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tobolds.blogspot.com - 6/10/2009
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In the comments of the previous post some people were asking what I thought of this or that game item one can buy, e.g. in The Sims 3 store, or whether I wanted to transfer real-life success into MMO success. To answer that, lets have a look at what you can get for your money in video games and ...
tobolds.blogspot.com - 6/10/2009
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tobolds.blogspot.com —
This post is going to be politically incorrect,
at least in the context of the egalitarian "on...
the internet we are all equal" culture you hear so often argued. Of course that pretense equality ends as soon as you look up, because the real world is ...
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Wasting money
feedproxy.google.com - 6/10/2009
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There’s been a lot of discussion amongst bloggers
recently about Dungeons & Dragons: Online becoming free to...
play (albeit with microtransactions) and generally how the new RMT business models we’re seeing cropping up will effect the future of MMORPGs. It all made me wonder if ...
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Value For Money
massively.com - 6/13/2009
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Oh boy, what have I gotten myself into?
Comparing one of the largest and most popular MMOs...
with the current fastest-growing MMO? Do I have a deathwish? Well, it turns out World of Warcraft and Free Realms actually do have a few things in ...
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A World of Warcraft player's guide to Free Realms
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Subscription vs RMT: Who will save the poor noobs with no time to play?
Hardcore Casual —
... It seems it’s been too long since everyone’s second favorite topic (hardcore vs casual being #1), RMT, has been discussed. Tobold has two posts about it and recently DDO went F2P.
As readers here know, I’m not a huge fan of RMT games, and it’s certainly not because I could not afford to keep up with the Joneses. I have more than enough disposable income that I could devote to an RMT shop and become a top player in a game like Atlantica Online (just for kicks I did the calculation back when I played, and it was more than affordable for me), but I don’t ...
Related: how you get yourself to talk on free realms
