Sunday, February 27, 2011

The Dangers of Playing Games Online

As the technology grows and internet offers many ways to entertain our lives, online games also have spread their effect. Many children and even adults get addicted to play it within hours. Although, it is fun and enjoyable thing to perform, but the bad effect may attack your child's behavior and perhaps mental development. Those are what you need to realize when your kids start to be addicted to the online games.

According to studies, this addiction is similar like alcohol, drugs and gambling. If your son addicted to the game, he may commit to physical and mental problem that will be challenging to reverse. There are many signs you need to consider to know that your child obsessed to online gaming.

Loss Interest for Socializing

Basically, kids always enthusiast to go outside and make some new friendship, go to school, or even join extracurricular activity. If you find your child lost that interest and prefer to enjoy the game, you have to think about that he/she may get addicted to it. On the other hand, you can also monitor the school achievement decrease and they become lazier than before.

Kids Become Arrogant

You have to be concern if you see your child become an arrogant and often perform some violence. They adopt the behavior from the game. So, you need to stop your kids playing the game to prevent the worse behavior.

Sacrifices

People who are already obsessed in gaming usually would give anything they want, especially time. They would skip sleeping, school and even playtime with friends. They will forget about the time and how many hours they already spend.

Non-Stop Talking

It is the most significance sign that you may notice your children obsessed to the game. They will talk about how they get success in every level. They will enthusiast to explain the strategies they use to pass every level. Just realize that your son or daughter obsessed to gaming online.

If you notice that your kids have one of those signs, you need to take an action. You can limit their game time and try to encourage them to go outside and have fun with some friends. It would be better if you control them whenever they start to use internet because you can handle the bad effect before it attacks your generation.


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The Dungeon Drop Dilemma

To illustrate a clearer more personal picture, let's color an ordinary, everyday scenario together. Not wanting to get behind on gear, you take some time out of your daily routine and warm up the old WoW box; logging onto your main to que up for your daily heroic. Pressing the find group button in eager anticipation in making some awesomeness happen, you instead groan in dissatisfaction at the average wait time being well over 20 minutes! Feeling rather annoyed, you run around in a circle a few times then head out to do your dailies while you wait for the dungeon to pop. Well after the estimated time has gone by, you hear that faithful(drum roll please) 'DUN DUN DUN'. Finally, the wait is over and your irritation has been relieved! Everyone gets inside together, buffs up, and the tank makes that first faithful trash pull...

But wait! The healer wasn't inside yet, and that one stupid DPS death knight decided to pull some mobs, causing everyone to die. Shrugging your shoulders in determination, you zone back into the dungeon, only to have the tank drop! The pull happy death knight blames the tank and calls him a moron, and then the healer leaves too without notice. Relieved you still have 3 DPS and a position at the top of the line, you decide to reque. After some waiting, you get a fresh druid heals and warrior tank. The healer comments that the tank only has 115K health, not being anywhere near enough to tank this heroic. Being an arrogant Tauren warrior, he pulls without a word. The healer keeps the tank up well enough, and things finally seem to be working again...and then your dead! What the hell happened now? Let's check the charts. Damn, another tank that can't hold aggro! The tank makes a smart ass comment and leaves, followed by the healer and a DPS. Stuck with that original noob death knight as the only one to que with, you press the button and wait for more people. "Sorry bud but I gotta go." says the death knight as he leaves party, pulling you out of que and back at the bottom of the dungeon line. You log off frustrated, not wanting to wait 25 minutes for another fail group.

Now that I've gotten everyone riled up as they think about these painful memories, what is the point? The dungeon finder system is broken. It's sucked since day one of patch 3.3.3, and now it's just as bad, if not worse. There is a lot of potential behind the dungeon finder, Blizzard just needs to modify it so it doesn't operate like it's still in alpha phase for matching up players! Until Blizz will take real action, the wipes will continue, and you won't get anything done. What do you think can be done to fix it, because I sure as hell don't have any suggestions?! Keep queing my friends, the fail pugs are just a 25 minute wait away!


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Saturday, February 26, 2011

The Eve Online Beginner Guide

Starting your journey into the depths of the Eve Online Universe? If so, then you are in luck, in this article, you will learn not only the basics of how to survive in the Eve Online universe, but how to succeed, and with a little work, become a force in the galaxy.


The first thing you will need to know about Eve is how the system handles newer players, it does this, as does my MMO's, by starting you out in the most secure, and safest environment. The security of a system is rated on a scale of 1-10. 1.0 being the safest, 0.0 being basically, all out, open warfare. The Higher the security level, the less likely you are to encounter any trouble from any pirates (computer controlled enemies), who, if they deem you a threat because of your faction or faction standing, will either ignore you, or follow and attack you. The difference is that in the higher security zones, patrolling ships will often come to your aid and either dispose of the threat for you, or give you enough time to get away. And that brings me to my first piece of critical advice. You do not have to fight every fight. One of the key elements of Eve Online, is knowing when to fight and when not too. Even if you feel that you can defeat the enemy, what is the cost to your ship. Are you running low on ammo or missiles? Can your ship and it's equipment handle a prolonged engagement? Often, especially at the lower levels, it is best to get out of the engagement as quickly as possible, either destroy the enemy or avoid the fight.


