Arts
Once you checked out the video I linked to in my previous post, it is an interesting excercise to apply Clint Hocking's generation conflict theory of video games to the narrower field of MMORPGs. The original Dungeons & Dragons pen and paper roleplaying game, published in 1974, is very much a ...
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Everquest
tobolds.blogspot.com - 5 days ago
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If I could have one hour of your
time, I'd propose you spend that hour watching Clint
Hocking talking about gamer generations on Teut's blog. Clint Hocking is Creative Director of Ubisoft Montreal, responsible for games like Splinter Cell and Far Cry ...
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Generation conflict
tobolds.blogspot.com - 9 days ago
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When Blizzard announced Cataclysm, they also announced that
the hunter class in World of Warcraft would undergo
significant changes, not using mana any more. At the time that bit of news went unnoticed, due to all the other significant changes to the ...
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WoW hunter changed to shooter gameplay
Carson 63000 from Eldergoth has posted a great review of Alganon , to which I have not much to add, except some personal history: In March 2009 I was asked by Quest Online whether I would be willing to play the closed Alganon beta and give them some feedback, basically unpaid consulting work. I ...
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While I am present on Facebook as Tobold Stoutfoot , I wasn't actually using Facebook all that much up to about a week ago. Then I read somebody claiming that the future of gaming was Facebook apps, some of which already have millions of players, and I decided to see for myself what the fuzz was ...
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This is an experiment. Today the NDA for Alganon drops, in preparation for the game launch on the 31st. I haven't played Alganon long enough to write a really qualified review, so I have decided not to write one at all. But as I did hand out 10 Alganon beta keys to readers, and I know some other ...
