Game Politics

Posted on May 16, 2012 at 1:29 pm by Scary

After debating about Diablo DRM all day yesterday and realizing we all don’t play a game for some reason at some time (Ordon Scott Card can lick my Firefall balls), I understood why people won’t play Diablo. The odd thing is, all of my real life gamers could give a shit less about all these debates. All of them are not blog hoppers or forum readers so they are a bit ignorant when it comes to information. I’m starting to think this is the way to go. All of them loved Diablo because it is FUN.

I asked them about their thoughts on DRM and the single player game being online. Every single one of them didn’t give a shit. They didn’t even know what DRM was. I talked about the game only being able to play online and possible lag in a single player game, they loved it because they could easily group with their friends and it removed cheating. They had some lag at times, but it didn’t bother them. They knew it was the first day and shit happens. They were enjoying the game for being a game and they weren’t burdened by the politics that come with games. I was a bit jealous of them.

Thinking back to my DRM chats and how much people hate it, I just wish I didn’t know about it. People like me ignore great games because they have a beef with DRM or asshats like Orson. I chose to quit Firefall over a childish thing. Ok Orson is a dick, but he is not a rapist, killer, pedophile, or some unspeakable monster, he is a guy like me with his morals. Blizzard is a company, but they have morals too. They want to make money. They want to keep players online for DRM and they want to make sure people don’t cheat so it isn’t fun for the majority. We are the minority.

I’m not going to miss out on a great game because Failcom made it or a developer wears a white hood on Sunday. That is just ruining my life experience. We nitpick at games to find reasons not to play them, but why can’t we say “I don’t want to because their morals conflict with mine.” We can’t because we are caught up in the politics of gaming. It is our passion and when we are passionate about something, we want all of our friends to side with us and agree with us. It’s our nature to feel like we are part of a family.

Some might say being ignorant is the problem with the games that are made today. Companies charge $150 for a CE because the fans will buy it. Driving up the cost and screwing the rest of us that are not as fannie. Companies make a single player game only online because it holds the players accountable for integrity when they really just are covering up the DRM needs. Companies push beta quality games out in hopes the hype will pay their bills before players find out they bought crap. Companies make games for people to have fun, but its really just a job to put food on their plate. Companies…

On and on we can go with how evil companies are, but in the end we are just hurting ourselves. We are becoming jaded and hateful towards something we loved. We see the ignorant sitting around enjoying a game we despise because we know a homophobic made it. We are the problem not the ignorant that are willing to throw money at an “evil” company. Evil is only our perception of that company for various reasons we depict, not them.

I wish I was ignorant of all this crap, then maybe I could enjoy the games more without worrying about THAT problem.

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Guild Wars 2 Pleasures

Posted on May 9, 2012 at 5:56 pm by Scary

I’ve been thinking since the last Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend Event, I think I’m in love.

The day after the BWE, I was sitting on my couch picking morsels out of my teeth from a filling meal of GW2 and reminiscing. That is when I accidentally sniffed my fingers coming out of my mouth and it hit me, she was a good time. I took several more whiffs and thought of how she pleasured me. The tangy sent took me back to the weekend banging away at each other.

Normally I like to be in control, but I gave into her freaky ways and let her be the big spoon. She liked to tam me from behind unexpectedly. We didn’t stand toe to toe casting sexual spells at each other, we dodged and weaved until she had me gasping, fighting for my life.

I jerked spells off all over her to get back up. When I succeeded, I was up fighting her aschard as before. She was difficult to master, but rewarding when my massive club nailed her. Tussling with her was like nothing I’ve experienced before. One minute I would slip into my vanilla ways and the next she had me from behind ramming me to the ground. I had to make her know I was in control. I had to learn to control her and touch her the right way. A way I wasn’t used to.

Feverishly, I pounded away with my fingers trying to get her to scream in pleasure. After long hours of jackhammering away, I was sweaty and exhausted. I was amazed at how well she kept coming. She was insanely dynamic in every way. I think she was more than I could handle in one weekend.

