We’ve got some exciting news today on the LotRO front. Turbine just announced that they plan to release their first digital expansion this fall titled “Siege of Mirkwood!” Victor of Mmeow was quick on the uptake and had a post up on this almost right away, so thank you to him for the tip. I …
I’ve been struggling to articulate why I find ArcheAge so compelling since I first began hearing about it. I described it many times in the past, talking about its many systems or how it supported the virtual world concept. Now that I have my hands on it, I think I’ve come to a conclusion about …
I suppose it’s about time I share some of my thoughts on the latest entry to our MMO library, Defiance. My enthusiasm for this game has ebbed and flowed during the PR cycle but never much broke lukewarm. To be honest, I felt like an outlier. When most of the internet seemed to join in …
Guest starring: Sister Julie and Sister Fran from No Prisoners, No Mercy! Is a 5th episode an anniversary? Not quite, but it’s certainly a special one. This week we’re pleased to be joined by Sister Fran and Sister Julie of the No Prisoners, No Mercy podcast. It was an absolute pleasure to have them on, …
I’ve been reading other people’s blogs more than writing on my own recently and one of those posts is about GW2’s horizontal progression over at Professor Beej. He makes a good case for providing progressing out vs progressing up and it leads me to wonder if I’m just not the intended demographic for such a game. …
Update: Added a bit to my paragraph on subscription games to clarify the point I was trying to make. Keen also has a fair response that acts as a good counter-point. A while back, Keen coined the term “3-monther” in regards to MMOs. It’s apt and pretty darn descriptive of how MMOs players tend to …
Via Syp (Justin) at Massively, word came out this week that Trion is planning some big changes with the 1.10 patch. Presumably, this will be the last big patch we get before Storm Legion launches this fall, so we can see this somewhat as paving the way for what’s to come. I think that in …
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 …
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 …
