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Real ID Redux
So I was a bit upset about Real ID on the forums, back in July. I’m still not particularly pleased with the in-game functions either, although I do carefully make use of them. Today I’ve noticed a...
View ArticleDistinctiveness: When is an MMO not a book?
Hot off the heels of my first impressions of RIFT, I now want to touch on another broad MMO topic. In my last post I compared Warcraft and RIFT to two similar but rather different books by Terry...
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Blizzcon: A much better apology
I said yesterday that my next post would be about happy things, such as Pandas or Monks. It IS a happy post. As an update to yesterday’s post, it seems something has finally filtered though. I...
View Article[Warcraft] Going off the rails post-Cataclysm
This is not a doom and gloom post. Aside from those 600 Blizzard employees who were laid off yesterday, for whom I have the utmost sympathy. No. I want to take a closer look at David Kosak’s Cataclysm...
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[Warcraft] Fan art done better
Now, Blizzard has posted a new small collection of fanart up at their gallery. If you’ve been following my blog over the years, you’ll know the track record of fan art is almost as bad as the official...
View Article[Blizzard] Annual Passes – What Next?
Like Gazimoff I was sucked into the Annual Pass thing. I’ve had breaks from WoW before, but a new expansion generally draws me back in for a couple of tiers. When they released the Annual Pass, the...
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[Warcraft] Pandaren character models and the missed opportunity
I can’t say I actually expected female pandaren to be a similar shape to the male ones. One always hopes that interesting design decisions will be made, but lets not forget that this is an expansion...
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[Warcraft] From Pygmy to Sherpa
This is a difficult post. Not because it’s personal for me, but I feel like someone should say something. The casual cultural appropriation that Blizzard continues to practise is tiring, dated, and...
View Article[MMOs] When is a digital world a soulless world?
I’ve used this phrase a couple of times. I’ve seen it used in others. Why does a particular MMO ‘feel’ soulless to a particular player? Casting an eye over my initial reaction to the game during...
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[WoW] That guy in the trailer looks familiar
I, like others, was disappointed in the lack of women in the cinematic. A bit of me thinks is because they can work out the animation of a male orc, but that level of animation of a warrior female orc...
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