A Couple Months Later..
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A couple of months have passed since I’ve updated this blog and a lot has happened here is a quick breakdown.
After getting thru the main World of Warcraft Cataclysm quest lines I moved to working on randoms. Unfortunately my guild was already raiding the bigger dungeons and I was left behind. I pugged a bit and for a while I was moving up the latter but it came to a point where I felt like I was grinding for gear, it wasn’t fun anymore. I started to do weekly runs with a small group of friends but since it was the summer a lot of them had other responsibilities and shortly after they moved on to other things. I tried my best to keep myself distracted in WoW by crafting, exploring, doing low level quests, and even PVP, but nothing really did it for me. In the end I came to the realization that I need to give the game a break and move on to other things.
As of right now I’m exploring other MMO’s and diving into the free-to-play realm of MMOs. I’ll post some updates soon on my thoughts on them.
Updated TankSpot Guides for Cataclysm
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Everyone knows that TankSpot is a great place to find videos and strategies for WoW raids and dungeons. The only issue I have found with these is they are in a form and not in any kind of order. So I have taken the time to order them all on one page so you can easily find the video you are looking for.
Each encounter is organized by instance and also by type of raid (10/25 man or regular/heroic). I have gone ahead and complied a list of all the Cataclysm Raids and Instances videos they have up at the moment and they link off to either the Tankspot website post or their YouTube video.
You can find the list by clicking the link below or buy clicking the “TankSpot Guides” on the top nav.
Hope you enjoy!
TankSpot Guides Organized on Rez-Please
Lvl 85 and Beyond
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Last night I was able to get Jakstone, my Human Priest to lvl 85. Cataclysm has been out for almost a month now but it only really took me around a week to get him from 80 to 85. With the holiday and all I was super busy with work and in my RL (Real Life) and really only have very few hours during some of the weekends in December to actually get on a lvl a bit.
The actual leveling seemed to go fairly quickly and was quite fun.
I decided to start at Vashj’irwhich honestly wasn’t one of my favorite places. Maybe it was because when I started there it was like being in Time Square on New Years Eve. There where a crazy amount of people there and I was also dealing with being in a new place and since all mechanics changed for mana I felt like I was having a really tough time.
After Vashir I spend my time in Deepholm. My experience there seemed to be much better and I felt like I was really progressing through the storyline as I looked for the fragments of The World Piller.
The last place I leveled in was Uldum which was my favorite place of all. Not only did it have a great art style but I like the Indiana Jones like quests and the architecture of the zone. When I got done with the zone and all the quest lines I actually felt a bit sad that there wasnt anymore.
But now that Jakstone is 85 its time to move on, start grinding for better gear, max out professions and explore the other two zones I wasn’t able to get to. There is still a long and exciting road ahead. I just hope I’m able to follow it.
Loremaster 1/4
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I’m happy to announce I am now Loremaster of Eastern Kingdom. My next goal is Kalimdor which shouldn’t be too tough since I only have 100 more quests till I reach it. So t-minus 31 days and counting till I will be screwed unless I get this achievement.
The Calm Before The Storm (aka the cataclysm that destroys the world as we know it and leaves us all crying for our mommies)
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The date for the destruction of Azeroth is set and it will change the way we play WoW forever. I have mixed reaction about this huge change. The beauty of Azeroth will be scared and will only be a memory in our minds. On the other hand new adventure and excitement will await us and new life will come from death. Either way Deathwing is coming and there is nothing stopping from destroying the world.. well except me and you.
To prepare for this Cataclysmic event I am not in over drive mode to get some of those achievements that arnt going to so easy to get when Deathwing knocks at our door. One of those is “Loremaster of Eastern Kingdom” and “Loremaster of Kalimdor”. This is a HUGE Pain but I’m pretty close to the end.
Since it is Hallow’s End at the moment I am struggling to get the “A Mask for All Occasions”. This is the second time around me trying to get this achievement which is all based on luck. I have only 3 more masks to loot yet I have had no luck what so ever. There is still a couple of days left so hopefully the ghost and ghouls of the underworld are kind to me.
So what are you doing reading this post!? Can’t you see we are all doomed? Get of there and enjoy the world you know and love because on December 7th 2010 Deathwing is going to smash it under his fiery claws while giving you the finger… It’s ok.. don’t cry.
Daily Woah!: Night Time Wishes
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Star Light Star bright,
The first star I see tonight,
I wish I may, I wish I might,
Have the Quel’delar drop tonight.
Communication is Key
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In a society where communication is everything, why is it that we as society seem to be distancing our selves more from each other? With the advent of text messaging, phone calls, emails, instant messaging, and new methods of communication like Twitter, Facebook, and Google Wave you would suspect that we would be drawn closer together as a community.
