Now this is what I’m talking about! RANT 2: Consumers are @#$^!*% Morons, an editorial on the pricing of games and how we consumers are responsible for price creep. This discussion is primarily about console and handheld games because we know MMOs cost 11 billion dollars to develop so they’re a bargain at any price.
Remember the CBS News email-bag from December that accused Sony of shipping incomplete expansions and screwing over the Star Wars license? The plot thickens as Smed, he of SOE fame, responds: “There has never been a release by Sony Online Entertainment that has been incomplete.” He says other stuff too, but I know the ex-EQ players will particularly enjoy that quote. Brought a smile to your face, didn’t it? Ya, mine too.
/whisper
I’m currently stuck in the Warcraft queue. Still 30 minutes to go, or so says the login timer, and tonight is my guild’s Molten Core clear. Choo choo, climb aboard the loot train, all of that.
Here’s the thing tho. I don’t really need anything from Molten Core anymore, haven’t for quite a while. My guild, God bless ’em, gives out DKP to those in the raid and to those that didn’t make it in time for an invite to the Lucky 40. You’re online and technically available to raid, you get DKP, no questions asked.
You see the beauty here — I’d earn DKP just for sitting on my ass looking through the Auction House all night.
Heh, these are the things they don’t teach you in MMO school or in MMO books.