Long time ago whenI played EQ I heard that Robert Jordan (the author of the Wheel of Time novels) played EQ. He petitioned to have Rand Al-Thor for his character and had to prove who he was before being allowed to do it.
Jens Pulver, one of the UFC fighting guys plays Call of Duty, he even helped with the review of the new CoD game in the latest PC Gamer magazine.
Back in the day, I had always heard that Robin Williams was addicted to DAoC. I wouldnt doubt that he plays WoW now.
Oh, and that would be awesome to play MMOs with Marty Friedman! I have a friend that said he has talked to him on the phone a few times. Apparently my friend's Japanese wife's sister was dating him at the time or something like that. I think he lives in Japan now (or at least did). Anyways...Megadeth has been one of my favorite bands since the late 80s. Too bad Marty is no longer in the band...
A guy from The Killers is in my EQ2 guild. I thought it was BS, that was until I ended up with free concert tickets for xmas last year and access to a VIP party here in Los Angeles. True story. I won't say who or which guild is mine in EQ2, he would not appreciate that.
i saw the killers at reading this year. they were really good, one of my favourite bands. im betting its the bassist.
Daniel Radcliffe, The kid who plays Harry Potter in the movies played Runescape extensively at one time. I don't know if he still does though I just remember seeing something about it on TV a few years back. They even had a clip of him playing on a laptop in a hotel room somewhere while he was making one of the movies.
Before, games were made after famous authors (like Tolkien), do you think that famous authors will come from MMO's? It's an interesting time now where authors play the games too ^_^
I've played SWG (and later other MMOs) with a Russian countess who resides in the UK, who told me several members of the English royalty play various MMORPGs.
and you believed her....him
People who have to create conspiracy and hate threads to further a cause lacks in intellectual comprehension of diversity.
David Hewlett (McKay on Stargate Atlantis) has been quoted as saying that he's really looking forward to playing Stargate Worlds.
Ill bet yah now they have killed the Stargate Atlantis spinofff and then nomore MCkay he won't play SGW:p
Games played:AC1-Darktide'99-2000-AC2-Darktide/dawnsong2003-2005,Lineage2-2005-2006 and now Darkfall-2009..... In between WoW few months AoC few months and some f2p also all very short few weeks.
i play WoW! (im a celebrity in my own mind LOL) i think morgan webb host of the show "x-play" plays WoW (she always mentions in the show how she spends her free time on WoW) George W. Bush plays WoW. (thats where he gets his war strategies ^_^ raid iraq... raid afghanistan... raid north korea!) juzzzzz kidding
lol thats funny about bush, but he is not smart enough, even for easy game like wow:P
Games played:AC1-Darktide'99-2000-AC2-Darktide/dawnsong2003-2005,Lineage2-2005-2006 and now Darkfall-2009..... In between WoW few months AoC few months and some f2p also all very short few weeks.
Most of the time you can only play and get really good at one mmo, and celebs are playing the real world mmo where they have fame and fortune. Why pretend to be famous, rich or powerful if you actually are those things in real life.
Let's see...if I was a rockstar what would I rather do. Give a kick ass concert infront of 5 thousand roaring fans, then have sex with three beautiful women who worship me as a god, or raid a dungeon while tapping over and over and over again the same two or three keys. I tell you, if it was me, I wouldn't chose to tap those keys.
Eric Bloom is an avid gamer and nerd. He currently plays WoW, but has played many mmos including SWG and EQ2. Got started in MUDs and and arcades....not unlike myself. Also a fan of fantasy literature, especially Michael Moorcock (Elric series). Several songs he's written are about his works.
He's the lead singer and guitarist of Blue Oyster Cult.
If you don't know who I'm referring too...you're not old enough.
George W. Bush plays WoW. (thats where he gets his war strategies ^_^ raid iraq... raid afghanistan... raid north korea!) juzzzzz kidding
Yea, but where's the phat lewt?
well if you raid iraq, loot is the oil
if you raid afghanistan, loot is opium (did i spell it right?)
if you raid north korea, loot is kim chiiiii
No no no, the other lewt. You know, those really nice items like that killer sword and that awesome axe. They're called uhm... Yeah! That's right! 'Weapons of Mass Destruction"!!!
