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Tag Archives: FFXI
Why Storybricks matters
“I saved the world but I still have to pay for my own drinks when in town”.
This simple observation about the state of most, if not all, currently running MMORPGs is probably what explains the problem Storybricks tries to solve best. Continue reading
From Azeroth to Middle-Earth: United Colours of Clown Outfits
One thing that both Lord of the Rings Online and WoW have in common: the garish fashion sense that results from collecting the gear from quest rewards, skirmish tokens and crafting. To wit: Yes, unfortunately, that live embodiment of a … Continue reading
Closing the Warcraft Book, Opening Lord of the Rings Online
It’s been what, almost a year? Time sure flies. Cataclysm has come, and my inability to give a damn about it has persisted. Oh, I still read some Azerothian bloggers from time to time, but in reality, I only care … Continue reading
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Tagged BattleForge, DDO, FFXI, Free Realms, LotRO, Steam, Wizard101
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On Immersion: Do Trees Fall in Virtual Forests when Nobody’s around?
In his post “Edelweiss“, Tesh discusses how details that may appear insignificant to the player, or merely background information, are key in making a player’s experience of a virtual world real. And I couldn’t agree more. Beyond the obvious (the … Continue reading
Master Blogging and Altitis Birthsday
So after a significant slowdown to my posting activities, this is my 300th post on Altitis. Incidentally, the blog is also 1 year (and 10 days) old now. Continue reading
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Tagged Altitis, Armory, benchmarking, Combat Log, CowTip, Crawler, Defense, FFXI, Mage, Parrot, phpBB3, PvE, Raiding, Review, Talent Trees, Warrior, wotlk, wowdb
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An Apology to Stop, and a Reply on Death Knights
A week ago, Stop replied to my short Death Knight post. Unfortunately, his reply got caught by Akismet, making it the first false positive I got. Continue reading
Reader Question: Best Moments in WoW?
One of our regular readers would like to continue verifying how deep the often stark contrast between my favourite hardcore blogging antagonist Stop and me is running, and wrote us both asking to define our best moment in WoW Continue reading
Blog Azeroth Shared Topic: How did you come up with your Character Names?
I’ve left the first couple of Blog Azeroth shared topics slide by since I didn’t have anything worth sharing, but I’ll hop on this particular bandwagon So character names. Going back to my teens when I was playing pen & … Continue reading
