Building a Warhammer server community

While I was writing my last post about the possibilities of unbalanced Warhammer servers (whether the imbalance is population numbers or skill levels), I started thinking about the year that Hibernia was getting a whooping on the Percival server back in DAoC. The three-realm system gave us the opportunity to nip at the heels of [...]

More NDA blues, and MMO evolution

I’ve been posting comments on various blogs concerning Warhammer, and I have to be careful not to let thoughts about the beta slip in to my comments. One drawback when that happens is I fear I sound like a WAR fanboi. I can’t offer an even assessment of the game, because I’m not allowed to [...]

Conan’s second PvP weekend

If open betas are as much about marketing as they are about testing, turning the Age of Conan servers into open PvP for the remainder of beta was a strange decision.
Funcom was in an interesting position. They previously let players level up to 13, but they didn’t allow open beta players to go further because [...]

My morning with Age of Conan

If I wasn’t the kind of person to poke around forums, read other blogs, and dink around with computers because I enjoy a challenge, I would have already given up on AoC, and I wouldn’t have looked back.
I posted about the multi-core solution yesterday, and it continues to work today after the patch. In other [...]

Age of Conan beta and multi-core problems

This thread helped fix some of my performance issues for the Age of Conan beta. I can play without the game slowly dying on me.
I have a lot of polish issues still, but at least I can honestly test the game now, instead of just watching it wither and die in front of me.
I’m not [...]

No NDA for the Age of Conan open beta

I received an email an hour ago from Funcom which, among other things, states the following:
Since there is no NDA on the Open Beta you are completely free to speak about your experiences in public, and you can also take screenshots and videos should you wish to.
Sweet! Now I don’t have to worry about anything [...]

Age of Conan: Beta start delayed

So Funcom’s going to push one more patch to beta users before they open the servers. I probably won’t get to play until much later this evening, which I kind of expected. It’s pretty rare to jump right in on the first day of a beta launch and get to play immediately.
While I was logging [...]

Lots of searches for Christians and GTA

Since I posted about the GTA IV banner ad over on Gamepraise, I’ve had a bunch of new search hits.  WordPress lists the top 10 search terms that people used to get to your blog in your blog stats. In the last two days, I’ve had eight different searches land on my page.
- christian gta
- [...]

And now for something completely random

During my “I hate mmorpg’s” period of the last few months (I need a “Blue Period” label for it, make it sound disgruntled and artsy or something), I played through Half-Life 2 again, prepping for an Orange Box purchase (which I haven’t done yet, it’s on my list!).
Firing up HL2 necessitated installing Steam again. I [...]

Disgusted update

Crazy Kinux left a comment on an earlier post asking if I was dead, and the reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated, or something like that. I just hit a wicked “I hate mmorpg’s” stretch, where all I could do was log in to WoW, putz around leveling alts I knew I’d never be [...]

Jumping the shark

Looks like Blizzard took some dubious marketing advice and created WoW ads starring William Shatner and Mr. T. The commercials are well-produced, and Mr. T. looks damn good for being like 100 years old, but wtf Blizzard, Chuck Norris was busy? Can “CSI: Dalaran” be far behind?

Eve on a Mac, Part 2

My post about playing Eve on my MacBook Pro, via Boot Camp, is the post that gets the most hits on the site. Some combination of Eve, Mac and OSX is among the Google search hits that bring people here as well.
In case that trend continues, I figured I should write a short update. Last [...]