Yikes! Two of these posts back-to-back. This is likely to be either the Editor's tardiness on the previous show or alacrity on this one, but either way, even more talking here!

Van Hemlock (ep56): Axe-Grinding as a Participation Sport!

A casually thrown out Twitter Question went supernova this week, and became the topic in itself; "This week saw us literally paralysed by LotRO's Dread System, which was quite irritating! What MMO mechanic annoys you the most?"

A massive list of gripes ensued, showing that pretty much all of us dream of a somewhat better game than we play at present. Pretty much the entire spectrum of irritating MMO design got lambasted; random loot, travel times, group sizes, resource gathering, uninspired storylines, lfg tools, tanking, taunting, and even steep hills, all got a good angry fist-shaking at.

Our own two most annoying game mechanics turned out to be 'Lacking Sidekick/Mentor Mechanic' for me, and 'US/EU Server-List Segregation' for Jon, both of which are continual annoyances that put gameplay and/or distribution deals ahead of friendships.

Boo!