Technically, Turbine has been doing this for a while with their game clients, but given that few other developers are unwilling to take on this same method, I figured Blizzard gets some notice. What’s the worst part of patching? If you have low bandwidth, your answer is likely the downloading portion. On large patch days, … Continue reading “Play WoW While You Patch WoW!”
I always get choked up doing the month in review. Not in the sense that my emotions are overwhelming me and I might start crying at any moment, but that my hand literally latches on to my neck and starts choking me as I gasp out “why didn’t you cover that?” and I once again … Continue reading “Looking Back, Moving Forward: July 2010”
Those of you who have seen my Better Business Bureau articles may have wondered at one point: But Omali, what do you think about the ESRB? My answer, of course, is I hold the ESRB in the highest, most prestigious form…of contempt. The ESRB was formed in an attempt to rate games based off of … Continue reading “ESRB: Breaking Privacy, For The Sake Of Privacy…”
Earlier this year I started Checking In With The Better Business Bureau, a segment talking about the consumer protection group with no authority. Back in February I checked up on a few MMO developers to see their scores, and this time I want to go more in depth on each company and their score. For … Continue reading “Checking In On The BBB”
Blizzard appears to set standards wherever they go. The latest venture? A sparkling horse. Not just any sparkling horse, a sparkling horse that generated millions of dollars for Blizzard over the course of just one day. Back in May, Sony Online Entertainment announced that Everquest II would be receiving a similar update. This horse, featuring … Continue reading “Shut Up, Everquest, Get On My Horse”
Log entry for the second week of June, 2051: It is nearly a month since I encountered the strange man in the ragged clothing. The prairie chicken eggs he gave me have yet to hatch, or do much at all. I am considering making breakfast out of them, as my supply of grilled chicken is … Continue reading “Fallen Earth Store: Doggies and Goggles”
Whether you pay a monthly fee, buy cash shop items, or simply just play without paying, you are making some kind of investment in your MMO of choice, a combination of time and usually money. As I have pointed out before on many occasions, the major difference between MMOs and many other games is that … Continue reading “No, You Are Not Owed A Refund”
I am Blizzard, and this is my new mount. She weighs one hundred and fifty kilograms, and fires custom tooled cartridges at three hundred thirty three rounds per minute. This gun generates five hundred thousand dollars, to run for one hour. Out of date references aside, Blizzard’s new mount was the subject of a bit … Continue reading “New WoW Mount Generates Cash: $500,000 Per Hour”
While doing Kevin Bacon’s usual rounds of Topeka searches for MMO news from my favorite Kansas city of Google, Kevin Bacon checked the calendar and realized: It’s April 1st! The glorious day of the year where, at least in Kevin Bacon’s experiences, news stories fall into one of two categories: Companies either announce something insanely … Continue reading “Best of April Fools 2010”
“It has always been, and still remains our intent to release on consoles, and as soon as we’re able to share more information about it, we will.” -Daeke, Community Manager, Cryptic Studios, on Champions Online on consoles. One downside to the internet is that anything you say can and will be used against you in … Continue reading “Champions Online on the 360: Officially Canned”
MMO Fallout 