I must have spent hour playing with her beautiful top. I just wanted to touch every mountain top and lick the moist dew off the round tips. She was that beautiful. I had to adventure below if I wanted to experience everything she had to offer.

I found myself in a cave. I felt every ounce of my being quiver with excitement as I pulled my sword out and ventured into the darkness randomly thrusting away just for fun. She was deep, but I knew I could find the bottom. The cave was so warm feeling and I knew all of it was just as beautiful as the top. I just wanted to rush to the end shooting gobs of spells off, but I knew I had to take my time and enjoy this newfound pleasure. I knew the next weekend I spend with her could be months away and I didn’t want to prematurely finish.

I felt like I died and went to heaven, several times. By the end of the weekend every bone in my body was raw with pleasure. Sitting on the couch smelling the tips of my excitement in my fingers, made me realize we had something special.

I know out of experience, I shouldn’t get too attached so quickly. I’ve felt this way too many times before and I’ve just gotten myself hurt in the end. Soon she’ll move in with me. Then, i’ll notice one mountain is not as big as the other. Her caves will just feel reamed out and not worth the effort. Just the little things will slowly add up until one day I smell my fingers again. The rotten oder of my unwashed hand will fill my nostrils and make me sick. That is when I slowly start ignoring her.

There is alway somebody new knocking at my door. I try not to cheat, but I’m addicted to the first touch. I know this is my fault and not hers, but I can’t help myself. I know for a fact she might smell like roses now, but tomorrow she will smell like road kill.

Right now, I’m in love and I know the future might be different. I know I will get comfortable with her and not have that loving feeling every time she wants to be played with, but I’m prepared for the future this time. I’m ready to wash my hands and move on, but for now I am just going to sit here on the couch and remember everything perfect about her. One sniff at a time.

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NBI: Advice You Don’t Want to Hear

Posted on May 8, 2012 at 7:01 pm by Scary

Most bloggers will blow rose colored smoke up your ass. I’m not here to make blogging look glamorous or fill your head with ponies vomiting rainbows turing into ponies vomiting rainbows. I’m going to give you the cold hard truth. You’re not going to like it, but if you still want to blog after this post, you NEED to blog after this post.

Here is my list of do’s, don’t, myths, and whatnot. At the end you’ll understand how they all are facts if blogging is where you heart is.

1. Don’t swear blogging… Fuck you! Do what ever the hell you want. Swear don’t swear, who gives a shit it’s your blog.

2. Don’t worry about hits… You WILL worry about hits. You are blogging and the purpose of blogging it to get attention. You want hits even if you lie to yourself.

3. Edit your brains out… If you love editing have a nut. If you just want to write and editing is a chore, don’t edit who cares. What, are you afraid somebody is going to call you out? Fuck them!

4. Adsense… If you want to be famous and make money blogging, go back to school, get your head out of your ass and do NOT blog.

5. Comment on other blogs to get noticed… What are you an egotistical dick? Comment on other blogs because you love what they are saying.

6. Link other blogs to get link backsies… Only if you mean it. Don’t just regurgitate what they are saying. Add to what they say or you’re not blogging, you’re link whoring.

7. Add pictures to break up your post… Again, if you want to. Don’t do something if you don’t want to. The most famous blogger I know doesn’t add a single picture, EVER.

8. Take advice from other bloggers… Lol, they are just as clueless as you are. That is why they are blogging. We just like to hear the voice inside our head.

9. Add key words in your title or post to get hits… Yeah and sacrifice your soul for a flaming bag of shit. Write words that mean something not words that drive traffic to you.

10. Blog because you love to blog… Exactly! All the other advice you’ll ever get is bullshit thrown at you to make you think blogging is some kind of Holy Grail. It’s a fucking DIARY ON LINE! Write what your heart feels and don’t censor a damn thing. This is your space to be you. You’re not some game journalist. You’re a 12 year old girl that was just French kissed by the zit faced boy next door and you hope he touches your tits tomorrow.

Use blogging to practice to become a game journalist if you want, but you better love it or you’ll fail. Blogging is all about your love and passion for writing. Leave your dreams of grandeur and riches at the door. Buy a lottery ticket, you’ll have a better chance to hit it big.

