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Massively Multiplayer Online games – our first step into the Metaverse.
In EVE Online, at my new home at the Sisters of EVE base in the Arnon system, with Mining IV, Refining III, and two Miner II mining lasers and purely selling in-system, I make about 27.5K ISK per minute of mining. If I processed the ore at my current level and sold it in the … Read more
I’m in a sort of MMO rut these days, and it’s not because MMOs have let me down. They haven’t; most of the MMOs I play regularly are extremely good, and if I’m not having much fun, I’m sure it’s not he game’s fault. I’ve been thinking about the old Bartle method for classifying MMO … Read more
The distinguished Senior Partners. Sparkplay, developers of the upcoming free-to-play, browser-based, anthropomorphic (not Furry) MMO Earth Eternal, announced that they have profile pages for each of the 22 perfect examples of Beastdom available for you to play. Man is long dead, the meek (you) have inherited the Earth, but what you do with it now … Read more
Well, given the state of PvP as aptly described by The Friendly Necromancer, where endless reshuffles and easy access by everyone to the most powerful healing spell in the entire game combine to make duels extremely lengthy affairs, I’m not sure how Wizard 101’s Season 1 Arena will work out, but they’re going to be … Read more
I was thinking this morning about Norman Spinrad’s “Bug Jack Barron”, where a treatment can make you immortal, but a child has to die (this btw is a massive spoiler if you have not read the book). In MMOs, we are immortal, but at some point we’ve done everything or it just gets boring and … Read more