General mmorpg guides

Abbreviations and Acronyms for SWTOR: Do You Have Your SWTOR Dictionary Handy?

The much-anticipated launch of SWTOR is on the way in less than 2 months now- are you ready? If you don’t know all the lingo, then you might not be as ready as you thought you were. Maybe you thought you already knew all there was to know about SWTOR but if you’re new to the game, there is one thing you will notice- the lingo is full of abbreviations and acronyms. This is pretty typical of an MMO or any video game for that matter, but if you want to know what’s going on and avoid looking like a SWTOR newb, then you need to crash course on what the big ones mean (unless you plan on pulling out the SWTOR dictionary each time you play). Luckily, someone has already done all the hard work for you and compiled a full list of SWTOR and MMORPG abbreviations and acronyms…

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How To Secure your MMO Account

This is a Guest post by Tim Hiteshew. Tim is an IT professional living in the San Francisco Bay Area.  He blogs at BloggingTor where he shares his thoughts on all things in the SWTOR universe from character creation to endgame content and everything in between.     Imagine the horror waking up one morning and discovering that you couldn’t log into your MMO account.  Countless hours of questing along with all of your epic gear, money, and even friends list are now in the hands of a complete stranger. Contacting customer support has proven useless.  They have no way to verify that you are the rightful owner to the account and no way to restore everything that you’ve lost.       How can you prevent this from happening?  Following these simple guidelines will help ensure that you will never see your favorite MMO account on the back of a milk carton.   Don’t Share.  Forget what you learned on…

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