In the past 6 weeks or so I have got two characters all the way up to 80, and the weird thing is that I almost never duplicated content doing it. One character is human and priory, and stuck to Human and Sylvari zones. The other is Norn and Order of Whispers, and stuck to Norn and Charr zones. Except
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This weekend is the head start for Guild Wars 2, the official launch is Aug 28th. I have been involved with beta and thought I’d throw out some advice to those looking to join the game. Let me just say that Guild Wars 2 is an MMORPG, a type of online game that has been dominated by World of Warcraft
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I have spent 9 years exploring 3D Virtual Worlds, and 8 years playing MMORPGs. For the longest time they felt like two different experiences. 3D Virtual Worlds are a creative outlet, while MMORPGs are a mostly cooperative gaming experience. It seems that recently they have been merging. I have not been adding many new virtual worlds to my master list
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There are a lot of MMORPGs out there. Three new major ones are coming out this summer Guild Wars 2, The Secret World, and TERA. They all claim to be very different from the MMORPGs that came before. I cannot tell you if that is true of the latter two, but with Guild Wars 2, it is very true. I’m
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I have not written anything in a couple of weeks because I have been busy working on the sequel. Meanwhile… There are many little things going on in metaverse land worth bringing up. First, is the fast decline of Worlds of Warcraft. They are losing net subscribers at a rate of about 100,000 a month. Currently they sit at 11.1
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I have never actually done a book review before on this blog, but my previous two blogs I did them all the time. After reading Reality is Broken, I felt compelled to write a full formal review, as its contents are perfect fodder for this blog. In fact there is enough here to fill a good half a dozen blog
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