I’m Alive, Damnit!
Matticus writes about dead WoW Blogs. I’m not dead. I was on vacation, remember?
And since Steptoe actually suddenly reappeared, I’m also back in the game and made level 54 [...]
So it’s Diablo 3 and it Looks Fiendishly Good
As you will have seen by now, the next game announced behind that cunning ice splash riddle building up to the blizzard worldwide invitational in Paris is indeed Diablo 3.
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.
On Similar Matters
Jumping the Wrath Gun? (7)
Jumping the Wrath Gun: A Point in Case (2)
WWI: Totems to [...]
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.
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.
Sunwell Cleared: A Raider’s Perspective
From the other end of the gamer spectrum, Lume the Mad offers his perspective on reaching the end of the Burning Crusade, and the meta-game represented by the world first race.
Third WoW-Ku Wave: Druid-Themed Contest
Do you like writing WoW-ku? Are you a druid or able to harness the creative inspirational power of your inner treehugger?
Runycat at Unbearably HoT is running a druid-themed wow-ku contest.
Jumping the Wrath Gun?
The WoW community is currently subjected to a wave of commentary, analysis and speculation about so-called leaked talent information from the Wrath Alpha. Already the indignation runs high in some circles, while those rumours get dissected and rejected by the interested parties.
Hats off to Vonya on Drenden US
I just read this story from Ego: Random Acts of Kindness.
It’s good to be reminded, every so often, that there are still many honourable and honest players in the game.
Full Tokenization of Dungeon Drops Idea Spreading
In the wake of Tobold’s latest thoughts on providing more incentives to guild loyalty, fellow blogger PΘtshΘt came up with quite similar ideas I’ve been putting forward, to remove the impact of sheer luck from instance drops and replace the loot tables with token drops.
WoW-Ku Bandwagon
Fimlys of Asleep at the WoW kicked off this new round of WoW-themed haiku. So he gets all the blame ![]()