Grow some balls and write what you love. This post has swears, I’ll check to see if I get hits, I didn’t edit it at all, I didn’t comment on a single blog today, I didn’t link anybody, no ads, opposite what other bloggers tell you, no key words, and I loved every fucking word I wrote.

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Pay-to-Beta (P2B) test

Posted on May 8, 2012 at 5:41 pm by Scary

Remember when beta tests were to test the games for bugs, glitches, and anything else that might be FUBAR? Yeah, those days are over for the most part. Most games have a beta/alpha core testing group and the flesh test group.

Most of the time most people get in the flesh testvgroup of beta testing. It’s the test where they just need your mindless flesh to log on and take up space on their server. It’s almost as important as the beta/alpha core, but not so smart.

Slowly companies have been moving away from really testers and more into flesh testers. Along with the mindless hordes of people comes a market for frivolous spending. This is where pre-purchase comes in, but why stop there?


If people are going to throw money at a game for weekend beta testing and $150 Collector’s Editions, why don’t the companies take testing 1 step further? I have a couple ways they can make a buck and fill a fleshy grave on their servers.

Make beta testing a new way to pay to play. Notch and Mindcraft proved this is a very lucrative business model. Make people pay for the game months or years in advance and let them play it. Here are a few ways to get a little extra out of the consumer’s pocket:

1. Charge for levels of beta testing-

A. Weekend Event Tester: pre-purchase the game

B. All weekend tester: pre-purchase Deluxe Edition plus $10

C. Core beta/alpha tester: pre-purchase Collector’s Edition plus $10

D. Character(s) not wiped in beta testing if pre-purchased CE: An extra $10-$20 per character you want saved.

2. Charge to just to test no pre-purchase required-

A. Weekend tester: $10 a weekend

B. Full time tester: $20 a month

With pre-purchase the new thing, I don’t see why customers don’t have the option to pay-to-beta. I know I would be willing to pay to test games I’m interested in. Not only does the gamer get to test a game they are salivating over, the company gets a little extra funds to pay their bills. I see it as a win/win.

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NBI is Stupid ! That’s Why I’m Farming Gold in WoW with Your Fat Feminist Mother.

Posted on May 4, 2012 at 3:49 pm by Scary

Now, that’s a title!

One of the most important things about blogging is your title. Your title is the first thing people see. It is what attracts them to your blog in the first place. Without a catchy title, people will ignore your post all together.

Today, I am going to give you tips on titles and examples of how to liven up your title. These are just examples and should not be used on your blog. Trust me, I will hunt you down and feed you to possums. Possums don’t seem too vicious, but after they spend 10 hours of playing dead next to you, they’re going to want a snack.

Here are my 5 sure-fire ways to attract readers to your blog, simply because of your title:

1. Always use the name of a popular game in your title. For instance, if you are talking about a boring game like Champions Online you’ll want your title to read: “The secrets of gold farming in WoW reviled!”

Of course your post has nothing to do with WoW or gold, but if your first sentence in the post reads: “WoW good farming is stupid, so I’m going to talk about what I did in CO last night, instead.” See, you just made your post relevant to WoW gold farming. I call that a post win!

2. Your title should piss people off. You can be the most polite person in the world and your post be all rainbows and ponies, but you need to get your reader emotionally invested before they start reading. Here is an example: “Feminists don’t play MMOs because they whine too much”

As you can see, that might piss a lot of people off. As long as you follow up in the first sentence with: “B@$#h, be crazy anyways. You don’t want her playing our games!”

You should be totally fine, then. Nobody will second guess your authority and they will gladly visit your blog for many years to come.

3. Everybody knows a popular post has politics in the title. Even if you hate politics and know nothing about them, you should add key political phrases in your title. Here is a good title: “Romney blows Obama Away in the polls like SWTOR does WoW!”

The great thing about this title is, you don’t need a follow up sentence. The title alone explains you are talking about video games and how smart you are that you can link it with current political events. After a title like that, nobody will question anything you say in the post. You could even tell people SWTOR has more subscribers than WoW. Nobody will care because you are smarter than them.

