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A new reign begins on the GW Amp site today. A new herald of the Site Manager title has been chosen and his name is Wyat_Hawke.
For those unaware, outstanding staffer/member Kanna recently stepped down as Site Manager for the site. In his departure, a new SM was sought to fill in the void. Kanna will be missed as staffer but I am pretty sure he isn't completely leaving the site. I would like to be one of the first to thank him for his time and effort he placed into the site on a daily basis. Also please give congratulations to Wyat in his new position for the site.
With Wyat taking over as SM, we are considering opening up to take on new staffers. Stay tuned for news on seeking out site assistance. If anyone has any questions feel free to contact Wyat or myself.
Stay tuned to Gameamp.com for more news on Guild Wars.
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This year for the 3th birthday of Guild Wars, a new Sweepstakes will be taking place.
The Grand Prize is an Alienware Gaming PC:
Running on the newest Nividia Cards
For the full technical specs take a look
here
The 5 first prize winners get an ATI radeon 3870 512 MB Graphics Card.
3 second prize winners win a Logitech G51 5.1 Stereo Set
3rd prizes are a Logitech G9 mouse; A Logitech G15 Gaming keyboard and a Gaming Labs X-FI XtremeGamer Sound card.
Contest starts on 28th April 2008 and Ends 31th May 2008.
Read the full rules and prizes here
In addition to the Sweepstakes Arenanet released some new North American artwork in poster size.
Link to the store is here
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The 28th of April will mark the Third Year that Guild Wars was released, and ArenaNet is letting us know in a Big Way. On the 24th of April the Celebration started and will run through Noon PST on the 29th of April. This 5 day event brings in a Brand New End-Game area for Guild Wars Prophecies packed with brand new weapons, Third-Year Miniatures, Cupcakes, Fireworks, The Boardwalk, Rollerbeetle Racing, and the Dragon Arena.
You can read all about the Event from GuildWars.Com
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We all know that in-game Gold is sold for Real Money in a process called RMT. We know it because we get tells in-game from seller accounts and because we sometimes (think we can) see the farming accounts at work in our beloved game.
That there is a market for in-game gold can not be doubted once one looks at Google's WOW Guide WOW GOLD trend analysis. Some go as far as to compare the phenomenon to prostitution, claiming it's the unsavory elements around it that are the problem, not the "service" itself.
Game Security blogger Play no Evil got some statistics straight from the monster's mouth. IGE has been busy tearing itself to shreds so was unavailable for comparable figures.
The article is an interesting read, showing some interesting tidbits like WOW-EU gold being persistently cheaper than WOW-US Gold. Could it be that Blizzard patrols the EU servers less fanatically or is it to do with time-zones, the proverbial Chinese Farmer doesn't have to wait nearly a day for the US market to wake up before offloading the hot goods. Some of the comments are even better. Truly showing how complex and diverse this issue really is.
Read and discuss.
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| Draw A Staffer Contest Winners!! | Well after hard thought, we and the staffers have decided on the winners!
I'll just like to say a big thank you to all those that particpated in our contest, all together we had 57 entries and that all entries were great but we had to pick the the best of the best. Well enough of me rambling on here are the winners of the 1st Draw A Staffer Contest!!!!
| Dont forget that the staffers have picked their favourite drawing of themselves in this thread, if you were their favourite then you may get a special bonus :)
Could the winners please PM Kanna to receive your prizes and make sure to mention your ingame name.
Once again, thanks to all that particpated and watch out for DAS2 Coming to a gameamp forum near you :) |
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The New Game Master
May I introduce you to the new Community manager: Regina Buenaobra.
She used to work as the Community Manager from Xfire. Her profession is Necromancer and has a character to get to Legendary Defender of Ascalon.
Sarah Brightman
Sarah Brightman's Symphony and Arenanet, two total different things. A few months ago Sarah Brightman approached Daniel Dociu. With the feeling that his art (The Kurzick Cathedral, the Kurzick Loading screen) was a good cover for her new album
Symphony.
A big congratulations to both of these people.
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Strictly speaking this isn't news, since this item is about two decades into the past and one decade into the future.
The first is a Visual Histroy of MMORPGs (first part) hosted at Massively.com which shows a nice overview of the genre, starting with the first MUD, created by Richard Bartle and Roy Trubshaw back in 1978 (told you it was two decades) up to around the time Everquest hits the scene in 1999. Presumably, that will get a viewing in part2. But for a quick timeline of that classic, check here.
But this is all preface for Richard Bartle's (who is indeed the same Bartle as from the famous Bartle Test which many Developers still use to define players by) Keynote speech at IMGDC 2008, in which he sets out three brilliant though sometimes scary visions of how MMORPG's will evolve in the next ten years or so.
Best of all, he posted his Slides online!
I would invite you all to look at the pretty pictures by Massively and then read through Richard Bartle's Slides, if only to find out how he managed to link MMORPG's to two of the best things to come out of the seventies, namely the Muppets and Debbie Harry.
Once you're done, I'd like you to share your thoughts on the past and future of MMORPGs here.
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The news just got out that Gaile Gray was leaving, now the other person that was the link between the Developers and the community is leaving. Yes I am talking about Andrew Patrick, the one who new most of the new PvP stuff(eg: Zaishen chest)
Gaile leaves for a new Support job, will Andrew is joining the Question and Answers team.
The reason he is leaving is mainly because of Gaile, with her leaving he started to think about his future and long term goals. He founded himself on a crossroad: he could still be in his current job or go to his new position.
Read his full story
here.
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On 31 march 2008 the Guild wars comunity heard some sad news; Their favorite Comunity relations manager leaves her position.
Gaile Gray worked with Areanet for 7 years, 5 years as a CRM.
During the weekend of 4 - 7th April a huge event will be held in all major outpost. During the event all sorts of consumables will drop from the monster in the world of Tyria.
The mascot of Gaile, The Frog, uses all of his powers to summon a new effect during the weekend, this effect doubles the points gained from items that count towards the Party Animal title track.
Be sure to visit this event, it will be a one to remember.
As a extra note, visit her userpage on the Offical Guild Wars Wiki to drop a thank you note or a congratulations.
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EA Mythic brought saddening news earlier this week when they announced a fall launch, showing once and for all that a release set in mud can still easily slip.
But since that sad day, Mythic's been making up for it with a sleuth of items that hitherto had only been hinted at. They accomplished this by means of letting a TTH crew film just about everything they had tape for during a visit to the Mythic offices.
Here's the list:
“Tech is as deep as plastic. Game play is forever!”
In another part of the world, we learn that EU Open beta this summer will be guaranteed for the 55,000 people who will be pre-ordering the Collector's Edition. The rest will presumably be drawing straws.
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