Hey Guys, Checking out the news from Game Informer yesterday inspired me to check back in with FFXIVCore and see what’s new. For those of you that don’t know, Square-Enix majorly favors Japan when it comes to releasing new information and the guys over at the site are great with translating it all and scanning …
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Retrospective: What We’ve Left Behind With Progress
In the last 10 years, we’ve come a long way as a genre. Sometimes, I feel a little bit spoiled, like I ate the whole damn cake, when all I asked for was a cookie. Or, maybe I’ve turned into the Cookie Monster, and want the whole friggin’ plate. The point is, the things we …
Are players wrong to feel entitled?
Gordon had a post up yesterday that asked whether modern day MMO players were lazy or if it just seemed that way since games are more accessible these days. I felt compelled to respond, which I did in the comments section, but I think that the topic of my response bears a little more hashing …
Level segregation: the problem with guilds
As I’ve jumped around from game to game this past year, I’ve always made it a point to be sure I have an active guild to play with. I did the same with every character I had on WoW. This morning, playing through Fallen Earth without a guild, I did some thinking about why this …
Community Spotlight #2: Tobold of Tobold’s Gaming Blog
Welcome to the second edition of our Community Spotlight segment. This week is somewhat of a special treat for me and I hope for you too. Over this last week, I was able to pin down Tobold of Tobold’s Gaming Blog to answer a few questions with me. If you have any doubts about who …
Overthrowing the Black Claw in Aion
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 …
So you’ve decided to go casual
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, …
You got your duck sauce in my soy!
One of the things I love about blogging at MMO Voices is that I get to hear the opinions of people that are passionate about the same type of game as I am. We share our thoughts on game design, systems and mechanics, and relate recent experiences we may have had while playing. It also …
10 things to know about Aion Online
With the release of Aion Online looming ever closer (and open beta starting tomorrow), I thought it might be a good idea to get some kind of basic points out there for people that a teetering on the edge of joining. If you’ve been following it for some time, you may have heard some of …
