Monthly Archives: June 2009

Negative reinforcement – when punishment is actually a reward

By Lissanna | Published: June 30, 2009
Okay, so this is a follow-up post to the one I wrote about the behavioral psychology of loot random drops. In that post, I described how random loot systems can be reinforcing to increase the amount of time people spend playing the game. In this post, I’ll describe how sometimes things that are supposed to [...]
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PTR for 3.2 means constant changes – here's a look at a few recent developments

By Lissanna | Published: June 30, 2009
Okay, so I blinked and the PTR patch notes for 3.2 changed again. It looks like some of the tier 9 set bonuses may have been place holders, or that they listened to feedback and changed some of them. Only 2 druid set bonuses are changing to: Druid T9 Feral 4P Bonus – Reduces the [...]
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Lore helps us remember what we're fighting for (and some druid related lore stuff)

By Lissanna | Published: June 29, 2009
So, on the plane ride back from my California trip, I had a chance to read the Arthas book, which contains a story of the life of Arthas who became the Lich King. The book covers things from his childhood, recounts the culling of Stratholme events (that you should remember if you did the caverns [...]
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Congrats to my Little Sister

By Lissanna | Published: June 27, 2009
So, my sister is getting married today (in real life, not in the game). That means I don’t have much time to post this weekend. I rushed to get out the 3.2 PTR posts before the weekend, and then ran out of things to talk about, so that I could mostly take the weekend off [...]
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New PTR druid form pictures – Mostly Night Elf

By Lissanna | Published: June 25, 2009
Okay, so here’s a handful of the pictures I took from the PTR today (my pre-made druid got copied over before my live-druid did), with the help of some unsuspecting druids who stayed still long enough for me to take pictures with them. You don’t realize how awesome they are until you’ve actually seen them [...]
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What happened to caring about whether or not the tank lived?

By Lissanna | Published: June 25, 2009
Note: I started this thread before the 3.2 changes came out, and delayed posting it to talk about the 3.2 changes. Now that the dust has settled, I’m updating it a bit and posting it while I’m busy with my sister’s wedding stuff this week. If this is outdated, it’s because I saved it too [...]
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Graphic cat & bear form updates – PTR in action!

By Lissanna | Published: June 24, 2009
Here are links to other people’s Youtube videos. We were also told a while back that WoWinsider (now wow.com) would eventually likely post videos of the forms in action. I can’t get onto the PTR yet because my characters haven’t finished copying over (grumble grumble). I’ll be posting more screenshots of them later that I’ll [...]
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