...Never found 'em. His guide book was wrong. The guide lords should fire their writer, Dick Cheney, for writing such a terrible walk-through.
have always been a huge baseball fan an i played EQ since its start in 99 so when i first heard this story it was just to great, i had to dig this up i still get a kick out of it
When some guys hit two home runs in a game, they say it was because they kept their front shoulder tucked, they just happened to get good wood on the ball or, if they really get creative, it was "just one of those nights."
Suffice it to say you'll never see a quote like that in Week in Review.
Because there are men like Phillies center fielder Doug Glanville.
Last Friday, he hit two home runs against his former teammate, Curt Schilling, in Schilling's first start against the Phillies since they traded him last July.
Doug Glanville and Travis Lee will remain happy teammates as long as they stay away from the video games.
Now the previous four men to hit two homers in a game off Schilling were Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire, Mike Piazza and Barry Bonds. So it's not as if just anybody can step up there and do it.
And how did Doug Glanville explain this performance? This is what he told the Philadelphia Inquirer's Bob Brookover minutes after he and the Phillies had dealt Schilling his first loss of the year:
"Curt's a friend of mine," Glanville said. "We used to play video games together. He killed one of my characters one time. I never forgot that."
This, folks, is why Doug Glanville is one of our favorite Americans.
But it seemed to us that there clearly was more to this saga -- something deep and painful, something tragic and powerful. We went digging for the full story.
As Glanville remembers this poignant tale, he and Schilling were playing a computer game called "EverQuest" -- an online version of Dungeons and Dragons.
"One day," Glanville told Week in Review, "Schill was playing his character, Cylc" -- whom Glanville described as "a dwarven Cleric," whatever that is -- "and he asked me to team up with him in Faydwer, in the zone of the Butcherblock Mountains, to kill Aviaks, which are basically walking birds."
Hang with us here, friends. There will be a baseball point coming.
"My good-natured character, Bingbong," -- whom Glanville described as "a dwarven Paladin," whatever that is -- "was at a little lower level (in status) than his," Glanville said. "So Cylc was better able to withstand the return attacks. Nevertheless, we attack."
So there they were, battling away against those dastardly Aviaks. Suddenly, Glanville began to hear the sound of bones breaking. He quickly deduced those bones belonged to his beloved Bingbong. He looked around for Schilling's guy, Cylc, for assistance.
Oops. No Cylc anywhere in the neighborhood.
"Somewhere in there," Glanville recalled, "he had sent a message to me, saying, 'RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.' But he typed this as he was already a mile away from danger and standing next to the guards that protect him. Needless to say, my lifeless character was now chicken feed."
Little did Schilling know this would some day lead to him giving up two home runs to Glanville in a giant airplane hanger in Arizona. But it's true.
"I vowed revenge on the soul of Bingbong," Glanville said, "for the negligent actions of Cylc."
And boy, did Schilling ever pay for Cylc's crimes.
But how do we know this was just an isolated occurrence? Suppose many a big game on the diamond can be explained by isolated acts of violence on a computer screen? This is stuff you never hear about from Miller and Morgan. But it happens, Glanville said.
"Not enough attention is paid to the off-the-field motivators that create nasty on-field grudges," Glanville revealed. "I believe video atrocities top the list. Curt Schilling assassinated my lovable Dwarf Paladin in EverQuest, happily smiling as his character stood in the safety of the town guards. That can create serious internal friction.
"I believe we need to analyze some of the video atrocities committed on PlayStation2 or Dreamcasts, or even the Commodore 64, if we need to go back that far. Teammates play each other all the time on these platforms in baseball simulations, football and other head-to-head games. This creates all kinds of bad blood when the winner is not as gracious as he could be."
Until now, those games may have seemed like just innocent diversions. Now, however, we know different.
"I'm of the theory," Glanville said, "that this could be a key explanation as to why some players have tremendous success against certain other players. Like Todd Helton against Bobby Jones (10-for-16, 3 HR). Or Mike Redmond against Tom Glavine (16-for-25).
