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The MMO Royal Rumble

It’s been a while since brought up this subject but I find myself inspired to talk about it for a moment, I wanna see your feedback maybe even get some insight. There are 4 major MMO franchises in the field right now that all bring something to the table that I believe has the potential (if not squandered) to make a big splash in the market and the genre.

I’ve never been much of an MMO player truth be told until FFXI and then WoW, so I find it somewhat interesting that I’ve not only met my wife through an MMO, found a job through an MMO, and have made lifelong friends I work with pseudo-professionally through an MMO. So here’s the scoop:

• Aion (with the induction of Patch 1.9 and 2.0)
• Warhammer 40k MMO
• WoW: Cataclysm
• Star Wars: The Old Republic

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Nuclear Missile Launch, Detected.

Hello what dismally few people are reading this, and welcome to something slightly altered. But before you ask, no I haven’t left Spooncraft to rot and I will still be posting there with about as much frequency as I am currently even if many of the posts there are simply mirrored from this site.

The Ghost Academy is a blog for me. I’ve grown a lot and learned more than I think I ever wanted to since I started Spooncraft a few years ago and I find myself in a unique and altogether pleasant (if not a bit precarious) place right now. I’m doing things a little different this time. I am going to avoid placing ads on this site for as long as humanly possible; not that I have anything against Google and making a few coins here and there, but I just find the whole thing tedious and not really worth the drama.

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