MMOs

Massively Multiplayer Online games – our first step into the Metaverse.

Letter to Pavel

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Pavel of PCZone left a comment asking some questions about my MMO history. Usually, such surveys carry the subtext that the recipient is a pathetic loser who nonetheless is part of a particularly disturbing part of nerd-dom that would be just the thing to chuckle over in some anonymous undergrad sociology class. And they should, when filling out the survey, include any really juicy bits. Answers that are also cries for help are the funniest!
This is probably one of those. But what the heck. Part of the reason I write this blog is to show how MMOs can be fun and even healthy…!

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LotRO: Book II

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Lysistra and the Good Humor man at level 27, in Trestlebridge
I joined a group last night and we were amazing, we were on fire, we went around the North Downs killing… spiders, and wolves. And I think we may have killed one or two bears.
Seriously. Not since the original Dark Ages of Camelot has a MMO reused the same couple of models in so many different ways. I have three or four different titles from killing spiders. This isn’t an epic. It’s a spider-killing simulator.

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LotRO: The Song of Lysistra

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Young Frodo, to you has fallen the most perilous task. You must bring the Ring to Mordor. But first, kill twenty boars and bring me their tusks. I will also require their hooves, but I won’t tell you that until you get back with the tusks. Oh! Young Lysistra is come out of the West, … Read more

LotRO’s Fatal Error

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In Lord of the Rings Online, you don’t need a healer… until you do. And then, who are you going to get? Well, you could use potions, but they have a 1 minute cooldown, are fairly expensive, and don’t heal much. Only two classes have a group heal — minstrels and captains. The captain has … Read more