"Maybe Glavine beat Redmond in Madden Football, 73-0, and poured Gatorade over himself after the victory. Maybe when Bobby Jones was losing to Helton in NBA Live, he 'accidentally' knocked the cord out of the wall, claiming it was a 'power-surge problem.' We don't know these things, do we?"
No, we have no idea, because until now, we've foolishly confined our baseball analysis to things that happened only in real life. Now we understand that on those computer and video screens, there exists a world within a world. And we'd better investigate that world, too, if we want to continue providing incisive baseball commentary.
And we know this because of one baseball game in Arizona last weekend and one honest, incisive ballplayer named Doug Glanville.
We've been unable to get a comment from Schilling on these events. But at this point, Glanville says, that doesn't matter, anyway. All that matters is the on-field ramifications.
"Schill has to live with what he has done," Glanville said. "He can tell whatever story he wants, but the facts are the facts. Bingbong was set up, led to an untimely death in the prime of his life for no other reason than pure malice. Things like that do not go unavenged. Sometimes it spills out onto the field of play."
And if it ever does again, you know you can count on Week in Review to be right on the scene -- to thoroughly confuse you more than we already have.
I've played SWG (and later other MMOs) with a Russian countess who resides in the UK, who told me several members of the English royalty play various MMORPGs.
and you believed her....him
Haha. Yeah, of course I was sceptical at first. But I have more than enough proof for myself.
i'm amazed at how far gaming has spread into our lives. only 1 of the fathers of our many family friends has not played an MMO at some point in the last 10 years. what was really scary was half of the mothers had played on too.
anyway that Vin Disel thing was just plain scary. he knows more about DnD than i do...
as for the other celebs. it's not surprising to find many have played or did play games or MMO's. not many people i know detest games and people are fairly capable of keeping such a thing a secret.
MMO wish list:
-Changeable worlds -Solid non level based game -Sharks with lasers attached to their heads
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Long time ago whenI played EQ I heard that Robert Jordan (the author of the Wheel of Time novels) played EQ. He petitioned to have Rand Al-Thor for his character and had to prove who he was before being allowed to do it.
Jens Pulver, one of the UFC fighting guys plays Call of Duty, he even helped with the review of the new CoD game in the latest PC Gamer magazine.
Would be funny to interview Rick and ask him if he's ever been Rick rolled. =P
Back in the day, I had always heard that Robin Williams was addicted to DAoC. I wouldnt doubt that he plays WoW now.
Oh, and that would be awesome to play MMOs with Marty Friedman! I have a friend that said he has talked to him on the phone a few times. Apparently my friend's Japanese wife's sister was dating him at the time or something like that. I think he lives in Japan now (or at least did). Anyways...Megadeth has been one of my favorite bands since the late 80s. Too bad Marty is no longer in the band...
What WAR server is he going to be on?
well considering oiur guild is moving to Volkmar server...and he is in my guild....well...2+2 = 5!
and marty was a badass TKM/CM in SWG
i saw the killers at reading this year. they were really good, one of my favourite bands. im betting its the bassist.
Ballistic!
Daniel Radcliffe, The kid who plays Harry Potter in the movies played Runescape extensively at one time. I don't know if he still does though I just remember seeing something about it on TV a few years back. They even had a clip of him playing on a laptop in a hotel room somewhere while he was making one of the movies.
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Before, games were made after famous authors (like Tolkien), do you think that famous authors will come from MMO's? It's an interesting time now where authors play the games too ^_^
http://www.allaboutgod.com/
Tom Hanks Used to Play UO (dont know if he still does or not)
and you believed her....him
People who have to create conspiracy and hate threads to further a cause lacks in intellectual comprehension of diversity.
Ill bet yah now they have killed the Stargate Atlantis spinofff and then nomore MCkay he won't play SGW:p
Games played:AC1-Darktide'99-2000-AC2-Darktide/dawnsong2003-2005,Lineage2-2005-2006 and now Darkfall-2009.....
