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Monthly Archive for December, 2009

Woe is me, for I have been hacketh

Posted in Blog, Games, MMORPG on Dec 28th, 2009

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 […]

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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. […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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