It’s now been a week and a day since I logged in to find my World of Warcraft account hacked, with the gear of my characters sold off to vendors and the gold sent off to some unknown third-party.
Today I logged back in to see if I’d gotten any new responses from Blizzard (last one [...]
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Well, it has finally happened to me too; My World of Warcraft-account has been compromised!
Woke up this morning to several messages on my cellphone from friends asking if I was currently playing on my WoW-account. Seems I had been seen botting in Storm Peaks for several hours without responding – not only weird because of [...]
Teleportation in MMORPGs – or – How Instant Gratification Killed the Dream of Virtual Worlds
Posted in Games, MMORPG, Virtual Worlds on Dec 16th, 2009
Instant matter-disintegration-and-reintegration
Teleportation: The ability to instantly transfer matter from one location to another without actually ever moving in the space between those two locations. Scientists have been chasing this dream for decades, and Science-Fiction writers and/or movie directors have been using it as a plot-device and/or a generic method of transportation for even longer.
In the [...]
Free, everlasting Age of Conan trial
Posted in Age of Conan, Funcom, Games, MMORPG on Dec 14th, 2009
Out of pure self-interest, I’m going to blatantly promote Age of Conan by mentioning the press release just released (duh, obviously) that announces the offer of a free, everlasting Age of Conan trial (aka “Unlimited Free Trial”).
Basically, if you sign up for a trial account, download and install the game and then log in at [...]
Start to Crate-times in MMORPGs
Posted in Games, MMORPG, Virtual Worlds, World Building on Dec 7th, 2009
Note #0: It’s been a while since I posted anything at all on this blog. Just to let you know, I haven’t completely given up on it just yet, I have just been busy(TM) with other stuff.
In April 2000 a revolutionary methodology for reviewing video-games saw the light of day at the Old Man [...]
I haven’t posted in a while, but the following game has finally brought me out of my current post-drought: Canabalt (WideScreen version)
Found this on Raph Koster’s blog, and it has probably been posted elsewhere as well, but I really need to post about this game myself. It’s to blame for the most fun I’ve had [...]
About the Laws of Online World Design – Part III
Posted in Design, Games, MMORPG, Virtual Worlds on Jul 18th, 2009
This is the third installment in a series of posts I’ll be making about The Laws of Online World Design, as explained in this introductory post. I will start at the top of the list, and work my way down until I’ve poked and prodded every law in the list, not skipping any unless I [...]
About roleplay-servers in MMOs
Posted in Blog, Games, MMORPG, Virtual Worlds on Jul 15th, 2009
Two articles that popped up on MMORPG.com in recent days both touched on the same subject – roleplay servers in MMOs.
The first one, by Dana Massey, denounce roleplay servers as unenforceable, virtually identical to regular servers and generally a major pain in the ass for those who have to moderate them.
Sanya Weathers wrote a follow-up [...]
About the Laws of Online World Design – Part II
Posted in Blog, Design, Games, MMORPG, Virtual Worlds on Jun 17th, 2009
This is the second installment in a series of posts I’ll be making about The Laws of Online World Design, as explained in this introductory post. I will start at the top of the list, and work my way down until I’ve poked and prodded every law in the list, not skipping any unless I really feel like it. In this, Part II of the series, I’ll concentrate on the following law:
Modes of expression
Stop the press!
Posted in Games on Jun 2nd, 2009
Holy crap, BatmanGuybrush! This is awesome news:
One of the best kept secrets in game development history has been revealed. Telltale Games and LucasArts have put out a joint press-release announcing two brand spanking new Monkey Island-projects. The first one is an episode-based, five-part series by Telltale – Tales of Monkey Island – and the first [...]