This has been cross posted on my blog at wordpress.com.

Some people might call this post a troll, but I mean it very seriously. I think by most objective measures World of Warcraft: Cataclysm can be classified as a failure. Not because production value was poor (in fact it was excellent). Not because there was insufficient content. It failed simply because Blizzard has fallen into the trap of trying to please everyone and as a consequence is pleasing almost no one. Since the release...

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It's time to kick over the ant hill again and revive a topic that I brought up nearly a year go. The state of Warcraft and the trajectory for it's future. Blizzard quietly reported the other day that for the first time ever they experienced a drop in subscriptions.

World of Warcraft’s first subscription drop: are you still playing? | PC Gamer

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I was going though an older blog I have and stumbled upon this gem discussing my experience in Travian and why I got out; thought I'd re-share it here. Enjoy!

Entry was original posted on March 7, 2008

So my empire of three towns on Travian (server 5) was extremely short lived. Upon getting home last night I noticed that my third town of "Pantstastic" was gone. I saw that I had a message and one of my nearby neighbors had decided that I didn't need it......

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The topic came up in the Politics Thread in the Benefactors Bar but I thought I'd expand on my feelings about local TV news and why it's dumb (or stupid, pick your word). I'm not a regular consumer of local TV news, but I do manage to catch bits of it from time to time while moving through the cable channels. Nonetheless, I think I've been exposed to enough local TV news over the years in order to make an informed and enlightened opinion. In one word local TV news is dumb. Just flat out dumb. It...

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