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Dec

One Client To Rule Them All – A Day in LotRO

Posted by Carbon  Published in A Day in the Life, Avatar, Participant-Observation

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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Tags: A Day in the Life, Free, grinding, Lord of the Rings Online, MMOs, play, pve, PVP, stories

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13

Dec

Territory Wars

Posted by Switch  Published in Overheard, Participant-Observation

Territory Wars are something included in 4Story, and are quite interesting. The idea behind it is that there are 3 (previously 2 until a couple weeks ago) Kingdoms in the world, and they are in constant battle for lands. Every character is automatically assigned to a kingdom, and spends the first little while leveling up and [...]

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Tags: 4Story, PVP, Territory Wars

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7

Dec

Top Ten MMORPGs List

Posted by Ed  Published in How-To, Links

As I was looking for a new game to play besides WoW I started looking at the top ten list of MMORPGs from around the net. So obviously I came across many different opinions out there as to what game is the best and whether PvP is better than PvE but in the end it [...]

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Tags: Age of Conan, mmo, mmorpgs, pve, PVP, Runes of Magic, top ten, World of Warcraft

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26

Nov

PvE or PvP?

Posted by XxCapucino  Published in A Day in the Life, Avatar, Participant-Observation

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 [...]

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Tags: games, MMOG, MMOs, PVP, World of Warcraft

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4

Oct

News in MMOs

Posted by Mennissa  Published in Links

For those of you interested in WoW (World of Warcraft), the new expansion is almost here! The new expansion, ‘Cataclysm’, will be coming out in December. As well as the new PvP Arena which will be released around December 14th, shortly after the expansion. There is a new MMO online game, much like Second Life [...]

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Tags: MMOG, MMOs, PVP, World of Warcraft

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