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		<title>FFXIV</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2010 04:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been putting off my next post as I&#8217;m waiting for anything good say about FFXIV&#8230; anything. I&#8217;m sticking with it because I believe in what they&#8217;re trying to do, and I&#8217;m willing to give them the time to do it &#8211; but for the time being it&#8217;s just not looking good. On the bright [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theaphelion.wordpress.com&amp;blog=680228&amp;post=470&amp;subd=theaphelion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FFXIV Frist Day Reactions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 18:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D^t</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theaphelion.wordpress.com/?p=463</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After not being able to get onto the server I wanted with my guildmates Wednesday, last night (Thursday) was much more fruitful. Stability has greatly improved &#8211; I crashed once in nearly 10 hours of gametime on one of the most congested servers. Even in the few cases where the client seemed to want to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theaphelion.wordpress.com&amp;blog=680228&amp;post=463&amp;subd=theaphelion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2 Years of Warhammer</title>
		<link>http://theaphelion.wordpress.com/2010/09/23/2-years-of-warhammer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 06:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D^t</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wahammer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WAR]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations Wahammer, you made it&#8230; kinda. Hopefully within the year you will follow suit and go &#8220;free to play&#8221; much like EQ2, LotRO and DDO. One can only hope. Check it out here. -D^t Filed under: Daily Thoughts Tagged: Wahammer, WAR<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theaphelion.wordpress.com&amp;blog=680228&amp;post=454&amp;subd=theaphelion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Interesting Quotes in GAME Watch on FFXIV</title>
		<link>http://theaphelion.wordpress.com/2010/09/21/interesting-quotes-in-game-watch-on-ffxiv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 00:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D^t</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[- FFXI]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[FFXIV beta]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[missions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Link from FFXIVCore. GW: So guildleves aren’t the main content? DK: There’s a lot of talk among the developers about what the main content is. My opinion is that if guildleves were a food, they would be bread or rice. They allow you to progress but don’t become dull or monotonous. You never grow tired [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theaphelion.wordpress.com&amp;blog=680228&amp;post=457&amp;subd=theaphelion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FFXIV &#8211; The Fatigue System</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D^t</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m tried of hearing / talking about it &#8211; but I found a great youtube video on the fatigue system. A fatigue-ish type system exists in Eve where character growth is horizontal and the # of skill points you can possible reach in a week is hard capped. It works extremely well and promotes cross [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theaphelion.wordpress.com&amp;blog=680228&amp;post=447&amp;subd=theaphelion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FFXIV beta impressions</title>
		<link>http://theaphelion.wordpress.com/2010/09/14/ffxiv-beta-impressions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 05:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D^t</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[- FFXI]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Directed Game Deisgn]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll admit, I&#8217;m a sucker for FF games. Most of my top 10 offline games of all time consist of Square titles, and the vast majority of my fond memories of mmorpgs lie in Vana&#8217;diel and not Azeroth. No doubt curiosity killed the cat this month as I found myself playing the FFXIV beta, learning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theaphelion.wordpress.com&amp;blog=680228&amp;post=448&amp;subd=theaphelion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MMO Gamer Demographics</title>
		<link>http://theaphelion.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/mmo-gamer-demographics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D^t</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theaphelion.wordpress.com/?p=428</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was finishing up a post on who Aion was specifically marketing for when, after reviewing it, I realized that mmo gamer demographics is not really a topic often discussed enough to provide meaningful commentary. I began dividing up the communities in my mind and realized there is a possibility for a very in-depth discussion which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theaphelion.wordpress.com&amp;blog=680228&amp;post=428&amp;subd=theaphelion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Changes to the MMO landscape</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D^t</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theaphelion.wordpress.com/?p=408</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, after a long hiatus due to an emense amount of work I&#8217;m back in the fray of MMO blogging, and with enough furious vengeance of revelations, proclamations and provocative questions to last quite a while. The mmo landscape looks quite differently then it did when I last post, so lets recap. + WoW is still [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theaphelion.wordpress.com&amp;blog=680228&amp;post=408&amp;subd=theaphelion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sorry for my absence</title>
		<link>http://theaphelion.wordpress.com/2009/04/09/sorry-for-my-absence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D^t</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey guys, Life, as it usually does, has become incredibly busy between work, buying a house and getting married (one more month) so I&#8217;ve had little time to finish up my thoughts on mmo design or even critique the recent developments of certain games. For that I do apologize but understand nothing can be done [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theaphelion.wordpress.com&amp;blog=680228&amp;post=393&amp;subd=theaphelion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Convenience vs. Realism (part 3)</title>
		<link>http://theaphelion.wordpress.com/2009/03/12/convenience-vs-realism-part-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D^t</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a peculiar section in a on line video game blog site. On one hand we're talking about million dollar entities which sole purpose is to find ways to entertain us for hours, n0, months on end. It seems the absolute logical step that these games should have massive amounts of content for the user to push through, but that's not the issue - we're untested in communicating with the gamer efficiently what there is to do. The hardest thing though providing convenience as to relaying what playstlyes there are but keeping hidden content to give the world that added sense of mystery.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theaphelion.wordpress.com&amp;blog=680228&amp;post=375&amp;subd=theaphelion&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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