Chris "Syeric" Coke

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Date registered: July 25, 2009
URL: http://www.gamebynight.com

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The “I’m Baaaaaack!” Post

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a. MMORPG, d. Everything Else

August 10, 2012

by Chris "Syeric" Coke

Greetings, Ladies and Gents; long time no see! It’s been a night or two since my last post and a drought-like before that. Well, I’m happy to say that the long spell of postlessness is over. To be honest, this post has been in the works for a while now but the recent invoice-y prompting …

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Apathy for the new MMO (or why the blogger hype cycle is a misleading beast)

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a. MMORPG

July 7, 2012

by Chris "Syeric" Coke

I really hope this doesn’t come off as too curmudgeonly, but I’m finding it really difficult to get excited for The Secret World. Compounding that “jaded vet” feeling is that the game actually looks pretty neat. Where then blooms the apathy? Could it be, dare I say… the fans? See, this is where I sit. …

Tags: funcom, the secret world, trion, TSW

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Blizzard: Money drunk and sense dry

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a. MMORPG, d. Everything Else

June 23, 2012

by Chris "Syeric" Coke

Tell me what’s wrong with this picture. You go to a digital store-front to buy a game. You put in your credit card number and are promptly charged $60. Six hours later your game is downloaded, installed, and ready to go. It’s a dungeon crawler, so you crawl some dungeons, level up a bit and …

Tags: actiblizzard, activision, blizzard, diablo 3

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In answer to Pete @Dragonchasers, what TESO says about the state of MMOs

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a. MMORPG

June 18, 2012

by Chris "Syeric" Coke

I was perusing my Google Reader list of “Must Read Blogs” recently and came across a post from Pete at Dragonchasers. In it, he asks succinctly: does the apathy surrounding The Elder Scrolls Online mean we’re just done with MMOs; are we getting tired of the whole concept. Interesting thought and one well worth considering. …

Tags: Elder Scrolls, sleeper MMOs, TESO, The Elder Scrolls Online, Zenimax

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The Justice Scale of Our Demise [Non-MMO]

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a. MMORPG

May 31, 2012

by Chris "Syeric" Coke

This is a non-MMO post, so forgive me, but I have to vent. I am incredibly tired of the way this country, our US-of-A, is run. Who the hell decided corporate America was anything other than an abomination, eh? I know that offends a lot of you but hear me out. I worked for Washington …

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Six reasons to avoid TERA like the plague

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a. MMORPG

April 22, 2012

by Chris "Syeric" Coke

TERA had its open beta this weekend and I didn’t even consider taking part. Why? Because the game is doomed before it’s even launched. I know there are enough doom callers and naysayers in this community but hear me out. The first indicator this game was in trouble: Development Director leaves the company shortly after …

Tags: brian knox, en masse, lists, reasons tera may fail, tera, tera upskirt

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Will it take the decline of WoW to bring back the virtual world?

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a. MMORPG

April 12, 2012

by Chris "Syeric" Coke

An interesting thought entered my head this morning as I bought a month’s subscription to World of Warcraft. Has it taken WoW’s decline to finally get them focus on the virtual world again? I mean, beyond the set-piece stuff we need to quest. WoW has done a lot for the industry, but one of the …

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PS Vita comes out Wednesday and I will have it; Making Money in SWTOR

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a. MMORPG

February 13, 2012

by Chris "Syeric" Coke

A new handheld hits the gaming market Wednesday and I’ll be picking it up. The system, I’m sure you already know, is the PS Vita. It’s Sony’s last great effort to prove handhelds are viable. They’ve packed everything into this thing to make sure it sells: advanced HD graphics (early PS3 level), dual analog sticks, …

Tags: bioware, gravity daze, inquisitor, playstation vita, sony, swtor, swtor gold guide, vita

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Does anyone appreciate scale anymore?

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a. MMORPG

January 23, 2012

by Chris "Syeric" Coke

Just a quick post to say the following: I love that SWTOR is so effing big. I love feeling like I’m part of a huge zone or inside a massive structure. A lot of people don’t. The cynics will tell you that it’s all an artificial way to keep you playing longer (because tedium = …

Tags: bioware, cryptic studios, star wars the old republic, STO, swtor

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SWTOR makes a poor single-player game

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a. MMORPG

January 20, 2012

by Chris "Syeric" Coke

I know what most of you are thinking, that SWTOR isn’t a single-player game, but hear me out. SWTOR does have a single-player component that you’ll spend hundreds of hours in. And during that time, you’ll find players rarely talk to one another. A world where those same players would rather kill steal and be generally obnoxious …

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