Diamond Jubilee Events in Ely Lands of Hope

May 14, 2012 under Uncategorized

How will you be toasting the Queens Diamond Jubilee?

The Big Jubilee Lunchwill not only be celebrating the Queens Diamond Jubilee but it will be commemorating the tenth anniversary of Jubilee Gardens, with live music and childrens games laid on to bring the community together. Families are encouraged to join the celebrations by bringing their own food.

Later on Saturday evening a major Jubilee event is being staged at Ely Cathedral – theLand Of Hope And Glory Concertboasts an array of patriotic anthems sung by massed choirs and accompanied by the East Anglian Chamber Orchestra.

Monday will also see the mainLittleport Diamond Jubilee Celebrations, with music, entertainment, food and games. Staged outside The Barn, it will be followed by an evening torchlight procession to the Leisure Centre for the lighting of the beacon.

How will you be spending the Diamond Jubilee weekend?

Soham Diamond Jubilee Celebrationsbegin in the late afternoon with the planting of a Red Oak tree on the Recreation Ground, followed by a 1950s themed party in the Pavilion, with live entertainment.

During Tuesday there will be aDiamond Jubilee Guided Walkaround Ely, while in the afternoon the celebrations can be enjoyed at theHaddenham Jubilee Carnival. A parade of floats will pass through the village in the afternoon, culminating with a carnival on the Recreation Ground that will stretch into the evening. The crowds can enjoy live bands and a barbeque, building up to the lighting of a beacon.

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Just as the Queen is beingLands of Hope escorted down the River Thames with a flotilla of over one thousand boats, the people of Ely will be joining together in a series of community picnic events.

Ely Beet Club will also be holding afor milies, with a barbeque, circus workshops for children and a bowls competition in the afternoon and live music into the evening.

One of the most ambitious events in Ely over the Diamond Jubilee weekend is theJubilee Country Show, an agricultural show organised by the FrienDiamond Jubilee Events in Ely Lands of Hopeds of Kings School Ely and boasting many rural, craft and vintage displays. Also during the day, the Beet Club is staging aChildrens Diamond Jubilee Craft Workshopwith a royal theme, with children encouraged to make their own bunting and paint Jubilee murals.

To mark 60 years of the Queens reign,Diamond Jubileecelebrations will be taking place inElyandEast Cambridgeshirethroughout the extended holiday weekend ofJune 2-5, 2012. Below are many of the Diamond Jubilee events happening in the area – but please emailelythelocalpeople.co.ukto let us know about any events weve missed, or just comment below with information about your own events.

Another community event is theBarns Jubilee Picnic, a mily focussed celebration staged for the people of the Barns area and boasting all manner of fun,Rose zuly. games and live entertainment.

The biggest of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations in Ely will be theDiamond Jubilee Party In The Park. Staged in Ely Park, live bands and local novelty acts will keep the mily-friendly event at fever pitch until it culminates with the lighting of the beacon, one of an anchor chain of beacons which can be seen from one to another across Britain.

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Lands of Hope St. George's Day: British politicians' S

May 14, 2012 under Uncategorized

More English people–about 80 percent–feel proud of Queen Elizabeth, while only about a third of Welsh and Scottish people feel proud of the monarch.

That same issue results inthe Queenbeing erroneously called theQueen of England buy rom gold, and the term England being used to refer to the whole of the Union Kingdom, which isjust plain wrong.

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Theres a reverse side to the coin. The Scotsman notes that the Scots and Welsh are more likely than the English to identify with both the Union Jack and their own flagswhile being aware that theres a difference. The English, it implies, think of the Union Jack as theEnglishflag.

St. Georges Day is April 23; according to todays The Daily Mail and others. British politicians are calling for a new English anthem on their patron saints day this year. A new campaign to find said anthem is a response to a YouGov poll that says not all may be well with the English identity.

British Future is a new think-tank set up by the government to explore the issues of national identity. One of its leaders, Sunder Katwala, noted that Scotland and Wales have done plenty of work towards promoting their own national identities, while England is apparently feeling a bit lost this St. Georges Day.

According to The Telegraph, MPs from Britains major parties have said that the Union is at risk if England doesnt find its national identity. Given that Scotland is set to hold a referendum to secede, they may have a point.

