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Ascended gear is just anet's way of gating content behind a gear requirement. Seen it somewhere? Sure you have, WoW, LOTRO, etc etc. They even made up another stat for it, Agony. Anyone remember Radiance in LOTRO dungeons? Exactly the same thing. Not too worried about it, at least it gives the...

Rage post incoming: I am a member of SL, STI, Knights of Aghulas, Scatterlings(GWSA) and one other, a small friend based guild. I regularly pop into each of these to see where the guild chat is, when I see it happening, I stay. Yes, I ONLY use guild chat, not voice comms. When I run a dungeon...

Current look.

Did my first dungeon run with a PUG group this last Friday night and I must say, what a different experience to any dungeon run that I have done in any MMO so far that I have played. I played a guardian. Before going in I slotted all the skills that thought would be good support skills. There...

For the "End Game" it is so true. Lucky for me I paint a "Game Over" Sign over my characters at 50, they become money makers, crafters and guild instance helpers ;-)

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=372120 Two PVE guilds out there already for SA people, one Empire and one Republic. I would suggest keeping us all together ;-)

Picked this up and played it for two days. It contains all the really FUN elements of classic MMOS but without the bloody combat. It has a skill system similar to EVE, where your skills increase based on even out of game time allocated to it. Wonderful game, my whole family enjoyed it until I...

I love it when this guy comes up with some good stuff, it is a short and thought provoking read: the-blood-of-the-innocent-drips-from-my-hands/

Very interesting development: http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/06/26/eve-evolved-the-day-that-eve-online-died/ Basically EVE is hemorrhaging players all over the place due to some hard hitting cash decisions in their new cash store. Is this the end of EVE? I would welcome any thoughts from...

Oh noes! Discovered Minecraft, sort of an MMO, depending on how you play it. Seriously addictive stuff.

We all knew it was going to happen, now it is official, here is the link with some detail about payment models: http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/06/15/gamersfirst-announces-acquisition-of-fallen-earth-with-new-f2p-b/

I find this concept incredibly interesting, even though I probably will not be participating in it myself: http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/06/09/e3-2011-dust-514s-realtime-integration-with-eve-online/

A great article that should speak to the gamer in us playing any game and most definitely MMOs. http://www.petermichaud.com/essays/achievement-porn/

http://www.brokentoys.org/2011/04/19/this-is-why-you-should-never-ask-questions-in-my-earshot/ From a SWTOR developer

http://tobolds.blogspot.com/2011/04/guitar-hero.html A great summary on the current state of MMO rewards at end game in most on-the-rails MMOs. I am hoping developers will read this and be creative with future MMOs.