EVE online carries a certain reputation among the general gaming populace for having a notoriously unfriendly learning curve and being frankly quite boring. I can’t dispute that EVE has it’s boring points as I have been guilty of playing in windowed mode so that I could surf the internet or do other unrelated activities while [...]

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While conducting my online research, I can’t help but reminisce over what gaming used to be. Ten years ago, Nintendo prevailed and if you didn’t play Pokemon, you didn’t game. There is something to be said about pulling about the ol’ NES or SNES, even the N64, and reliving child hood favourites, many which stood [...]

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anyone stopped to wonder why facebook and itouch games aren’t considered MMOG? they require firm social networks in order to succeed, but the primary difference is that the social network is supposedly constructed based on actual world networking. however, anyone who has become sucked into these games (such as farmville) knows that you can friend [...]

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A bunch of my friends began playing OGame about five years ago. I wanted to start playing, so I could be included in the fun. I became very competitive within the game and joined one of my friend’s alliances.  I played this game for about a year but got tiresome of it. I was trying [...]

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Doing my first quest on WoW Finally found Stormwind, traveling on foot took forever!!! Stormwind City! Ironforge- When I ended up in Ironforge, I was pretty blown away. Didn’t expect to see this.

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After hours of downloading and waiting, I finally got to register and create my avatar from the options that I was provided with…gender, race, type, hair style, skin colour, piercings, type of face. Then finally, giving my avatar a name -Evelynna – human rogue. I tried to make my avatar look as close to me [...]

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The world of warcraft has accumulated a ridiculous player population exceeding that of a number of small countries. This is a result of the general accessibility offered both by the mechanics of the game as well as the player community. Due to this, a large number of people who would not normally play mmorpgs have [...]

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As part of my contribution to our group project, I had decided to look into Lord of the Rings Online. I knew several people that played the game already and all spoke highly of it so it had been on my radar for some time. This course and its recent change from a subscription model [...]

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When I log in to EVE Online at the beginning of a long and potentially gruelling session I try to learn something new that I didn’t know about the game already. Since I know very little, finding such things is not normally a hard endeavour and more often than not, they are very obvious to [...]

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I know one or more groups are doing their ethnography on what the nature of ‘noobiness’ is across games. Just a thought: If you are a noob, then won’t everything you do in any MMO be seen through a noob lens? Any aspect of a game you choose to study will inevitably carry with it [...]

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