This post is pretty much entirely speculation and thinking out loud. I think at this point no one can deny that SWTOR has been incredibly polarizing. Quite a few people are enjoying it and will defend the game, and the folks who don’t like it… well, let’s just say they really don’t like it. I’ve [...]

While I still dawdle around in my leveling, a number of my guildies have powered on through to 50 with the bulk of them hitting the magic number some time last weekend. (As I say snottily to anyone who points out my being merely level 41, “Look, guilds don’t run themselves.” In truth I just [...]

I had a really facinating discussion on Google+ earlier this week about the use of casual homophobic slurs in gaming and why it should be actively discouraged. It made me think about this blog, and how I am hugely into the “politics” side of gaming but I rarely bring it up here. In retrospect, it [...]

The more time that elapses between me and my hardcore raiding days, the more of an MMO luddite I become. I mean, I am an internet nerd who loves working with information streams and optimizing processes, and one of the things I liked about WoW in the first place was the openness of data. How [...]

For the first week of SWTOR all I heard about was how much everyone hated Huttball. It was hardly surprising: Huttball introduces some new concepts to the instanced PvP genre, and it was a little scary and foreign to us WoW/RIFT players. (A battleground/warzone with its own skill button? WAT.) Now a few weeks later [...]

Last night Panacea hit 32 and finally finished Chapter 1 of her storyline. I tried to be all fancy and skip ahead to the Legacy Name by concentrating on the class questline and ignoring most of Alderaan’s planet quests, but that just resulted in me getting my butt kicked repeatedly by the Chapter 1 final [...]