Just when I thought I got out… Looks promising. Of course it is Day 1 of Blizzcon, so OF COURSE IT LOOKS PROMISING!!! We shall see… Coming soon to an expansion near you. (And by “soon”, I mean… 2 years?)
Oct 212011
Oct 212011
Brace yourselves. Bioware has lifted the press NDA on Star Wars: The Old Republic.
Get ready for every hack MMO site on the ‘net to give “Sneak Previews” of features from the upcoming game. Pay no attention to the fact that you could get 90% of this information directly from the SWTOR site. Pay no attention to the fact that most of these articles will be written by columnists who can’t see past their own preconceptions. Pay no attention to the hordes of angry fanbois who will scream “This game SUX” because they can’t play a “Wookiee Jedi with a quadruple-bladed lightsaber” (which, while awesome, might be just a little unreasonable…) Most of you have already made the decision on whether or not you are going to try this game. (example: Me… I’ve already purchased my copy)
The way things are going in this industry, it is worth it to boycott or black-out all gaming “news” sites and go into a new game with your eyes and your mind open. If you ever want to re-create the “WOW!” experience of your first MMO, then perhaps reading some blog’s “comprehensive class breakdown” columns months before the game hits the streets is a bad thing to do. Half the fun of this genre is in exploring the game world and figuring things out for yourself. If you walk into a game armed to the teeth with advice and tips from some “beta tester”, you may as well save your money and go rent a movie instead. The blogger has already taken the best part of the gaming experience away from you.
The value of MMO-style beta testing is debatable, but it is definitely good for one thing. Building Hype.
…and here it comes.
Oct 122011
In what has been an extremely bad year for Sony from an Information Security standpoint, the hits just keep on coming. According to a story published on Massively, around 33,000 players have had their accounts compromised at Sony Online Entertainment. Sony has locked down the accounts, and undone any in-game damage that may have occurred (sold off inventory, gold, etc), and the number of compromised accounts is a very small percentage of their entire player base. (For instance, Free Realms alone has several million registered users.)
Put into perspective, this is “just another week” at Blizzard, but the difference is that in this case, it wasn’t directly or indirectly the player’s fault that their accounts were hacked. Kudos to the SOE team for getting on top of this so quickly, but if you guys are looking for a real Information Security pro, I know a guy… =) (LinkedIn)
Sep 162011
So yeah, it’s not an MMO, but it’s still a kickass game. If you have been living under a rock and haven’t played Portal, you really need to give it a look.
It also gave us this.
Sep 102011
So we gave out 500 copies of Rift at Dragon*Con this year…
If you’re looking for some folks to play with, Trevor and Grim are playing on the Alsbeth Server, Guardian side. Just look for Grimthorn or Daoseth.