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  • Playing: WoW, LotRO
  • Reading: Otherland: City of Golden Shadow by Tad Williams

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The Multiverse – Episode #23.5: “Can You Hear Me Now?”

Hey guys,

Long time no see! I know, it’s been too long, but we’re back. This episode actually demonstrates some of the technological issues we’ve been running into trying out new recorders. Unfortunately, Ferrel echoes throughout; however, the content itself was too good not to share — hence, 23.5 and not 24.

We talk about lots of [...]

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ToC-10 as a Starter Raid Instance

I’ve finally been able to get in on the raiding game in World of Warcraft. Signing up with Chaotic Damnation has been a great decision and I now find myself as one of the guild’s two main tanks for the foreseeable future. The transition into raiding hasn’t been that bad since I’ve raided with PuGs in [...]

LotRO’s Cash Shop and Where It Leads

Throughout the transition period, I’ve done my best to support Turbine and Lord of the Rings Online. As a lifetime subscriber, the change to freemium meant very little for me – and, still do. So, while I empathized with players terrified of what the changeover meant for them, I couldn’t exactly share their fear.

That’s all still [...]

One New Raid, One New Guild: Or, There’s Life Left in WoW For Me Yet!

Lord of infernals and mistresses. Someone needs to tell this guy to brush his shoulders off.

If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you probably know that I’ve been feeling a little topped out on WoW lately. I was stuck in the heroic rut without much hope of getting out. This week has been [...]

What Makes a Success?

I think I love you… but, what are your subscription numbers again?

Over the last few years, we’ve seen an absolute explosion in the amount of MMOs being released. A lot of them came about purely because WoW was such a success. The result, it seems, is that these games are being measured against WoW [...]

I’ve Hit the Sticking Point Again in WoW

I am the stick. The mud is heroics. Somewhere over there in the pebbles is the door to ICC.

Over the last couple of days, and partially due to Syp‘s great Road to Mordor columns, I’ve been playing more LotRO than I have in the last quarter year. As I reloaded the game, I couldn’t [...]

Why “Quit” an MMO?

I just finished up the last few lines on this week’s article for Lagwar (it’s a good one, too, if I do say so myself – link incoming soon) and, as I re-read, I noticed mentioning how I “quit” Darkfall, once in the past. I don’t understand why we use that word. Does anyone really “quit” [...]

The Multiverse – Episode #23: “The Little Things are Best in Space”

This big thing is made up of lots of little things, other little things are going to land on the big thing. Do the little things blow it up?

Hey gang,

Another week, another Multiverse! This week we touch on the Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning trailer, FFXIV’s recommended requirements, the cast of DCUO, and more! [...]

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When Tanks and Healers Disagree

Acidmaw and Dreadscale

I’d like to talk about an issue that has a tendency to crop up when you’re playing a tank class in dungeon settings. The problem is disagreeing with the healer when something goes wrong. Before I get into that, though, let me tell you about what happened last night in WoW.

I was [...]

The Multiverse – Episode #22: “The Greenest Grass is Always Lego”

Happy Hump Day Folks!

We’re back this week with the much delayed Episode 22 of The Multiverse: MMO Radio. We first tried this show back on the ninth – right before real names on the forums got canceled – but, as luck would have it, my hard drive crashed and the show was lost. But, intrepid podcaster [...]

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