4. Flat out lie. Who needs facts, charts, statistics, and concrete evidence when you can just lie about it in your title. Yeah, you can redeem yourself by researching the truth for the meat of your post, but why bother, you’re doing great without it. A great title would be: “GW2 announce over 1 billion interested in playing their game at launch.”

Obviously, we all know that is a lie. You can easily regain the trust of your reader in the first sentence by simply saying, “In China.” Your reader will bonk their head, grab a V8 from Jackie Chan, and read your post like Budda said it himself.

5. I saved the best tip for last. This advice will get you millions of hits and thousands of comments. All because you had an epic title. It is brilliant, so hold on to your Cheetoes!

Call another blogger out in your title. Oh, and make sure he/she is more popular than you. You want all their readers to run at you with torches and pitch forks. A great and simple title would be: “Syp is an Idiot and he can’t blog his way out of a paper bag!”

I am telling you, you will have so many visitors and comments, you’ll have to start a new blog and change your name. It would be that awesome. You would get so much email, Google would want stock in you. As for a follow up sentence, there is no need, the title speaks for itself. Shoot, you don’t even need a post at all with that title. Syncaine would want you to adopt him. The world of MMO blogging would be yours to rule.

Well, I think that is enough great advice to get you started on the best blogging adventure of your life. With my tips, you’ll be the most popular blogger ever. Try not to use them all at once though, too much too fast could blow up in your face. Just look at Lindsey Lohan.

(Disclaimer: Seriously, don’t do any of these. If you do, you’re stupid! I am not to be trusted. Your Momma!)

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NBI Tips: Mobile Blogging

Posted on May 3, 2012 at 4:27 pm by Scary

Before I get started on my Newbie Blogger Initiative (NBI) tips post, I would like to give you all a little background on myself. It will help you understand why I am writing this for the newbie blogger and what it takes to be a mobile blogger.

About 4 years ago I was psychotically interested in Warhammer Online. I loved Mythic and wanted to go streaking with Tweety, Mark Jacobs, and Drew Barrymore. Don’t worry, streaking is just a metaphor for letting it all hang out and having a good time. I know Tweety and Drew never worked on WAR, but I’ve always though hanging out with a really cool gamer woman, the (former) CEO of Mythic, and the hottest woman on Earth, would be one heck of a night to remember.

Anyways, at that time I started reading blogs for the first time in my life. Some how I tripped over Syp’s blog WAAAGH! The way he wrote and his great personality inspired me to start a blog of my own. Shoot, I still couldn’t grasp what a blog really was, let alone put my thoughts out on the Internet, but I did. Out of ignorance or shear stupidity, I started my own WAR blog titled, The Order of Destruction.

At that time there was no NBI and I was just flopping around blogs like a fish out of water. Nobody was there to cheer me on, hold my hand or give me advice. I just did it. I wish I had help. I went to the bookstore and bought Blogging for Dummies and strayed reading it. Most of it was for business trying to get noticed, so I stopped reading it at page 2. Yeah, that was a waste of money.

To make matters worse, I was a very busy family man going through a divorce with 3 kids and trying to date for the first time in 10 years. I didn’t have time to write like everybody else. I knew I wanted to write and I needed to find a way to do it. That is about the time I bought an iPhone.

Back then the app store was brand new, there were no apps for blogging and cut & paste was not a feature for the iPhone yet . I decided to try anyways. I wrote straight from the WordPress website, zooming in and out to see what I wrote. Trust me, I made millions of mistakes, I still do. It was hard, but I posted at least 4 times a week for the first 8 months.

Of course I was afraid my writing sucked and people would know I was uneducated because my grammar was horrible, but I still did it. To this day, I still blog from my iPhone. The way I do it has changed, but every word on my blog is from my phone. For 4 years I wrote, over 870,000 words, on 4 blogs, with 2 iPhones, competed NaNoWriMo, and constantly 1 sustained passion for MMOs and writing.

With that persistence and dedication, I think I am worthy to give a new blogger some advice on how to mobile blog. Over the past 4 years these are some of the most valuable things I’ve learned about mobile blogging. I hope this helps you if you ever decide to take up the torch of mobile blogging.

