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Massively Multiplayer Online games – our first step into the Metaverse.
One of the most frustrating things in Wizard 101 is the inability to speak freely. Wizard 101 uses a “dictionary” chat system, which only allows words in that dictionary, and things like numbers, names of states or anything else that might be used to easily identify or locate someone, replaced with an ellipsis (…). This … Read more
But they weren’t IN the woods.
It started out like a normal day. Then Turbine announced that it’s Dungeons & Dragons Online MMO was going Free to Play, and Twitter ignited and MMO bloggers the world over ran to their keyboards to pound out the news. Subscribers were now VIPs! And the new “unlimited” players were (by comparison) NVIPs! Or VUIPs! … Read more
The “Amaryllis” edition stuff? Well, here it is, a warm Spring night, just started writing, and “Though Amaryllis dance in green” comes up on the playlist, and it just seemed to fit the mood so well… And re: the banner, well, Atlus’ newly revamped MMO import NeoSteam closed its Open Beta today to relaunch soon … Read more
Morning is not the best time to be doing the blogroll — work and everything. So I will be writing them when I get home, which might make them a little more timely as well. Expect the first tonight, but as an extra — the next two comics in Straha’s epic EverQuest comic, WTF, are … Read more