How does WoW affect your relationship?
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Many people all over the world report on changed social rules, new ideals and problems uprising from the usage of MMORPGs. A comic approch to this can be found at Frozen Hippo (video clip).
WoW inflation rampant?
One of the biggest problems with online economies is that the amount of money doesn’t grow with the numbers of gamers; it grows with number of killed monsters. This means that in the long run the value of your saved gold will decrease. Farming for gold ofcourse increases the rate this happens at.
As a casual player you have a choice to make. To buy or not to buy gold. If you choose to not buy you will end up with less impressive gear and equipment since you wont be able to afford the same kind of prices a player that farms or buys gold does.
Some people argue that this creates a problem in the online world, farmers that camp at the best places steal all the drops they claim. .. Eivind on /. says (about FFX though):
So what are you to do ? Accept that the game is now split in three: One, normal players, that play with the weakest gear, and are prevented from meeting the most powerful monsters. Two: players who buy Gil and thus gets the best gear for no in-game investment. They can *also* still not challenge the most powerful monsters, since these are camped. And three: Campers and Farmers that have no interest in playing the game or contributing to the society, but only camp the monster that gives them the most Gil, or does the same farming-thing over-and-over-and-over for literally years.
This is something that needs to be tought about!
Added links to colleagues
They’re doing a helluva job keeping the WoW market filled with cheap gold. We’re not affiliated or anything, but please. If you want to buy WoW Gold. Go there and shop away!
Here’s a picture of a angry dwarf for good measure. I hear there’s a lot of dwarfs running around in the mines of WoW collecting luxuries (gold
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This is how you make gold in WoW!
Some really inspiring people in the guild “The Imperial Order” working their ways to binges of gold on the server Detheroc has come up with a really unique way of making more WoW gold.
They took the item that unlocks cool new content hostage and demand a 5000 gold fee for it saying they rather be remembered as the obnoxious guild that took hostage than the kind of guild that releases the content for free.
We say? Way to go! Making gold is all about being a coldhearted ass.
The internet is for …
Porn? Nah, it’s for playing WoW.
Watch the funny movie at The internet is for .. google video
A list of WoW servers
Some users has requested that we post a long list of servers from WoW. So we digged really deep and compiled one.
… and let there be life!
Over at Gamasutra they’re talking about what idle MMORPG-characters do. Well, they do nothing. So why not make some new ideas;
Here’s what I’d like to see: instead of Vanille Ice and all the millions of unused characters sitting on their collective tookuses, why not imagine that each day they venture forth and do some low-level crime fighting (orc slaying, etc.) just to, you know, “stay in shape”. Now this workout wouldn’t actually happen in any way visible to players logged on, but these characters would earn nominal amounts of experience each day. And in three months time, presto, a new level.
We think: GRRREAT IDEA!
Slashdot reports!
Via slashdot:
Shane Dabiri and John Lagrave took an interview with Eurogamer, and used the opportunity to talk about the login problems that have been plaguing World of Warcraft since Christmas. As techs, they’re not there to talk about the ongoing discussion involving Gay rights in their game world. Kotaku, however, is not under any kind of restriction, and reports on legal movement against the company by Lambda Legal. The group is organized around procuring civil rights for people in the GLBT community, and sent a strongly worded letter to Blizzard’s legal team. From that letter: “We are very concerned that Blizzard’s policy, as expressed in the foregoing statement, discriminates against LGBT gamers. Although preventing harassment is an admirable goal, a requirement that LGBT people remain invisible and silent is not an acceptable means of reaching that goal.” Blizzard has already removed the warning from the player in question, saying that it was an ‘unfortunate interpretation’ of their EULA.
The discussion on slashdot quickly turned into a gay rights flamefest between liberals and rightwing christians
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Chinese new year 2006 (beginning 29/jan)
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Chinese new year – year of the dog
Many providers of gold report a shortage of both gold and items as the chinese new year is in progress meaning our chinese friends are with their family celebrating! A very needed break some argue
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