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or working 90 hours a week and i ve seen both in action makes it open season on everybody who is a good employee other people deliberately move to bad teams so that they can be the top banana of a bad group without having to put much effort into it and still others will lie and cheat and steal in order to get ahead posted by redbeard at 3 50 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels gankers ninjas swtor friday february 19 2016 hitching a ride to duillond and back i ve been making time this week to do some low level questing in lotro with the mini reds considering that i only leveled up to around l16 or so the last time i played before ceding the game to them i figured it wouldn t take too long to go past that i d forgotten that the initial leveling process for lotro is a bit like the pre cataclysm wow system as you tend to get shuttled around quite a bit in the low level zones for example if you start as an elf as i did one of the quests takes you up to duillond to try to convince the brother of a quest giver to forsake middle earth and take a ship to the west that brother then sends you out to find the remains of a sword used by a dunedain compatriot long ago and then once secured you re sent all the way back to the initial quest giver that quest giver then sends you up farther north to yet another hub the back and forth in the middle while important to the quest line is a bit tedious to a brand new toon who has to hoof it back and forth that s me a glorified messenger boy no i haven t created any female toons yet by the time cataclysm was released and swtor dropped the leveling experience had been tweaked to minimize back and forth movement throughout a zone you collect your quests do them and then once you turn them in you re sent to the next quest hub the back and forth of the previous example would have been eliminated either by a form of phasing that would cause the two brothers to be together at duillond wildstar or post cata wow or a story zone instance swtor the quirks of questing aside lotro still holds up well world chat was lively yet thankfully free from the sewer level of filth and trolling found in wow s trade chat my oldest was a bit annoyed at people feeding a few trolls but to be honest those trolls were pretty mellow compared to those i ve seen on most other mmos another part of the game that let you know you were in lotro was the competition for resources in the low level zones while there are still instances of people ninja looting i found people being respectful of others when they were fighting the baddies next to a quest object they were looking for i suspect that the relatively quick respawn times helped alleviate that issue but still that speaks to the average lotro player that they weren t acting like jerks simply because they could these low level experiences grouping up with the mini reds who were excited to share their favorite mmo with me have been fantastic unlike the times when we play swtor you can tell that while they like that game they really love this one i can t say there have been memorable can you believe we did that moments but just having them there doing their thing or tagging along and healing while i putzed along was great i wonder if this is what it is like for family who use mmos to keep in touch across the country these are the same tools that people use for guilds but when family is involved the feeling is quite different even though they re upstairs and i m downstairs one nice part of lotro is that they remain consistent with the world of lotr itself while a reader of the silmarillion would almost expect them to say the undying lands the quest giver here says the west instead which is how the undying lands were presented in lotr yes lotro has stable masters who operate like a taxi or a flightpath but you still have to reach places in lotro on foot to unlock those stable master points particularly on the within zone stable master locations unless you knew they were there as i did a new player could just as easily have missed them and ran all the way across ered luin to complete this questline thankfully they weren t as quick as found in age of conan where a player would never be able to clear an immediate area of enemies before they started respawning you have no idea how annoying that is knowing that you ll never be able to clear things out enough to take on a boss without having to worry about a bunch of regular enemies jumping you from behind and in age of conan two mobs can take out one toon at level without blinking posted by redbeard at 10 12 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels family lotro wednesday february 17 2016 the curse of success i spent part of last night watching a documentary by the pbs show frontline if you ve never watched a frontline documentary they re very much worth the time this particular time however the frontline documentary was on daily fantasy sports called the fantasy sports gamble it talks about the explosion of daily fantasy sports into the popular consciousness whether daily fantasy sports such as draft kings and fanduel are gambling or games of skill and how normal online gambling subverts us law to cater to us players while i m not exactly planning on playing any of those games i did note one almost throwaway comment toward the end of the episode one of the people promoting a lesser known daily fantasy sports site was emphasizing the growth aspect of some of the lesser sports in the us such as cricket and esports that got me to wondering just how we truly know that esports are legit my quick conclusion is we don t unlike say other sports or sporting activities such as football both varieties basketball auto racing and even extreme sports there s a physical gamespace that people have to compete in while the space could be tampered with that tampering affects all competitors equally but with esports the gamespace is virtual and controlled by a central system that central system becomes more of a black box where you have to assume everything is equal for both sides but what if it isn t and more importantly how can you tell if it isn t you have to assume that the code compilation for esport games didn t include any tweaks to the code designed to adversely favor a specific build at a specific time but with growing amounts of money involved you can bet that organized crime is trying to find a way to game the system in their favor i m not talking about players being paid to throw matches as can be found in this article from den of geek but the employees at the company from being paid by organized crime to make very small code tweaks that will favor one style of play over another between two evenly matched teams just a small tweak of a cooldown or a very slight manipulation of a crit size would be enough to influence the game or to put it another way if there