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• Patch 5.4 PTR: Sound files rife with spoilers

  WoW Insider

  19 Jun 2013 | 5:19 pm

  Our friend Stevan over at Adriacraft has been busy doing what he does best, and trawling the patch 5.4 PTR build that just went live, and he's unearthed some sound files that can only be described as spoiler-heavy. They're so spoiler-heavy that we've put the whole lot after the break, so head on down if you are OK with some seriously heavy spoilers. If you are not OK with spoilers, do not hit the break, do not listen to the audio, do not read the comments. Instead, enjoy this lovely shaman. And what's more, this is datamining. Datamining is encouraging players to draw conclusions from files…

• Emergency AFK? 6 Ways to Handle It Like a Pro

  World of Matticus

  Matticus

  18 Jun 2013 | 7:00 am

  Have you ever heard of the perfect storm of raiding? Not a single cloud in the sky. Calm and steady waves. You have enough players present even though 1 or 2 players have signed out for the day. But you can’t quite shake that feeling it’s just too good to be true. For us, it started out much the same. But then, a series of unfortunate events occurred. Lodur had a computer shortage. I had to race through the streets to pick up mom. Some people were going to be a little late due to overtime at work. We were ultimately left standing with 22 people. What could we do until everyone had…

• Top 10 in the Android: Netrunner 2013 Regionals

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  Tuna

  10 Jun 2013 | 2:08 pm

  After my last Regional Tournament, I had about a week to prepare myself for the Android: Netrunner Regional that was taking place just 15 minutes away from me in the City of Brotherly Love. Having almost win the Star Wars LCG Regionals, I was determined to put a good showing for Android: Netrunner. Especially now that it is taking place on my home turf. I had already had two decks in which I’ve been playing with regularly during game nights with the local players, but I didn’t get a chance to mess around with the newest Data Pack yet, Future Proof. I’ve been running…

• A Disconnect on F2P

  Blessing of Kings

  Rohan

  17 Jun 2013 | 10:31 pm

  First off, check out this article by Klepsacovic. Money quote: Sell a man a fish and you feed him for a day; offer a man a free fish and an inexpensive fishing class and he'll get really pissed off and starve to death instead.  Because he's stupid. Brilliantly encapsulates a lot of the forum chatter about F2P. I often think there is a disconnect between how players think F2P works, and how companies think F2P works. You can tell what a company thinks about F2P not by what they say, but by what they offer for sale. Let's say that we have a subscription game. The earnings…

• [GW2] Progressing Wuv

  Kill Ten Rats

  Ravious

  19 Jun 2013 | 8:56 am

  Mrs. Ravious has been smitten with the idea of getting the legendary weapon, Kudzu. She’s only been playing her first MMO ever for a few months, and already she’s a huge fan of Dulfy, has notes all over her desk on resource nodes and “best places to…”, and she has a hand drawn spreadsheet for her legendary. I married the right woman. Still, it’s going to be a hard, long road for us casual hardcore players. The best chunk of getting a legendary is the Gift of Mastery. This is where players just play the game as intended. Gain levels, explore the word, play events, and kill lesser…

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  WoW Insider

• Patch 5.4 PTR: Sound files rife with spoilers

  19 Jun 2013 | 5:19 pm

  Our friend Stevan over at Adriacraft has been busy doing what he does best, and trawling the patch 5.4 PTR build that just went live, and he's unearthed some sound files that can only be described as spoiler-heavy. They're so spoiler-heavy that we've put the whole lot after the break, so head on down if you are OK with some seriously heavy spoilers. If you are not OK with spoilers, do not hit the break, do not listen to the audio, do not read the comments. Instead, enjoy this lovely shaman. And what's more, this is datamining. Datamining is encouraging players to draw conclusions from files…

• Enter to win World of Warcraft: Dark Riders

  19 Jun 2013 | 5:00 pm

  Have you ever wondered just what's up with the Dark Riders of Deadwind Pass? Now's your chance to find out. We've got not one, but two hardcover copies of World of Warcraft: Dark Riders to give away. The latest graphic novel to hit the shelves courtesy of DC Comics, Dark Riders is written by Mike Costa and features some amazing art by Neil Googe. It's 144 pages of Alliance entertainment, filling in the gaps in the story of the mysterious Scythe of Elune, as well as the mystery of the Dark Riders themselves. Thanks to Blizzard Entertainment, we've got a couple of these graphic novels to give…

• Congressional report says you 'may' owe taxes on your WoW income

  19 Jun 2013 | 4:00 pm

  If you're a World of Warcraft or Diablo 3 player, the federal government would like to have a word with you. Congress's U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), at the request of Senators Max Baucus (D-MT) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT), just wrote and filed a 23-page report on the tax implications of earning gold in MMORPGs. Seriously. The report, titled "Virtual Economies and Currencies," focuses on buying, using, and selling virtual currencies like WoW gold. The key takeaway for World of Warcraft players is that the in-game economy is a "closed-flow system" -- because you can't exchange your…

• Eight Years in Azeroth: Slaying internet dragons and guild management

  19 Jun 2013 | 3:00 pm

  One of the hottest reads in the World of Warcraft communityright now is Shawn Holmes's Eight Years in Azeroth. Old-school players chuckle along with details that today's players wouldn't recognize as coming from WoW. Guild leaders nod in agreement at scenarios that replay over and over in guilds throughout WoW. New players gawk at raiding conventions and gameplay that feels entirely different from the game we know today. "It was 'slaying internet dragons' mixed liberally with a crash course in leadership and team management," Holmes told WoW Insider. "I went from a player who barely…

• WoW Moviewatch: Nobody's Quest Episode 4

  19 Jun 2013 | 2:00 pm

  The fourth episode of Nobody's Quest brings us some more sweet, sweet, difficult-to-animate combat. Not only does Ninth Batter step up with more humor and plot action, but we finally see the dark heritage of our gnome protagonist. More importantly, we get some conflict with the villain. It'll be interesting to see where this story ends up going. There's been such a lack of story-driven machinima for so long, I hope that Ninth is getting enough of a reception to keep going for a while. This kind of weekly series is a huge amount of work, and I'm thankful to see something a little different…

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  World of Matticus

• Emergency AFK? 6 Ways to Handle It Like a Pro

  Matticus

  18 Jun 2013 | 7:00 am

  Have you ever heard of the perfect storm of raiding? Not a single cloud in the sky. Calm and steady waves. You have enough players present even though 1 or 2 players have signed out for the day. But you can’t quite shake that feeling it’s just too good to be true. For us, it started out much the same. But then, a series of unfortunate events occurred. Lodur had a computer shortage. I had to race through the streets to pick up mom. Some people were going to be a little late due to overtime at work. We were ultimately left standing with 22 people. What could we do until everyone had…

• Do I Really Need to Run 3 Raids a Week?