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Relationships between the parts of the union have always beencomplicated. In the 21st century, a cocern is that the St. Georges Cross has been hijacked by extreme right-wing nationalist groups in the UnitedLands of Hope St. George’s Day: British politicians’ S Kingdom, which means that at least a quarter of those pools considers it racist.

Politicians want England team supporters to have their own anthem to sing atsports gamesand have usedSt. Georges Dayas a logical starting-point. Suggestions for an English anthem include industrial-age hymn Jerusalem, or even Land of Hope and Glory, the triumphant finale to the annual Proms. (Story continues below.)

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According to a YouGov poll of 2,600 Britons, the English put the Union Jack over their St. Georges cross, while the Scottish and Welsh are more proud of their own flags, the Red Dragon (Y Ddraig Goch) or St. Andrews Cross. (Story continues below.)

Linda Gentile is an ex-pat Brit and freelance writer who writes about travel, history and what makes the British British. Shes also the British Royal Family Examiner. From stiff upper lips to Up Helly Aa, this column brings you interesting nuggets of life in the UK, its culture, customs, celebs…

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NZ-born Aussie MP in scandal Lands of Hope

May 14, 2012 under Uncategorized

He spent union money while he was the Health Service Union national secretary, including almost NZ$7500 on prostitutes, about $345,000 on his election campaign, and just more than $93,500 on wining and dining.

&8220;They will say anything and do anything to avoid an economic debate about our fundamentals and what we must do to preserve our prosperity,&8221; says Mr Swan.

Labor is expected to announce tonight it will turn a NZ$47 billion deficit into a surplus of $1.92 billion in the next financial year.

Former ALP backbencher Craig Thomson leaves the chamber after House of Representatives question time at Parliament House Canberra (AAP)

Fair Work Australia now plans to take legal action against him.

A report has found Craig Thomson misspent hundreds of thousands of dollars, including nearly $7500 for ual services.

Instead the focus is on a report from Fair Work Australia that found suspended Labor MP Craig Thomson spent inappropriately.

There was another unweLands of Hopelcome distraction for the Government this afternoon when independent Peter Slipper, who supports the Government, returned to the Speakers chair.

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By Australia correspondent Rachel MortoNZ-born Aussie MP in scandal Lands of Hopen

The Government is desperate to win back public support, but the budget has been overshadowed by the Craig Thomson scandal.

&8220;I would prefer that we were having a fuller discussion right now about the long-term economic prospects of this country and the policy settings that are appropriate for it,&8221; says Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan. &8220;I would prefer all of our public debate to be focussed solely on that.

Mr Thomson continues to deny the allegations against him. He has been moved to the cross benches, where Ms Gillards government still relies on his support.

The Australian government has found itself in the middle of another scandal, with revelations one of its MPs used union funds to pay for prostitutes.

&8220;This is a tainted government, relying on a tainted vote from a tainted member, who should not be in parliament cabal alz,&8221; says Tony Abbott.

Australias Treasurer Wayne Swan used Bruce Springsteen&8217;s The Land of Hope and Dreams to promote his budget which will be delivered in a few hours.

He made a brief statement before stepping down indefinitely over allegations against him of fraud and ual harassment.

It also found the Wellington-born politician lied to the investigation.

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Lands of Hope Former Blur guitarist

May 14, 2012 under Uncategorized

The BCB is calling on choirs, singing groups, budding song writers and Cheddar ns to pen their very own ode, with original lyrics set to the patriotic tunes of either God Save the Queen, Land of Hope and Glory Lands of Hopeor Jerusalem.

He said: &8220;It&8217;s important to be buying British right now, and Cheddar truly represents the best of British cheese as it was invented right here in the UK. This is a fun way to support British Cheddar and combine two of the best things in life &8211; music and cheese.&8221;

Nigel White, secretary of the British Cheese Board is also keen to see people from all corners of the country get involved. He said: &8220;Britain may produce over 700 named cheeses, but there&8217;s no doubt that Cheddar is by r and away the nation&8217;s vourite.

Most people have, at one time, been criticised for writing a cheesy line.