In between WoW few months AoC few months and some f2p also all very short few weeks.
lol thats funny about bush, but he is not smart enough, even for easy game like wow:P
Games played:AC1-Darktide'99-2000-AC2-Darktide/dawnsong2003-2005,Lineage2-2005-2006 and now Darkfall-2009.....
In between WoW few months AoC few months and some f2p also all very short few weeks.
Donald Faison from Scrubs plays MMO's.
He used to play Star Wars Galaxies but like most of us quit over the NGE fiasco.
...and Jean-Claude van Damme, Willy Toledo and Verne Troyer. ;-)
He used to play EQ also from what I have heard.....
Curt Schilling and his son play EQ2 not WoW.
Most of the time you can only play and get really good at one mmo, and celebs are playing the real world mmo where they have fame and fortune. Why pretend to be famous, rich or powerful if you actually are those things in real life.
Let's see...if I was a rockstar what would I rather do. Give a kick ass concert infront of 5 thousand roaring fans, then have sex with three beautiful women who worship me as a god, or raid a dungeon while tapping over and over and over again the same two or three keys. I tell you, if it was me, I wouldn't chose to tap those keys.
Originally posted by admriker4
Donald Faison from Scrubs plays MMO's.
He used to play Star Wars Galaxies but like most of us quit over the NGE fiasco.
Another rumor was Star Wars Kid played on my server in SWG, he was a big celeb
kungen
He also used to be a DnD nerd back in the day.
Not sure if it's been mentioned yet....
Eric Bloom is an avid gamer and nerd. He currently plays WoW, but has played many mmos including SWG and EQ2. Got started in MUDs and and arcades....not unlike myself. Also a fan of fantasy literature, especially Michael Moorcock (Elric series). Several songs he's written are about his works.
He's the lead singer and guitarist of Blue Oyster Cult.
If you don't know who I'm referring too...you're not old enough.
Yea, but where's the phat lewt?
well if you raid iraq, loot is the oil
if you raid afghanistan, loot is opium (did i spell it right?)
if you raid north korea, loot is kim chiiiii
No no no, the other lewt. You know, those really nice items like that killer sword and that awesome axe. They're called uhm... Yeah! That's right! 'Weapons of Mass Destruction"!!!
...Never found 'em. His guide book was wrong. The guide lords should fire their writer, Dick Cheney, for writing such a terrible walk-through.
have always been a huge baseball fan an i played EQ since its start in 99 so when i first heard this story it was just to great, i had to dig this up i still get a kick out of it
Friday, May 18
Wild Pitches
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By Jayson Stark
ESPN.com
Revenge of the week
When some guys hit two home runs in a game, they say it was because they kept their front shoulder tucked, they just happened to get good wood on the ball or, if they really get creative, it was "just one of those nights."
Suffice it to say you'll never see a quote like that in Week in Review.
Because there are men like Phillies center fielder Doug Glanville.
Last Friday, he hit two home runs against his former teammate, Curt Schilling, in Schilling's first start against the Phillies since they traded him last July.
Doug Glanville and Travis Lee will remain happy teammates as long as they stay away from the video games.
Now the previous four men to hit two homers in a game off Schilling were Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire, Mike Piazza and Barry Bonds. So it's not as if just anybody can step up there and do it.
And how did Doug Glanville explain this performance? This is what he told the Philadelphia Inquirer's Bob Brookover minutes after he and the Phillies had dealt Schilling his first loss of the year:
"Curt's a friend of mine," Glanville said. "We used to play video games together. He killed one of my characters one time. I never forgot that."
This, folks, is why Doug Glanville is one of our favorite Americans.
But it seemed to us that there clearly was more to this saga -- something deep and painful, something tragic and powerful. We went digging for the full story.
As Glanville remembers this poignant tale, he and Schilling were playing a computer game called "EverQuest" -- an online version of Dungeons and Dragons.
"One day," Glanville told Week in Review, "Schill was playing his character, Cylc" -- whom Glanville described as "a dwarven Cleric," whatever that is -- "and he asked me to team up with him in Faydwer, in the zone of the Butcherblock Mountains, to kill Aviaks, which are basically walking birds."
Hang with us here, friends. There will be a baseball point coming.
