Come for the games, stay for the drama.
Tipa Why would someone want to restart from scratch on the EverQuest progression servers? To be challenged, and to compete. Current content is so hard and tedious and it breaks people. Being the first to gear up and take down Vox and Nagafen – I predict both will be dead within a month – is something … Read more
It’s crafting week in the MMO blogosphere. I hated EQ1 crafting, but have been a big fan of it in other games that treated crafting less as a pointless way to dispose of millions of plat and more as an important game mechanic. Tailor in DAoC; carpenter in FFXI Online; tailor and leathercrafter in WoW; … Read more
Removed Dead Ranger blog. Guess the Dead Ranger finally got tired of waiting for Vanguard. Removed the Prophetic Fate link. I took down the message board for the guild – I hosted it here – so the link no longer worked anyway. Guild was dead. Removed my Java Applets page. I do need to get … Read more
Five hours. Multiple trips into the pre-expansion EQ2’s end game zone. And more kindness and generosity than I had any right to expect. And yet I encounter that time and time again in EQ2. I belong to a no-name guild, driftwood they acquired when Eternal Carnage merged with them, and everyone but me left again. … Read more
Whilst perusing (it’s important to use Britlish when talking about) the BBC NEWS website, I read an article about blogging; in particular their own blog. Down With Blogs! they screamed. Including their own. But what was this mention of something called “Pooterism”? Journalists have their own takes on blogs – broadcaster Mark Lawson, for one, … Read more