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virginworlds.com - 9/15/2008

Exploring Massively Multiplayer Games

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Episode 17 Discussion Thread 'True dat...' by Zoso Submitted on 2008-09-09 06:40:39 CST ... as I believe the younger generation would say. Good point about mentoring/sidekicking in WAR, I hadn't thought of that. I believe there's some CoH-style auto-levelling in PvP zones, to give ...

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  Only 22 minutes long, hmm? I'll probably listen to some of this later today.

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