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The Daily Grind: Are reputation systems passé?

by Justin Olivetti (Dec 19th 2012 8:00AM)

Last week I got into a long discussion with a friend about MMO reputation systems. I think we both realized just how much we hadn't thought about them for some time now, and that led us to speculating if the whole kit and kaboodle is not long for this industry. In limited quantities, ...

The Road to Mordor: The superiority of goats

by Justin Olivetti (Jun 30th 2012 2:00PM)

I love goats. OK, pipe down there. I mean that I love the goat mounts in Lord of the Rings Online. Shush! Man, this column isn't starting well. It sounded better in my head. It's a well-known fact that LotRO lacks the mount diversity shown by most other fantasy MMOs. It's pretty much horses ...

The Daily Grind: What content will you never do again?

by Justin Olivetti (Sep 2nd 2010 8:00AM)

For me, it's Dungeons and Dragons Online's The Pit, a horribly convoluted 3-D maze of traps, ramps and switchback objectives. My one and only experience running this dungeon lasted well over two hours and several deaths. It was one of those runs that you grit your teeth and hang on thinking that ...