When I see a skill scape around Runescape, I give a certain amount of respect to the one that got it. So I started chatting with people around me to learn their opinion towards the skill cape, and found out some skill capes get more respect then others. Here are the tier of respect I [...]
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29
Nov
The Tier of Respect for lvl 99s in Runescape
Posted by unnoticable Published in A Day in the Life, How-To, Lore, Narrative, Overheard, Participant-ObservationTags: crafting, lore, MMOG, MMOs, respect, Runescape, virtual worlds
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26
Nov
Now I Understand Why Warcraft is so Popular!
Posted by XxCapucino Published in A Day in the Life, Avatar, Names, Participant-Observation, Snapshots12 million people can’t be wrong. This was my reasoning when I choose World of Warcraft as my game to study for this course. There were other games that were free, but I found some of them (Runescape) to be very lackluster in graphics quality. I had signed up as a Blood Elf Priest, and [...]
26
Nov
Many of the friends I’ve met in World of Warcraft fall into players of either of the following categories: PvE players or PvP players. Due to the way Warcraft is designed, players who are optimized for PvE content do not do well in PvP battlegrounds. The reasons for this are complex, as primary stats that [...]
Tags: games, MMOG, MMOs, PVP, World of Warcraft
18
Nov
Some personal tips for mining in Runescape. I am not going to do an extensive guide on how to mine, since Neet120 already did that in previous post. I will just give out a few pointers I found interesting for new players to know about. This guide is mainly for all players, I will note [...]
15
Nov
My first experience of Runescape
Posted by unnoticable Published in A Day in the Life, How-To, Narrative, Participant-ObservationOk, this is definitely a belated blog for my experience in Runescape. I definitely should have done this earlier, but this is my experience upon my first few times playing this game. Runescape is definitely very different then other games I have played. Of all things I start off at level 37, not level 1. [...]
Tags: MMOG, Personal Experience, quests, Runescape, virtual worlds
15
Nov
“If you love MMO’s you’re going to want to check out Guild Wars 2, if you hate MMO’s you’re going to want to check out Guild Wars 2” The above statement is the motto of Arenanet, the developers of the anticipated sequel to the popular MMORPG, Guild Wars. Set to release in 2011, Arenanet has [...]
Tags: grinding, Guild Wars 2, MMOG, MMOs, narrative, stories
15
Nov
This is just a funny clip about MMO’s on The Big Bang Theory. In this episode, Penny becomes addicted to Age of Conan after a series of disappointments in her real life.
Tags: Age of Conan, Big Bang Theory, games, MMOG, play, Stereotypes
18
Oct
If the whole point of ethnography is that the anthropologist learns by listening to what the people they study has to say, then it’s worth mentioning that you can find ethnographically discussions all over the internet. Lately I’ve been looking at two serial features at massively.com, but the general principle is that we are not [...]
Tags: MMOG, MMOs, virtual worlds
11
Oct
These are sort of the expanded version of my class lecture notes. I’ll be tinkering with it after I re-read all the readings. (Thanks to T.L. Taylor, Tom Boellstorff, and especially Teri Silvio and a whole bunch of literature I am not explicitly citing here) 1) NOT IMMERSIVE. The Immersive fantasy would be first person: [...]
Tags: affect, alterity, Animation, Automatons, Avars, Avatars, Bots, builds, cartooniness, Cartoons, city of heroes, cosplay, costume, cyborg, dolls, emotes, Erving Goffman, Figure, Firstness, Identity, immersion, MMOG, MMOs, MMOW, moe, most common superpower, Natural Figure, other, Peirce, Performance, performing objects, prosthesis, puppets, realism, Secondness, self, sexuality, Staged Figure, Toons, uncanny valley, vehicles, virtual worlds, voice, world, worldness
8
Oct
In the Beginning, there was Confusion…
Posted by Switch Published in A Day in the Life, Participant-ObservationWhen I first started playing 4Story, a free MMO with the choice of using real money to pay for in-game things, I had a very difficult time. It is a pretty decent quality game, more so than I had expected from a free one, but I assume that the income from more serious players helps [...]
Tags: anger, confusion, Eve Online, Free, frustration, Goonswarm, guild, MMOG, MMOs, noob, party, play, quests, structure, tutorials, virtual worlds
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