  Matticus

  12 Jun 2013 | 11:23 pm

  If you haven’t checked it out yet, WoW Insider has started releasing a series of weekly Google Hangout videos. On the WoW Hangout, it’s a group of us WoW Insider folks talking about different topics on a week to week basis. This week, we talked about Flex raids. One of the questions posed was “Do you think it’s going to be mandatory for players to run three sets of raids? Isn’t that extreme?” I wanted to expand on my answers. It all comes down to what you want out of this game. Over the years, there’s been this mad rush to get your character as geared out as possible so that you…

• Patch 5.4 Preliminary Priest Thoughts

  Matticus

  12 Jun 2013 | 7:30 am

  General Leap of Faith no longer has a facing requirement. Say hello to the no-look life grip! I promise, I will only use this power against trolls. In all due seriousness, it’s a minor quality of life change. I can move and face the direction I want to go and not have to whip my camera around mid movement to pull a fellow player away from danger. Talents Angelic Feather now increases allies’ movement speed by 80%, up from 60% and the feathers have a duration of 10 minutes, up from 5 minutes. Divine Insight for Discipline Priests now has a 100% chance to activate its effect after using…

• Why the Flex Raid is a Boon

  Matticus

  7 Jun 2013 | 9:46 am

  I recently purchased a Flex plan from my cell company where I’d be charged monthly based on the amount of data I actually used. I don’t know if I’ll always be near a wireless access point or not but at least the charges will scale accordingly. Speaking of Flex plans, Blizzard’s taking a page out of that book and introduced a new type of raiding: The Flex Raid difficulty. We can bring anywhere from 10 – 25 people and the bosses will scale. We can invite friends from other realms via battle tag Item level is between raid finder and normal but loot will be handled via raid finder loot…

• Lei Shen: A Hollow Victory

  Matticus

  2 Jun 2013 | 2:18 am

  This was more of an “about time” feeling then a “YES, WE GOT IT” feeling. I always knew Lei Shen was within our grasp. But something always came up that got in the way of really getting it. We yo-yo’d from wiping on first intermissions to 2% wipes with a debuff stack of 110 on the final phase and back. The attempts were never really ever consistent but I did what I could to try to keep the groups static and in the same positions. The lineup shuffled from raid to raid, but if even 18+ players were in the same spots with the same players, they would be able to get…

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  Spicytunas

• Top 10 in the Android: Netrunner 2013 Regionals

  Tuna

  10 Jun 2013 | 2:08 pm

  After my last Regional Tournament, I had about a week to prepare myself for the Android: Netrunner Regional that was taking place just 15 minutes away from me in the City of Brotherly Love. Having almost win the Star Wars LCG Regionals, I was determined to put a good showing for Android: Netrunner. Especially now that it is taking place on my home turf. I had already had two decks in which I’ve been playing with regularly during game nights with the local players, but I didn’t get a chance to mess around with the newest Data Pack yet, Future Proof. I’ve been running…

• Runner-up in the Star Wars LCG 2013 Regionals

  Tuna

  30 May 2013 | 11:36 pm

  Fantasy Flight Games had kicked off their 2013 Regional Tournaments earlier in April, featuring some of their popular games. Out of all the games which had a Regional Tournament, I only play the Star Wars LCG, Star Wars: X-Wing, Android Netrunner LCG, and a Game of Thrones LCG. I got into Star Wars: X-Wing a little too late, and have missed pretty much all the Regional Tournaments that are near me. The one I could have attended to, I had a wedding to go to, so I missed out. Maybe next year! However, I managed to find a Regional Tournament near my parent’s house last weekend, and also…

• Unboxing of the Lord of the Rings LCG

  Tuna

  22 May 2013 | 9:23 am

  Yay new toy! If you’re like me, you can’t wait to run home and and rip the wrapping off any new purchase. So after my adventure to Middle-Earth the other day, here is my new plaything. Only a few pictures though… I was too excited and ended up just ripping the thing open and punching out all the components. As usual, Fantasy Flight Games gives you a big enough box to any future expansions and chapter packs. For now, it looks like I can just fit the core set, and maybe a few chapter packs down that center channel of the box. In the future if I’m running low on space, it…

• Tuna Tries out the Lord of the Rings LCG

  Tuna

  20 May 2013 | 10:50 am

  So I was at my local game shop the other day to pick up a few packs of sleeves, when I saw that they were demoing the Lord of the Rings: The Card Game. I figured, why not give it a try? I’m glad I did. The game can be played solo, or up to 4 players, cooperatively. Ooh a co-op game, I need me some of them. You construct yourself a deck, based on three heroes that you choose from, and use those heroes and the deck, to win against a chosen objective, that also comes with its own pre-constructed deck. At first I thought each game will be played like, take the Ring to Mt. Doom, win/fail.

• X-Wing: Miniatures Game Storage Solutions

  Tuna

  17 May 2013 | 4:16 pm

  If you are like me, you have bought yourself a few extra expansions to go along with your core sets; and now you will need to find a place to store them. There are many different parts to the game, and you will want to find a place to keep them organized and protected. Good news for you, there are a few options you can go. Storage Solution #1: The cheapest way you can do this is with Plano Tackle Boxes. Yes, you heard me correctly, tackle boxes. Not only are they perfect for holding various fishing accessories, they are perfect for hold X-Wing Miniatures too! You can find them at your local…

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  Blessing of Kings

• A Disconnect on F2P

  Rohan

  17 Jun 2013 | 10:31 pm

  First off, check out this article by Klepsacovic. Money quote: Sell a man a fish and you feed him for a day; offer a man a free fish and an inexpensive fishing class and he'll get really pissed off and starve to death instead.  Because he's stupid. Brilliantly encapsulates a lot of the forum chatter about F2P. I often think there is a disconnect between how players think F2P works, and how companies think F2P works. You can tell what a company thinks about F2P not by what they say, but by what they offer for sale. Let's say that we have a subscription game. The earnings…

• Exclusivity

  Rohan

  12 Jun 2013 | 10:35 pm

  I've seen a lot of discussion lately about making content more exclusive, especially in light of Raid Finder and Flexible Raids. It occurs to me that everyone arguing for more exclusive content just so happens to be in a position to do that content. Perhaps Blizzard should make more exclusive content. I suggest they start with a long, lore-filled questline with amazing rewards. However, you can only access this questline if your account, on any character, has never killed a raid boss in normal or heroic.  And if you do kill a normal or heroic boss afterwards, the rewards become unusable.