Shortlisted entries will be put to a public vote via the British Cheses Board website. ThLands of Hope Former Blur guitariste winning entry will be crowned as the BCB&8217;s National Anthem for Cheddar, and its composer will win two weekend passes to Alex James&8217; Food and Music festival taking place the first weekend of September.

But now, in celebration of the cheese that came from a small part of Somerset and is now the nation&8217;s go-to cheese for its sandwiches and ploughmans&8217;, odes to Cheddar are being positively encouraged.

&8220;In this year of celebrating all things British, the BCB is proud to be highlighting the amazing variety and popularity of British Cheddars and joining with UK cheese lovers to find a fitting anthem to this national treasure.&8221;

And it comes with the backing of celebrity Cotswolds cheesemaker Alex James,lineage2 gold. who learnt a thing or two about music in his years as bassist with the band Blur.

The winner will also receive a year&8217;s supply of British cheddars, supplied by British Cheese Board members.

In order to boost the hard cheese&8217;s fortunes even further, the British Cheese Board (BCB) has announced the launch of a nationwide competition to find an anthem for this tasty national treasure.

&8203;Former Blur guitarist and award-winning cheesemaker Alex James is backing the campaign to find an anthem for cheddar

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La Tale Hollande, Cinderella and Frances New Deal

May 12, 2012 under Uncategorized

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At 57 years old, Hollande succeeds Francois Miterrand in the Socialist imagination aion kinah, wrote the daily news Le Figaro, and enters history as the second Socialist president of the Fifth Republic.

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Hell no longer be the chubby, insipid ex-partner of former Socialist presidential candidate Ségolène Royal (who lost to Sarkozy last time around and is the mother of Hollandes four children). The accidental candidate, after expected Socialist front-runnerDominique Strauss-Kahnself-destructed as a result of his alleged ual appetites, Hollande ran a campaign in which he took no big risks and made no big mistakes. His federalist message transcended social clasLa Tales, and crossed multiple demographics and generations.

Thanks, Annelie. You have an important point on the Carla ctor. It touches on the bigger issue of the impact women in power (or near power) are having around the world for good or bad.

Wounded but still hurting less from the Eurozone crisis than many of their neighbors, fear that they could lose the advantages of a welre state that has afforded them some of the regionsmost generous social benefits helped drive French voters to elect the candidate who seemed to promise them the best defense against the incessant drumbeat of austerity from their giant economic neighbor to the east.While dissatisction and often disgust withNicolas Sarkozyand his bling-bling ways, celebrity wife and mercurial temper drove much of the electorate, Hollande owes equal credit for his success toAngela Merkeland the Eurozone crisis.

His immediate promises include a three-month price freeze on fuel, returning the retirement age to 60 for those who startedwork at a young age and contributedall their payments into the pension system, a 30% reduction of salaries for the president and his cabinet, and the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2012.

But beyond those disparate vows, there was something less tangible and more emotional underlying his success. Le Nouvel Observateur, the left-leaning news magazine, calls it the hope for a New Deal à la française.

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Just as Franklin Roosevelt ushered in a raft of reforms that put the unemployed to work and led to a fraying but lasting social safety net, many French hope and pray for similarly-inspired leadership from a man not long ago considered a bland Monsieur Royal.

Cecilia, adore your report! Especially your finishing line: Now France waits to find out whether Cinderella can resist the woman next door. You touch on a major fundamental problem with French politicians! Whats up with them through the ages? It appears that their ual appetites shoot them in the foot time and again. Chew on this: was Carla a political asset for Sarkosy? Apparently not. All very entertaining: how do you respect & trust a feable leader that makes questionable decisions that affects your personal future and that of the people close to you? God help France!

Like a fractured French iry tale think Cinderella at midnight Sunday, François Hollande came to Paris to celebrate histransformation from a normal guy into the president of France as thousands of his supporters cheered him at the legendary Place de la Bastille.

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In the end, though, when French voters electedHollandeas their new president, they went more with the old deal. They went with what gave them the most comfort, the Socialist memory of a system that protects some of their most cherished values and benefits. We are in history, the beautiful history of a Republican people, the magazine continued.

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The Augusta Chronicle La Tale

May 12, 2012 under Uncategorized

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Leading the cast is Richard Herzog, who has played the role of Don Quixote with other theater companies.

