My Colony For Some Pants: Salem Enters Open Beta:
Having grown so tired of the traditional MMO formula that I can be rendered comatose for 40 years by the merest utterance of the phrase “vulture gizzard,” I’ve been watching Salem with eager eyes and a saliva-stained jaw. As we’ve mentioned previously, it’s an exceedingly sandbox-y colonial MMO focused on crafting, establishing in-game settlements, and never trusting anyone ever. So one could argue that it’s more EVE or Wurm than WoW, though it appears to be largely a beast of a nature all its own. And now it’s in open beta, so you can play it! And you and you and you and you. But not you. Oh gosh, please don’t make that face. Fine, argh. You can play too, but only if you’re good.
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Having grown so tired of the traditional MMO formula that I can be rendered comatose for 40 years by the merest utterance of the phrase “vulture gizzard,” I’ve been watching Salem with eager eyes and a saliva-stained jaw. As we’ve mentioned previously, it’s an exceedingly sandbox-y colonial MMO focused on crafting, establishing in-game settlements, and never trusting anyone ever. So one could argue that it’s more EVE or Wurm than WoW, though it appears to be largely a beast of a nature all its own. And now it’s in open beta, so you can play it! And you and you and you and you. But not you. Oh gosh, please don’t make that face. Fine, argh. You can play too, but only if you’re good.
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