• Flexible Raiding

  Rohan

  10 Jun 2013 | 10:16 pm

  I'm really glad I got in that post on Variable Group Size instead of sitting on it for a while like I normally do. So Blizzard is introducing Flexible Raids, which can have 10 to 25 players and scale in difficulty. This will be interesting to see. I think it will be a success, but I also think it will end up cannibalizing Normal mode raiding. Removing modes is never very popular, but I can see the next expac having Raid Finder, Flexible Raids (with a slight difficulty increase at the top end) and Heroic Raiding (with a slight difficulty decrease at the bottom end. I think the administrative…

• Eve Online, Women, and Avatars

  Rohan

  6 Jun 2013 | 10:20 pm

  You've probably seen the news that Eve Online is only 4% female. Naturally the blogosphere is brimming with reasons why this is so. In my mind, there's probably no one reason that contributes to the lack. There's probably several reasons, each chipping away at the potential audience. For example, if the ceiling for female participation in an MMO is 40%, maybe Eve loses 5% because it's hard scifi instead of fantasy, 5% because it emphasizes PvP, 10% because of the horrible reputation of its players, 5% because it's boring, and so on.  (All numbers made up, just illustrating that a series…

• Defiance First Impressions

  Rohan

  5 Jun 2013 | 10:28 pm

  On the weekend I picked up Trion's third-person shooter MMO, Defiance. I gather it's tied into a television show, but I don't watch that show. I assume all the named NPCs are characters on the show. It's a Buy-To-Play game so far, but I'm not entirely sure what else is sold. Maybe some boosts, cosmetic items and new episodic missions. Defiance is an excellent game, but with one significant flaw. Mechanically, it's very sound. The game feels like a shooter, like you are in control of your actions, and it's more skill than stats. Now I don't play a lot of shooters, so keep that in mind. The…

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  Kill Ten Rats

• [GW2] Progressing Wuv

  Ravious

  19 Jun 2013 | 8:56 am

  Mrs. Ravious has been smitten with the idea of getting the legendary weapon, Kudzu. She’s only been playing her first MMO ever for a few months, and already she’s a huge fan of Dulfy, has notes all over her desk on resource nodes and “best places to…”, and she has a hand drawn spreadsheet for her legendary. I married the right woman. Still, it’s going to be a hard, long road for us casual hardcore players. The best chunk of getting a legendary is the Gift of Mastery. This is where players just play the game as intended. Gain levels, explore the word, play events, and kill lesser…

• 500 / 23 = ~22

  Zubon

  17 Jun 2013 | 10:02 pm

  I have argued before that seeing a game’s achievements tells you a bit about how the developers expect you to play and therefore whether you are likely to enjoy their game design. Even without explicit categories, you can see that a game awards achievements for beating the game, for 100% completion, for beating bosses with one hand tied behind your back, for exploring all the corners of the game, for killing 10 million rats, etc. It says something about the game or the developers if there are hundreds of achievements or they skew towards one category. In Prime World: Defenders, 46/80…

• [LoL] Toxicity Case Study

  Zubon

  16 Jun 2013 | 10:02 pm

  We had a request for League of Legends Tribunal highlights, and SynCaine linked to a guildmate’s post. I clicked a few “warning” punishments from my case history, and this one stood out. You can view Tribunal records even if you are not a logged-in LoL player, but just in case this link does not work for you, let me give you a transcript of what the reported player said in the first game. The below transcript, plus being reported 14 more times in 4 other games, will get you a warning. The language used is likely inappropriate for workplace reading, but then you are already…

• [LoL] Leaving

  Zubon

  15 Jun 2013 | 10:02 pm

  I am back to having 4v5 games 50% of the time in League of Legends, so I am giving it up for at least a few months. It is a roaring mix of people who never connect to the game, miss the first 5-10 minutes, AFK after one tower goes town, intentionally feed, wait at base for 200 gold, or (to take my last example) have their mothers tell them to come eat dinner 20 minutes into a game. Whatever system discourages leaving games has no visible impact. It is tolerant, because technical problems happen. You need to accumulate some number of offenses before action will be considered, and then…

• [LoL] Efficient Communication

  Zubon

  15 Jun 2013 | 5:13 am

  League of Legends has a simple vocabulary for praise and abuse. “That” before something means “is very good or inherently overpowered.” “This” before something means “is very bad or inherently useless.” You’re in the middle of a game and don’t have time to type a lot of invective, but the most important thing in the world is making sure other people know you are better than them at online games, so you can quickly insult your teammates with “this cait” to make sure everyone knows that your team is only losing because…

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  Stropp's World

• Titan: Vaporware Forever

  Stropp

  29 May 2013 | 2:15 am

  I’m back! I finished my holiday road trip last Friday with 6750km and four major Aussie cities covered over 21 day period. The last couple days were fairly long, Friday was 10.5 hours on the road. So I need a vacation to recover! I haven’t really looked at the game news much over that time, and over the last few days either. But todays news, that Blizzard is retooling their unannounced mystery MMO codenamed Titan; moving 70 of the 100 developers off the project and into other projects while the core team rethink the whole thing really got my attention. How long has Titan been…

• Taking Another Trip

  Stropp

  2 May 2013 | 7:14 am

  It’s been a while since I had a break, three and a half actually. So I decided to take a short drive. The route is in blue, and runs counter-clockwise from Adelaide to Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, all the way up to Rockhampton and then inland back to home. The main purpose is to destressify, but also to catch up with friends in Sydney and Brisbane. As I said, it’s been over three years since I had a real break. There have been a few times when business has slowed down, but that tended to be a worry not a holiday. I leave on Saturday morning and get back three weeks later. If…

• The Old Reader : Is my hunt ended?

  Stropp

  6 Apr 2013 | 7:11 am

  My search for a feed reader to replace the soon to be retired Google reader may be at an end. As I’ve previously posted, finding a decent cloud based feed reader has been a bit of a trial. Readers such as Feedly which has gained a lot of users since Google’s announcement are desktop or browser plugin based, and the cloud options such as Netvibes have been completely unsatisfactory. I guess the Google Reader spoiled me a bit. I am now trialing The Old Reader. This is a cloud/web based reader which is what I want, and it is based on the original Google Reader. It was put together by…

• Do You Preorder?

  Stropp

  4 Apr 2013 | 8:06 pm

  The last game I preordered was Age of Conan. At least that’s the last game I remember preordering. I haven’t done so since, not because of any issues with preordering games, or the games themselves but simply because I haven’t felt the need to do so. Although I have felt a tinge of jealousy from time to time with players getting into the head start periods just before a game officially opens to the masses. Especially when I read blog posts from other bloggers who are all having a fine old time. I guess the other factor holding me back from the preorder purchase is the old…

• Darkfall Unholy Wars Announcement

  Stropp

  4 Apr 2013 | 6:07 pm

  Just received this from Aventurine. Darkfall Unholy Wars Launch – April 16 Thu, 04/04/2013 – 13:09 Darkfall Unholy Wars will launch on April 16th after 5 months in beta. During beta, we addressed many issues through 8 major updates, did a lot of work on game balance and game polish, increased game performance on all levels, added new features like salvaging, changed the way character progression works through Prowess Points,  -effectively eliminating macroing gains and ensuring that characters progress only by playing the game- added a new role, the Primalist and completed the…

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  Two, and three.