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But thats not to say its all laughs. There are dark moments in the play such as the treatment of Aldonza, a prostitute, who Don Quixote thinks is a noble lady and calls Dulcinea.

Its actually a play within a play, said Jennifer Cudworth, the director ofMan of La Mancha. Its a neat thing to see.

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Man of La Manchawill be presented at 8 p.m. May 18-19, 25-26 and June 1-2 and at 3 p.m. May 27 and June 2. Tickets are $25 for adults, $20 for senior citizens 60 and older, $15 for students and $10 for children 12 and under.

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It may sound like a depressing premise for a play, but there are many lighthearted moments. Don Quixotes sidekick and foil, Sancho Panza, played by Shawn Dingus, takes part in many of those comedic moments.

Shawn Dingus (left) plays the role of Sancho Panza, who is the foil to Don Quixote, portrayed by Rich Herzog.

There are some really intense moments, Dingus said.

WHAT:Man of La Mancha

WHERE:Aiken Community Playhouse, 126 Newberry St. SW

WHEN:8 pm. May 18-19, 25-26 and June 1-2 and at 3 p.m. May 27 and June 2

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On May 17, Aiken Commu­nity Playhouse will bring the musical version of the tale,Man of La Mancha, to the stage.

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When he singsImpossible Dream, it is just breathtaking. Ive been thrilled to have the opportunity to work with him, Cudworth said. Vanessa Cox, who plays Aldonza, has done a lot with the Augusta Opera. Her reprise ofImpossible Dreamis something Ive never heard before.

Im having a lot of fun with the role, Dingus said. Its very comical, and I get to do a lot with it.

InMan of La Mancha, while Cervantes, the playwright, is awaiting the Spanish Inquisition in a dungeon, he is put through a mock trial by his fellow prisoners. He tells them the tale of Don Quixote.

For more than four centuries, MigueThe Augusta Chronicle La Talel Cervantes story of Don Quixote, a madman who chased imaginary windmills, but believed in a world that was better than it really was, has entranced audiences.

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Land of Chaos Online gets New Character

May 12, 2012 under Uncategorized

Land of Chaos Online gets New CharacterLand of Chaos Online got a brand-new character in the form of the su..

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Land of Chaos Online got a brand-new character in the form of the sultry succubus Lacrimosa — players who can start luring opponents into Lacrimosas dainty-yet-demonic clutches today.

Hiding away from the onslaught, Lacrimosa witnessed her entire mily being slaughtered at the hands of the rival vampire and now cheap Call of Duty 8 gold, Land of Chaos Online gets New Characteryears later, she is exacting her revenge. After experimenting on countless animals and humans, Lacrimosa successfully created a powerful ally to assist her vengeful death wish but was betrayed by her creation when it escaped and told Nosferatu of Lacrimosas whereabouts. After barely escaping a second attack by Nosferatu, Lacrimosa is now determined to finish the job herself and has entered the Land of Chaos to put an end to Nosferatu once and for all.

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Succubi are known for their ability to enter dreams and turn pleasant visions into nightmares, sparking fear in a dreamer and siphoning the fear to enhance their power. Born from the corruption of the Apostles of Heaven, the humans of Hellia have feared the succubi in their region for centuries, but this all changed when Nosferatu destroyed the last of the demonic clan over 200 years ago. Since the supposed succubi extinction, humans have regarded the supernatural beings as nothing more than bles. One member of the succubus clan, however, managed to escape Nosferatus deadly rampage.

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Land of Chaos Online Politik trommelt für Euro-Austritt Griechenla

May 12, 2012 under Uncategorized

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Die unklaren politischen Verhältnisse in Griechenland verschrecken nicht nur Anleger. Auch die Politik ist alarmiert. Nun wird sogar der Austritt des Mittelmeerstaats aus der Euro-Zone ernsthaft in Erwägung gezogen.

