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Dec

[Last] Day In The Life of A Night Elf Hunter

Posted by kraftdinner9  Published in A Day in the Life, Avatar, Participant-Observation, Pets, Snapshots, Stereotypes

All pictures cal also be found at http://dailybooth.com/anth3745blogpics/11378677. To complete my “day in the life of my avatar” blog, I want to explain my last day in my virtual world before my subscription expired. This last day of being in World of Warcraft is representative of daily life events because it is a representation of [...]

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Tags: Avatars, loot, pets, play, quests, virtual worlds, World of Warcraft

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9

Dec

What is Blizzard Entertainment’s stance on “ninja looting” within the World of Warcraft?

Posted by XxCapucino  Published in Uncategorized

“Ninja looting” is a common term used within many massively-multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) to describe the act of looting items from corpses, chests, and the game environment without permission. This term predates World of Warcraft by many years, and was originally coined in virtual worlds that did not possess the same looting mechanics that [...]

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Tags: Blizzard, loot, looting, ninja, World of Warcraft

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15

Nov

Hunt BIG – Monster Hunter Frontier

Posted by Asian Power  Published in A Day in the Life, Avatar, Links, Lore, Machinima, Pets

Monster Hunter Frontier is an online MMORPG on the PC  with a great amount of new weapons, quests, armor, and monsters. The purpose of the game is to gang up (MAX 4 Players in one gang) and fight against giant monsters, kill them, peel their skins, take their parts and craft own armors and weapons. Monster in [...]

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Tags: co-operative, loot, lore, MMOs, Monster Hunter Frontier, play, quests, RPG, structure

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30

Sep

Worst. Loot. Ever.

Posted by Kate Dougherty  Published in Lore

Egregious The Guild references aside, there should be a special hell set aside for the designers of loot tables. How many times have you run an instance, cleared out trash mobs, wiped, paid several gold in repairs, spent hours of your life, and when you get to the big boss, the guaranteed drop doesn’t happen. [...]

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Tags: Asheron's Call, ethnography, loot, play, RPG, stories

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