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World Of Warcraft Gold Farming Just Got Too Big
WoW and gold farmers go together like shoes and socks, steak and potatoes, Coke and a smile, Smith and Wesson…
To say that gold farming and sales have become a problem in World of Warcraft is to say that the surface of the sun is a bit warm. The economy in that game is so utterly destroyed, it isn’t uncommon to see people asking for thousands of gold for a stack of linen, in the auction house. Linen which would, by the way, sell to a vendor for mere tenths of 1 gold.
Well, if you though gold farming was big, I have news for you. It’s gotten so big, gold farmers are now making press releases.
Upcoming F2P MMO “Age of Wushu” Has Me Curious, Skeptical
Looking around the internet at the various MMO offerings brought me to an article about Age Of Wushu, a Chinese game being produced by Snail Games and marketed as free to play. I read a little about it and took some time to peruse their well-built website and I can say 2 things struck me, right off the bat:
1) It’s pretty…very pretty.
2) I don’t get it.
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Star Wars: The Old Republic Comes Under Fire For Abuse Options
Over the past few days, SWTOR has received some harsh criticisms from various news agencies and services who are complaining about some of the options players have, in regards to how they treat their companion NPC’s in the game.
I happen to have a fairly strong opinion on the matter, as well. Read on to find out what I think about the treatment, or MIStreatment of companions.
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BioWare Confirms Swinging The Ban Hammer At Exploiters
BioWare has confirmed banning a number of player accounts for having exploited various bugs in the game’s core programming in order to gain unfair or unintended advantages for their characters.
They have also clarified (reiterated) that credit farming will not be tolerated. Read the rest of this article…
SWTOR Patch 1.0.2 In The Works
That’s right, BioWare has a substantial patch in the works, mostly cleaning up some bugs and sorting out some glitches.
The patch is currently being tested on the public test server and should be deployed to the masses shortly. Read the rest of this article…
HOLY SITH! SWTOR Hits 350,000 Concurrent Online Users
The question on the minds of many, lately, is simple. Will Star Wars : The Old Republic be able to stand on its own in the face of the giant – World of Warcraft? Since the release of the game, many people have been trying to figure out and answer that question, for any number of reasons.
For some, it’s a gauge of whether to get a subscription when their free month runs out. For others it is a gauge of whether to start playing at all. For still others, it is a gauge of the MMO market and how healthy it is today.
According to numbers showing up now, we may have some answers.
Brock Lesnar Retires From UFC Following Yet Another Loss
It was going to happen sooner or later and my bet has always been on sooner. Brock Lesnar’s weakness has been exposed and he has decided to leave the world of mixed martial arts behind, before a real fighter ends up hurting him. Read the rest of this article…
Mass Effect 3 Will Be Significantly More Difficult
Bioware has admitted that the final episode of its Mass Effect trilogy will be much more difficult than its predecessors, stating that “normal” mode in Mass Effect 3 will be as hard as “veteran” mode in the previous two releases.
Time to get your friends involved? We think so!
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News From The Front: EA’s Sights Set Firmly On Blizzard’s MMO Market Share’s Head
It’s no secret, in fact we’ve talked about it here several times. EA and Activision are at war. Activision has had a strangle hold on the FPS genre for years with its Call Of Duty franchise yet EA keeps firing away at them, chipping away their market share with their up and coming Battlefield franchise.
Now, with the release one week ago of EA/BioWare’s MMO hit Star Wars: The Old Republic, EA looks to be taking even more market share from Activision by logging huge numbers of subscriptions.
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Star Wars : The Old Republic – Space Missions Primer
Well, we’re getting to the point that most of the people who picked up SWTOR for the holidays should be getting or about to get their space ships. Of course, with great power comes great responsibility and as part of that you’re going to be expected to do space missions to help out your side.
Of course I’m flying for the Empire (I have a couple of characters who have ships at this point) and I’m enjoying the hell out of the space missions so I’ve recorded a couple and present one of them here, for you to have a look at what it’s like.
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