Jay Talbot’s Ramblings

Via Digg I found this story about a man who had a hard time with a rare form of cancer. When all resources through official channels failed him, his WoW guild stepped up to pull him from financial disaster.

Holy crap! Now you see? Gamers are not all gun toting, maniacal individuals who go on killing sprees. Many of them are true and honest people who find a certain satisfaction in certain types of games. There is a type of community when it comes to online gameing. If you still don’t believe me after reading this story, you need to have your head examined because then you’re just lieing to yourself.

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On June 20th, EA and Mythic Entertainment, Inc. announced that EA will acquire Mythic. A new EA Mythic will be formed.

Need I remind anyone of what they’ve done to all prior MMORPG’s? They killed them dead, dead, dead…. Yes, I mourn the loss of a good game, with many decent qualities, and well as it’s flaws. I expect that in the next two or three years, DAoC will be a ghost town, and Warhammer will either be half the game it was supposed to be, or never be released.

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By way of Digg, I found an editorial called “Where’s the RPG in MMORPG?” and it got me thinking. For starters, I never was into the pen and paper RPG’s because I had a bad experience, which left a bad taste in my mouth. I played a few of the old D&D computer games back in the day. As the original article goes, I have to agree with it. The depth of the story line and immersion of each person is what makes a good RPG. So how are we to go about puting the “RPG” into MMORPG?

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There was a time in my life when I didn’t play any MMO’s at all. It wasn’t until I was on my own that I started playing them actually. It’s my way of blowing off steam, meeting new people, it was cheap, and I had time to burn. It seems as though the time I get to spend in my favorite games grows ever smaller, being taken up by more urgent needs and wants, health being a big one. I imagine at some point I’ll have to either force time for games, or give them up completely. I don’t relish the thought of giving them up all together. So what’s a guy to do?

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Well, I don’t remember if I wrote about it or not, but a few weeks ago I reinstated my EQ accounts. Over this past weekend SOE enabled double experience, and I pretty much spent my entire weekend killing stuff and taking advantage of it on my new main, a now level 27 Druid. Not only did my druid start off at level 12, but I managed to get the next 15 levels in about 12 hours worth of work. Basically, with my hectic sleep schedule, and only getting to play a few hours a night, it was amazing I managed to get as far as I did. My girlfriend has made it pretty clear that she doesn’t like me playing games, even the little bit I do get to play. Oh well, screw her. I’ll play if I damn well want to. It’s my outlet, my only outlet, for my frustrations and the shit that’s happened to me in the last few years. Anyway, haven’t played my WoW. I’m pretty tired of the grind in either game. I would probably move to DDO if I didn’t hear it sucked so bad.

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