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Sunday, January 7th, 2007MMORPG.com recently ran their “reader’s choice awards” where the users were able to nominate games from their list and the games that made it into the final round would be voted upon in a variety of categories.
The Categories were:
Favorite Graphics
Favorite PvE
Favorite PvP
Favorite Story
Most Anticipated
Favorite New Game
Favorite Game
EVE easily on Graphics with 62%.
It won PvE with […]
Proper Respect between Players
Monday, December 18th, 2006Now, I know I made the post before about common courtesy in online games. This goes a little further than that.You see, courtesy is being at least civil with people, respect is a bit more than that. On Puzzle Pirates Viridian, there is a chap who goes by the name of MrBalls. The occassional idiot […]
Beta testing goodness
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006There is something about beta testing a game that is highly appealing to a lot of gamers. Maybe its being able to feel that you were part of the creation process. For many its being first to play a game. For others its just a chance to play a game for free, thus the popularity […]
Pros and cons of degrading items
Sunday, November 26th, 2006Degrading items are an interesting issue to look at. On the one hand we have the example of puzzle pirates: The economy flourishes as people actually need to continually buy things. The normal inflation which plagues mmorpgs is staved off. In this example, the things which gamers don’t really need; fancy clothes, super weapons, etc. […]
On Pirate Servers
Tuesday, November 21st, 2006Pirate servers are a common point of argument between gamers. Some like them, some hate them, some couldn’t care less.
The largest beef that many have with pirate servers is that they’re costing the game companies money. With some games this is likely untrue. If you have a private server that has a group of ten […]
Trolls, Griefers, and PVP, oh my.
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006Okay, so that doesn’t actually fit the wizard of oz tune. Sue me.
I was reading some stuff on mmorpg.com yesterday when I came upon this article. Now, I’ve been a reader of that site for quite some time. I find it a great place to find new games to play as they have some good […]