The other day I was remembering how I played WoW with my baby son asleep in my arms. I think he was no older than a year. My wife would feed him, then go to sleep exhausted early in the evening, and I’d stay up with him. Sometimes in my arms, or once he was truly asleep I’d move him into the cot. Generally the little fella would wake two or three hours later, and I’d stop gaming, wake
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March 19th, 2010 | 18 comments |
 From: General chat |  Tags: allods online, parent gamer, parents, relationships, women, wow love In my guild forums, I just read this reply. It struck me. We’d been talking about how the official forums are a fairly pointless place to post, or to try resolving anything, or to complain even. I wrote this: You can’t win fights on the internet when its a forum full of people who want to bully others. A guildmate Rotnronnie replied: Why is it that we have to go to external forums to interface with the intelligent yet March 17th, 2010 | 11 comments |
From: General chat | Tags: allods online, communication, customer service, forums, moderation, PR I’ve been following the Allods Online debacle with fascination. The pricing on their cash shop, for opt-in purchases, is incredibly high and much more expensive than everyone expected… except for MMO Industry veterans, I think. I did some reading this morning and discovered that players on free-to-play games are broken loosely into two categories, those paying $1 or $2 a month, and the dedicated who are at $50 a month (that is actual data from Puzzle Pirates). I used February 22nd, 2010 | 5 comments |
From: Other games | Tags: achaea, allods online, cash shop, f2p, free to play Open Beta is launching now… once they get the server back up. It crashed with the number of users. I’m still going to blog on Death Knight tanking more than anything else; this is an aside. Geek aside: remarkable failure of network planning. There are affordable technologies, at the network layer, which would allow them to stop being swamped and crashing. If their server crashed, it was because they tried queuing at the application layer. Silly. Anyhow, classes. A You should check out Allods. Looking at it from the perspective of a WoW enthusiast, it’s very appealing. Released on Feb 16th in a ‘beta’ which is actually launch. Here’s my mini-review. There are warrior and paladin tank classes, along with other archetypes such as mage, warlock, hunter, stabby etc. The healer wears plate. The mage has a strange mechanic where you get up to 5 combo points per school of magic cast, which can proc in random good |
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