Category Archives: Asides

A Visit to SOE

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Because I’m so skilled at finding strange and unusual internet stuff, I ran into this Flickr photo set recently of Cory Doctorow’s (Boing Boing) visit to Sony Online Entertainment in March 2005. At first, I was wondering if anyone can walk into SOE and start handling these original sketches for Star Wars Galaxies and Ultima Online (wtf!), then I did a little profile digging and all became clear. Interesting: The original EverQuest servers, now retired, and the buttass ugly furniture in the SOE reception area.

History of Azeroth

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Warcraft guild progression by server: History of Azeroth. Currently, there’s over 450 guilds reporting their progress through the endgame content — some servers have zero guilds participating, some have upwards of 19 and 20 guilds reporting. I’d say you could spy on your rival guilds with this, but I know that you already know very well where everyone on your server is because EVERY guild has a guy that just HAS to announce in guild chat when other guilds kill ThisMob or ThatMob as if we need a fooking raid ticker in chat. Meh.

Guild Wars: Factions

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NCSoft announced the upcoming release of the first expansion for Guild Wars, ETA second quarter of 2006, Guild Wars: Factions. Players can try it out, free, January 20 through January 22 — access keys for those without GW accounts are available at their site. Two new professions are in the expansion: Assassin (I’m guessing that means rogue) and Ritualist (I have no idea what that is, maybe shaman?).