MUD’s Heritage to MMOs, a Short Sample
Readers who pay attention to commentators writing about MMO design or industry questions at large may be familiar with Raph Koster’s statement:
“MMOs have removed more features from MUD gameplay than they have added, when you look at the games in aggregate.” [...]
Muckbeast on Raiding Design
Cambios is a game dev who may just have started his blog recently, yet posts interesting stuff from day one. Taking on some of the more visible flaws in raiding in current MMOs, he writes:[...]
Right Now: Altitis Tops on Google for Altitis
This is actually the first time this has happened in over a year of existence: Altitis is currently google’s top search result for… altitis.[...]
Introducing the Wrath Spoiler Mark
Leafy took a clear stance on Wrath content and marked his blog Wrath spoiler free. This initiative of his got me thinking about how to position Altitis in that respect.[...]
Blizzard Splash Page Speculation
Most of the people’s money appears to be on Diablo 3 at the moment. At the risk of eating crow tomorrow, my take is much more prosaic:
WotLK Beta starts tomorrow.
EDIT: Crow eating time. According to MMO-Champion, it’s Diablo 3.
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Bartle doesn’t get MMOs says Tobold, who doesn’t get Bartle
In one of these interesting meta-spats in the blogosphere, Tobold took exception to Richard Bartle’s statement in an interview to Massively that “I’ve already played Warhammer. It was called World of Warcraft.”
Tobold proceeded to write a withering post about Bartle’s bitterness and irrelevance in modern MMOs which, Tobold believes, the old curmudgeon doesn’t grasp anymore.
Tobold on Story-Telling in MMORPGs
At the risk of being accused again of being a closet roleplayer (full disclosure: there’s no closet. I was a pen & paper roleplayer in my teens, I have fond memories both as a player and GM of these times, and that probably also explains why I spend most of my computer gaming in RPGs), here’s a heads-up on Tobold’s post about story-telling in MMORPGs, which I highly recommend.
Unintended Spam Comedy
Long time readers who have persisted through my various rants might get amused by this as well.
I got a pingback from a site who advertises a self-help book.
Hunter 101: Taming Above Level 20
Stating that the wow blogosphere is overloaded with high quality hunter sites is probably an understatement. All you ever wanted to know about hunter done not simply right but done well is there at the simple click of a mouse.
Jumping the Wrath Gun: A Point in Case
The thing about alphas is that anything is subjet to change. Even information already officially published, like the Death Knight Talent Tree descriptions, can be changed at a moment’s notice.
Accessing a WordPress Blog’s Comment Feed
Have you ever been reading a blog post, posted a comment and wanted to keep an eye on what other people had to say? And been frustrated that there’s no apparent way to subscribe to the comments to avoid re-visiting over and over to check for replies?
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