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MMORPG.com was shown around our office the other day. Don’t think they brought them by our den; we’re pretty boring in terms of decorations, aside from my festival of socialist realism (as seen below)

WoW Insider has a story (seen first on Se7en Samurai blog) which details how gold sellers are going around the 1-hour email transaction limits in WoW — by setting up what effectively amounts to money laundering. Is this something that can be fixed? Is it something that should be fixed?

As seen here (which I came across while confirming image file moves), now you can tell exactly how bad a prognosticator I really am! World of Warcraft will continue to be an unholy juggernaut of a cultural phenomenon. Burning Crusade will launch, people will burn through it in a couple

I am *so* not happy with my current hosting, so let’s move, shall we? Let’s see how difficult it will be moving my old blog entries to here. Edit: Looks like it’s working, I’ll move older archives here as time permits. Correct domain name should eventually

Areae (Raph Koster’s new company) announced their product: Metaplace, an open-standards MMO platform. Cuppycake, Areae’s Community Director who is no doubt overjoyed that there is finally a community to direct, has this to add from her blog: And of course, the part you’re all waiting for. We’

I switched this site over to dedicated hosting, and the IP/DNS was somewhat mangled by the hosting company. Should be all better now, and service should be more reliable in general. Hopefully. Maybe. I also switched the blog template to a less dynamic/ajaxy and hopefully more resource friendly

Fury can’t use the term “RvR” any more. (Hat tip: mmodig) But enough about that! That’s boring. Moving right along, let’s take a brief tour of innovation in MMOs. Tune in tomorrow, when UI Throughout The Ages looks at skill hotbars. Until then, keep being original, or