ANTH-3745H-A

Virtual Worlds

  • Home
  • About
  • Authors
  • Final Project: Online Ethnography

13

Dec

Cheating in Runescape (Botting)

Posted by N.E.E.T  Published in A Day in the Life, How-To, Links, Participant-Observation

Runescape is a very well known MMORPG and it is popular not just because it’s free but because players can cheat easily. There are a lot of ways that players can cheat in Runescape the most common way is by botting, which means players will download some software such as autoclicker, autominer, autofighter,autotalker, autobuyer to [...]

Continue reading...

Tags: Bots, cheating, MMOs, play, quests, Runescape

4 comments

8

Dec

Why Pay for a Video game PT3

Posted by midnightfr3ak  Published in Links, Uncategorized

So i obviously stated in the previous blogs about why i think paying constatnly for games is a waste. I found a list of MMO’s that are for free that are the top games which i feel that people should consider trying  and maybe comparing to those of the ones they pay for. Free MMORPGs [...]

Continue reading...

Tags: Dungeons and Dragons Online, Free, MMOs, play, Runescape

1 comment

8

Dec

Christmas Machinima

Posted by Tate  Published in Links, Machinima

I was shown this on youtube the other day, it seems to fit with machinima and it’s slightly festive.  It made all of us laugh, so hope everyone enjoys it. Tate – there is no link on this post, can you post the link in the comments please?

Continue reading...

Tags: Avatars, games, machinima, Runescape

1 comment

30

Nov

Getting To Know Your Character

Posted by Mennissa  Published in A Day in the Life, Avatar, How-To, Narrative, Participant-Observation

In the virtual worlds that I have experienced, personally (WoW, Runescape and Second Life), I’ve found it quite difficult to figure out who my character is, what it does and what exactly I’m supposed to be doing. Although there are tutorials like in Runescape and Second Life, I don’t always find them to be the [...]

Continue reading...

Tags: characters, chats, MMOs, noob, Runescape, Second Life, World of Warcraft

no comment

29

Nov

My life as a Noob in Runescape

Posted by N.E.E.T  Published in A Day in the Life, Machinima, Names, Narrative, Participant-Observation, Snapshots, Stereotypes

It’s been a week since I have last updated and it’s time for me to dump some random chat logs! Chat Log #1:  Chatting with other Noobs I give out free shrimps to my interviewees Chat Log #2 Talking about real life fishing while fishing in Runescape Chat Log# 3 : SOme Rnadom Dudes saying [...]

Continue reading...

Tags: Avatars, crafting, fishing, mining, n00b, noob, Runescape

1 comment

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-Observation

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 [...]

Continue reading...

Tags: crafting, lore, MMOG, MMOs, respect, Runescape, virtual worlds

2 comments

21

Nov

Fishing and Random Chats in Runescape

Posted by N.E.E.T  Published in A Day in the Life, Participant-Observation, Snapshots

WOW…it’s been a long time that i haven’t update my blog… so i am still playing Runescape and i have spend most of my game play time on fishing and having random chats with people, since fishing requires no mouse clicking which means players will only have to stand still and wait for fishes to [...]

Continue reading...

Tags: chats, fishing, frustration, Runescape

3 comments

18

Nov

Some Runescape mining tips

Posted by unnoticable  Published in A Day in the Life, How-To

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 [...]

Continue reading...

Tags: mining, MMOG, Pick Axes, Runescape, Tips

2 comments

15

Nov

My first experience of Runescape

Posted by unnoticable  Published in A Day in the Life, How-To, Narrative, Participant-Observation

Ok, 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. [...]

Continue reading...

Tags: MMOG, Personal Experience, quests, Runescape, virtual worlds

5 comments

13

Oct

Crafting in Runescape

Posted by N.E.E.T  Published in A Day in the Life, Avatar, How-To, Links, Names, Narrative, Participant-Observation

Runescape is one of the most popular free online game, it is a MMOPRG released in 2001 and it’s a graphical brower game that runs Java. Players won’t have to install anything to play, all you need is an account and you are ready to go. I use to have an account back in 2002 [...]

Continue reading...

Tags: crafting, mining, Runescape

1 comment

 

May 2013
M T W T F S S
« Dec    
 12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031  

Archives

Categories

  • A Day in the Life
  • Archaeology
  • Avatar
  • canon
  • Consent Form
  • How-To
  • Links
  • Lore
  • Machinima
  • Names
  • Narrative
  • Overheard
  • Participant-Observation
  • Pets
  • Protocol
  • Pseudonyms
  • Snapshots
  • Stereotypes
  • Uncategorized

Links

  • Blog Login
  • Dangerserviceagency.org
  • Online Research Tutorial
  • WebCT

Tag Cloud

Age of Conan Aion Avatars chat city of heroes crafting ethnography Eve Online Expansion Free frustration games humour Identity Links loot Lord of the Rings Online lore ludology machinima Minecraft mining mmo MMOG MMOs Monster Hunter Frontier Names narrative noob pets play PVP quests RPG Runescape Ryzom Second Life Stereotypes stories structure Trial Periods virtual worlds world World of Warcraft WoW
Avatars by Sterling Adventures

Recent Entries

  • Kool-Aid Man in Second Life
  • Cataclysm is Out!
  • NBA Fantasy an MMO?
  • Capsuleer School of Hard Knocks
  • The Guild Season 4
  • .hack//Sign
  • Now you can have a Leeroy Jenkins of your very own! ^o^
  • Defense of the Ancients (DotA)
  • Back in my day…
  • You will unite or you will fall.

Recent Comments

  • Paul Manning in Ben X
  • Carbon in Lack of Community in Call of Duty
  • Tate in Christmas Machinima
  • unnoticable in Thoughts on the 'n00b' perspective
  • unnoticable in Does EVE make players better at other MMOs?
  • unnoticable in Monster Hunter Frontier (MHF) - Beast, Dragon, Mon…
  • unnoticable in Cheating in Runescape (Botting)
  • unnoticable in Finally... Minecraft Beta
  • Carmen in Cheating in Runescape (Botting)
  • Carmen in Monster Hunter Frontier (MHF) - Weapon 101
  • Random Selection of Posts

    • For all you console gamers……
    • Memes: Gamer Humor
    • Some notes on Machinima and Narrative as Ethnographic Resources for Online Ethnography: (Character, historical and travel narratives in City of Heroes, Eve Online and Ryzom in machinima)
    • Asking questions?
    • Types of MMO Players
    • The Negative Stigmatization of WoW
    • How to add a screen shot to your post.
© 2008 ANTH-3745H-A is proudly powered by WordPress
Theme designed by Roam2Rome