Some reading on Blizzard's newest bright idea...

[korinna]

wow_ladies did a fantastic job of covering Blizzard's decision to force its forum posters to use their real name. See here and here. A lot of excellent links have been compiled, particularly in the second post, so if you have any interest in the issue (which, in general, concerns online anonymity and privacy concerns - so this is important even if you don't

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[korinna]

I'm still so mad. >(

Because I need to talk about something happy, I'm really excited for SW:TOR because I got seluecus to agree to try it out with me (he's not much of a video gamer and he's also scared of me yelling at him about pixels, so this is a big deal). I haven't been able to play an MMO with actual friends/partners for a couple years now, so I'm really looking forward to it. I know some people have been talking about it as essentially being a reskinned WoW with not as good graphics, but umm, w/e. It won't make me use my real name, at least.

[lisaquestions]

I'm really looking forward to TOR. What I've seen doesn't feel to me like reskinned WoW, and I think that people are overstating that a bit on the basis of implementing the healer/tank/dps triad.

But if it is a reskinned WoW? I don't care, I had fun playing WoW. :)

[seluecus]

I'm kinda looking forward to TOR too. It looks decent to me (better graphics than WoW, I thought) and even though I generally have no interest in MMOs and have never actually bothered to play one, trying it out with ploratrix should be fun. Even though (as she mentioned) I anticipate many moments of her going "What are you doing?", "No, no - shoot it! Shoot it now!!!" and "Why are you so STUPID?!" It'll be an adventure :p

[lisaquestions]

Hahaha!

Yeah, I agree that TOR looks better than WoW, graphically. The screenshots I've seen show better textures in general. I know WoW's deliberately designed to run on lower-end systems, though, and so's TOR, so I don't really begrudge either of them. :)

I'm sure TOR will be great fun for both of you, esp. if you dig Star Wars. :)

[shrines]

i'll be playing FFXIV, myself

[korinna]

I'm interested in that too, since I'm not even sure how much I like Star Wars outside of the original movies. ugh if only I had money.

[paeroka]

I have a lifetime account with LotRO (and yes, I'm one of those who are carefully optimistic about the freemium-model and hope to see new players on my server and hopefully, not too many idiots... but for them to be in the higher level areas, they'd have to pay, so I guess there won't be too many idiots ^^).

Apart from that, I'm looking forward to GW2 (and look! Two games, still no monthly fee! ^^).

[freuen]

Does LotRO run on Macs? I would love to try it when it becomes partially free.

[paeroka]

It doesn't have a MAC client. People play it via Bootcamp apparently (Here's a link).

[freuen]

Thank you!

[voyevoda]

I have Guild Wars, but I'm not sure I'll play it regardless...the design isn't entirely to my taste. We'll see.

But I've gone back to console games for the time being, until the RealID stuff is clarified (and hopefully abolished).

Also, I figured some people would find this interesting; posted at the worldofwarcraft comm: http://seewhatyoudidthere.com/2010/07/07/realid-changes-the-very-real-ease-of-stalking-in-the-internet-age/

[the_siobhan]

I'm in Aion at the moment, but pretty much my entire guild is planning on moving to SW:TOR when that's released.