keenandgraev.com - 9/29/2008
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This topic has been weighing heavily on my mind for the past few months. There are two forms of PvE in mmorpgs that I have played and they either fall into ‘The Journey’ or ‘A Means to an End’ categories. What do I mean by those? Simple…
‘ A Means to ...
tobolds.blogspot.com - 9/25/2008
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tobolds.blogspot.com —
I totally agree with Mark Jacobs' approach of
banning gold spammers immediately, instead of banning a large
amount every couple of months. But I can also see why the decision to report bannings with pop-up windows to the other players isn't liked by ...
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WAR and RMT
gamesetwatch.com - 10/5/2008
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war_highelf.jpg ['The Game Anthropologist' is Michael Walbridge 's
regular GameSetWatch column looking at gaming communities and subcultures.
This week he speaks from the trenches about the developing community of EA/Mythic's new MMO, Warhammer ...
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The Game Anthropologist: 'Warhammer Online - A ...
textwall.blogspot.com - 10/3/2008
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What a difference a week makes. I just
finished singing the praises of Warhammer Online and Mythic
because of all the rave reviews they've been getting. Now I feel a sense of panic. I feel that Mythic's Warhammer Online is teetering on the brink of ...
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Warhammer Online is already flirting with failure after ...
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WoW Endgame and The Journey
Arcane Blaster —
Keen, a blogger I have been following for a while now, has a nice post up about "The Journey vs. A Means to an End". He writes that WoW is both types, where the WoW endgame is the "End" part and the leveling process is the journey. To quote: ...
Questing: A Boring Journey
Random Battle —
... This whole exercise, combined with my complete lack of motivation to log onto WoW and level my mage, has underlined how uninspired I am by MMOG leveling/questing at the moment. Is the problem me, or is the problem the games? Can it be both? I thought that Keen had a really insightful take on this issue the other day with his musings on the journey versus the end goal. I’m kind of undecided about this. When questing as a primary means of advancment was a new, exciting thing, I really enjoyed it. However, I’m becoming increasingly annoyed with ...
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I’ve been working hard at leveling my Ironbreaker on Phoenix Throne lately. He’s almost level 35 now and most of my time online has been allocated to the PvE quest grind and the occasional PQ group. While I was ...
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blog.reroller.com 3/15/2009 — As I mentioned in my last post , I’ve been out in Austin, TX for the last few couple of days for SXSW Interactive ‘09 . I’m still here, just getting caught up on the goings on of the MMO world while I’ve been away.
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thegreenskin.com 10/16/2008 — Of people who left WoW for WAR have returned:
Q: Did you notice a drop off in World of Warcraft users when Warhammer Online launched?
Paul Sams : Not significantly, we’ve certainly had some of that happen, which is the same thing we ...
What the numbers mean
tobolds.blogspot.com 2/11/2009 — Yet another post about WAR having 300k subscribers, and what it all means. There were several comments on this blog saying that 300k wasn't that bad, and as Syncaine pointed out , those subscription numbers probably mean that WAR is the number 2 ...
WAR review
tobolds.blogspot.com 9/10/2008 — Some readers preferred that I do a specific WAR review with a recommendation of whether to play it or not, so here is my take on that. As I've already talked enough about how the game works, this post is pure opinion. I don't do scores, but rather ...
Warhammer Online review: A Wall of Warhammer, part 3
textwall.blogspot.com 9/17/2008 — Finally, I get down to the nitty gritty in my Warhammer Online review. I'm going to cover everything from immersion to crafting, and everything in between. If you managed to hack your way through the first two parts of my Warhammer review, you'll love the finale. Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 "So ...
WAR PvE
slashrandom.wordpress.com 10/30/2008 — Ok, I’ve spent a couple posts talking about RvR, what’s good about WAR, why we (the internet community) is mostly focused on the negatives, and why I think Mythic’s error in pushing RvR over PvE isn’t the worst mistake in the ...
Warhammer Online: a new hope for open RVR
walloftext.info 10/30/2008 — WAR is a brand new mmorpg and has its fair share of issues, like any new mmorpg would. Its not for everyone, and takes a certain mindset to enjoy it fully. If you like heavily PVE focused games like EQII, WoW, etc...there's a good chance that WAR just ...
Mythic’s Top 10 Priorities for Warhammer Online in 2009
thegreenskin.com 1/9/2009 — Here are the top 10 things I think Mythic should prioritize for Warhammer Online in 2009; a checklist of new year’s resolutions if you will.
10. Announce the First Expansion
Mythic doesn’t need to release the first expansion in 2009, ...
300k, has Mythic pulled a Failcom and Flagshipped WAR?
syncaine.wordpress.com 2/4/2009 — Remember back in the summer of 2008 we were all making WAR subscriber predictions, and we figured they would be in the range of 1-100 million, depending on how high your fanboy rating was? Everyone reasoned that if WoW can get 11 million, WAR can at ...
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