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onlinegamesareanichemarket.wordpress.com - 9/11/2008
Grab the tar and feathers boys and girls, it’s party time, Internet-style
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The Blogosphere A mob of ANGRY people are gathering around a man named Tobold who is tied up and hanging over a vat of cold tar. Standing next to him are a whole lot of chickens and a man with a grey goatee and mustache wearing a white suit. Angry Mob (staring at Tobold) Thou stand ...
cuppycake.org - 9/9/2008
Official Forums and Dev Blogging
— cuppycake.org — I could sum it up by just providing this link and this link .  But for an additional sentence, Mark Jacobs (CEO, Mythic) started a blog and has responded there to the public outrage about EU database servers that malfunctioned poorly during this ... (more) Official Forums and Dev Blogging
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Picking Mark Jacobs' brain about the Warhammer launch
massively.com - 9/16/2008
Picking Mark Jacobs' brain about the Warhammer launch
— massively.com — Assuming you've been on the internet this week, you may have heard that a little game called Warhammer Online is launching fully into production just two days from today. Players who pre-ordered the Standard Edition of the game are eligible to jump ... (more) Picking Mark Jacobs' brain about the Warhammer launch

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Raid Stacking 101
dwarfpriest.com - 9/10/2008
Raid Stacking 101
— dwarfpriest.com — Blizzard has announced its intention to change how raid buff stacking works in patch 3.0.2, making more buffs and debuffs affect the whole raid, but limiting how many things they can stack with. I know this topic has been picked apart to death, and ... (more) Raid Stacking 101

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Tobold's MMORPG Blog:  Better Mobs and Pitchforks!

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Better Mobs and Pitchforks!
Tobold's MMORPG Blog — Or what Mark Jacobs has to say on Toboldgate.

Comp This: A One-Year Anniversary Rant
LagORama — (I apologize in advance…not much of the usual hilarity and hijinks here today.) Okay, I’ll admit this topic has been talked to death already. Scott talked about it. Mark Jacobs used the power of drama to discuss it. Jeff Freeman nailed it (as usual). I’m talking, of course, about Tobold being a faithless Commie who kills kittens with salad forks for fun ever since he received a free subscription from Mythic. Now, the last time I checked, what Tobold did was not illegal, nor was it ...

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