1. You are not perfect and you never will be. Mistakes happen and if someone calls you out on them, be polite and thank them. It’s ok and the best thing to do is learn from it and learn from your readers.

2. Apps are good in some ways and worthless in others. I bought the top rated App in the App store and it has annoying glitches. I can’t trust it at all. I’ve lost several posts to it crashing and it pisses me off this day, but it works just enough to do what I need.

This is how I write:
A. I write in my iPhone notepad.
B. After editing, I copy & Paste it in my App.
C. In the App I add pictures and tags.
D. I publish it and hope for the best.

3. I write whenever I can. No I don’t write when I’m pinching off a mud dragon. I’m too busy pushing and my hands are trembling. I write when I’m on breaks, in my bed, after dinner, or driving down the interstate at 90mph (I kid). I find the time to write and my phone is always with me.

4. I use the heck out of my built in spell checker and Google. As I said, I am no English major. My phone is the perfect tool to aid me in my writing.

5. Most of all, I do it because I love to. Over the years my phone has become the only way I can write. I write upwards of 1,000 words an hour on the sucker. If I try to write on my home computer, I stare at a white screen or boot up the games I love to write about. With my phone, I don’t have those distractions.

I hope this post has shed some light on mobile blogging for you. If you really want to do it please contact me at scarybooster@gmail.com. I’ll be glad to help in any way I can.

If this is your first time reading me and you are interested in becoming a blogger, read some of my past posts. You will see the mistakes and know you have nothing to fear. I have some of the best followers on the Internet. It is not because I’m great at writing or insightful, it’s because I love to do it and my readers can feel that. There is no excuse as to why you can’t write, I find time everyday on a 3″X5″ screen.

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BLOGGERPALOOZA: Guillotine!!!!

Posted on May 3, 2012 at 8:25 am by Scary

There comes a time when we will meet our maker. It is a fact of life. What if our life was cut short unexpectedly? How would you react? What would you say with your last breath? What if your neck was in a guillotine? How would you feel then? We can all hope it never comes to that extreme of a case, but you never know what will happen in this weird world.

I wanted to capture that adrenaline filled moment for my favorite bloggers. I wanted them to look at the question and think, “What the hell?”

Today’s question to the bloggers of the MMOsphere:


4. How would you describe your life if your head was in a guillotine?

Stargrace (MMO Quests)

Fulfilling

Mykiel

hmmm….not where i expected to be, or…things did not work out as planned.

Grimnir

I was never worried about life passing me by, but of having it catch up to me and drag me down. Having a steady job, income, place to live, and all the things that go along with middle class living is fine. Just fine. Not interesting! I was far more creative when I was deciding which flavor of Ramen to eat and how I would scrounge up money for gas to get to work. There’s something about insane amounts of life-threatening stress that really allows you to let go from the real world and fall deeply into creative processes. I miss that part of it, the rest can bugger off.

Peter (Dragonchasers)

There were way too many times I took the path of least resistance and that led to not living up to my potential.

River (High Latency Life)

Fucked.

Blue Kae

Too short.

Moxie (Wild Boar Inn)

Wait, what did ever I do to get my head in this guillotine? Oh, yeah, THAT. That WAS awesome, wasn’t it?? /chop

Rowan Blaze (I Have Touched The Sky)

Cut short :P

Ardua (Echoes of Nonsense)

Lived well. Loved my loved ones. Hold me up so I can make faces at you if you chop my head off.

Spinks (Spinksville)

It’s been incredible to live through the growth of the internet and could I have a bit long-aaaaargh?

Werit

I’d go with the cliche: I did it my way.

Chris (Levelcapped)

“Too many excuses.”

Adam (Epic Slant)

Worth every moment and a bit sad to cut short when there are so many more people to meet and experiences to share.

Stillwater (Games & Geekery)

My life has been interesting. I met good people, got to know a lot about myself and I hope that blade doesn’t shoot down and sever my head.

Shadow-War

Over.