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Politiker der schwarz-gelben Koalition wollen dem Treiben nicht länger tatenlos zusehen. Angesichts der unklaren politischen Verhältnisse in Griechenland machen sich fr einen Austritt des krisengeschttelten Mittelmeerstaats aus der Euro-Zone stark. Wir sollten Griechenland anbieten, die Euro-Zone geregelt zu verlassen, ohne aus der Europäischen Union auszuscheiden, sagte der CDU-Haushaltperte Klaus-Peter Willsch Handelsblatt Online. Es komme den Deutschen nicht zu, den Griechen vorzuschreiben, wie sie leben sollen. Das Wahlergebnis von Sonntag lege jedoch den Schluss nahe,buy eve isk. dass das griechische Volk nicht bereit sei, die erheblichen Anstrengungen auf sich zu nehmen, die erforderlich seien, um das Land zu Wettbewerbsfähigkeit zu fhren. Das Dogma, dass kein Land diLand of Chaos Online Politik trommelt für Euro-Austritt Griechenlae Euro-Zone verlassen darf, hat schon zu viel europapolitischen Schaden angerichtet, fgte Willsch hinzu. Die Einfhrung einer neuen Währung sei schon vielch erprobt. Sie bietet auch Griechenland mehr Chancen als ein stures WeiteLand of Chaos Onlinerverfolgen des eingeschlagenen Irrweges.

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Das Griechenland-Chaos hat die Märkte in Aufruhr versetzt. Was den Anlegern besonders bitter aufstößt, ist der Chef der radikalen Linken, Alexis Tsipras. Nachdem die griechischen Konservativen ihr Mandat zur Regierungsbildung zurckgegeben hatten, war er am Dienstag damit beauftragt worden und erklärte umgehend, dass die Zusagen seines Landes zum milliardenschweren Rettungspaket null und nichtig seien. Rick Fier, Handelsmanager bei Conifer Securities, bringt das Dilemma auf den Punkt: Griechenland ist momentan ein Zombie-Staat, sagt er und spricht aus, was eigentlich schon lange im Schwange ist, dass es sehr schwierig fr das Land sei, seine Schulden abzuzahlen – egal ob es in der Euro-Zone bliebe oder nicht.

Der Vizevorsitzende der Unions-Bundestagsfraktion, Michael Meister, betonte zwar, dass es nicht das Ziel der EU-Partner sei, Griechenland aus dem Euro-Raum auszuschließen. Jedoch ist klar, wenn die neue griechische Regierung wider Erwarten die Verträge nicht einhält, wird sie die angekndigten Konsequenzen verantworten mssen, sagte der CDU-Politiker Handelsblatt Online. Meister sieht Europa dafr gut gerstet. So seien die letzen Jahre sowohl in Europa als auch national gut genutzt worden, Vorsorge zu treffen – mit dem Rekapitalisierungsgesetz, mit dem erweiterten Euro-Rettungsschirm EFSF oder dem knftigen Dauerrettungsschirm ESM einschließlich Fiskalpakt. Wir sind also deutlich weiter als noch zu …

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Casual Friday TAG: Speculating on The Elder Scroll Land of Chaos Online

May 12, 2012 under Uncategorized

Bryan: If all they did was recreate Skyrim with multiplayer, it&8217;d still fly off the digital shelves.

Brian:That would be the kind of innovation that would pull me back into MMOs. I wonder if the community could sustain that kind of freedom though. How long until everything is just burned to the ground and you need to restart the server? Maybe I&8217;m wrong, but I think a game as open as Skyrim would just be chaos with a few thousand players running around.

Brian:I don&8217;t doubt they&8217;ll release a high quality experience either way. Even if it is a run of the mill MMO, I know it&8217;ll have production value through the roof. Especially if what you want is a deeper look into the world of Tamriel. Like you said, I just want it to take that one step further toward total immersion. It&8217;s the best way to entice more than just the TES veterans.

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Brian:I don&8217;t know enough about TES lore to make an educated guess, but don&8217;t elves and humans tend to butt heads in that universe? If so, my prediction is elves vs. humans vs. all the ugly races. The big baddie is Molag Bal, so I have a feeling daedra will again be the unplayable ction that everyone hates

Bryan:There&8217;s no question that it&8217;s going to be a huge title, but I have to wonder what this spells for the future of the single player games in the series. For a series that&8217;s been heavily focused on single player, do you think the mechanics that made games like Oblivion and Skyrim so amazing will translate?

Bryan:Bland is a decent word for it. The lore has just never grabbed me in the same way as with other games. I might be a bit of a hard sell when it comes to lore, though. Even WoW&8217;s much vaunted world lore did next to nothing for me.

