One Game For The Price Of Three

Shouldn’t that be the other way around?

Blizzard doesn’t seem to think so.

For some reason, Blizzard have decided to release Starcraft 2 as three separate games, with the campaigns for Protoss, Terran, and Zerg each being a separate game. It also appears that each game will be released as much as a year apart.

In an interview with Blizzard Lead Producer, Chris Sigaty, MTV Multiplayer Blog goes into the reasons why Blizzard are taking this particular path.

What worries me is the multiplayer aspect. The interview tells us this about multiplayer.

However, if you want particular units for the multiplayer portion, you’ll need to buy the product that

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World of Warcraft Copies Off Warhammer Online

The last few days have seen the release of Blizzard’s Achievement system for World of Warcraft. A system that has been copied directly from Warhammer Online.

Okay. Maybe it’s not quite that bad. I am being a little facetious.

There are a lot of similarities between Warhammer’s Tome of Knowledge and Warcraft’s Achievements. But then, there are similarities between the system Warhammer uses, and the Lord of the Rings Online Achievement and Title system.

Even LotRO doesn’t get off cleanly regarding plagiarism charges. They are certainly not the first gaming system out there that has titles based on in-game achievements.

But… I reckon Lord of the Rings Online has the best achievement system I’ve seen in a MMORPG.

In

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EA’s John Riccitiello Thinks You Are A Pirate or Stupid

If you protested about Spore’s DRM, then the EA CEO reckons that about half of you are pirates.

In an interview at Gamasutra, Riccitiello says this about the people protesting the heavy handed DRM that EA included in Spore.

‘I’m guessing that half of them were pirates, and the other half were people caught up in something that they didn’t understand,” he says. “If I’d had a chance to have a conversation with them, they’d have gotten it.

Since I protested about the DRM in my article about DRM being Dumb, Rude, and Mean to the people who are actually

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Warhammer Server Chaos

Well, the last couple of days in Warhammer Online have been a bit dramatic.

Casualties Destruction guild has had a bit of a turbulent time. It turned out that our initial choice of server was also going to be inhabited by the Goons.

The Goons, for those of you who don’t know, are a guild that rose to prominence on Eve Online and has the declared aim of making life so bad for other players that they quit the game. To a Goon, that’s PvP. To everyone else that’s griefing.

The members of Casualties felt, that even if they are on the same side, we didn’t want to be associated, or even close, to them. So we decided to set up

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Warhammer Online SE Head Start Only Minutes Away

Warhammerites start your engines.

After years, months, and days of waiting, the time is almost here.

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DRM = Dumb, Rude, and Mean

Some of you might be old enough to remember back to the 80’s when computer games weren’t released on massively spacious DVDs, but came on one or more 1.4MB floppy disks. In fact the first FPS I ever played, System Shock, came on twelve (iirc) floppies. I might even still have them somewhere.

At the time, piracy was as much a problem as it was today. It was pretty easy to copy a floppy since everyone had a floppy drive. Games were routinely uploaded to bulletin board systems (BBS) for anyone with an account to download and play.

So the game publishers decided to put in some of the very early DRM features. When the game booted up, it asked a question that

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Warhammer Online Goes Live - To Two Hour Queues

Since I wasn’t able to lay my mitts on a Collectors Edition of Warhammer Online, I’m not able to start playing WAR until Tuesday evening my time (that’s provided the servers open for Standard Edition preorders of course.) However, a lot of my guildies from Casualties of WAR were fortunate enough to order, (or had enough foresight to order early,) a CE version and are currently playing.

Well some of them are anyway.

Over the last couple of days there was a lot of guild discussion going on about which servers we were going to roll on. We needed one each for Destruction and Order since there is a rule in place that prevents you from creating a character of the opposite faction

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Blogiversary 2

Two years ago today, I installed my first Wordpress blog, picked a theme, and wrote my first post. As first posts go, it wasn’t much more than a simple hello, but it was the number one.

At the time I was just starting to get interested in the whole blogging concept, and I had read a number of posts by various bloggers that the best way to start was to pick a subject that you are passionate about and just start writing. At the time I was playing way too much World of Warcraft, so I picked that.

Since then I’ve migrated away from being a simple WoW blog, to something more generalized around the MMO Games niche. I’ve been reasonably good at

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