was a code tweak in a mario kart tourney that someone playing rosalina would have a larger than normal chance of getting a lightning bolt or a bullet bill it may not ensure victory but it would certainly tilt the game in favor of someone who plays rosalina and what organized crime would want is not exactly a sure thing as that would cause speculation but a decent chance at a sure thing if you follow auto racing some leagues enforce more standards than others formula one racing is at the let em play end of the spectrum while nascar is at the rules lawyer end but that rules lawyer end of the spectrum means that nascar spends a lot of time measuring and testing the cars and other equipment of their participants to ensure there s no funny business going on the reason why i bring this up is obvious without extensive testing that black box is more mysterious than ever it s not as if gamblers will not stop sniffing around what they feel is a sure thing the sheer chutzpah of some gambling sites to sponsor soccer teams such as stoke city having bet365 as their primary sponsor the past few years shows that other places around the world have a different view towards gambling than the us but still as esports will become more popular and more money flows in their direction there will be more attempts to manipulate the system for profit it goes with the territory i suppose just as long as esports doesn t have their own version of the 1919 black sox scandal yeah i m gonna play some 2x2s tonight wanna come from the movie eight men out from moviefone com you can watch frontline shows online for free and they re definitely worth it one of the best ones from last year league of denial talks about the concussion epidemic in the nfl and inspired the will smith film concussion full disclosure i have played fantasy football in leagues when i was in college and upwards of 10 years ago but i ve not played in years i no longer even fill out a bracket for the men s and women s ncaa basketball tournament because i tend to be lousy at picking who will win not counting individual build and toon differences there s a reason why blizz and other pvp centric companies are constantly tweaking class and racial abilities to prevent the new hotness from cleaning up on the arena or battleground for too long posted by redbeard at 9 50 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels esports monday february 15 2016 activision hit by layoffs according to this gameinformer post activision s weaker results in the previous quarter have resulted in some layoffs and reorganizaton my previous speculations that activision blizzard is going to focus more on mobile and esports games seems to be coming true but at the cost of skylanders and guitar hero whether or not skylanders is superior to the competition disney has heavy hitters and name brands in its disney infinity line and lego has both name brands and well lego it it s lego dimenions line this is one of those times where activision is going to take a hit this makes me wonder whether skylanders might have done better if it had a tie in with other activision blizzard properties such as characters from wow or diablo of course those characters alone would push skylanders away from its current family friendly space but it might have also brought in more profits will this impact blizzard s end of things that is uncertain but given the downturn of activision blizzard s profits there will be likely greater outside push for improving next quarter s and next year s numbers overwatch and wow are going to be in the crosshairs as investors will demand to see improvements to a b s bottom line and if they don t get it i d expect for activision blizzard to start hearing calls for more reorganization and spinning off properties that are work intensive yet not as profitable as they could be with a lack of subscriber numbers to go by activision blizzard no longer publishes those remember that might include wow not that legion didn t have enough pressure on its release disney has pulled out the stops for disney infinity with star wars marvel disney classic movies and others not counting lego specific lines like ninjago there s dc universe ghostbusters jurassic world doctor who lord of the rings back to the future and the simpsons at least i m sure i missed a few non lego properties here and there posted by redbeard at 5 24 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blizzard news thursday february 11 2016 how to feel old part whatever it s been a slow week or so here at red central sure i ve played a bit of swtor and jade empire but i ve been both busy with work and making the first of what is sure to be many university visits our first campus visit was similar only in the sense that it was on a university campus the temps were below freezing and it was only an hour or two after sunrise i also managed to embarrass myself by missing a step and falling down the oldest mini red was mortified from alamy com i did ask about internet connectivity because it s important to be able to access your online gaming school work and it seems that for universities with lots of older dormitories wifi has been a godsend not so sure about speeds given than you ve got potentially the entire student body using the same pipe at the same time but at least there is internet there is a gaming angle to this as on the ride back home the mini reds pestered me to create a character on their new lotro server just so that we could hang out so i did not surprisingly i created another elf champion with the exact same name as my old main on lotro because i can still do a paladin esque melee figher alas the graphics for the buttons on the ui are still red and green and are as hard to read as ever it s kind of like this only a lot fewer attacks obviously as i ve only an l3 toon from lotro com forums a whole lot of red and green if you re red green colorblind this can be really bad or if you re just like me and have a hard time reading all the details it can drive you nuts still the scenery is as beautiful as ever alas that the toon graphics don t match the scenery quite as well but for sheer immersion lotro is hard to beat now to actually find the time to you know play the game but with the mini reds around i get the feeling time will magically appear where did the time go oh right anyway two years for mini red 1 then we go right into two years for mini red 2 and 3 is right after that six years of the college application process oh yay posted by redbeard at 4 27 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels college family lotro newer posts older posts home subscribe to comments atom pages home about parallel context about redbeard contact us azeroth after dark a parallel context companion site mmo podcasts blizzard watch diablo 4 lord of hatred waiting room 4 days ago podcasts massively 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