Gazimoff (Mana Obscura)

Brief!

Look for the final question for BLOGGERPALOOZA tomorrow ™ or next week idk!

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The Super NBI League

Posted on May 2, 2012 at 12:06 pm by Scary

About a month ago something strange happened at my house I will never forget. I was sitting around the dinner table talking idly to Billy Gates and Warren G Buffet, when I heard several loud bangs coming from my front door. It was very odd to me because I never get visitors on my newly acquired Never Neverland ranch. As I approached my double-dutch, diamond encrusted door with a high gloss pewter knob, I paused astonished at the sight before me.

Stretched as far as I could see, chickens littered my lawn. I was perplexed as to why so many chickens migrated to my house. The only thing I could do was to investigate the phenomenon. With my trust Shammy, I polished my knob vigorously before opening the door. Beads of sweat lined my brow like soldiers waiting to go into battle as a broke the seal to Chickentopia.

Quickly I scoured my yard for any clues. My dog Scooby showed up just in time to help me. He always seemed to know when a mystery was afoot. Before I knew it, Scooby was barking at my shrubs lining the driveway. It was slow going getting to Scooby with all the chickens pecking at my feet. After about 2 minutes of carefully punting chickens out of my way, I made it to the greenery.

Slowly with 2 fingers on each hand, I parted the bush. To my surprise there was a cock in my bush. At first I was furious at him, but upon further investigation I noticed he was dead. I picked up the poor guy and made my way back into my house. Oddly, the hens parted to make room for me to walk this time. They all bowed their little heads as I passed by them. It was a symbol of respect for their fallen rooster.

Once inside I closed the door and went straight to the kitchen before the meat spoiled. I gently laid the bird on my Egyptian, marble counter. That is when I saw the string tied around his neck. Possibly what killed him. No, it was not the string that killed him. There were no marks around his neck and no blood to suggest foul play. He just gave everything he had until he couldn’t give anymore. Behind me Warren and Bill started to sing:

“Here they come to snuff the rooster, oh yeah
Yeah here come the rooster, yeah
You know he ain’t gonna die
No, no, no, you know we ain’t gonna die”

- Alice in Chains

Years started to well up in my eyes and rhythmically drop on the breast of the cock making a drum beat noise with every tear. Without warning, the rooster sprang up onto its feet and they sang louder…

“NO, NO, NO, YOU KNOW HE AIN’T GONNA DIE”

He coughed and spat out some white, gooey mucous and in it a note. Not knowing what to do next, I pulled off my dirty sock from my foot and wiped the note clean. I unraveled it and read:


“Dear Scary,
I am in dire need of your assistance. During the month of May I would like to help new bloggers or people interested in blogging to get started. I am just one man and I need you help and the help of other gaming bloggers. If you can help please got to, NBI HQ and find out how. The Newbie Blogger Initiative is a program to help others get the tools they need to succeed in blogging and quickly feel like they are apart of our community. We are like the Justice League, but without cool powers or purple spandex. Our pens are our laser beam eyes and our annoying hype is our cape. A stupid cape, that always flaps in our eyes right when we are going to kiss the damsel in distress. But we will prevail and smooch her ever so lightly on the back of the head.

So I humbly ask you, will you help?”

Signed, Syp

Without further delay, I donned my chicken outfit and soared the night sky leaving Warren, Bill, Scooby and the rooster I named Wall Street. Higher and higher I flew thinking of the possibles this project could bring to new bloggers. I could actually help someone be like me. I could mold them into me. I could dominate the world!

So if you are an aspiring blogger that reads me, please head over to the NBI HQ and tell them I sent you. Don’t forget to tell them because I think it would be cooler if they knew I had readers :)
And good luck with your new adventure, I will always be here for you.

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GW2 Random Beta Impression

Posted on May 1, 2012 at 2:24 pm by Scary

I have a few random thoughts about GW2 I want to spew. It’s mainly a cut & past from the Multiplaying forums post I did, but I did change a few things to make it more bloggy. Here are my thoughts:

Can You Handle it?

