tagn.wordpress.com - 1/3/2009
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The New Year is upon us again, a time when we frequently assess the past 12 months ended up handing us and examine what the next 12 might bring.
Last year I had no plans to make any predictions until I read some of the vague, wimpy, or tepid guesses at the future that some of my fellow ...
syncaine.wordpress.com - 1/4/2009
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syncaine.wordpress.com —
I thought I did a 2008 predictions post,
but I guess not, so welcome to the first...
annual “throw darts at the board” Official 2009 MMO predictions. WoW: All players will burn through WotLK faster than they did TBC, increasing the churn ...
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2009 Predictions
westkarana.com - 1/5/2009
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westkarana.com —
I don’t know why I missed this HUGE
sculpture in the gnomish bit of the Moors of...
Ykesha before. So like, NOW you know where the mailbox is… from ORBIT. I wish they did the same thing for the location of the druid ring. People kept ...
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EQ2: You’ve Got Mail!
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Starting the cult
Tobold's MMORPG Blog —
... of me becoming CEO of Blizzard didn't come true, his 2009 edition is predicting the Cult of Tobold, complete with two rivaling Wikis. You guys better hurry up with that, I don't even have my own Wikipedia entry yet! :) ...
Tao of the MMO Gamer
Kill Ten Rats —
Plenty of people put forth their forward-looking posts, and I am going to do it as well. Whether it is from a Steam-driven library of games, an aging MMO population, an economic recession, or plenty of different business models coming in to the MMO world, I believe that the subscription model of today is nearly done being “the way.” Walk with me a second…
The epic holiday Steam sale brought about mental food for this post. Zubon noted a couple things on Steam, I bought Trackmania ...
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westkarana.com 5/21/2009 —
In EVE Online, at my new home at the Sisters of EVE base in the Arnon system, with Mining IV, Refining III, and two Miner II mining lasers and purely selling in-system, I make about 27.5K ISK per minute of mining. If I processed the ore at my ...