Latest Blog Posts for The Ancient Gaming Noob

• Meanwhile, Back in Azeroth
  on Mar 13, 2015 in entertainment Instance Group World of Warcraft Garrisons Heirlooms Iron Docks Warlords of Draenor
  I haven’t written much of late about actually play World of Warcraft.  That hasn’t been due to a lack of play time really.  It is more a lack of doing anything worth writing about, a problem of sorts that I lay directly on the cumulativ...
• Does Crowfall Have a Mid-Game Plan?
  on Mar 12, 2015 in Crowfall entertainment Kickstarter
  So the Crowfall Kickstarter campaign has passed the halfway point and they sit at just over $1.1 million with over 12,000 backers. They made it to their goal of $800,000 13 days ago and, since then, the fundraising has flagged some.  You can see tha...
• Has Rift Only Been Around for Four Years?
  on Mar 11, 2015 in entertainment Rift Meaningless Milestones Trion Worlds
  I ask because in my gut it feels like Rift has been around longer, that it has joined the pantheon of elder games, that it has traveled a long, long road to get where it is today. I think Rift has just lived life at an accelerated pace, having gone t...
• Diablo III on the PlayStation
  on Mar 10, 2015 in Diablo III entertainment PlayStation 3
  I mentioned a while back that my daughter bought a couple of PlayStation 3 games with a GameStop gift card she received for her birthday. One of them was Dragon Age: Inquisition, which turned out to be not so hot on the PS3. The other was the Diablo...
• An Ibis in Immensea
  on Mar 9, 2015 in EVE Online Null Sec Alterari Phoenix Deklein Immensea Jita
  We had gotten word earlier in the week from our CEO that we needed to go on more fleet ops.  Or, more specifically, that we needed to click on more participation links for fleet ops.  Eight such links a month was the requested amount. And eight suc...
• Hitting 50 Yet Again
  on Mar 7, 2015 in entertainment It is a metaphor
  I have hit level 50 so many times in so many games it hardly seems worth noting when that number comes up again. Looking through this blog you can see it happening over and over again.  Is hitting 50 an achievement or just a step closer to the end g...
• A Sad Day for Sims
  on Mar 5, 2015 in entertainment Other PC Games EA Marble Drop Maxis Nostalgia RoboSport SimCity The Sims The Sims Social
  Upon seeing the news about Maxis yesterday, I realized that I had probably not sat down and really played a game from Maxis this century. I bought a copy of SimCity 2000 from GoG.com for some tiny price back when EA/Maxis was busy shooting itself in...
• Quote of the Day – A Treasure Trove of Turbine Turmoil
  on Mar 4, 2015 in Dungeons & Dragons Online entertainment Lord of the Rings Online Quote of the Day Infinite Crisis Massively Overpowered Turbine
  LOTRO’s launches in Japan and Korea were so disappointing they were immediately and quite effectively brushed under the carpet and never spoken of again. -Aylwen, LOTROCommunity forums Well, if you were looking to kick Turbine while they were d...
• The Proposed Phase Two of Sovereignty Changes
  on Mar 4, 2015 in entertainment EVE Online Null Sec
  There was a big, big dev post from CCP yesterday about their next phase of changes to null sec sovereignty.  The first phase came with Phoebe back in November, which introduced jump fatigue.  That expansion changed the null sec map… before it...
• WoW Tokens – PLEX with Price Supports
  on Mar 3, 2015 in entertainment EVE Online World of Warcraft PLEX RMT WoW Tokens
  Well, they went for it.  I was predicting against it due to the frenzy of bitterness left over from the Diablo III real money auction house fiasco, but it looks like there will be a PLEX-like item from Blizzard, as was previously brought up, that pe...

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