• My garden, it grows.

  7 Jun 2013 | 7:45 am

  I still haven't been in the mood to write, but I am quite pleased with my container garden this year.Pictures ...Miniorc's tomato plant. Four baby tomatoes so far.Orclette's strawberry plant. She's actually gotten quite a few and has enjoyed being able to pick them, wash them off, and then eat the product of her labor.Overall view of our front porch. Damm thinks it looks messy, I think it's not messy enough. I'll eventually have a jungle of a garden when I have the time and space.

• Silence.

  10 May 2013 | 4:27 am

  I haven't felt much like writing, journaling or even texting. I'm guessing this is another phase of numbness, another step along the grieving path. The grief is a part of me now, something I let out every once in a while so that it doesn't build up too much.I wrote something in my journal one day after going to church on Sunday. Church was hard during the singing. It's as if I'm staring at heaven, knowing Cayden is there and how good it is, and it uplifts and breaks my heart at the same time. I've been savoring this poignancy since it is one that does not overwhelm me and it is a source of…

• The Maker's Diet: it makes so much sense.

  15 Apr 2013 | 5:19 am

  For those of you not familiar with Joel Rubin's The Maker's Diet it's a Creationist lifestyle that parallels the Primal/Paleo lifestyle (they both end up at similar ending points but are based on different premises). I've talked about it but never actually read his book (I think I skimmed it at one point). I'm still not through the whole thing-I read a chapter yesterday filled with terms I hadn't heard before and came out of it knowing only that phytates are bad. The rest of it went over my head.The book was written to illustrate Rubin's fight with Crohn's, which he very nearly died from…

• I have found yet another side effect to having had a MC (not sad, just frustrating). Paleo diet, anyone?

  5 Apr 2013 | 4:52 am

  I mean, other than the emotional and physical weirdness that occurs and that is completely normal. What I didn't expect was to suddenly gain three pounds and then not be able to take it off. I'm currently nine pounds heavier than I was pre-Cayden.At this point if I expressed my angst most people would say not to worry about it, that I've been through a trauma and it just takes a while to go back to normal. I know this. It doesn't really help. For me, and I'm sure for countless others, getting back to normal, whatever that was for you, is a way of reasserting control in a situation that is out…

• Our night with the arrested dudes. Or rather, in the ER.

  29 Mar 2013 | 4:25 am

  Have I shared the story of how I took the Miniorc to the ER for the worst diaper rash case in history? He had just been born. My mother and I were exhausted (Damm was in AIT) and perhaps not thinking entirely rationally. He had been uncomfortable, crying and not sleeping. When my mom changed his diaper she saw blood, so of course we were in full emergency mode. I had no idea who to call so we went to the ER, where we found out it was a diaper rash. While we were there, though, we got to experience the antics of someone completely drunk or high (not sure which) who was bursting through room…

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  Tobold's Blog

• The death of the physical disc

  Tobold Stoutfoot

  19 Jun 2013 | 11:45 pm

  Buying a game on a physical disc has some advantages: You don't need a internet connection to install and play that game, you can resell the disc, or you can take it and play it elsewhere. A physical disc also has disadvantages: You need to leave your house to buy it, you can lose or damage it, it takes physical space to store it, and every time you want to switch games you need to change discs. Physical discs also have a big disadvantage for the game company making them: They cost money to make, and too many middle-men and used game resellers make money of it that doesn't go to the game…

• Microsoft backpedals

  Tobold Stoutfoot

  19 Jun 2013 | 9:57 pm

  I would have liked to see how DRM actually affects purchase behaviour, but it is not to be: Microsoft backpedalled and removed the restrictions from the XBone, apparently feeling the heat from bad E3 publicity. The Xbox One will now *not* need an internet connection once a day, and will play used (and pirated) games just fine. You still need internet once to set up the console when you buy it, but that is it. In fact there is now nearly no difference between the XBone and the PS4 regarding DRM. What Microsoft didn't do, and which I think will hurt them much more, is lowering the price of…

• A turn-based tactical revival

  Tobold Stoutfoot

  19 Jun 2013 | 12:37 am

  If you ask fans of the genre to list great turn-based tactical games, you will almost invariably end up with a list of titles running on consoles, most of them handheld. On the PC the arrival of real-time strategy games in the 90's pretty much killed the turn-based genre, except for a few classics like Heroes of Might & Magic that kept producing sequels. But in the last couple of years something happened to the world of video games: The rise of the small game development studio. Both Steam on the PC and the App Stores for iOS, Android, and Windows 8 created viable distribution channels…

• Financing games with Free2Play

  Tobold Stoutfoot

  18 Jun 2013 | 1:54 am

  If you are contemplating a career in programming games, you need to be aware that it isn't necessarily easier or has shorter hours than programming let's say financial software, but it pays a lot less. But even with rampant exploitation of games developers and the willingness of some people to create games for peanuts, at the end of the month people need some sort of income to pay for food, their car, and their mortgage. There have been plenty of examples of game companies which at some point weren't able to pay salaries any more and went bust. And there have been plenty of examples of online…

• Why Card Hunter is unique

  Tobold Stoutfoot

  17 Jun 2013 | 11:58 pm

  From questions in the comments section I realized I didn't do a very good job to explain what Card Hunter is to all those not in the closed beta. When people hear that it is a mix between a turn-based tactical board game and a trading card game, they think of games they know which have that sort of elements. So lets go back a bit in history, to Magic the Gathering, the original trading card game. In MtG the two opponents play cards, each one on his side of the table. Many cards stay on the table, especially the creatures that then attack the opponent. In Magic it doesn't matter where exactly…

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  World of Warcast: A World of Warcraft Podcast

• Episode 149, "Won the wisk"

  13 Jun 2013 | 9:29 pm

  News: Flex raiding announced minutes after the last show 5.4 Updated Garrosh Model, 5.4 World Changes, Jun 10 Hotfixes, Blue Posts, GW2 Shoutcasts Massive world changes in Vale No more Golden Lotus dailies New Garrosh model Changes in Orgrimmar Flexible Raiding lockouts and queues clarified Area 52 server has a login queue of 1300! Proving grounds Virtual Realms Mike: Soloed as much as I had time for Tempest Keep was easy. Brought over my lock Eric: Streamapalooza light week because of e3 Emails

• Episode 148, "I've been in this theater for 37 days"

