Monthly Archives: May 2008

Wrath of the L

By GoW | Published: May 13, 2008

I’m work­ing on a cou­ple of pieces based on the WotLK news updates. Before that flurry of announce­ments, I was work­ing on bor­ing posts like “Mas­ter Looter is the only option”, “Pace isn’t that hard” and other pieces that sound even worse. Blah blah. I got bored while writ­ing them. I write every­thing con­cur­rently, so […]

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Happy Mother’s Day

By GoW | Published: May 12, 2008

Being a brand new dad has attuned me to Mother’s Day. I used to obey when my father told me to get my mother a gift, but that’s because there was the threat of phys­i­cal vio­lence if I didn’t. That turned into a habit, but I never really got it. Ah, par­ent­ing. If you already […]

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Feedburner is live

By GoW | Published: May 9, 2008

A friend told me that Feed­burner is a bet­ter way to go for man­ag­ing feeds. Now there’s a new sub­scribe but­ton in the Meta sec­tion, I rec­om­mend that you use it. I also turned on email noti­fi­ca­tion for you the rss averse.

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WotLK news bomb

By GoW | Published: May 9, 2008

WowIn­sider and Mmo-champion are drown­ing us with links the first huge wave of WotLK news. Most of it is awe­some, while some of it is out­stand­ing. So now at least I have a large num­ber of top­ics that I want to write about. My very bor­ing, unfin­ished “Mas­ter Looter for the win” arti­cle can blissfully […]

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The Downside of Endgame Guilds

By GoW | Published: May 1, 2008

I’ve been read­ing Tobold and Pot­shot lately. They’re talk­ing about loot and game design as it relates to endgame guilds, specif­i­cally guild hop­ping and pro­gres­sion prob­lems due to it. I haven’t seen a decent expla­na­tion of the prob­lem, but as a guild officer/leader I’ve seen it in action twice now, once with the orig­i­nal WoW […]

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