These tools have created a side affect that no one could have ever suspected. We email instead of speaking on the phone, 45% of people now break up through text messages, and 32% of people admit they have flirted with someone else through text messaging while on a date with someone else. What does this all about how we now choose to communicate?
As the flow of everyday information becomes more predominate and easier to access, we are becoming our own gate keepers to our digital lives. We pick and choose who is allowed become our friends, who can see our updates and even how we choose for people to view and interact with us, all with no remorse or consequence. We have become the stars of our own digital world weaving through social networks and profiles trying to gain attention from a world over loaded with irrelevant information. Fame comes in many forms in the meta both good and bad. It can become a venue to catapult you to the next level or become the platform where you are the next global joke that will forever live in the meta.
These new tools for communication should be used to enhance your real life and to expand your network on a global scale. But most people have started to use the meta as a defensive structure from which they shield themselves from real life situation and allowing them to experiment with different type of relationships with out any consequence. This has led to a the creation new personas, an online presents that doesn’t necessarily represent who they would be in the real world.
In one form or another this new entity that is born within the meta is an extension of that person. Somehow this new persona is fulfilling a need that the person cannot fulfill within their real life.
We should all learn about our online personas and understand why it persists and how it interacts with and affects our real lives. Maybe in doing this we can bring some of that knowledge and self discovery back into our real lives to better ourselves.
Maybe in the end we will be able to just talk to a person face-to-face about an issue instead of sending a text message.
Daily Woah!: In the Dog House
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Daily Woah!: Sailing Dreams
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Now that our vacation to the port of Ashenvale was over, a fellow guildie and I dozed off and dreamt of the adventures we were about to embark on as we sailed deep into the Veiled Sea.
Tricks of the Trade: The Rise of the Virtual Marketplace
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In the past fifteen years selling your unwanted goods has gone beyond a simple yard sale and directly to the web. With the advent of sites like Craig’s List and Ebay buy and selling has become quick, easy and cheap. But recently a new trend of selling and buying has started with the monetization of virtual goods.
In the past virtual goods been over looked by many entrepreneur and big business but has recently started to turn heads and many company’s have started to scramble to jump on this growing marketing. According to a report by Inside Network, its estimated that the virtual goods market will hit $1.6 billion in revenue the U.S. in 2010. This is only a quarter of the estimated $4 billion in revenue that will be generated this year in South Korea where the virtual good market started over a decade ago.
Facebook, Myspace, and others are driving this new market. Their massive user base have allow companies like Zynga, the creator of popular games like FarmVille and Mafia Wars, to capture audiences with there virtual offerings and has create a viable business model from which to profit from. Max Lechin, CEO of Slide and co-founder of PayPal, in a recent interview told TechCrunch they now almost make all there money from virtual goods.
Even if you haven’t heard of Zynga or Slide, other big companies have started to ramp up production there virtual offerings in hopes of new revenue streams. Companies like Sony, Activision Blizzard, and even Microsoft have all started to expand or experiment with offerings in the virtual market by taping into there existing services and adding “premium content”.
You maybe thinking to yourself “I’ve never bought a pet for a game!”, but at one point or another you have bought some type of virtual good.
Virtual goods are not limited to just items for games for FarmVille or WoW, but can be found in places like Apples own App Store with there new in app purchase system. Apple is another example of seeing the potential growth of the virtual goods market and expanded their payment platform to include functionality to allow purchases of premium content and services. Now that Apple has announced the iPad and there intent to keep with the iPhones App Store model virtual goods can be seen as the foundation of their new business strategy. Services like Xbox Live, Playstaion Store, Apple App Store and more will help ignite a virtual goods boom the the coming years.
But virtual goods have not always been at the for front of a companies business model. In the beginning they where uses to entice customers to buy a certain product and acted as a bonus. Blizzard has been known to give vanity pets for there World of Warcraft game as a bonus to people who purchased a collector edition, usually tagged with a premium price. But in late 2009 Blizzard announced they would open up there online Blizzard store to accommodate 2 new vanity pets that could only obtained buy purchasing them at $10 each. Also a recent Blue Post stated Blizzard it intent to bring their in-game auction house online on World of Warcraft Armory portal and would be considered a premium service with a separate service charge.
So how do these new “goods” and services affect our real lives? At what point does the meta become an integrated part of life and is important enough to us to track, pay, and consume on a daily basis? What drives us to decided to pay for new cloths for our avatar, or to be granted access to these new tier of “premium content”?
For whatever the reasons maybe it is seemingly becoming clear that the line between our real lives and our life in the meta is starting to blur and become one.
Tags: Facebook, FarmVille, Meta, Virtual Goods
