Month: December 2012

  • Diablo 3: The MMO that Was Supposed to Be

    A little while back, there was some controversy between Blizzard North’s founder David Brevik and one of the lead designers in Diablo 3, Jay Wilson, over Jay Wilson’s rather unprofessional comments on Facebook towards Brevik’s views on how Diablo 3 turned out. Further investigation about the matter has shown me that Diablo 3 was essentially…

  • Diablo 3: Auction House Flipping For Gold

    It seems that the biggest consensus is that auction house flipping is the best way to make money in Diablo 3. For myself, I never flip on the auction house simply because I’m not entirely interested in making gold in this manner. However, I have to point this method out since it seems to be…

  • World of Warcraft: Questing Design Failure

    I made an attempt to take my hunter for a bit of leveling. Almost immediately, I gave up after getting my hunter to the nearby town in the first area. I felt overwhelmed knowing full well the long grind that could take a few days just to finish up the area. I’ve felt that way…

  • Diablo 3: Good Paragon Leveling Route

    I know there’s a video on the most efficient route for focusing on pushing Paragon levels to the maximum in Diablo 3. While the calculated rate of XP is good, my main issue is that it seems to be designed primarily with the Whirlwind Barbarian build in mind. More than likely, you can come close…

  • Diablo 3: Investing in the Real Money Auction House

    This article is NOT for hardcore players, kids nor people who don’t have real money. This article is aimed at casual game players who have hit a wall in Diablo 3 and are having a hard time progressing because of lack of skill, patience, time, etc. The thing I want to discuss is why investing…

  • Alienware Aurora R4 Wireless Failure

    Last night, my wireless card on my Alienware Aurora R4 seemed to have failed without warning. Not sure exactly what happened but my system could not detect it. It freaked me out because I had done nothing and could not use any of the Windows diagnostic tools to recover it. Looking at the Device Manager,…

  • Magento, OnePica and Amazon S3 Configuration

    I’m using Magento on Amazon EC2. Part of the infrastructure that I’m going to be using is Amazon S3 to handle user uploaded content and OnePica will manage it. My version of Magento is 1.7. At the moment, OnePica is not officially supported on Magento 1.7 according to the download link. However, my coworker pointed…