I was running GW2 with an i7 6 core Intel, 12mb ram, 460 GTX and 2mb ram NVIDIA on ultra settings the whole weekend. I had some lag, but a patch came out that fixed that. Most of the time I had 0 lag and no hitching whatsoever. It ran super smooth for me except for the Beta Closing Event. While we were killing the Legendary White Bunny, it was like a freeze frame light show. I never saw the bunny just pew, pew, pew. The spells are really cool to see, but man it takes a lot of processing power to handle it.

That said, I was in several large scale WvW battles with hardly any lag. Once and a while during keep defense I had a bit of skipping when rangers would unite for rain of arrows. Even for beta, I was very impressed with the stability.

Auntie Flow

The worst problem, I know they will fix because there was a massive outcry, was the Overflow servers. Not the one you get logging into the game, but the zone overflows that would break up groups. What I didn’t know is Overflow servers are from all servers not just yours. If you get slapped in an overflow, you are in a random pool from the whole game. A lobby of pissed off customers. Reminded me of the DMV.

WWE Cage Match… Ummm WvW & Arena PvP

WvW and Arena PvP is awesome. If you are not sure if you want to stick with a class, hit the Arena PvP button and you get most of your level 80 spells and the exact same gear as everybody else in your class. There is no arena PvP gear grind but as you play, your gear looks more bad ass. It is like when WAR was in beta they said you could have a necklace of ears to show your kills. I never saw this in that game. GW2 is suppose to pimp you out. I wonder if that means we’ll get WoW shoulder pads?

WvW is my new crack baby. It could use some tweaks, but I think they should wait until the game has a month or so under its belt. They don’t want to drastically change it like they did WAR right before release. Too many times you see huge changes before a massive amount of people get a chance to look at it. WvW is very additive as it is right now curing beta it was always full, that is a great indicator.

The big problem with PvP is getting the hell out of it. If you went to arena PvP you constantly moved from match to match unable to leave unless you booted yourself to the Mists. Then, you had to take the 5:30 train to Albuquerque, cross 5 times zones, 1 date line, and do day light savings, just to arrive 3 days late to the place you left. Gawd forbid you were in a party you didn’t get in the same PvP match. Then when you do get back to them, you’re slapped in an Overflow server. A tiny bit frustrating to say the least.

Brothel

I was sad I was totally locked out of the Multiplaying guild on day 2 from a patch. It showed others in the guild I was in, but I couldn’t represent the guild. I do say, I did not like the idea of multiple guilds. I’m not a whore. It’s a cool concept but I feel like I’m splitting up my friends. Good news is, you can make your own guild all by yourself and have your own guild bank for extra space. It gets around the whole, “you can’t mail yourself to have a mule” thing. The idea of not having everybody I like play together bothers me a bit. I might warm up to it later, but it’s a bit odd when you get tell asking why you are not representing a guild you are the guild leader of. Ahhhh, because I was drunk and thought it was a good idea to make something. Now, I regret it because my baby is ugly? Yeah, the multi-guild thing is going to be awesome for drama.

Bobcat Goldthwait not Morgan Freeman

The voice acting was cheesy compared to SWTOR but better than most. I avoided personal stories and just clicked past it all in character creation. Every time I had a cut scene I thought of my kids playing with transformers together trying to mimic their over-the-top voices. The script wasn’t engaging to me either. I’m glad it wasn’t a huge feature for this game because that gave them a bit more cash to actually make a fun game to play.

Jackalope

A big surprise for me was the amount of creatures you can shapeshift into. I saw robots, horned rabbits, pigs, birds, welps, Naga looking things, anacondas (if you want buns hun), a probably many more I missed. I think this will replace my need for a fancy mount collection.

Blow (the drug)

The cash shop had some great stuff, but it is far from done. I logged into GW1 to get a feel for what we can expect. They have a lots of costumes, PvP maps and weapons, hero kits, combat pets, mission pack, bag slots, and character slots. I just hope they leave out the combat pets that can be used in PvP and the PvP gear. I wouldn’t mind having to pay for extra story mission packs, more PvP arenas, and a house (I’ll throw money at them for housing).

