Chris "Syeric" Coke

For as much as this blog has seemed MMO exclusive lately, I’ve actually done a fair bit of console gaming as well. The biggest chunk of this has been on my DSi, as I can take it with me on the go, but I’ve spent a little bit of time with my Xbox 360 too. …

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MMO Wanna-Be’s

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October 7, 2009

(The title may not be grammatically appropriate but darned if it didn’t look wrong without that apostraphe!) Lately, it seems like a new MMO is launching just about every month. Games are coming out of the woodwork and pushing the limits of what we expect to see in a new MMO. This is a great …

Tags: Aion, all points bulletin, cities XL, fallen earth, massively, wow

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Community Spotlight: Darren from Common Sense Gamer

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October 6, 2009

I read a lot of blogs. More often than not, I find myself wanting to know about the person behind the website, what they get out of writing, and what keeps them doing it. Then I thought, “Hey, they’re just people, why not ask?” So, today, I’m happy to present the first of what I …

Tags: bloggers, common sense gamer, community spotlight, darren, i. MMORPG, interviews, shut up we're talking

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Actually, story does matter.

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October 5, 2009

Sometimes, trolls get the best of you. I mirrored yesterday’s post on WoWRiot and the very first commenter, Pink, threw this out at me: “go rp nerd. no1 cares about what a quest involves, only what the reward is.” The asshat couldn’t have even read the article because what I’m saying is that I stopped …

Tags: Aion Online, blogging, narrative, quest text, quests, story, wowriot

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Did NCSoft fire their writers?

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October 4, 2009

Just a brief quote that made me wonder. This is from Gamasutra’s interview with Brian Knox, lead from the Aion Online team: “We had some really talented writers — still do, actually.” Okie. What I read from that is that some of the more remarkable writers got cut. His little correction (“— still do, actually.”) …

Tags: Aion Online, MMO Industry, ncsoft

Overthrowing the Black Claw in Aion

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October 2, 2009

Yesterday was a pretty lucrative day for me in Aion. I started the morning right on the edge of 17. I had something like 20k experience left until I leveled up and a quest log full of enough quests to clutter the right side of my screen. I don’t know whether I’m getting a lot …

Tags: aion assassin group play, aion grouping, Aion Online, Black Claw, black claw quests, Black Claw village, grouping, mumu

Rumor: Micro-transactions in SW:TOR?

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September 30, 2009

Well, some sneaky snakes decided to dig into the ToS of the SW:TOR beta recently and came up with some interesting information. I found out about this from Kill Ten Rats, so kudos to them for being attentive-like. Here’s the snippet from the beta agreement: (I) You acknowledge and agree that all items acquired for …

Tags: bioware, microtransactions, star wars the old republic, swtor, swtor subscription cost

So you’ve decided to go casual

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September 30, 2009

Greetings fellow casuals and welcome to your first lesson in the wonders of casualhood. It’s a strange game we play, you see. Some feel that we’re “doing it wrong” or “wasting our time” or that we should “go back to WoW.” To these people, we flip the bird. Seriously, they can screw off. You see, …

Tags: Aion, Casual, grouping, humor, i. MMORPG, leveling, LotRO, pugs, wow

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Always looking forward

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September 29, 2009

One of my favorite things about following MMOs is the excitement that comes from looking forward to a new title. This year, it was Aion. Last year, it was WAR. Neither title could live up to the massive amount of hype it received even though both are fun games in their own right. As a …

Tags: Aion, anticipation, apb, looking forward, new titles, swtor, war, wow

One laptop to rule them all…

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September 28, 2009