Correction: SOE Did A Disgusting Thing To A Dead Goat

There, that’s a little more factually accurate than my last headline.

There’s some kind of counter statement from Sony in one of the comments or somewhere in case anybody really wants to hear their side. I didn’t post it. However, I remain

(a) committed to being fair when discussing controversial issues of interest to gamers; and

(b) extremely pissed off at Sony for their bad taste in marketing, bad business decisions vis a vis Star Wars Galaxies and generally letting dumbasses run their American and European gaming divisions. I humbly suggest to the parent corporation that you may wish to hire new translators, because there seems to be a major divide between your company’s excellent reputation in most other business endeavors and your reputation among the gaming customer base, as one might discover from learning that if you Google “SOE bashing” you get more than ten pages of hits. Possibly this reputation could be salvaged if some of the gaming division executives were to commit seppuku, or if that’s a little too harsh, you could make them appear on a Japanese reality TV show (and hopefully someone will link me the video and maybe even put on some subtitles because I’d pay to see that).

But anyway, enough dead goats.

Today I am plugging a new start-up, Cerise, a feminist-identified e-zine about women gamers.

It looks sort of interesting and I wish it well and hope it takes off.

I wrote to them and got back a nice reply, along with a link to a wiki on female-gamer blogs and websites, and was advised that Darth Bunnywabbit would be added to it soon, so Rose and any other game-involved women reading this, let’s try to get together on this hub where we can centralize all our links so that maybe the game developers – the ones who want to make VAST AMOUNTS OF MONEY and BE ADORED BY MANY WOMEN, anyway – can do their market research and give us what we want. Dammit.

Because video games improve your eyesight, help you focus, instruct you in classical literature, help you lose weight and can save your life!

So meanwhile, what am I up to in my games at the moment? Uh, leveling my priestess. That’s kind of boring. She’s level 31 now.

Having fun with my flying mount. Flying up to the tops of tall things to get aerial recon. I had a lot of fun with one group trying to slay some giants, where I came in really high so they couldn’t see me, then went into a steep dive, dismounted before I hit the ground and suddenly fell into their midst blasting away at that rotten giant. Nice entrance.

Chatting about non-WoW games. I’ve heard good things about God of War despite the lame ad campaign, WarHammer, Guild Wars 2 and mixed reviews of LOTRO (darn it, the musician feature is making me want to check that out).

(If there is ever a Guitar Hero Online I am soooo there. I would love to be able to actually play music in a game rather than summon up pre-recorded loops, especially if I could play with other musicians. I love playing music, but dealing with the accoutrements of IRL musicianship – weird hours, creepy clubs, arrogant boy musicians, strings that break when you don’t want them to, people into drugs that make you stupid, flaky fellow musicians – just plain suck.)

And in another couple hours, I’m outta here to do more of same. But until then I’ve got all those links to read and there might even be some work lying around here somewhere.