Brian:I&8217;m leaning toward free-to-play myself. Valve has been particularly vocal lately on their thoughts about traditional game pricing schemes. I don&8217;t expect to see many strictly subscription-based models in the future. Has Bethesda ever released a game that wasn&8217;t just a flat fee up front? Plus the cost of expansions and DLC, of course.

Brian:Exploring Tamriel in its entirety is going to be a pretty amazing experience, whether it&8217;s locked down or not.

Bryan:If nothing else, Lord of the Rings Online proved that an epic story known the world over does not a successful MMO make.

Bryan:Watch out with that Scrolls word. Notch is around here somewhere.

Brian:Wait a minute&8230; subtract Elder&8230; carry the 2&8230; this is a Scrolls Online announcement!

Bryan:On the one hand, I would hope that it&8217;s everyone involved with TES, especially Skyrim (my vorite). On the other hand, I&8217;d still like to see TES 6 in the next few years, not when the TES Online servers finally go dark.

Brian:In today&8217;s news: the WoW-killing, game-changing, massively-multiplaying title of our generation has been announced.

Bryan:The racial prejudices of Tamriel are always something I&8217;ve been a big n of with regards to TES lore. It&8217;s much more realistic to have a world in which enmity isn&8217;t so clearly delineated as this side or that. As someone who played Everquest for years, one of the most disappointing things about most recent MMOs is the lack of serious racial hatreds. Nothing was quite as thrilling as jumping off of a boat before it docks in an unfriendly city, and sneaking through the sewers to get to a great leveling spot on the other side of the guards who will one-shot you/

Brian:That I could see. I do not expect anything near what it costs to play World of Warcraft. I expect something like Diablo III&8217;s real money auction house to become more ubiquitous, and it could work for TES online. Give desperate or impatient players a way to buy their way to the top, but also make all that content available to everyone through regular gameplay.

Bryan:Just what the world needs&8230;another CCG MMO. Yeah, I&8217;m looking at you, BattleForge and Magic: The Gathering Online. Seriously though, I think the TES MMO has the best chance out of any announced MMO to topple all challengers.

Bryan:Since the MMO has been established as taking place 1,000 years before any of the TES games, I&8217;m especially hopeful that they intend to bring us back to &8220;present-day&8221; Tamriel at some point. Speaking of the little information we have as of now, any guesses on the three ctions? I believe the confirmed symbols are a dragon, a lion, and an eagle.

Brian:They can&8217;t just add lots of players to Skyrim and expect it to work. How can you translate a completely open world into an massively online format? I want the freedom to assassinate that shopkeeper if I want to, but you may need him to complete a quest.

Brian: I hesitate to agree, though I&8217;d love to see it happen as much as the next guy.

Brian:And that, though I pray to the gaming gods I&8217;m wrong, is almost what I expect here. I&8217;m dying to see some developer commentary or alpha footage to prove otherwise, but right now I&8217;m hearing that a new ntasy MMO is coming out and it has Elder Scrolls in the title.

Brian:The new studio has me hopeful in that regard. It sounds like they&8217;re preparing to run these things in parallel.

Bryan:Still, I like to hope they&8217;re a bit more ambitious than that. If they can manage that ambition and still keep the core of what people love about the TES series, they&8217;ll out-do Nintendo for printing money. I mean, Skyrim sold 10 million copies in its first month. If every person who bought Skyrim in that first month bought TES Online, they&8217;d only be a couple million short of WoW&8217;s highest subscriber countever.

Brian:Guilty as charged&8230; including Skyrim.

Brian:So here&8217;s a question: is the lore enough to get you to buy The Elder Scrolls Online

Brian:Yes, I&8217;ve always been impressed with the way their worlds live and breathe without player interaction. But if it turns out to be a perfect WoW clone with no gameplay innovation, I feel that the universe is too bland to be a selling point.

Bryan:I earnestly hope that what you propose is indeed the case. Would I trade in the ability to turn in quests at any time to live in a more fleshed-out world that doesn&8217;t give every player what they need to succeed? In a heartbeat. So what if you keep killing the shopkeeper? I can just as easily kill you.

