Forgive my ignorance here, because I haven’t been following Rift too closely. I just found this developer diary on YouTube where they talk about some of their neat plans for the game. One of the bigguns is the rift system. Actually, considering they’ve named the game after it, I’d say it’s probably how they’re trying …
Category Archive: a. MMORPG
Adult Themes in MMOs – Selling Point or Limiting Factor?
Psychochild has an interesting article up this morning dealing with the problems of sex in MMOs. Essentially, it boils down to America not being ready to accept sex out in the open; we’re too prudish to accept and express our sexuality, so any game emphasizing it is destined to fail. I wouldn’t argue with this, …
Rewind: So You’ve Decided to Go Casual
The following post was original published here on September 30th, 2009. When the blog turned a year old, I noticed that it was one of the top posts on the site (along with being one of my personal favorites). Except, when I posted it, a lot of you hadn’t discovered us yet. So, here’s a …
I’ve Hit the Sticking Point Again in WoW
Over the last couple of days, and partially due to Syp‘s great Road to Mordor columns, I’ve been playing more LotRO than I have in the last quarter year. As I reloaded the game, I couldn’t but feel a little deja vu. I’d been here before, reloading the game exactly as I had almost a …
Removing the Level Curve
I like curves. True Story. Whether it comes to art, driving down roads, or pixel beauties that can dominate the world with destructive magic, it’s all good. However, there is one curve that can begin to drive even me nuts: The Level Curve. One of the funny things about me is that I love to …
Blizzard Should Be Held Accountable For Damaging Player’s Computers
Short and sweet, but I had to chime in on this one. It seems that Starcraft 2 was released with a devastating bug in the menu system that’s causing some player’s video cards to overheat. Blizzard has acknowledged that the problem is related in menu systems not including any kind of FPS cap, causing some …
Why “Quit” an MMO?
I just finished up the last few lines on this week’s article for Lagwar (it’s a good one, too, if I do say so myself – link incoming soon) and, as I re-read, I noticed mentioning how I “quit” Darkfall, once in the past. I don’t understand why we use that word. Does anyone really …
The Multiverse – Episode #23: “The Little Things are Best in Space”
Hey gang, Another week, another Multiverse! This week we touch on the Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning trailer, FFXIV’s recommended requirements, the cast of DCUO, and more! We have a clarification from last week, too. It seems that the reported 200k new subscribers for LotRO were actually beta applicants. Still impressive, in my opinion! Thanks to …
My First Great Adventure in Darkfall
Wow. That’s all I can say after tonight’s run in Darkfall. Just, wow. I logged in fairly late to run through a couple of starter quests with a good friend who just downloaded the trial today. After killing goblins for a few minutes, I suggested heading out towards a skeleton camp a little ways outside …
Two Crashes in Two Weeks; The End of Dragon Age and Vanguard; The (re)Beginning of Darkfall
I’ve had the worst luck with hard drives these past two weeks. First, I had one die on me right after recording Episode 22 of The Multiverse. I went out, caught a couple of 500GB drives on sale at Best Buy, put them in, and was happy with my new terrabyte. Yesterday morning, however, I …
