February 2006

  • Invisible Walls

    David Sirlin tried Guild Wars once and absolutely hated it. For someone who argues that skill should outweigh time investment, I would have thought that Guild Wars would be his ideal game, since Guild Wars is all about rewarding player skill. Most of his critiques are leveled at the user…

  • Dye Fun

    I didn’t know that players are unable to dye armour in WOW. Meanwhile, I’ve been experimenting with dye-mixing for my character’s Necromancer’s Armour in Guild Wars. It comes in red by default, but I dyed it blue soon afterwards. I got bored with blue, so I decided to try another…

  • Bling for Me

    The Ranger/Necromancer guildie, sometimes makes a point of how “rich” he is, and how frivolously he spends gold. He has been very lucky in finding the rare colours of dye in the game (Black, Silver). Selling those dyes at the market rate has made him relatively wealthy. We were chatting…

  • Real World Matters In-Game

    There has been much heated discussion about the recent Blizzard PR debacle stemming from an incident in which a player was reprimanded by a GM for advertising for her gay-friendly guild in a general chat channel. The discussion expanded to debate the “visibility” of a player’s and/or a character’s sexual…

  • I Find Your Lack of Progress Disturbing

    One of my friends, who is not a member of my guild, exhibits a patronising attitude (in my opinion) towards the way I have been playing Guild Wars. Each time the game comes up in conversation, he tells me that I “should be in the desert” (I assume he means…