World of Warcraft is a fantastic game, no doubt about it, but I’ve always had one major bugbear with it - grouping sucks. OK, let me qualify that statement - grouping sucks at lower levels. Seriously, for a Massively Multiplayer world it’s a pretty unsociable game until you get into the higher tiers. Ironically enough, [...]
Games like Oblivion and GTA IV may be great but I always feel kinda sad when I play them because I’m off exploring some vast world all on my lonesome. Probably one of the main reasons I love MMOs so much is because they are all communities, sometimes small or, in the case of WoW, [...]
Having just made my post about PUGs yesterday, I found this excellent comic on the EQ2 forums - familar stuff to any MMO player I’m sure! It’s also beautifully rendered and really shows off EQ2s graphics.
The comic series is called ‘FTW’. Click here to view the EQ2 thread with all of the details.
A new post on Keen and Graev’s about Pick Up Groups (PUGs) got me thinking about how grouping with unknown players seems to have changed over the years from being the acceptable and common experience to something that people seem very negative about and reluctant to do. I first encountered the word ‘PUG’ about 2 [...]