Comments on: How to start an EverQuest blog.

By: Tipa

Tipa — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:48:50 +0000

In Project Powder’s case, it doesn’t have a persistent world (unless they added one since closed beta), which, when I was at Massively, was really the dividing line between MMOs and something else. It’s just a lobby that leads to the slopes.

Still a heck of a lot of fun, no matter what it’s called.

By: Prezzer

Prezzer — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:45:44 +0000

Heh, that’s the one. I guess the first ‘M’ really depends on how popular a game gets. The genre as a whole is starting to grow beyond the old-school EQ/virtual world model and towards a much more diverse set of game styles.

By: Tipa

Tipa — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:34:27 +0000

Project Powder? I loved that in closed beta, but haven’t been able to get it to load for me since :/ That was a super fun game, though I wouldn’t go so far as to call it an MMO. I know Outspark calls it one :)

By: Prezzer

Prezzer — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:30:46 +0000

I’ve been finding blogging a good way to get the word out about some of the lesser known ‘current’ MMOs that are eityher out there ‘under the radar’ or currently engaging in open betas but not getting the oxygen of publicity. Particular faves are a bizarre Snowboarding MMO and an even stranger ‘dance off’ MMO. There’s a world of worlds out there, but not enough magazine space/so-called ‘professional’ journalists to cover them.

By: loredena

loredena — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:31:55 +0000

hmm, I thought I had pretty well found all the EQ2 blogs, but I just went through your blogroll and found a couple new ones, nifty! :)

By: Egat

Egat — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:47:00 +0000

http://orcpawn.wordpress.com/

Now, convince my boss to give me more free time so I can play EQ and then blog about it.

And if you know any good web hosts that understand expats who are paid in dollars and use US credit cards yet have a street and phone number in the UK, please let me know.

By: Loredena

Loredena — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:56:12 +0000

@mhb — sorry to disappoint! I’ll see if I can come up with something titillating for next time!

By: mbp

mbp — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:37:33 +0000

@loredena, how disappointing – I was imagining some juicy gossip sufficiently salacious that it had to be kept locked away ;)

By: loredena

loredena — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:34:14 +0000

MBP — apparently, if you use Live Write to post, and you enter at the bottom your login id and pasword, thinking that you are telling it how to log in… it actually password protects the post. /bemused. I didn’t know that was possible either! It’s now fixed. :o

By: Tipa

Tipa — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:19:39 +0000

@Joe Fred — God, yes. Hitting Gumdrop Mountains late in the game is totally unfair and should be nerfed.