Long nights journey into day

The news about Trion’s sale and mass layoffs on Monday left me with a sad, numb feeling. I genuinely liked that studio and loved how it championed MMOs through and through. While there’s always the possibility that it will be business as usual for RIFT and the rest, there are no guarantees but there is plenty of worry to be had. That’s why yesterday’s surprise news of LOTRO’s progression servers was very welcome indeed. Sometimes you need good news to counter the bad, even if they aren’t related, you know? Skipping quickly past the shaky wisdom of calling these servers “Legendary Worlds” — why in the world LOTRO would want to draw comparisons to the maligned legendary item system is beyond me — the gist of this is that a fresh start server is coming this fall that will initially cap at the end of Shadows of Angmar content and then expand at a rate of every four months. It’s very much like what Daybreak does with EQ and … [Read more...] about LOTRO just made my day with progression servers

It’s been a refrain in this edition of Choose My Adventure, but I still have to say it again: I have had a blast in The Elder Scrolls Online. I guess I’m repeating myself because I feel thankful to those who voted for this game for the past month. So, thanks! This week, I decided to dip in a little more in to the Rift, the region of the game where my current in-game house is parked. What I found was the expected variety of beautiful things to look at and a pretty impressive contrast between the game’s launch storylines and its more recent releases. For those who are unfamiliar, this area of the game was originally a level 38-43 zone. Naturally, the One Tamriel level smoothing adjustments made that irrelevant, meaning I could get on to the business of ignoring the Coldharbor primary quest line and exploring the area. This place is the precise kind of area I’d want to live in if I were able to live in a fantasy setting; a temperate forest near some more impressive … [Read more...] about Choose My Adventure: So long The Elder Scrolls Online, hello Legends of Aria

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This was a surprise for me, keeping in mind the fact, that I've been blogging for about 4 months now. "What a great way to expose my work and myself to the world"- I thought. I bet that you have similar thoughts. And here I am writing a post about how to create an article that most probably will be accepted and published right away. Just because it happened to me in about 3 days. Guess what? Those 3 days are backed up with another good 3 years of experience in self developing, writing, meeting different people to learn from, sleepless nights, irritation, doubt, self observation and believe. I believed that I can do it. That I am worth doing it. That I can change myself and thus my outer reality. That I can give to the world something valuable. So can YOU. How to approach an influential blogger? With love, respect and a heart wide open. We are all the same deep down beyond the personalities we've created. It is likely to hit someone who hasn't yet understood this yet, but if you … [Read more...] about How My First Guest Post Ever Was Published in 3 Days

Last night, by using an Ethereal Puresource, I was able to snag Hoppy, Harbinger of Regulos, the glowy-eyed adorable bunny of pure malice: 1. I love devs with a sense of humor and a game that doesn’t take itself too seriously. And I hold an obsession a soft spot for vanity pets in any game — they are the way to my sappy little heart. 2. I’d been dying for this pet during beta, like literally dying going from rift to rift in Freemarch trying for it to no avail. To come across Hoppy so unexpectedly on my main character now that the game has launched, you can imagine how utterly ecstatic I was. It is so easy to make me happy. 3. And so begins my long and harrowing journey into the deep dark scary world of companion pet collecting…Rift style! … [Read more...] about Riftshot Of The Day: Evil, Evil Rabbit