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Continued from Part 1, where I try to define terms and set out the basics of how the system works. There are not enough quality advertisers willing to use the offer wall system for it to be truly profitable. In order for it to work, you have to let less scrupulous folks in. The sort that will surreptitiously sign users up to cellphone subscriptions (that’s where the REAL money is to be made in this), “trial” offers where you end […] WoW jumps the shark. Update: This confused the heck out of a non-MMO playing friend of mine. Sometimes I forget such people still exist. My lovely drawing was a reference to World of Warcraft’s new 25 dollar Celestial Steed which is making the MMO news at the moment. My views on this sort of thing are pretty well known (hint: I dislike them profoundly), and I’ll resist repeating them again, today at any rate, especially as I don’t […] I’ve been working on this for a while, but recent developments have somewhat increased the urgency for me to actually get around to finishing this. While I’m sorting out the juicier bits, lets make sure we’re on the same page regarding terms, and what offer walls are. Offer Walls, or “Advertising Payment Gateways” are most commonly associated with social games on platforms such as Facebook. For the game makers it is a great way to get some cash out of […] I cancelled Star Trek Online during my free month, mostly because I thought the game was not very good. Imagine my surprise when leafing through this month’s bank statement, I saw that I was still being billed. In fact, I was billed twice. On the 5th of March they initially billed me 30 dollars. Then they billed me another 15 dollars, just for fun. Then they refunded the thirty dollars. Of course, they didn’t refund the international transaction fees I […] In a shock announcement, Mattel, the makers of Scrabble, have decided that proper nouns should be allowed. This change is being brought in to make the game more accessible for younger players, letting them use the names of their favourite television characters and celebrities. I don’t know about you, but when I was young, I did know some words that were not proper nouns, and I suspect young people today do also. Mattel is treating them as if they are […] A quick followup to yesterday’s post. Respeccing to carpenter went without a hitch. You become a level 9 artisan, ready to pick your first specialisation of scholar, outfitter, or craftsman. Some relatively painless levelling later, and Maltheas became a level 20 carpenter. The Shady Swashbuckler did indeed change which “Shadows of the Betrayed†reward he offered, and the legendary Sculpting Hammer of Twiddy Bobbick now rests in Maltheas’ backpack. As Fiddy Bobbick was also a keen tinkerer and famed explorer, […] Today, after five long years, Maltheas became a level 90 Weaponsmith. It was a fine moment of celebration, as he reached the very peak of the profession he chose, so long ago, back in Temple Street. So this evening he will be respecing to Carpenter, beginning again as a newbie crafter. There are a number of reasons for doing this: 1. Primarily, there doesn’t seem to be much point in actually being a weaponsmith these days. Back in the day, […] |
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