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The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best PvP?
Player vs. player -- a phrase that strikes fear into the heart of some, indigestion into the hearts of others, and a rich sauce of adrenaline and righteous anger into the hearts of the rest. It's generally a love-it-or-hate-it feature, as gamers choose a side and demean the other crowd with kindergarten-level insults. Assuming that you appreciate PvP in some format or other, which MMORPG did it the best? Which tackled that complex equation of skill, objective, and faction balancing and came out on top? Was it Dark Age of Camelot's infamous three-sided feud? Are you partial to World of Warcraft's battleground and arena system? Is EVE Online all the hardcore PvP you'll ever need? Or do you love MMOs that are specifically designed to be PvP battlefields, like Warhammer Online and APB? So today, set yourself up as Judge Judy and executioner -- which MMO has the best PvP?
Breakfast Topic: Primetime WoW
First the Toyota ad, then Judge Judy and How I Met Your Mother. Lately, WoW has been appearing all over the place. It's been popular before, of course (we've seen the Office Space commercial, and of course the South Park episode), but World of Warcraft has been popping up all over pop culture lately, and I've been wondering: it's been showing up in primetime, but has World of Warcraft hit its prime?It's been the top online roleplaying game for quite a while now, and The Burning Crusade was actually released as the biggest PC game sequel ever. But as popular as videogames are, they're still a niche market in the terms of popular culture. Every gamer may know what Warcraft is, but that doesn't mean your parents or grandparents do (unless they play, but that's another Breakfast Topic).Until now. Is World of Warcraft finally breaking out of the gamer barrier and moving into the mainstream? There are more WoW players in America than farmers, and while I was kind of joking about seeing realm outage news on the local TV station, maybe it really will happen-- the game's already appeared on the sitcoms before the news. Are all these mentions just a coincidence, or has WoW finally hit its mainstream tipping point?
Judge Judy: World of What?
Oh, Judge Judy. This crazy kids bring their problems to you, ask you to fix things, and then they start talking nonsense about some videogame that you've never heard of. This looks super edited to me, but you can tell what's going on-- a girl decided to kick her boyfriend out of the house for playing too much World of Warcraft, and Judge Judy can't seem to make head or tails of the whole thing.The classic moment is asking the fake baliff, though. It would have been even funnier if he turned around and said "Hell yes, for the Horde!"
Sadly, iPod girls will not get publicly berated by Judge Judy
In what is slowly snowballing into the Trial of the Century (and being only 2006, we can safely say the Trial of the Millennium), the dispute between the families of Shannon Derrick and Stephanie Eick over a stolen iPod will not, unfortunately, be resolved in the hallowed halls of Judge Judy's tough-but-fair courtroom. Amusingly, the plaintiff's mother originally saw the show as a quick way to resolve the matter on a level playing field, even though this whole incident could have been put to bed weeks ago had said mother not rejected a free iPod and associated swag donated by an anonymous do-gooder. As much as we'd love to hear JJ's take on this silly matter, since Eick's parents have been dropped from the suit and now only the piggybank of 14-year-old Stephanie is being pursued, it's up to her to approve a change of venue from Illinois to California. According to dad Steve, young Stephanie -- now a high school freshman -- doesn't want to go the Judy route because -- get this -- she'd have to miss two days of school and diving practice. (Who says kids these days lack ambition? When we were on the swim team, we would have given up our favorite pair of goggles to miss class and those grueling after-school torture sessions). Anyway, the next chapter in this saga will be played out on October 18th, when a DuPage County judge will attempt a last ditch effort at ending the debacle amicably through a settlement hearing. And after that? The high-profile case will most likely end up going to trial, and regardless of the final resolution, there's a good chance that Apple's legal team will swoop in and sue both families for besmirching the good name of their precious little cash cow.[Via The Beacon News, thanks Ricardo]
