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Diagram of requirements needed to enter Black Temple, the penultimate WoW:Burning Crusade instance, prior to today’s patch: Diagram of requirements needed to enter Black Temple, the penultimate WoW:Burning Crusade instance, after today’s patch: Not everyone is happy about this. Blizzard no longer cares about the hardcore

This morning, I couldn’t shake the feeling I was being watched. Turns out I was. Now it’s pecking the window. I think it wants something.

I’m not sure I agree with this list.  From an MMO centric viewpoint, Anarchy Online, and ESPECIALLY World of Warcraft should be on there somewhere (its issues were very similar to Steam/Half Life 2’s). In fact, it took until a few years ago for MMO launches to

Virtually Blind has the initial round of motions filed in the MDY v. Blizzard case posted. (I’ve gone ahead and mirrored them here in case bandwidth becomes an issue; a list of all the docs is at the end of this post.) As you might expect, they live in

Fans of leetspeak in legal documents will be fond of this one: a recently denied motion in the Blizzard/WoWglider case included the lines: The documents that Defendants requested Thaler and Lavish Software to produce included: 1.     All records, documents, or [sic] relating to or concerning MDY Industries, LLC, Michael

In most of the MMO industry, most of us hew to what I like to call the “gentleman’s agreement.” It’s basically that you don’t trash your competition in public. Partially because we’re all in the same boat in terms of the challenges we face in bringing

So, um, yeah, 400+ comments. Let’s look at some takeaways. Things We Learned About Yon Humble Correspondent: * I’m stupid. * I suck at moderating blogs. * I don’t carry through on my threats. Things We Learned About Yon Prokofy Neva: * tl;dr personified. * Can actually post a comment without