BioWare Responds to Bans/Suspensions Involving ‘/getdown’ Exploit and Looting Boxes on Ilum

Posted by | January 17, 2012

You too can become invulnerable in Star Wars: The Old Republic but just getting down and grooving — with the /getdown bug — although BioWare has fixed this exploit as of the 5th of Jan 2012. Also, keep in mind that looting boxes on Ilum could lead to getting suspended (or banned) from the game.

Link, via MMO Anthropology and YouTube.

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It’s a City of Heroes Christmas and who doesn’t miss the Level Lord

Posted by | January 4, 2012

Back in the early days of MMORPGs—and those days it was 2004—the MMOs started to realize that people wanted more to do than just new content involving episodes and new villains and higher level caps. Instead, MMO companies discovered that people wanted to experience in-game what happened to them outside in the global culture. So City of Heroes added the Winter Event.

With that winter event came some unexpected bugs…currently best described in the most recent MMO Anthropology article,

By far the most amusing phenomena that rose out of the original 2004 Winter Event in City of Heroes happened to be the city-region bosses the Winter Lords. These were gigantic snowmen appearing about ten stories tall, textured as if made entirely out of snow, with icicle noses.

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Star Wars: The Old Republic Gameplay and Impressions

Posted by | November 30, 2011

The Star Wars: The Old Republic beta weekend has finally drawn to a close and now there’s a plethora of information spreading across the net about the game. By and large, it looks like the game is pressing the cut scenes and the storytelling very hard.

The game has been described as a “solo MMO” with powerfully excellent voice acting and a strong themepark element. In fact, much of the game feels like it pressures the player to remain solo except for the intermittent “HEROIC” quest.

Also: Lightsabers.

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Micro-Review: Jade Empire

Posted by | December 2, 2008

Jade Empire, by 2K Games and BioWare was a breath of fresh air between bouts of attempting to slog through old point-and-click adventure games and the mainstay of popular offerings. I had just gotten finished with Knights of the Old Republic a month earlier and nothing compared to how amazingly well that adventure/RPG had been constructed. Fortunately, BioWare to the rescue.

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