I see where ANet has locked in a way to make cash though. You can buy Gems with Gold, but your gear breaks super fast and if you rez you have to pay to go to waypoint as long as you have money. Don’t think about hording your money in a bank or getting out of it easy because if you don’t have the cash on that character, it finds it on your account. I see it very hard to make gold in this game with all the fees. I guess it keeps the Gem business flowing with real cash. It’s not a bad thing, it is just good business.

Sooooooo….

I think the game is well worth the $60 to play for a lifetime. I can see myself playing for at least a year. I played 7 classes mostly up to level 2 and PvPd them to get an end game feel. I loved all of them. I just didn’t try the guardian. The game is ready for me now, but needs a bit of time for the masses to not complain about little things under the hood. I’m just going to throw this out there because it’s how I’m feeling and I like to over exaggerate most of the time…

WoW KILLA!!!

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Guild Wars 2 BWE Pros and Cons List

Posted on April 29, 2012 at 7:21 pm by Scary

Here are my Pros and Cons list from the Beta Weekend Event. As a good tester, I posted this list on the forums. I normally don’t go to forums, but I want this game to rock.

Awe Yay! A night on the town with my bros

Pros:

  1. Love the feel of the world. It feels like it is alive and beautiful
  2. Exploring is awesome and great exp
  3. Difficulty is perfect (PLEASE DON’T NERF)
  4. The de-leveling perzone thingy is awesome and makes the game challenging even if you out level content
  5. WvW is very addictive and well thought out. The balance between attackers and defenders is perfectly the way a real life battle would take place. Defenders should always have the upper hand. There are some cons, but i’ll get to that.
  6. Arena PvP is very fun because it is not a gear grind.
  7. Chash Shop is great so far. Don’t get greedy I love the Mini’s and costumes

Don't die on me!

Cons:

  1. Like most people already said, Overflow is great idea, but seperating parties is not cool. best way to do it if you are in the real server or someone in your group and someone is placed in overflow a pop up should say: “The server is full would you like to go to an Overflow server with your party members?” Place this in the hands of the party leader or make it pop up for everybody. It doesn’t matter as long as everybody gets the option to stay together.
  2. Extensive tutorial is needed, but I am sure ANet has this just not for the beta. Focus on crafting, WvW, and what is dodge do.
  3.  There are no waypoints able to unlock after castles, quarries or whatnot in WvW. As long as it is not contested, a peaceful keep should have a waypoint. You don’t want a place under fire easy to port to to make it even more difficult for attackers.
  4. Arena PvP is great but I couldn’t figure out how to stop automatically going to next match. If there is a button make it easier to see. The only way I found out how to stop was to Travel to Mists. It might have been my stupidity, but I couldn’t see it easy and that is problem.
  5. Have buttons under PvP tabs titled: Green border zone, Blue, Red, and Battleground. So people don’t have to quick travel to Mists or LA. It is cool to see them but a pain when you just want to kick some booty. Giving people the run around is what helped hurt SWTOR’s Ilum. What a pain to get there. You want people to get where they want to go fast.
  6. Inviting people to a guild was a pain. You should be able to just right click their name without grouping with them to invite them to guild.
  7. No LFG tool for dungeons. It is important people know there are dungeons and with such a huge world, with out a list or LFG tool people will get frustrated in trying to find them then try to find a party. The whole game makes for easy travel and non grouping stuff, but the group stuff is hidden and hard to do as fast as the rest.

All and all I am glad I pre-purchased the game. I can’t wait till release.

Time to take the Guid Wars 2 plung

Classes I played (This is all personal preference):

  1.  Mesmer- will never play again. It just didn’t click for me
  2. Engineer- Was cool and I will play later, but nothing I am itching to play
  3.  Ranger- Very fun class and will be one of my first alts
  4. Thief- LOVED! My main at release

I’ll try Necro, Warrior, Elementalist, and Guardian next beta

Capital Cities:

  1. Black Citadel- Pain in booty to navigate
  2. Divinity’s Reach- Awesomely laid out
  3. LA- Very well done
  4.  Norn Capital is cool but not as sightly as the rest
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