http://www.darniaq.com/wordpress Avatars never die... their name just gets passed on. Mon, 09 Apr 2007 04:14:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en To those who occasionally have been visiting since my last post, I apologize for the site issues of late. Long and short everything is working again. So welcome or welcome back! http://www.darniaq.com/wordpress/2007/01/uncategorized/site-issues/ LoTRO on my old PC  AMD Athlon 2000xp (1.73gHz) 1gb RAM Sapphire Radeon 9800pro, 128mb RAM SoundBlaster Audigy Win XP Pro SP2  LoTRO on my new PC Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 (2x2.4GHz) 2gb RAM nVidia GeForce 8800, 640mb RAM SoundBlaster X-Fi Win XP Pro ... http://www.darniaq.com/wordpress/2007/01/mmo-upcoming/lotro-screens/ I love writing. That'll come as no shock to anyone with whom I've traveled these spaces with. I also loved having this blog. It was my own personal outlet, a place I could do with whatever I wanted. But the time has come to shut it down. I've learned quite ... http://www.darniaq.com/wordpress/2006/12/site/verbosity-restrained/ While they previously announced also working on 9Dragons and 2Moon, the first MMO title out of the gate for Acclaim is Bots. Standard import from our friends in the Far East. But while some may abhor the microtransaction-based business model of so many of those games, it does allow ... http://www.darniaq.com/wordpress/2006/11/mmo-live/acclaim-launches-their-first-mmo/ Got this from one of my newsfeeds, but I see Slashdot picked it up as well. Basically, a player sued an MMO company because their account was banned for long enough that their virtual goods depreciated in real world value. Here's something for you MMORPG players out there. ... http://www.darniaq.com/wordpress/2006/11/mmo-live/player-sues-mmo-and-wins/ A few years ago, many in the MMOG community foresaw a fairly steady, but shallow, growth in the overall number of players. There were a lot of reasons for this, from the sheer inability to deliver a game with the same polish and stability as an offline title, to the ... http://www.darniaq.com/wordpress/2006/11/mmo-live/gamers-want-games/ There's a lot going on, from Curt Schilling's new MMOG development studio, to Raph touching on one of my favorite futurist concepts, to the dupe bug in Second Life. I just haven't had much time to do anything but work and, well, go home and work. It really kinda bites because it's ... http://www.darniaq.com/wordpress/2006/11/life/scarce/ According to Gamasutra (by way of Raph), the MTV Networks division of Viacom is going to be the North American publisher for Nexon titles, including the following. Maplestory (comments) Kart Rider Audition I really don't know anything about Audition beyond what Wikipedia had to say, but the first ... http://www.darniaq.com/wordpress/2006/11/mmo-live/mtv-now-also-an-mmo-importer/ As announced yesterday, Webzen, makers of SUN (and other games), will present "a new payment model". Trouble is, it doesn't sound new at all. From the press release: WEBZEN Inc. (NASDAQ:WZEN), a leading global online entertainment company, today announced that the company will present a new payment model to its ... http://www.darniaq.com/wordpress/2006/11/mmo-upcoming/this-is-new-sun-and-rmting/ Been travelling a few days so have only been able to keep up with comments. Just a few quick updates: I updated Links page with a few additions, notably Mike Rozak's MMORPG Dev Kit list, which he referenced in the comment thread about Multiverse at Raph's place. Multiverse Client ... http://www.darniaq.com/wordpress/2006/11/site/updated-links-multiverse-beta/