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Comment on Gameloft giving away free iPhone games by world of warcraft

world of warcraft — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:11:02 +0000

Both company & iphone users get benefits. Users will get more intersecting games in free & Gameloft is getting opportunity to get relate to brand like apple. Its cool for all.

Comment on LoTRO F2P – An Early Look by Rick

Rick — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:29:35 +0000

Thanks for doing my research for me, AG

I think I missed out on a lot of possible points (not a lifetime member, not a founder, but I was a current subscriber), so your post tells me about a lot of point bonanzas that I missed.

And I’m cool with that – I think the people who took the Lifetime leap with LoTRO deserve to be amply rewarded.

Comment on LoTRO and free to play by Rick

Rick — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:26:21 +0000

I hear that, Tesh. LoTRO still has the DIKU feel for me. There are a ton of distractions if you’re interested, but the basic fighting and leveling is pretty much the same.

I try to balance the leveling between quests and skirmishes, and it keeps the game fairly fresh if I don’t overdose on play sessions.

Comment on LoTRO and free to play by Tesh

Tesh — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:15:33 +0000

I might check it out again. The free trial I did a while back was at least middling fun, and I can take a few more pretty screenshots.

I’m tired of the *gameplay* of the standard DIKU MMO, though, so I doubt LOTRO will hold me for long.

Comment on LoTRO F2P – An Early Look by Wilhelm2451

Wilhelm2451 — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:27:33 +0000

Some of the chunk of points that Turbine was offering was for logging in and playing between the F2P announcement and it going live.

Their loyalty rewards page is down now, but I reposted what it said here back after the announcement:

http://tagn.wordpress.com/2010/06/04/will-it-be-screws-ville-in-middle-earth/

Comment on LoTRO and free to play by Rick

Rick — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:23:00 +0000

That’s stupid! I’m a current subscriber, and I got the same email, and I was able to get in last night. I had to change my Windows Firewall settings to including the Turbine Launcher and Turbine Invoker for the patch to finally download, and then I could play.

I can’t figure out why they’d send you a message if you weren’t a current subscriber.

Comment on LoTRO and free to play by coppertopper

coppertopper — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:04:04 +0000

Returning yes. In fact I got an email with what looked like an invite to the early look. It stated: “LOTRO – You Get a Head Start: LOTRO is Now Free to Play!”

NOPE! Only current subscribers get to still play after the patch…as an early look. Ummm huh?

Comment on Wizard 101 by Nick

Nick — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 03:19:30 +0000

I played w101 and i have to say after you kill malistaire the game is just plain boring unlike world of warcraft the game never ends there will always be new quets updates and that stuff they made w101 too big they stretched it way to far with all the new places in the spiral adding quests no one even does. but here is my opinion if you want a game in the middle play RuneScape i played that game for years got to lvl 79 with full dragon and a bandos godsword with 36m i have to say for 6 dollarsa a moth RuneScape is an amazing game its endless. of course when i played it was different if you ask old players about the wilderness they have some good stories about pking out there for money i remeber those days great times but pick what you want just enjoy it!

Comment on I thought this was an Onion story, but no… by Rick

Rick — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 04:58:24 +0000

It wasn’t the virgin qualifier that made me think it was a girl. To me, the preface “Wonder” for a superhero is almost always followed by a gender identifier (Wonder Woman, Wonder Boy, Wonder Girl), so I assumed Vag was feminine. I can see how it could be interpreted either way, though, and I’m not actually sure which of us is correct. And I’m a little afraid to research it any further

Comment on I thought this was an Onion story, but no… by Katherine

Katherine — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 23:21:20 +0000

This is a criticism of the original article and possibly the “game” itself, and certainly not a criticism on your reporting of it.

I think it’s patently ridiculous that the only description of the female characters is whether they are sexually active or not, and that it isn’t mentioned at all for the male characters. Also calling someone a virgin doesn’t automatically define them as female last I checked, though the quote from the original article and your interpretation of it seems to assume that it does. I initially read “a virgin named Wonder Vag” as a boy wondering what a vag is.