My Bad
July 21st, 2010 by Ravven

This is the one in which I totally fail to heal Halls of Reflection. I really, really need some better gear. We made it past the first bit, the line of sight fight. It was the gauntlet area, with Arthas striding along behind, that did us in. I just couldn’t heal it fast enough, and [...]

Paladins Rule
July 20th, 2010 by Ravven

My posting schedule continues to be irregular. I’m still in the much-hated job, and each night I come home after a very long commute feeling tired, depressed as hell, and without the energy to do anything that I’d planned. Sometimes I coccoon, wrapping myself in a duvet on the couch while I re-watch Firefly or [...]

Primo Drama
July 16th, 2010 by Ravven

First, you had this, from game designer Tim Schafer about Activision boss Bobby Kotick: “His obligation is to his shareholders,” Schafer tells Eurogamer. “Well, he doesn’t have to be as much of a dick about it, does he? I think there is a way he can do it without being a total prick. It seems [...]

Wintergrasp Fail
July 15th, 2010 by Ravven

Early this morning, I logged into Warcraft and saw that Wintergrasp was just about to start. I’m still trying to gear up my paladin, so I jumped in…and found twelve early-riser Alliance struggling against one lone Horde warrior. A warrior with 135k plus health. It was absurd. We were actually worried that we would lose. [...]

Won’t Somebody Please Think of the Children?
July 12th, 2010 by Ravven

Damn. Blizzard goes and changes their corporate mind about RealID, just when I was getting my absolutely brilliant social networking campaign going. I only had a chance to send one email. It would have been so evil, and so successful. You see, I was going to get the Moms involved. Every womens and parenting site [...]

The Beauty of Virtual Personas
July 8th, 2010 by Ravven

There has been a lot of commentary (quite obviously) on the Blizzard/Activision RealID debacle, and quite a lot of it has pointed out that Blizzard’s official response seems to be “We’re doing this, so deal with it or stop playing. What are you guilty of that you want to hide your real identity?” which is [...]