Nick and I hit 80 moments ago in WOW. Let the games begin.

Since I essentially missed last weeks IOTW, this week, to make up for it, I will supply a DOUBLE DOSE of IOTW. First up, this week, is Fallout 3; the latest first-person RPG from Bethesda.

While Fallout 3 falls short in a number of categories for me, the game definitely comes home as one of the best new games to come out from any of the big developers in the past couple years. Based on the same gameplay engine as Oblivion, Fallout 3 is part first-person shooter, part RPG, part madness. If you liked Oblivion, you will love Fallout 3 (FO3), and if you didn’t like Oblivion, its still worth giving this title a try - its like Oblivion, with guns.

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In honor of today’s release of WoW: Wrath of the Lich King, this week’s IOTW will, obviously, be WOTLK.

WOTLK marks the second expansion and approximately the fourth year running of the World of Warcraft expansion. It adds a host of new features and, possibly, makes a bigger leap in game-play than Burning Crusade did. Achievements, new 5-man dungeons, 10/25-man raid content, a whole new heroic class, and much more can be found in this expansion and there is no telling what the developers have in mind for later versions of the 3.0 patch. Whether you PVP, PVE, RP, or anything in-between, you will find plenty to do in WOTLK.

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EA says that 99.8% of gamers don’t care about DRM. The only people I know that don’t care about DRM (be it on games, music, etc.) are the people that don’t know what DRM is. In any case, here’s to two more copies of Spore that will never be purchased.

I was perusing Facebook this morning while at work. I don’t normally get involved with Facebook, but I decided to throw myself into a group for those that enjoy WoW just to pay homage to an activity that takes quite a bit of my time up from week to week. I punched “World of Warcraft” into the group search, and surprisingly there are MANY groups with the focus of hating on WoW.

Some such groups include: “If this group gets to 100,000 my boyfriend will quit WoW” and “RIT students who aren’t World of Warcraft Nerds”. This makes me beg the question: what about WoW makes you hate it so much?

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This is not a particularly specific guide to any one MMO, just a suggestion to all the guild master and officer teams out there about what to think about as you plan and re-plan your loot systems. I will go through a few more popular systems for dishing out loot and discuss some of the pros and cons with these loot systems.

The loot system I plan to discuss is Zero-Sum DKP(with a focus on NDKP), bid dkp, flat rate purchase/most dkp wins, and loot council. The key thing to remember is that no one system is proven perfect. No one system will provide your guild with the perfect way of dividing out loot that makes everyone happy.

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