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Massively Multiplayer Online games – our first step into the Metaverse.
2007 has been an amazingly full year, considering some of the major games we were hoping to play (Gods & Heroes, Age of Conan) were canceled or delayed. In January, I was still living in San Diego, still hoping that Sigil or SOE would finally read one of my resumes… on the 8th, the company … Read more
I was sick and went to bed early last night; too early, and I woke up at 3:30 AM desperate to get just… one… more… level. I finished the Worker’s Sledgemallet quest but was still 10% from 80, but my body decided I needed more sleep after all, so it had to wait until tonight. … Read more
I saw that Keen & Graeve posted the list of North American and European servers for Pirates of the Burning Sea. And this very same day comes word on Slashdot that Antigua (one of the PotBS-NA servers) has been given permission by the World Trade Organization to infringe American copyrights up to $21 million a … Read more
It’s about time to look into the adventures, once again, of Dina and Dera, Adventurers at Large. It’s kind of embarrassing all around that Dera, a priestess, didn’t worship any god in particular. Sure, she’d started on the Brell quest, but she and old candle-head just didn’t get along. EQ lore would have her worshiping … Read more
Last night while recovering from a wipe, I was browsing my RSS feeds and was stunned by Ogrebear’ story that SOE was to be bought out by an Indian entertainment company, Zapak. That spread throughout the blogosphere by wildfire, and even to the people at SOE, who hadn’t heard about this, frantically e-mailed John Smedley … Read more