We've never played WoW and we're getting ready to close down our Ultima Online accounts for good within the month- not that we've actually played much this past year, so really, it's a waste of money.
Never tried Ultima. WoW was my first MMORPG. But yeah, if you're not playing it's just wasted money.
even if I do hate Etsy for the hipster/reseller bullshit they have now become.
These things are annoying, but I don't think they've really lessened Etsy.
This is increasingly why I prefer different business models in MMORPGs these days (the F2P model, yes, but also that of Guild Wars).
Of course, I'm somewhat expected to play multiple games a year as well, so dedicating it all to one online game would probably not be the best idea (unless I just want to write about MMOs).
I think the truncated title is more marketable, and people would likely refer to the book as The Drowning Girl anyway. I agree that their reason for the change seems like a bizarre one, but it may have a positive impact (although impossible to measure). Part of the job of the title is to get people to pick the book off the shelf, and I think the shorter title is more intriguing and easier to take in at a glance.
The tauren were introduced in Warcraft III, and there they were shown as nothing more (or less) than a true-breeding race of minotaur-like people. Chris Metzen -- principle architect of the Warcraft universe and metaplot -- grew up reading fantasy novels, comic books, etc., much like most of the rest of the core Blizzard staff from early on. As a result, the Warcraft universe is a pastiche of all these influences, sometimes introduced without much awareness of where some of those tropes originated. (I'm fairly sure that the idea of the tauren as a true-breeding race of minotaur-ish creatures came directly from DragonLance novels. Chris Metzen being an avowed fan of DragonLance is the reason Richard Fucking Knaak continues to write tie-in novels, despite Knaak's prose inducing bleeding in the eyes... er, excuse me, orbs
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We've never played WoW and we're getting ready to close down our Ultima Online accounts for good within the month- not that we've actually played much this past year, so really, it's a waste of money.
Never tried Ultima. WoW was my first MMORPG. But yeah, if you're not playing it's just wasted money.
even if I do hate Etsy for the hipster/reseller bullshit they have now become.
These things are annoying, but I don't think they've really lessened Etsy.
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Of course, I'm somewhat expected to play multiple games a year as well, so dedicating it all to one online game would probably not be the best idea (unless I just want to write about MMOs).
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We need more racial diversity. Who haven't we represented* yet ( ... )
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