http://faelor.foreststalker.com Where Erik "Faelor" Shafer rambles about MMOs, games, music, and anything else geek related. Sun, 07 Oct 2007 18:54:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Borrowing this post from Cuppycake of Cuppytalk. I thought it was interesting and would like to spread the word around about Metaplace. It's hard for me to summarize, so who better to do it than Areae's own Raph Koster? TechCrunch have released the full video of Raph Koster’s demo of Metaplace! ... http://faelor.foreststalker.com/2007/10/07/metaplace-demo/ That's right, I am alive! Life has been extremely busy lately, and I apologize for not updating! I have a fair share of posting to do in the coming days, with some interesting stories to tell (as opposed to uninteresting stories). Between my I'm Moving blog post, I managed to do ... http://faelor.foreststalker.com/2007/09/30/im-alive-done-with-wow-and-playing-eq/ I'm going to be moving out of my apartment! I'm hoping once the move is finished and I have internet access, I'll be writing more. Life has been busy trying to update all of Forest Stalker, my guild's site and other projects I have under my belt. So stay tuned! http://faelor.foreststalker.com/2007/07/26/im-moving/ About two weeks ago I logged in to my guild's Ventrilo server to see what everyone was up to, nothing special. I found out that a handful of my guild mates had downloaded the 10 day trial of Dungeons & Dragons Online (DDO), and were enjoying it a lot. ... http://faelor.foreststalker.com/2007/07/10/dungeons-dragons-10-day-trial/ That's right. My site Vanguard Rangers, once an affiliate of Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, has expanded its horizons. Now being hosted by the UberGuilds Network (yes, the folks that host the Fire of Heaven message boards), the can only grow. It'll cover a handful of games that have Ranger (or ... http://faelor.foreststalker.com/2007/07/06/vanguard-rangers-is-now-foreststalkercom/ Through the wonderful world of the blogosphere (I'll use that word as much as possible thank you very much) I saw an extremely interesting post by Cuppycake at Cuppytalk. It seems Funcom has secured an additional $30 million USD for their their upcoming MMO Age of Conan. As seen here: Additional ... http://faelor.foreststalker.com/2007/06/27/funcom-gains-30-million-for-age-of-conan/ First of I'd like to apologize for not updating recently. I'm currently trying to make a buck and enjoy the summertime at the same time. As many of you know, that is not an easy task. I'm helping VanguardDreadKnight.com build their ability database and a few other things, which is ... http://faelor.foreststalker.com/2007/06/22/new-age-of-conan-video/ Here is a small tidbit of a conversation I had with my MMO partner in crime, Todd: FAELOR: Awesome news on the Official Vanguard site! Check it out! TODD: F***IN NICE FAELOR: YEAH, THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKIN' ABOUT! Seriously, what the hell? I understand SOE is owned by Sony Pictures but this is not ... http://faelor.foreststalker.com/2007/06/09/surfs-up-vanguard/ As you can see in my lovely update on my guild's website (Halcyon Affinity), we found a lil ole dragon all the way at the bottom of Stiirhad, a tier 3 raid area. For those that don't know, Stiirhad isn't even suppose to raid-ready for another two months (don't quote ... http://faelor.foreststalker.com/2007/05/30/a-dragon-in-vanguard/ Recently I was promoted to officer in my guild (Halcyon Affinity). And like my Uncle Ben use to tell me, "With a great guild tag, comes great responsibility". So I'm going to be in charge of quite a few things, including front page updates. While I wouldn't call it truly ... http://faelor.foreststalker.com/2007/05/28/i-can-kick-you-im-an-officer/