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idered beyond the traditional pve vs pvp and the class balancing ones how much story to incorporate in game and how much reveal before release i ve picked on wow a bit in this meandering post because legion is due out soon but this argument that mmo players are focusing so much on mechanics to the extent that they spend time in playing the game in ptr to be ready for when the game is actually released could be applied to just about any other mmo out there it just seems somewhat unreal when you think about it that a player willingly sacrifices their sense of wonder at seeing something new just so that they ve got their practice in when the big day comes in that respect maybe mmos are a bit like sports after all there are those who play for purely social reasons and those who make a commitment to dedication to work hard and do well and then there are the pros and the wannabee pros who practice so that nothing is ever left to chance as for me i realize that i m never going to be hardcore and i know that my physical skills aren t as good as they were even 5 6 years ago so i m not worried about being the best i can be competence is enough and i know enough now to realize that while i ve got elements of a completionist and a perfectionist in me it s about the journey rather than the destination that s not going to keep me from griping at rules changes and nothing screams stay off my lawn more than grousing about how things were back in the day gamebynight com pretty much covered my opinion of tera particularly item 4 i m sure blizz could generate statistics based on how quickly players click through quest text or moba eta corrected a grammatical issue or two posted by redbeard at 1 07 am 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels boardgames changes mmos musings wow friday july 1 2016 whatever you do don t piss off a sith in honor of the dark vs light event going on in swtor i thought i d post a link to a taylor davis video if you may recall taylor is the violinist who has been making videos of her arrangements of music from all corners of geekdom people who have read pc before may recall my post referencing her rendition of theme for rohan by chance thomas for the lotro expansion riders of rohan well she s outdone herself in this video uploaded just prior to the release of the force awakens last december and yes that s her as both jedi and sith i could have done without the synthesized backing music but that s because i hear that and get flashbacks to the star wars theme by meco for the curious here s the youtube video of the behind the scenes making of her star wars medley posted by redbeard at 2 14 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels music star wars swtor wednesday june 29 2016 1200 down only 1200 to go it s kind of ironic to me that a game that has so many expansions lotro has slowed to a grindy crawl for me i ve finished shadows of angmar and i ve got the epic questline for the mines of moria but i don t have the expansion purchased and i m determined to handle this with turbine points which means i have to grind deeds lots and lots of deeds as the title of this post makes plain i ve got a loooong way to go before i can purchase the expac and even then i ll likely need to wait for a sale in the lotro store for me to actually get enough turbine points to buy the thing will it be worth it everything i ve read online has said that the mines of moria is fantastic but that only goes so far with motivation when you re killing another 100 orcs with lotro becoming a slog i ve returned to swtor for the time being in an amusing bit of topsy turvy just as i got heavily invested in the shadows of angmar ending the mini reds went back to swtor and started playing that heavily having created somewhere along the lines of about 16 toons across several servers i know the swtor zones fairly well by now and so i was amused by hearing them talk during lunch about what they re doing with the characters they ve created and the comparisons between world chat on lotro and zone chat on swtor from my perspective world chat on lotro has declined a bit of late with a few people on gladden spamming wc with stuff for sale at a grossly excessive price and people following along behind them telling them to move it to trade chat and then there s the trump fans and those who think trump isn t going far enough and let s just say that i ve not been enjoying lotro s world chat much lately however swtor s zone chats aren t exactly better either and to be honest i d really really hate to see what trade chat on wow is like right now seems that the coarsening of public debate has hit the mmo genre in a huge way this summer not that things were great before this summer but i feel there has been a distinct drop off in quality and behavior since both the 2016 us presidential election and the brexit referendum kicked into high gear and if it s bad in mmo space i hate to think of what it s like in xbox live playstation plus or in chat for mobas right now at times like this i wouldn t blame people one bit for turning off world zone trade chat and focusing almost completely on guild chat if you re surrounded by a bubble of friends it can make all the difference between enjoying yourself and throwing your hands up in disgust sure it s a bit of an echo chamber but there are times when you want to seal yourself off from the rest of the nuthouse and just enjoy yourself me i go take a walk for some peace and quiet or maybe i should just go kill another 100 orcs or so per region or whatever the numbers are but they re pretty high well kind of i busted my foot pretty badly a few weeks ago and i proceeded to hobble along on a walking tour of a university an hour later which was a big mistake the docs confirmed the foot isn t broken but i was limping around in a boot for a few weeks posted by redbeard at 1 38 pm 2 comments email this blogthis 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