  6 Jun 2013 | 5:49 pm

  News: Character services 50% off this week WoW movie to start filming in early 2014 New Battle.net desktop client datamined Blizzard will be at San Diego Comic-Con Diablo 3 coming to the Xbox 360 (and PS3) September 3rd EverQuest Next teaser photo posted Mike: How to solo BWL PvP back on my mage Trying to finish up xmog sets for my rogue Eric: Kaelthas solo as monk Ahone - rare The arbitrary nature of world PUGs I game standing up Emails

• Episode 147, "And a Bloodwing ain’t one"

  30 May 2013 | 8:17 pm

  News: New mount: Armored Bloodwing WoW Insider Poll /played (by expac) http://www.wowhead.com/news=213612/blizzard-on-titan-official-statement Mike: Shadow Dance nerfed. May go Assassin spec. What to do when you’re capped - Motes of Harmony - Trade for Justice points - get xmog gear - Gems - Mounts Pug low MMR groups Haven’t started doing LFR, but will. Played with a new opening rotation. Works...sometimes Tried OpenRaid Eric: Nal’lak the Ripper, Blackhoof, Bonobos, MAJOR NANNERS and DEGU wtf plus: lewts Back to Brawler’s Guild - Challenge Cards. Me and Mecha Bruce Brawler’s Fanfare…

• Episode 146, "Azeroth gang signs"

  23 May 2013 | 5:57 pm

  Patch 5.3! New scenarios New pets New weekly New pet Dungeon set gear Lesser charms and DS1 pieces from mobs New Battleground - Deepwind Gorge Loot specializations Massive PvP changes Everyone gets 65% resilience PvP Power gem stats cut in half iLvl 522 PvE gear makes Tyr gear irrelevant All gear scaled to 496 IN BGs Old school raid changes Voidbringers are back Mike: AV weekend meant lots of wins, at the beginning. Full HP gear, 2 pieces of Tyr gear The Hordebreaker Debating on what to do about this whole WPvP issue Eric: Darkspear Revolutionary farming in Barrens new helm 489 Heroic…

• Episode 145, "I've never farmed while doing a show"

  16 May 2013 | 6:17 pm

  News: 5.3 will allow you to farm low-levels in Pandaria!! Only works for miners and herbalists. 10 of a low-level item makes one ore. Should this work for tailors and skinners somehow? Ghostcrawler on the "sweet spot" in trying to keep people from unsubbing. And yes, the loss was due to MMOs in China How to survive on a PvP server Mike: Worked on getting my rogue to 90, which I did. Leatherworking up. Spent time cleaning out my bags. Lots of stuff that never sold. Eric: Running lowbies thru instances (instance lock is account wide) More tank practicing

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  I Sheep Things

• Why I won’t be getting an Xbox One

  Aurdon

  4 Jun 2013 | 3:02 pm

  Good lord its been awhile hasn’t it…Anywho… Had a discussion with another gamer few days back on the Xbox One and how I think the console is just awful.  That can be summed up in this shortened version of the reveal. TV Sports Call of Duty Give me a break…none of those things interest me.  The whole reason I bought a Xbox 360 was to play kinect games with my kids. So I was very excited to see some of the new kinect features.  Heartbeat sensor!?! Wait…I remember something about that tech from an earlier MIT video (Found here).  Hmmm… Kind of cool I guess…

• Get another golden key in Borderlands 2!!!

  Aurdon

  21 Sep 2012 | 1:36 pm

  So Borderlands has been out for a few days now and I’m sure most who have played it have logged enough hours to make it to the central hub town of Sanctuary.  In there you’ll find a mysterious golden chest that can only be opened by….wait for it…..waaaaaait…….A GOLDEN KEY!   If you preordered the game you should have been rewarded with the Borderlands 2 Premiere Club DLC which grants you this golden key among other perks.  In this golden chest you’ll find a highly valuable weapon based upon your current character level.  Open at level 10…

• Diablo 3: Infernal Machine

  Aurdon

  14 Sep 2012 | 1:40 pm

  Yesterday Blizzard let us in on a Sneak Peek of what is coming for Patch 1.0.5 around defense changes and a new event called Infernal Machine.  They are continuing their habit of nerfing what needs to be nerfed but mostly buffing players and skills.  What intrigued me was the new event they mentioned which is the Infernal Machine. New Event: Infernal Machine The Infernal Machine is a device that will allow level-60 players to battle “uber” versions of some of Sanctuary’s most nefarious bosses. While the rewards for defeating these bosses will be great, some assembly is required. What…

• Zombies, Run! App Review

  Aurdon

  1 Aug 2012 | 8:43 am

  I turned 31 less than a month ago and I really am kinda feeling that if I don’t create healthy habits now, its going to be too late.  I’ve given up elevators and carbonated sugar beverages (Beer is still on the menu!) so those tiny baby steps are helping.  Still I need to add in exercise and I need to do it my way…the digital way. OK so I had heard about this kick starter awhile back and kind of forgot about it.  When looking at the most popular Health and Fitness apps, this pops back up on my radar.  Well I was kinda concerned about the price tag ($7.99) if it would…

• Diablo 3: The transaction has timed out.

  Aurdon

  24 May 2012 | 8:29 am

    So is anyone surprised…..at all….that Blizzard has decided to push the real money auction house (RMAH) off twice now?   The first said “no we’ve decided not to have it at launch but soon after…” then not much longer after the fun filled “error 37″ launch they said “As we mentioned earlier this week, we’ve decided to move out our target launch for the real-money auction house beyond our original estimated date of May 22…Our new estimated date for the launch of this new system is Tuesday, May 29.”  So do you think…

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  Too Many Annas

• Blast from the Twisted Nether

  Anna

  26 May 2013 | 9:46 pm

  Huge thanks to the Twisted Nether Blogcast for having me on as a guest for their episode 200. I think it’s amazing that they’ve made it this far, and a testament to their commitment to the blogging community of Warcraft. I was originally a guest on episode 10, and then did several roundtable posts, and it was always a ton of fun. Getting back on skype with them was a blast from the past, and was really a good time. For anyone coming here for the first time via the show notes, there aren’t a ton of NEW posts, but if you’re interested in RP or in story writing, there are…

• Tiniest of (Gnomish) updates

  Anna

  25 Feb 2013 | 7:13 am

  I’ve decided, after no small amount of back-and-forth, to put my energy behind Annie Mae to be my second max character this expansion (with Angoleth likely to be third). I can’t really get into Shaman gameplay, so Annorah is going to take a back seat. This is as much an RP decision as anything, since from a logistics standpoint I’m essentially leveling a second plate DPS character, so my farming for flasks and potions is going to overlap. Still, Annie is the character I have been feeling most attached to, of the alts, and I miss having her around for RP. Of course, you can…