"My good-natured character, Bingbong," -- whom Glanville described as "a dwarven Paladin," whatever that is -- "was at a little lower level (in status) than his," Glanville said. "So Cylc was better able to withstand the return attacks. Nevertheless, we attack."
So there they were, battling away against those dastardly Aviaks. Suddenly, Glanville began to hear the sound of bones breaking. He quickly deduced those bones belonged to his beloved Bingbong. He looked around for Schilling's guy, Cylc, for assistance.
Oops. No Cylc anywhere in the neighborhood.
"Somewhere in there," Glanville recalled, "he had sent a message to me, saying, 'RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.' But he typed this as he was already a mile away from danger and standing next to the guards that protect him. Needless to say, my lifeless character was now chicken feed."
Little did Schilling know this would some day lead to him giving up two home runs to Glanville in a giant airplane hanger in Arizona. But it's true.
"I vowed revenge on the soul of Bingbong," Glanville said, "for the negligent actions of Cylc."
And boy, did Schilling ever pay for Cylc's crimes.
But how do we know this was just an isolated occurrence? Suppose many a big game on the diamond can be explained by isolated acts of violence on a computer screen? This is stuff you never hear about from Miller and Morgan. But it happens, Glanville said.
"Not enough attention is paid to the off-the-field motivators that create nasty on-field grudges," Glanville revealed. "I believe video atrocities top the list. Curt Schilling assassinated my lovable Dwarf Paladin in EverQuest, happily smiling as his character stood in the safety of the town guards. That can create serious internal friction.
"I believe we need to analyze some of the video atrocities committed on PlayStation2 or Dreamcasts, or even the Commodore 64, if we need to go back that far. Teammates play each other all the time on these platforms in baseball simulations, football and other head-to-head games. This creates all kinds of bad blood when the winner is not as gracious as he could be."
Until now, those games may have seemed like just innocent diversions. Now, however, we know different.
"I'm of the theory," Glanville said, "that this could be a key explanation as to why some players have tremendous success against certain other players. Like Todd Helton against Bobby Jones (10-for-16, 3 HR). Or Mike Redmond against Tom Glavine (16-for-25).
"Maybe Glavine beat Redmond in Madden Football, 73-0, and poured Gatorade over himself after the victory. Maybe when Bobby Jones was losing to Helton in NBA Live, he 'accidentally' knocked the cord out of the wall, claiming it was a 'power-surge problem.' We don't know these things, do we?"
No, we have no idea, because until now, we've foolishly confined our baseball analysis to things that happened only in real life. Now we understand that on those computer and video screens, there exists a world within a world. And we'd better investigate that world, too, if we want to continue providing incisive baseball commentary.
And we know this because of one baseball game in Arizona last weekend and one honest, incisive ballplayer named Doug Glanville.
We've been unable to get a comment from Schilling on these events. But at this point, Glanville says, that doesn't matter, anyway. All that matters is the on-field ramifications.
"Schill has to live with what he has done," Glanville said. "He can tell whatever story he wants, but the facts are the facts. Bingbong was set up, led to an untimely death in the prime of his life for no other reason than pure malice. Things like that do not go unavenged. Sometimes it spills out onto the field of play."
And if it ever does again, you know you can count on Week in Review to be right on the scene -- to thoroughly confuse you more than we already have.
Invention of the week
and you believed her....him
Haha. Yeah, of course I was sceptical at first. But I have more than enough proof for myself.
i'm amazed at how far gaming has spread into our lives. only 1 of the fathers of our many family friends has not played an MMO at some point in the last 10 years. what was really scary was half of the mothers had played on too.
anyway that Vin Disel thing was just plain scary. he knows more about DnD than i do...
as for the other celebs. it's not surprising to find many have played or did play games or MMO's. not many people i know detest games and people are fairly capable of keeping such a thing a secret.
MMO wish list:
-Changeable worlds
-Solid non level based game
-Sharks with lasers attached to their heads
Yea, but where's the phat lewt?
The "weapons of mass destruction" of course, wait someone ninjad them!!
The russian president Medvedev is said to play World of Warcraft...