This week we have our full cast as we welcome Kodra back from GenCon. He talks about all of the LARPs that he played and the conclusion of his journey into the My Little Pony card game competition. Then we talk some MMO design especially as realted to the awesome community that has flourished in Final Fantasy XIV.
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So much new to do in Final Fantasy XIV. I did end up creating a new character to try and get my bearings again. It worked pretty well, in fact; I played that character to level 10 as a conjurer then switched back to my main from the first time around, Thalen Fireheart. I had reached level 34 as a bard previously, and was ready to face Titan.
It turned out one of the other recent returnees was at the exact same point, so we got two of our higher level players to tank and heal for us and knocked that out. It actually ended up being extremely easy. Apart from that I’ve mostly spent today running around picking up and completing the various quests connected to housing, the new challenge and sightseeing logs, and new dances. Also some crafting to turn in today’s resource and supply requests.
So far I’m really enjoying it. I really like the art style and the feel of play. Of course I enjoyed it for the time that I played it last time, but that wasn’t enough to keep me in after the first month. I think part of the problem then, however, is that I had just left WoW. I don’t think I was ready to pick up any new MMO; I still needed a break to just recharge and be away from the genre in general. Life was also pretty hectic and a bit stressful at the time, so that didn’t help any either.
We’ll see if I end up sticking with it this time. Could be fun. I would like to get to level 50 and see some of the endgame.
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Returning
This week the fearless Kodra is off battling ponies at GenCon, so we are holding down the fort while he is gone. On this episode I am joined by Rae, Ashgar and Tam and we talk about a whole bunch of stuff. This was a busy week in gaming from GamesCom to the Blizzard Warlords Announcement to the SOE Live convention. We try and run down the things from each that stuck out in our minds. Towards the end of the podcast we delve into playing what you love and not apologizing for it. I think this is a new mantra we should all try to live by.
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This week is a bit different than our normal show. One of the awesome bloggers and podcasters in the blaugust initiative has posed her own challenge. She is trying to collect information on how World of Warcraft has effected other gamers looking for both current and former players. So this week we skipped doing our normal podcast to do a megacast in which we answer the 10 questions she has posed. The end result is a lot of nostalgia but some pretty good conversation about World of Warcraft and MMO gaming as a whole. The show went a bit longer than normal, but we wanted to push through all ten questions this week since we would be without Kodra next week as he is off to GenCon. I hope you all enjoy.
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