• Realization

  Anna

  9 Jan 2013 | 4:33 pm

  I no longer enjoy WoW’s endgame content. I like raiding, and the raids in Pandaria so far have been interesting. But I am no longer all that interested in the rest of the endgame. This is OK, because Pandaria is, in a lot of ways, a totally different endgame than has existed before in WoW. It’s been hinting that direction since Wrath, but there’s a new paradigm in place. And I don’t really like it. I like being able to be done with a character. I like being able to do my farming for mats, do a heroic or two for valor points, and be ready to raid each week. Now, if I…

• A Few Friday Links

  Anna

  4 Jan 2013 | 2:02 pm

  I’m still getting my head on straight after the holidays, which involved throwing two parties, taking two road trips, and miraculously avoiding having the flu. As such, here are a few interesting things I’ve been reading that you might like reading too: Tarquin has the second part of his series on roleplaying “The Secret Sauce” up at Dorkadia. Another good read. Navi has a trick to powerlevel a pet to 25 in 8 battles over at The Daily Frostwolf. I still don’t have any pets above 15, but the strategy is one I’ll definitely be keeping in mind. The Big Butted…

• The Secret Sauce of Roleplaying

  Anna

  10 Dec 2012 | 5:48 am

  I am remiss in not linking to it earlier, but you should check out the inimitable Tarquin’s article on Roleplaying and why it’s awesome, over at Dorkadia. He’s starting a series there on roleplaying in general, and this is the first post of that series. It’s definitely worth a read. ***Thanks for reading this post from Too Many Annas. May the Loot-Fu be with you***The Secret Sauce of Roleplaying

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  TyphoonAndrew's - Eye of the Storm

• New Blacksmith transmute in 5.4, old one is now pointless

  typhoonandrew

  18 Jun 2013 | 6:32 pm

  The new transmute for Blacksmiths in patch 5.4 is the Balanced Trillium Ingot (BTI). This transmute basically renders the older Lightning Steel Ingot (LSI) introduced to craft the new weapons from ilevel 489 to 503 defunct. So thanks. BS was handed a transmute for vanity and downgrades on the patch content, and then given another. Screw off developers, this seems like a very short and shitty merry-go-round of mindless transmutes with no forward planning. What ever happened to giving progression through a profession, where materials and patterns progress? A leads to B, then C, etc. In essence…

• A good time to return

  typhoonandrew

  17 Jun 2013 | 2:54 pm

  If the banter around flex raids is true, then patch 5.4 will be a good time for players to return to WoW, particularly if they are members of a guild like ours. I know, that sounds like a recruitment post. It’s not especially one, but more players and characters are welcome. What I mean is our guild is one which has a very dedicated raid team who sometimes used to have trouble with numbers. We now also have slightly more darn good raiders than we can fit in an ideal x10 man composition, and an additional growing number of more casual members who love to raid but also play wow in a less…

• Slowly is the only way to go

  typhoonandrew

  16 Jun 2013 | 5:22 pm

  Thanks to a guildie (hello Tarc) I have completed the Nalak phase of the Legendary quest and am now killing bosses again in Throne of Thunder LFR for the x12 bling-things part. Twelve, that is better than Twenty; right? Well yes and no. There is no indication that the drop rate is better or worse, unless you suspect that the change to an auto-drop from Lei-Shen might indicate that these little tokens were even more rare that the 20x odd of the previous type. I got the first one last night from Lei-Shen and I guess I’m ok with it taking 12 weeks to get the others. I like Legendaries to…

• Wildstar actually sounds interesting

  typhoonandrew

  14 Jun 2013 | 5:33 pm

  The more tangential information I read on Wildstar the more I think it might be trying to approach a different audience and supply a different game. A few things sound interesting, like having playstyle pathways where you pick the style of challenge you want, and the game as aspects built especially for that style. If you like combat, you kill monsters. Prefer discovery, then be challenged to find nooks and special areas. I also like the art style of the game. Having an overtly cartoon world means the rendering could be sympathetic to longevity in graphics, and also potentially avoids the…

• The Vale gets smashed!

  typhoonandrew

  13 Jun 2013 | 12:49 am

  New pics from wowhead’s digging on the ptr shows the Vale smashed up and broken. This is great. The baddies actually responded to us stuffing around on their doorsteps. View all these and more on Wowhead Filed under: Warcraft Tagged: 5.4, Mogu, ptr, Sha, Vale, wow, wowhead

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  The 'mental Shaman

• Gaming Without Guides and Choice Penalties

  Pewter

  24 May 2013 | 5:34 am

  As yet another case of MMO Ennui and Real-life-oh-so-fucking-busy-I-don’t-have-the-brain-power-to-game-itis set in, I sadly reflected on the happy hours I used to pour into gaming. That energy used to come in the form of gaming, but it also came in the form of creating and collaborating, either as an Officer in Immortalis, my Warcraft guild, or as a blogger and podcaster during my days at The Obscurecast. Part of what I found fun about gaming was in knowing things and being able to share what I had found out. That could take the form of experience and wisdom about handling the foibles…

• [MMOs] A Little Less Conversation – A Little More Action Please

  Pewter

  17 Nov 2012 | 3:00 pm

  In my last post I ranted at length about how Guild Wars 2 launched without any conversation starters. Now I don’t mean ‘talking points’, such as how the low-level armour for casters was a little off-putting (I mean really, you want my bad-ass Norn to wear frilly knickers?) What I’m referring to is the lack of ‘social nudges’. I pondered on this topic a little bit in the Guild Wars 2 specific post, but it’s obviously still on my mind. I love to converse with my friends, especially in person. I used to enjoy gaming with friends, but for whatever reason…

• [GW2] Guilds, friendlists, and social media – social apparatus in MMOs

  Pewter

  31 Aug 2012 | 6:11 am

  When I talk about social apparatus, I mean the functions within games that we use to communicate, coordinate, and structure our social interactions. I think this is an area that is often under-developed in newly launched MMOs, and is sadly stunted in established games due to the complexity of improving legacy systems. This is not about social engineering, or telling players how they should interact with each other, but about giving players the tools to organize and communicate effectively. This is a long-standing bug-bear of mine, ever since the Real ID debacle in World of Warcraft, but has…

• [GW2] Some quick thoughts from early access

  Pewter

  25 Aug 2012 | 2:42 pm

  Just a few things that have been on my mind since I started playing on the live servers. Save up for that 3pt Healing Skill The default one is fine, but man alive, the 3 point one will kick it’s ass and make your life so much easier during early levelling. I am playing a Norn warrior, and the 3pt healing skill is a regen passive with a flat rate heal. The default scales with your adrenaline. Buy gathering tools immediately Not only is it an easy way to make money, once the Trading Post works, but it’s necessary for any of your eventual trade skills. This is probably obvious to…

• [WoW] That guy in the trailer looks familiar

  Pewter

  17 Aug 2012 | 7:34 am

  I, like others, was disappointed in the lack of women in the cinematic. A bit of me thinks is because they can work out the animation of a male orc, but that level of animation of a warrior female orc would be a challenge to get right for the majority of audiences. However, they did something very deliberate with that trailer. What would have been easier for them would have been reviving the orc and elf that battle in the cinematic for World of Warcraft. Yet they did not chose to resurrect the night druid. Instead they invoked the classic image from the box of Tides of Darkness. Okay, so the…

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  Recent Questions :: EpicAdvice for World of Warcraft

• Curious about Barrens Chat Radio

  17 Jun 2013 | 4:11 pm

  I've been hearing something about a Barrens Chat Radio Live and unedited. Anyone have any info on this?

