Geekmas Day 5: Five Lightsabers

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expansion, fandom, free to play, geekmas, MMO, sci-fi, star wars, swtor, the old republic, tor

This post is part of the 12 Days of Geekmas.  Check out the concept here, and let NerdyAlerty’s blog feed your eyeballs as well!

Talk about a softball topic.  For this day of Geekmas I have to somehow find nice things to say about Star Wars.  This definitely is not going to be hard for me, despite how perceptibly angry fans of the IP can get.

I may have just roused a few of them with this picture alone..

So…lots of wonderful things to say about Star Wars.  I should just maybe bang home a few paragraphs and call it a day.  This being a (mostly) MMO blog, however, I’m going to limit myself specifically to Star Wars: The Old Republic…because there are some sticking points for me with that game, but like with almost every MMO I encounter, I can still find wonderful things to say about it.

Blaugust Day 5 – The WildStar Stuff Post

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beta, business model, carbine studios, free to play, ptr, testing, wildstar

I had changed my mind about today’s Blaugust posting.  The original idea I had will be for tomorrow, but today I wanted to sort of jaw a bit about the coming patch for WildStar.

Massively OP’s aggregate post of all of the information that’s being dished out from multiple sources incited this post.  More specifically, the fact that, once more, WildStar has just sort of become this roller coaster ride in more than just its aesthetic and overall design.  It would seem that the business and development side of things enjoys vertical G’s.

I mean, this LOOKS like fun, but for a business I don’t know that it is.

Models

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buy to play, free to play, MMO, monetization, payment, payment model, personal perception, subscription

I know that this sort of post is pretty late in its arrival, but I never really said I was going to be up to date with everything…though I will say for the record that I think the Dress is UGLY IS HELL AND STOP ALREADY PLEASE I BEG OF YOU!!

Now that I’ve got that out of my system…a thought occurred to me when I was thinking about MMOs, business models, and how people perceive them.  These thoughts were spawned by the recent-ish announcement that EverQuest Next may not be a free-to-play title, as well as exposure to reaction to the announcement.  A comparison arrived to my mind while I was pondering the question in my isolation chamber.

Oh shut up, you know you’re the same way.