Monthly Archives: June 2009

Let Mom and Pop Play: Eve Blog Banter #9

Posted on Tuesday, 30 June 2009 by Ferrel

Welcome to the ninth installment of the EVE Blog Banter and its first contest, the monthly EVE Online blogging extravaganza created by CrazyKinux. The EVE Blog Banter involves an enthusiastic group of gaming bloggers, a common topic within the realm … Continue reading →

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EA merges Mythic and Bioware

Posted on Sunday, 28 June 2009 by Korrow

BioWare and Mythic’s RPG teams are now one and the same, in the eyes of Electronic Arts. The publisher has restructured the design of their RPG and MMO group, putting Ray Muzyka, co-founder and general manage of BioWare, at the … Continue reading →

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Single Player RPGs: Character Advancement Part VI

Posted on Friday, 26 June 2009 by Ferrel

It has been a while since I did my last article in my Character Advancement series. This is mostly due to the fact that I have covered a lot of the basic (and crazy) topics that I had intended to. … Continue reading →

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LotRO: Apparently you can go back

Posted on Monday, 22 June 2009 by Ferrel

When Lord of the Rings Online originally released I took the opportunity to try it out. At that time, years ago, I was pretty unimpressed with the game. For the most part it was nothing more than a complete WoW … Continue reading →

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Ferrel reviews Neo Steam

Posted on Friday, 19 June 2009 by Ferrel

When I saw the promotional material for Neo Steam I knew I had to play it. Atlus was offering a steam punk game that allowed me to play a large wolf character that wasn’t portrayed as a dim, savage barbarian! … Continue reading →

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Articles to read this week

Posted on Tuesday, 16 June 2009 by Ferrel

I try to spend a lot of time reading through other blogs and news articles during the week when possible. It gives me inspiration for my own articles and keeps me informed on what is going on. The MMO sphere … Continue reading →

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Epic Slant URL Change

Posted on Monday, 15 June 2009 by Ferrel

Most of you probably didn’t notice that last week the Epic Slant URL changed from www.ferrel.me to www. epicslant.com. Previously I was just forwarding from my .com to my .me. I’ve been dreading the actual change over due to the … Continue reading →

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What are you willing to pay for?

Posted on Monday, 15 June 2009 by Ferrel

There is no doubt about it, free to play and freemium MMOs are not going to up and disappear. It appears that this payment model will be growing in North America as games like Free Realms soar to 3 million … Continue reading →

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Off Topic: The Palm Pre and Sprint Customer Service

Posted on Saturday, 13 June 2009 by Ferrel

I recognize that this article will not be, in any way, related to MMOs other than as an example of how not to conduct customer service but I felt like I needed to write it. Therapy you know. This is … Continue reading →

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