Brian:Oh absolutely, same here. However, I couldn&8217;t tell you what happened in the background. I just know what my main quest was.

Bryan:It&8217;s easy to be disillusioned about MMOs these days. Nothing since WoW has really captured the attention of the gaming public at large. Based off the strength of what&8217;s come before, I&8217;m tentatively placing my trust in ZeniMax Online to not let the millions of gamers, who&8217;ve lived and breathed Tamriel, down. I just can&8217;t see a scenario where Bethesda and ZeniMax would double-down on their most lucrative and popular franchise like this without having something they were at least 99.9% sure would work. Of course, what&8217;s proposed and what&8217;s produced never really tend to be the same thing.

Bryan:As a freshman MMO developer, I&8217;d think ZeniMax Online would be smart enough to stay away from anything resembling real-money transactions. To put it another way, the TES games have done so well because they are more experiences than games. Yes, it&8217;s a &8220;game,&8221; but the TES games have always had that something special that pulls a player in on more than just the suce level. Add enough game-like elements, such as a RMT auction house, and eventually all you end up with is another game that just happens to have The Elder Scrolls in the title. It&8217;s a bit philosophical, but I don&8217;t think I&8217;m r off.

This week, TAG gets massive with the announcement ofThe Elder Scrolls Online. Good luck following this speculative dialogue between our very ownBrianandBryan.

Bryan:We joke about multiplayer Skyrim, but I think we both agree that thousands of players running around Skyrim would rip the soul out of the game we know and love. In essence, I loved Skyrim because it wasmyworld. I was the one discovering the caves swtor credit, unlocking the mysteries, and saving the land. In the same breath, I both hope and seriously doubt they could recreate that feel for the MMO.

Bryan:The lore? Not a bit. It&8217;s an interesting world, to be sure, but the lore was never what grabbed me. Don&8217;t get me wrong, IloveTES games, but I feel that you can&8217;t know what to expect if you haven&8217;t been keeping up on all of the miniscule bits of lore in the last five games.

Brian:Actually, I think it&8217;s mostly there for the ultra-hardcore ns. I&8217;d be curious to see a poll of a few million players that tested their knowledge of the Warcraft universe.

Bryan:Not everyone will even know that much about the main story arcs. I can&8217;t imagine I&8217;m alone in having never finished the main quest lines of some TES games due to side-questitis

Brian:Luckily, the relative lack of detail in the announcement leaves us free to speculate &8217;til the cows come home. I have to believe they&8217;re going to maintain the mechanics that make up an Elder Scrolls game somehow. But, we&8217;ve never seen an MMO that truly manages that level of immersion. Especially in combat scenarios.

Brian:That would be my ideal scenario.

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Brian:So what does TES online need to be a successful MMO? I think we can agree that just having Elder Scrolls in the title isn&8217;t going to cut it.

Bryan:With the recent release of TERA, MMOs have shown that the ability to manage real-time, position based combat is absolutely viable. Knowing Bethesda, the game will technically work fine (barring a few major bugs). I think the MMO environment will actually be beneficial to Bethesda, as constant mandaLand of Chaos OnlinetoCasual Friday TAG: Speculating on The Elder Scroll Land of Chaos Onlinery patching will allow for daily fixes. Anyone who&8217;s ever played Fallout: New Vegas and seen an alien&8217;s head shear off its body by a good couple hundred feet knows exactly what I mean

Bryan:I&8217;m not terribly miliar with their back catalog, but to my knowledge, no. How&8217;s about this for a more likely scenario: Free-to-play, or follow the Guild Wars model and charge $60 up front to play online forever?

Brian:Haha yes, their track record with bugs isn&8217;t the greatest. This MMO is supposedly being built by their new studio, ZeniMax Online. I wonder who from the traditional Elder Scrolls team will have their hands in it?

Bryan: I don&8217;t think there&8217;s anything inherently shameful about it. If anything, you&8217;re paying the developers a compliment by in essence saying &8220;The rest of this game world is so good, I don&8217;t require the one questline you put in specifically to be great.&8221; Now, will I buy it based on the detail and quality of the previous TES games? Absolutely.

Bryan:Here&8217;s a question I haven&8217;t seen discussed much online today: Do you think the TES MMO will be subscription-based, free-to-play, or something else entirely?

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