• My hunter needs help with dps.

  13 Jun 2013 | 6:46 am

  What is a good single target rotation for a survival hunter?

• My hunter needs help with dps.

  13 Jun 2013 | 6:45 am

  What is a good single target rotation for a survival hunter?

• Any way to auto-accept / autojoin LFR queue invites?

  1 May 2013 | 4:47 pm

  It sucks to miss an lfr invite, just because you leave the room for a few minutes (for bathroom in example). So I'm looking for a way to auto accept the invite or something else ...

• Are "fury swipes" AOE?

  19 Jun 2012 | 12:25 pm

  The talent descriptions doesn't say it's aoe or not but the name "swipes" suggests that it is. So does fury swipes hit more than one target?

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  MMO Gypsy

• What can the MMO “console trend” do for us PC players?

  Syl

  19 Jun 2013 | 10:06 am

  So I ranted briefly in my last post on how The Elder Scrolls Online was pushed back to 2014 because of next-gen console availability. From a PC gamers point of view – and that’s where I am going to play my MMOs in the foreseeable future – that’s not the worst however that may come from the popular marriage between different systems in our favorite genre. The fact that consoles are becoming more and more like PCs doesn’t really change that. In their most recent podcast episode, Chris from Game by Night / MMORPG.com and Ferrel from Epic Slant Press discuss the…

• Wildstar and why I don’t like the Explorer path

  Syl

  16 Jun 2013 | 9:21 pm

  Just when I thought I was pretty much not going to play Wildstar this year, Zenimax Online dropped the bomb and announced that The Elder Scrolls Online release date would be pushed back to spring 2014, to meet the launch date of Sony and Microsoft’s next-generation consoles. That’s one of the many things this “MMOs go console”-trend is gonna do for us in the future: delay stuff. Porting to different systems, creating individual interfaces and testing everything cross-platform takes time. Well, great. If it meant that the MMO community is growing, I could probably live…

• Off the Chest: E3 console wars, more GW2 events and Rift going F2P

  Syl

  13 Jun 2013 | 10:49 am

  Summer has finally found its way to my place which is why this week was generally dedicated to sudden-heat-lethargy and watching E3 streams until late, late into the night. Morning really. And how much fun that was when my entire twitterverse was watching the big Sony reveal this last Tuesday “together” – booing (who cares about the PS Vita?), cheering and mostly snickering for good reason. E3: Revival of the Console Wars It wasn’t hard to leverage on Microsoft’s recent lapses in regard to their Xbox ONE policies and general marketing angle, but Sony literally…

• Battle Bards – Episode #4: Lord of the Rings Online with Chance Thomas

  Syl

  30 May 2013 | 6:04 am

  It doesn’t happen every day that you get the opportunity to not only get together with other soundtrack geeks but such illustrious guests as Chance Thomas, composer for the official LOTRO OST and many beloved a LOTRO tune out there. It was particularly hard to come up with favorite picks for this show! Thankfully, Chance had insights and anecdotes to share in abundance (even for those tracks composed mainly by Steve DiGregorio), so it was with a sad heart that we called an end to such a wonderful session after one and a half hours. For those of you looking to read more about Chance…

• Videogames, Repetition and the Subconscious Mind

  Syl

  29 May 2013 | 11:44 am

  Anita Sarkeesian published her second part of the Damsel in Distress trope on youtube last night and after initial hiccups (as in a bunch of her haters getting the video auto-banned thanks to spamming report buttons), I was able to watch what turns out to be the grimmest of her documentaries so far. I recommend watching it not just for the general insight however but to experience the intended repetition in this video, the repeated descriptions of tropes such as “…the X is brutally murdered and you then have to rescue your daughter” (starting at 07:40) which incidentally…

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  Jaded Alt

• #Neverwinter Open Beta

  Windsoar

  10 Jun 2013 | 5:31 am

    Over the weekend, I decided to give Neverwinter, now in open beta, a test drive and see how it was playing and how the gameworld was shaping up.  Apparently, I’m liking it… a lot…as a good chunk of my weekend got sucked into running around city and surrounding environs! In true D&D style, I began by rolling up a character, a cleric in my case, and fortunately for me and my horrible luck with any kind of randomness, I had the option to keep tumbling the dice until I was happy with the weight distribution of my stats. I picked some presets on the skins, and jumped…

• #TSW Buzzing Along

  Windsoar

  29 Apr 2013 | 5:59 am

  Recently The Secret World joined the massive hordes of MMO’s that have switched over to a F2P model. For 30 bucks, I figured it was worth checking out, so I spent a day downloading and started myself a new character. While I can say that there are many minor annoyances which I will get into later, TSW definitely lives up to the fun, and I can only say: I wish I’d picked it up sooner. Since I got to shoot a handy assault rifle in my introduction to the game, I figured I’d stick to that, and set myself up a Templar gunslinger and started exploring. There’s a ton to…

• A Change of P(l)ace

  Windsoar

  7 Apr 2013 | 2:01 am

  Life changes. It baffles, amazes, and challenges us with its constant gyrations and demands. While I’m still playing my beloved MMO’s, I’ve have yet again hung up the towel with WoW. I didn’t notice it at first, with my own absences, and those cannot be helped absences from others, but after a month of no raiding, I realized another month had passed without me logging on… and then a second. While WoW has a lot to offer to the enthusiast, I discovered that I no longer fit the profile. Coupled with some drastic changes in my personal life, I realized I wanted a…

• The Method

  Windsoar

  29 Dec 2012 | 11:09 pm

  Although I’m generally pretty good about giving a nice picture and the list of addons I use, I thought I’d take a moment to discuss the method behind the madness. I always find, when breaking down a new UI, that I can probably get away with ~6 core addons, with the rest being a bunch of fluff that I enjoy for making my screen prettier or making a task in-game easier. If you missed the last post, this is my current UI. The changes (for those who *did* see the last post) are my failure to update my DBM skin and a play session with Grid2 which I’m test driving (and enjoying..

