As an MMO reviewer, I’ve felt both privileged (at occupying a niche few are equipped to explore) and also terrified (at a reviewer’s complete inability to perceive the whole game). As Quintin Smith found last week, and Ed Zitron found previously, reviewers, no matter how professional, can’t just hop back into an MMO when it’s been updated and hope to review it. Especially not, as those two found, when the audience they think they’re talking to isn’t the audience that actually reads and responds to the article. Here’s a putative structure for [more...]]]> http://funambulism.com/2010/05/a-solution-to-mmo-review-problems-the-intereview/feed/ 15 http://funambulism.com/2008/11/shameless-plug/ http://funambulism.com/2008/11/shameless-plug/#comments Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:13:00 +0000 Grill http://www.funambulism.com/?p=1011

I’m not handling PR for this particular MMO (though I am for its predecessor, City of Heroes), but I’m interested to see how it goes. They’ve got a nice What Hero Are You generator on the website, though it seems to have read me rather too well.

Raised on a steady diet of comic books, you grew up to be an unstable lunatic, whose wacky ambitions are only matched by your delusions of grandeur. You’re too crafty to get caught, otherwise you’d certainly be locked away in the loony bin!

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Last night, I travelled home angry. I nicked a seat on the tube, I bullied stumblebums out of my way; I was generally a bundle of passive-aggressive geekery. Why? Not because my day had been bad or because I’d messed up in the office. It was because the Chancellor (boss) of my Convergence (guild) had kicked me out, after I’d pressed the “mistrust” button on Dreamlords’ rudimentary web interface.

Another day, another dollar.