When taking missions from your local contact at your home station, the missions will be rated, be sure that you are only taking missions that you are rated for. You can take missions higher than your rating, but if you get into trouble, or start taking too much damage, turning and getting out of the fight while you can is often the best choice. It is cheaper to repair your ship and re-arm it, then buy a replacement and re-arm and re-equip everything. Knowing what ship and armor to take into each engagement is a critical piece of knowledge that can be the difference between success and failure.


Combat and mission however, are not the only way to make ISK (Eve Online money), in Eve. Mining can be very lucrative if done correctly. You can start mining with your beginner ship and start to save enough to actually upgrade your ship fairly quickly. If you continue to mine, you will eventually need to upgrade to a larger mining barge, one that can hold many times the ore that a non-mining vessel can hold. Training in mining and barge operations will get you there faster than you think, especially if you specialize. Various Mining Guides are available to help you along your way.


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Friday, February 25, 2011

The Future of 3D Online Games

Online games are very popular not only among the kids but also adults are very keen in playing games in their pastime. To make the full use of your leisure you can play whatever type of game you like to play. There are multi-player games where you will find competitors from all over the world. Single player games are also there to cater you complete satisfaction.

Among all the games 3D online games are the most popular ones. These games can offer you 3D experience online. If you are playing action games it seems that the bullet it coming straight at you while in race you will feel that you are driving the car at a high rated speed and it gets crashed against something. All these are tremendous experience.

Most of these games are played over the internet. So you need to have internet connection with minimum bandwidth. Most of these games are built under flash platform and you must have flash player installed in your PC. Designers are working hard in making online games more and more interactive. 3D games have brought revolution in the market. Now online game industry is one of the promising industries in the world.

To enjoy real-time experience by playing online 3D games you just need to make a search and millions of websites are opened in front of you with millions of online 3D games. You can browse these sites and pick the best one for you. Free sign ups are required. In most of the cases you do not need to pay in advance. But at sometimes you are requested to make some donations as a reward to the designer of the game.

While signing up in online 3D game sites you are asked to fill up simple forms with some of your personal information. This is a new way of social networking where you can make friends and partners. You can share information and even chat with people all over the globe. If you want you can throw challenges to people when you are comfortable with the loop holes of these games.

Your child may start playing those online games which are really beneficial for him or her. There are several games available like Sudoku, 3D chess which helps a lot in developing proper mind sets. These also enhance intelligence and real-time experience at the same time. In future the 3D games will have much more attractive features. There is no way of bringing an end.Do not hesitates in signing up. Enjoy your pass time by playing 3D online games.


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Thursday, February 24, 2011

The Most Popular Online Game

Online games have grown to become a huge pastime as there are millions of people that play one or more of the many games available on servers. Most people like to play because they want to connect with other friends that happen to be behind the computer. It also serves as a getaway to meet new players online since many of these games allow players to message one another. Some players dive into these online worlds for profit since in-game items have value especially if they are difficult to acquire. Other games provide different gameplay experiences which are why there are several popular online games available today. Here are some of the most popular ones that a large majority of gamers are playing.

StarCraft 2

StarCraft may not be a game that you want to play for profit, but it is definitely one of the best cooperative and competitive real time strategy games out there today. It incorporates the same elements that made the first StarCraft game successful and puts in nice additions and an all new graphics engine. Plus diverse customization tools allow all sorts of maps and even different game types to be created. These maps can be shared online so people can use them online as well. Although the LAN component is no more, the refined battle.net interface makes it very easy to play against others that have a similar level of experience.

Call of Duty: Black Ops

Many players that own video gaming consoles are likely to have a few military shooter titles because these types of games have online features where players are pitted against one another often in teams to eliminate the opposing side. Call of Duty: Black Ops received positive acclaim from many gaming critics because of its intense gameplay and the fact that 24 players can participate in a game. There is also a Wii version that also received positive reviews because of its competitive multi-player.

World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft redefined the whole MMORPG genre because there is simply so much to do in World of Warcraft that it is easy to use this game as a getaway from reality. The environments are huge and there are so many quests and tasks to take on. World of Warcraft is hands down the most popular MMORPG game at the moment with 12 million subscribers and Blizzard is continuing to roll out expansion packs including the latest expansion pack which is Cataclysm.

FarmVille

FarmVille is a simulation game just like ThrillVille but instead of building a theme park, you are cultivating a farm and decorating it as you earn money. This game is unique in the sense that it leverages the social networking features of Facebook to make the game rather addictive. With millions of users visiting Facebook every day, FarmVille took off very quickly since it was introduced as a new concept of social gaming. Connecting and interacting with other people is beneficial to the game and it continues to evolve as people start competing online in coming up with a thriving farm. iPhone users can play FarmVille as well. With over 60 million active players, FarmVille tops the most popular online game category.


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