• MoP: State of the UI (Includes Restoration Druid Weak Auras)

  Windsoar

  11 Dec 2012 | 2:11 pm

  As much as I love my Remix UI, I’ve been having a number of issues with Stuf this expansion, and decided to rebuild my UI around a new set of unit frames: oUF Karma. A slight twist on the stacking ideal found in Quse, I find that I really like the slight offset to provide more nooks and crannies to hide various auras that I’d like to track. I’ve also updated my strings for my restoration druid Weak Auras, as well as a full listing of addons. The UI Addon List _NPCScan: _NPCScan Overlay AdiBags Ampere Aurora AutoConfirmRoll Bartender 4 BattlePetCount bChat Clique DBM…

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  Cold's Gold Factory - World of Warcraft Auction House & Gold Tips

• Ultimate Zombie Lovers Gift Guide - Part 2

  Scott Smith

  8 Jun 2013 | 10:44 am

  GIFTS FOR GAMERS - A weekly column at Cold's Gold Factory that focuses on bringing you some of the coolest gifts for gamers of all types. Remember to check back here for ideas for Gamer Birthday Gifts, Stocking Stuffers for Gamers, and Gamer Christmas Ideas. Zombie Night Before Christmas The Ultimate Zombie Lovers Gift Guide has been one of the most popular Gifts for Gamers posts that I have done, so I decided to write a follow-up as there are now a bunch of really awesome new gifts for zombie fans available.  As always, you can hover over the links to see images of the products, just…

• Eviscerated Gaming Podcast #50 - "Episode 50!"

  Scott Smith

  4 Jun 2013 | 4:50 pm

  The Eviscerated Gaming Podcast Episode #50 - "Episode 50!" For the 50th episode of The Eviscerated Gaming Podcast, we're joined by a returning guest, Nev from Auction House Addict & She Rides Dragons.  We find out what Nev's been up to and how Rez faired in the Global Pet Battle League Tournament. Show Notes, Discussion Topics, & Links Close Shave In Public Top Schemes Used By Drug Mules Peek-a-Poo WoWProfitz's CrossRealm Podcast #10 with Guest: Rez Rez gives us the GPBL Results & Rundown. Listener Suggested: Wow-Petopia for Pet Information Speed Leveling Your First Pet…

• Gifts For Gamers: JVC Xtreme-Xplosivs Headphones (My Favorites)

  Scott Smith

  3 Jun 2013 | 3:24 pm

  Gifts For Gamers: JVC Xtreme-Xplosivs In Ear Headphones Everyone needs a pair of good quality headphones.  Whether you are listening to music, playing video games, using Skype on your smartphone, or listening to your favorite podcasts (like Eviscerated or Electronic Education), you should have a nice sounding, durable pair of headphones. After getting my iPhone, I needed to replace the next to no bass response basic iPhone earbuds asap.  I searched long and hard for a pair of heavy hitting bass response earbuds that were affordable and had a durable build to them.  After a lot…

• Eviscerated Gaming Podcast #49 - "Animal Lovers FTW"

  Scott Smith

  28 May 2013 | 2:39 pm

  The Eviscerated Gaming PodcastEpisode #49 - "Animal Lovers FTW" This new episode of the World of Warcraft Podcast, Eviscerated, can be found on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, and on the host site at Eviscerated.net - Eviscerated - Ep #49. On episode #49, R9z and I cover 2 main discussion topics:  5.3 pet battle changes and our top 5 WoW resource sites.  We go over our top 5 sites for World of Warcraft and each discuss why we like them, what they are good for, and how we use them ourselves.  Since we are covering the pet battle changes in WoW Patch 5.3, of course we lead into the…

• Eviscerated Gaming Podcast #48 - "A Cry For Help w/ WoWProfitz"

  Scott Smith

  14 May 2013 | 1:46 pm

  The Eviscerated Gaming Podcast Episode #48 - "A Cry For Help w/ WoWProfitz" Episode #48 is available on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, and at Eviscerated.net. This week we have another awesome guest on the podcast with us.  We have none other than the crazy clown from Twitter, WoWProfitz, also of WoWProfitz.com.  We share some crazy news stories, discuss World of Warcraft, gold making, blogging, & podcasting.  This is another great and funny episode and one not to be missed.  Show Notes, Discussion Topics, & Links: Framing the Cat - Don't blame the kitty! Pork…

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  Auction House Addict

• How To Take Your Gold With You When You Transfer Servers

  9 Jun 2013 | 11:30 am

  This month is the first month that Selltacular over at Copper to Gold blog is hosting the monthly Gold Blogging Carnival, having taken over from Cold at Cold's Gold Factory. As he says in his post, the topic of server transfers has been very common on Twitter & various forums over the last few months & Blizzard must have been listening as this week, they have had a 50% off character services sale. If you were to transfer servers and could take only one toon, which one would you take and why? What goods would you use to transport all of your gold over the 50k transfer cap? My choice of…

• Time for a Change?

  5 Jun 2013 | 9:28 am

  I may have to streamline my packing! I mentioned in an earlier post that I was considering moving an alt from my current server in search of a higher population one. There's two main reasons for this with a few lesser reasons too.  I've also mentioned before that my guild is on life-support, just waiting for someone to pull the plug but I really don't want to do that so I figured moving 1 high level alt with 2 professions would let me dive straight in on a new server & would also let me experience an Auction House on a higher population realm. One of the lesser reasons is that I…

• Boo! Guess Who's Still Alive?

  31 May 2013 | 1:18 pm

  Yup, I'm still alive but getting my butt kicked in real life a bit. I had no idea it had been over a month since I posted here & probably has been that long since I logged into WoW too. Like many on my Twitter feed, I downloaded Neverwinter to 'have a look' and I've got hooked. I haven't ended my WoW subscription though & I'm putting out a call for ideas. Having fallen so far behind with gearing & following storyline through all these fast patch releases, I feel kind of useless in game. My confidence isn't the greatest in the first place & being undergeared &…

• What's Been Selling This Week?

  24 Apr 2013 | 1:22 pm

  It's been a couple of weeks since I last posted my weekly sales pics and 2 very slow weeks they were too! This new job is really cutting into my energy to actually play the game right now, to the point where I don't even relist my auctions some evenings.  But I made a bit of an effort over the weekend & did a whole bunch of crafting so hopefully this current week will be a bit better. As you can see, the Black Pepper Ribs & Shrimp continues to sell well even though I've picked up some competition on the other 4 types of +300 buff foods. I've managed to maintain the price at…

• Help Richard Harlow See Again - pt 2

  14 Apr 2013 | 6:06 am

  A couple of weeks ago, I published a post about Richard Harlow aka @demonicric - a WoW player who is legally blind but still manages to play his warlock using various addons & a lot of determination. I made the mistake of including a bit of a rant in that post which didn't start the drama but sure as hell didn't help either! I have a feeling all the drama has turned some people away from this fundraising so I wanted to do a second post to highlight Richard's plight & ask everyone to find it in their hearts & pockets to make a donation now, regardless of the personalities…