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commonsensegamer.com - 7/13/2009
WAR - More Server Mergers
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Before I get to that. To explain the Aion screen shot below. That was the idle animation for my character in Aion. He looks like he’s more prepared to pick out curtains than kicking ass. I didn’t bother to post the big-ass leaf that he pulls out to protect him from the rain.  ...

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Player Versus Developer:  Why MMORPG's Are Like Dogs

Massively:  More server consolidations in WAR?

gamebunny:  WAR: Smaller Skirmishes

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Why MMORPG's Are Like Dogs
Player Versus Developer — ... thought they could train Warhammer to be a game that prized open field RVR over all else. The problem was that the Collie was too smart, a natural bred herder, not a herd-ee. She quickly learned that scenarios offered a better ratio of treats to time than the other tricks Mythic was trying to teach her. The problem is that sheep dogs only have something to do when there are sheep and dogs around and in reasonable numbers (proper ratio of sheep dogs to sheep, etc). Mythic is apparently still working on that. ...

More server consolidations in WAR?
Massively — ... with 9 active servers. Darren (aka The Common Sense Gamer) is wondering what a lot of us are wondering right now: Is Mythic still correcting for an overzealous server launch strategy or is the game's population no longer ...

WAR: Smaller Skirmishes
gamebunny — ... Darren at The Common Sense Gamer wonders if this is still an ongoing correction of pre-release over-hype or a sign that things aren’t well in WARville. I, for one, hope WAR survives. Underneath the annoying technical problems that caused me to quit after a month or so - the heart of a fine MMO lurks. Lately, I’ve been missing WAR - but I won’t return until I have a smokin’ new PC. ...

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