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Jaime
Jaime grew up in southern CA. Since the days of Ultima Online - she has been playing MMORPGs with a passion. Online gaming has become one of her most passionate hobbies, as the games internally and externally evolve over time, providing an ever-changing gaming experience.
Relevant Articles
- Breaking Free from the Healing Dependency
- For any MMO that features a healing mechanic necessary for groups, the phrase 'LF healer and GTG' is so overused, players will often get creative with new ways of begging for a healer for their group. Players will wait hours for the illusive healer, and they'll take what they can get, even if it ends up being under geared, poorly specialized, or on trade for specific favors to the player. I don't have... >>more
- Fri Sep 18 00:21:26 2009
- The Warhammer Mistake - The Same Problem Aion Encountered
- I was discussing upcoming MMOs with a friend a few weeks ago when she mentioned a term I hadn't heard before: The Warhammer Mistake. She explained that the Warhammer Mistake is when an MMO developer decides to make PvP the only viable means of end-game entertainment. She argued that this same problem was to plague Aion, a PvPvE game.... >>more
- Thu Sep 03 22:52:35 2009
- Subscription-based MMOs Breed Addicts
- In late July, a news story surfaced about Dr. Richard Graham, a psychiatrist who is seeking to open in-game counseling services in World of Warcraft. The claim was that World of Warcraft is more addictive than crack – and there's certainly some evidence that players have, at times, taken their virtual world experiences too far. There's the real world cases of stabbing upon selling a sword loaned in... >>more
- Tue Aug 18 00:15:57 2009
- Sexist Attitudes in MMOs
- There's an argument that's been floating around the internet, saying that girl gamers haven't experienced sexism from fellow players. And frankly, it's invalid, an argument made mostly by nice men, and some women, who have only been gaming in the last few years – neither group which have been playing MMOs from their darker roots. The truth is, video game sexism has come a long way in recent years... >>more
- Fri Aug 07 02:56:44 2009
- Will We See More Franchise MMOs?
- It seems that every action, adventure, fantasy, sci-fi, and animated movie that comes out these days is preceded, accompanied, or followed by a video game release. Most of these games pass under the radar, even after making decent bank on sales: their purpose, it appears, is more to cash on the success of the movie release than to provide quality gaming based on a movie. There are a few exceptions... >>more
- Mon Jul 27 04:15:55 2009
