… in World of Warcraft’s Karazhan?
… in Middle Earth?
Where?
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Vanguard, Sigil and The Vision
I don’t want to say I called it early, but I did call it. And early.
(source post, where I blew my first Vanguard beta application cuz I was screwing around and prematurely submitted.)
Anyways, this week, all the speculation about what to do with a problem like Vanguard was resolved when it was assimilated into the Sony Online collective.
Don’t take my word for it. Let the reblogs do the talking:
f13.net — superlative job on nailing this story:
The Short and Morbid Tale of Sigil Games Online — The blood bath at Sigil Games Online when those, sans-parachutes, were shoved out of the plane. Figuratively.
Also, The Long and Morbid Tale of Sigil Games Online: Interview Edition — an interview with a freshly-fired Sigil Games employee. Interesting and engaging, but it really needs more swearing. I’d be swearing. And bitter. And probably drunk.
And there’s more! The Hub of All Blame: A Postmortem — a phone interview with McQuaid, including some pretty good gossip, but again, not nearly enough swearing. Or, presumably, drinking.
(An aside, anyone else getting a Yoko Ono vibe about the situation over there?)
Krones, of Plaguelands, wrote some sizzling commentary that I enjoyed (includes swearing):
Sigil collapses like a house of cards
Official: SOE scoops up Vanguard and about half of Sigil’s former staff — SOE’s Smedley announces the changes afoot for Vanguard.
Ex-Vanguard dev throws it down in a tell-all interview
Bonus! details from Grouchy Gamer: Brad McQuaid Abandoned Vanguard, Sigil — includes swearing and bitterness.
Lots of entertaining reading.
My favorite part was using a lackey to fire everyone. That’s sooo messed up.
Meeting New Game Friends
I am making friends FAST in Lord of the Rings Online:
Admittedly, my new friend has anger issues, but who doesn’t?
(I had range-pulled a trash mob — one of DOZENS available — while my new burglar friend was still setting up his stealth and opening moves.)
From the World of Warcraft forums, I spotted this soon-to-be-deleted thread (and it was):
(click for full-size redacted image)
I just wanted to let the realm know that i am not the original owner of this account. as many of you know the original owner of this character died a few months back several days after he was hit by a drunk driver. i am one of his brothers friends and the account was recently given to me. i do not know the he had on this server but i wanted to let the server know that its not him playing.
Riiiiiiight.
Doesn’t it seem like the first thing a deceased gamer’s family does is sell off his/her game accounts? So many (reportedly) dead gamers over the years — without fail, their accounts are up on the auction block almost immediately, sometimes within days of the death.
Damn disrespectful if you ask me.