Aion: Head start and crazy long queues

I’m playing Aion!!
…and I’m rather bored.  Aion gameplay at low levels is about as generic an experience as you can find in an MMORPG.  It’s pretty and polished, but so very bland.
For a MMORPG head start, it’s been very smooth, as I expected.  The game has been Live in Asia for a while now, so [...]

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Champions Online: Level 30’s already?

It’s great finally leveling up and knowing that I’m not completely wasting my time on a character that’s going to be wiped.  The head start launch went as smoothly as could be expected. The servers were up about 20 minutes before the official start time.  It was an unexpected, but welcome, change especially considering many [...]

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Warhammer Online: 1.5 million sold to retailers!!

According to a press release released by Mythic, they have sold 1.5 million units to retailers!  Now, if you look at the wording, that doesn’t mean all 1.5 million units were sold to players.  Nor does it mean there were 1.5 million pre-orders.  It simply means that 1.5 million units were sold to retailers (where [...]

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Warhammer Online: Core or Open? Order or Destruction? RP?

Sounds like the head start for Collector’s Edition players is going as smoothly as you might expect.  There are long queues for the popular servers (2 hours??), even though Mythic had a great server rollout plan.  Some people are experiencing crashes.  But many people are having fun, with few issues and little lag.
Both the Core [...]

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Warhammer Online: Head Start dates and times

Collector’s Edition Head Start begins on September 14th at 7am EDT.
Normal pre-order Head Start begins on September 16th at 7am EDT.
Sigh.  I’m disappointed that Mythic is giving people who plopped down more money to buy the CE version the chance to reserve all the popular character names 2 days ahead of time.  From what I [...]

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