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Developer Appreciation: NCSoft and Carbine Studios
This was originally posted on MMO Games on 27 April 2016. It is being re-posted here to archive the work I have done in case the original website ever shuts down. This week is Developer Appreciation Week—a blogging event that began in 2010 with the intention to simply shed positive light on the gaming industry, and appreciate the game development teams that have done so much for the MMO genre. You can read more in detail about this years’ event at Tales of the Aggronaut. Belghast puts it succinctly in the introductory blog post. “The good folks in the games industry enter it because they love video games, and often times…
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Gaming Goals Review: February
I started this back in June 2015, and have been keeping up with it this past month. I’ve kept reducing my goals due to real life, and I think I hit a stride heading into December, and have kept it up for the most part. For the sake of comparison WildStar Finish Celestion achievements Get Bauxyte to level 40 Completed! Cycle through toons to burn rested EXP Completed! Upload completed Yardcore 10 Final Fantasy XIV WAR 50 FSH 30 BOT 30 MIN 30 Start working on crafting professions to clean out retainers The Secret World Try to finish out Egypt Upload completed Let’s Play 3 and 4 Blade & Soul Reach level 20 Run…
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I’m Too Sexy For Your Party
The Bunny Leotard Let’s put on a little mood music to start us off. On Thursday, Chaide and I hopped into The Secret World for some alt shenanigans. We’ve been playing Castanea and Hellviss together when we can’t have the four of the core group together for leveling purposes. Sometimes Cam will join us on a toon, and sometimes Sheae will join us on a toon. Regardless, we were playing our alts on Thursday because Sheae had some prior obligations and was unable to play. It worked out in our benefit, though. Usually when we’re playing, we’re recording for the Let’s Play videos so I can’t listen to Beyond the…
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Gaming Goals: February
I started these Gaming Goals posts back in June 2015 as a way to try to organize my gaming time around freelance obligations as well as my day-job and general life obligations. You can view the backlog of goals and reviews here. Love is in the air! And fortunes too, apparently. I think January had a good length list with both some easy and not-so-easy goals to work toward. I’m going to try to continue that flow this month. WildStar Finish Celestion achievements Get Bauxyte to level 40 Cycle through toons to burn rested EXP Upload completed Yardcore 10 Final Fantasy XIV WAR 50 FSH 30 BOT 30 MIN 30…
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Blade & Soul Internal Build: Impressions
So, the big news at the moment is that NCSoft has finally released a date for Blade & Soul to come to the West. The game will release here in December and there will be a closed beta in the fall sometime. I decided that the game sounded interesting, so I thought I’d watch the livestream over on Twitch (which is now over on YouTube) on Thursday talking about the game, and I wanted to share my impressions. First of all, if you’re interested, these are the accounts to check out. Some of the folks working on Blade & Soul are also folks working on WildStar, for instance: Omeed, Tony,…