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Blaugust Day 28 – That’s Not Heroism

28 Friday Aug 2015

Posted by wolfyseyes in MMO Things

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chosen one, content, hero, heroism, narrative, pve, quest, side quest

This post idea kind of sprang to mind in addition to the post I was making about sidequests.  Specifically, not only are they useless fluff that don’t feel like a grand quest, but they also don’t make me feel like a great hero.  I mean, I don’t know how many epic poems Homer would have written about someone who killed five bulls and harvested their spleens.

“I can totally string that out to 50 stanzas, easily.”

Granted, I’m the only one bristling with weapons that approaches the “common folk” to help them with dangers that would very likely kill them in the attempt…but that sort of misses the idea.

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Blaugust Day 27 – Side Dishes

27 Thursday Aug 2015

Posted by wolfyseyes in MMO Things

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main quest, pve, questing, side dish, side quest, story, swtor, themepark, xiv, xp

This post was prompted by Syp’s excellent post about SWTOR, but I was otherwise diverted from posting this by other, shinier topics that came to mind.

Image courtesy dreamstime

“Dooood….”

In it, he discussed his feelings on the planetary missions of SWTOR and how the 12x Experience Boost for current subscribers rendered all of that work obsolete.  Is that such a bad thing, though?  In my mind, it isn’t.  And SWTOR isn’t the only one that could benefit from this design idea.

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