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Massively Multiplayer Online games – our first step into the Metaverse.
SOE has a great preview of their re-imagining of the dungeon of Najena on their web site. I loved the original Najena — it was the first raid I ever did with the guild I’d just joined, United Norrath Coalition, and I must have been all of level 19, and Drelzna hated druids so much, … Read more
Jaye wrote this weekend about the notion that bloggers might be press, and she goes on to define press as the process of getting information out to the public. Presumably without bias or commentary. If that’s what the press is these days, they’re doing a really poor job of it. Turn on the TV and … Read more
We’re baaaaaaaack…..! Warhammer Online: The Age of Reckoning, brought public quests to a public quest-less world, Tomes of Knowledge to the forgetful, open groups to the friendless, and in all ways has transformed the world. Warhammer Online has twenty unique classes or ‘careers’, and each one plays like no other class in any other MMO, … Read more
A friend was having trouble in the Sunken City and asked for some help. I was in a battle of my own and was low on potions, so I told him I’d be there in a few. Finished the battle, played a few rounds of my potion-filling minigames of choice, and the teleported to him. … Read more
I’d taken all the rare dusts I’d accumulated as by-products of making scout spells with my jeweler, and put them on the market because, since Dorah had changed servers and my defiler/alchemist, Etha, had not, I had no use for them any longer. Which kind of made me sad. Etha was my first serious character … Read more