American author Robert E. Howard created the character of Conan and the world of Hyboria during the 1930s.

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Models, art direction, atmosphere, animation, style, music…a new game must meet if not EXCEED the level of quality generated by World of Warcraft. Blizzard showed us that an MMORPG could shine on all these levels. We as players don’t have to be satisfied with half-finished games, lack-luster animation and art or music… and now we will come to expect the same from other companies. If a single-player game is developed, or another MMORPG by another company with as much talent, attention to design, story and innovation, I will happily purchase it. I am an artist in the entertainment industry, and I know I am looking forward to what the future has in store. There’s nothing cynical or anti big business about it. It’s a statement of eveyday life for game developers. Short term outcomes are very important, they’re the ones we actually deal with in our daily lives.

My reason for not buying any more games and only playing WoW is because I simply don’t trust the gaming industry any more. I used to be a console gamer. I played Chrono Trigger to the point where I had all of my characters up to level ** and could beat the game in something like 8 hours straight. I would play FF7 over again just to hear the music from certain boss fights and scenes. Star Ocean was another of my all-time favorites due to its extensive storyline and the fact that I could choose to play with different characters each time. But when FF8 came out, and I played it… I was not impressed. All of the characters were the same army brat with different hairstyles and weapons, and the storyline was not very interesting. I played to the third disc and gave up.

I can only speak for myself here. But the whole WoW thing has never appealed to me. I have never played it. I can see the lure of it all.. I play a text based MMO at the moment called URBAN DEAD and another called SHARTAK, the moves in these games are limited per day and its all web based and free.. I think I also like it for the quick access quick gameplay and free time I have while my AP rebuild which gives me time to pursue other interests. I stopped buying PC games when they stopped innovating and the hardware never dropped in price. I was upgrading once a year which was unacceptable. The last game I got on PC was Sims 2 University. I’ve made the switch to console games entirely.

One of the biggest complaints against Karazhan is now just an historical footnote: Many guilds had a hard time moving from 40-man raids to 10-man Karazhan and then onwards to 25-man raids. The raid ID lockout system is largely responsible for the organizational chaos and guild drama that many people experienced due to this bottleneck. You simply couldn't take a successful 40-man raid and make 4 successful 10-man raids out of it, visiting Karazhan several nights a week until you ended up with 40 well equipped people from which 25-man raids could easily be formed. In many guilds a separation into A-teams and B-teams took place, with the A-team advancing faster, then getting impatient while waiting for the B-team to catch up, and quitting the guild to join the A-team of other guilds for 25-man raids.

Not only are you more likely to get an epic from a Karazhan boss than from a 25-man boss, you are also certain to get both reputation and badges of justice, so you'll never come out completely empty-handed from a successful raid. It is a good thing that patch 2.4 introduces badges for 25-man bosses, and adds even better badge loot. The badges have the positive effect that it is far easier to find an experienced raider willing to join a Karazhan raid group, even if there is no more epic drop loot for him there, than it was pre-TBC to find experienced raiders willing to go to Molten Core again. The small raid size also makes it easier for smaller guilds to get the necessary numbers together, although there isn't much flexibility in class choice. You really need 2 tanks, 3 healers, and 5 dps classes with a good class mix to get far in Karazhan. My last point is totally subjective: I've killed the first bosses of ZA, TK, and SSC, but somehow Karazhan felt more "fun" to me.

While I'm battling anonymous trolls on my blog, the BBC is reporting about the opposite problem: an interesting analysis of somebody who put too much information about herself on the internet. Ashley Alexandra Dupre, the prostitute that brought down Eliot Spitzer, had pages on sites like MySpace or RateMyBody.com, and once she got famous through her connection with the governor of New York, the press was able to get all sorts of information about her, including photos, and publish it. Now she and her lawyers are trying to put the genie back into the bottle with legal action, but that's too late.