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Nov

A day in the life of Cities of Heroes

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

I began playing Cities of Heroes sitting on the couch while eating dinner. Since I was eating, it gave me lots of time to sort through my powers and create the lore of my avatar. Since I am not a gamer, I found this part rather boring, but I could see why people enjoy it. [...]

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Tags: Avatars, city of heroes, Identity, Names, play, Trial Periods

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8

Oct

My day in Eve on line

Posted by Dak  Published in A Day in the Life

I began my adventure in Eve online by downloading the trial game from the web site.  It was at this moment that my first alarm bell started to go off because the game I downloaded wasn’t the correct game and required  a bunch of additional downloads to be playable but the game didn’t tell you [...]

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Tags: anger, Eve Online, frustration, games, Trial Periods

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25

Sep

Lists of games which support free trial periods

Posted by Paul Manning  Published in Links

A list, I am compiling with your help, of games that have free trial periods. The longest I am aware of is my own favorite, Ryzom, which has a 21 day trial period.  Yes, I am opening plugging this game. http://www.ryzom.com/en/ Other lists I have found you can browse in no particular order http://play-free-online-games.com/games/games_rpg.html MMOhut [...]

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Tags: Free, MMOs, Ryzom, Trial Periods

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