A sampling of their new cash shop: And my personal favorite… Yes, that’s a chainsaw. An angel wielding a chainsaw. Can you at least train Logging with it? I haven’t played the game in a long time due to the let-down that was the Abyss. Tell me, is this the cash shop of a …
Tag Archive: Aion
What Makes a Success?
Over the last few years, we’ve seen an absolute explosion in the amount of MMOs being released. A lot of them came about purely because WoW was such a success. The result, it seems, is that these games are being measured against WoW to determine if they’re successful or not. Now, I think we can …
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 …
Pay-by-Hour is the wave of the… future?
I like to start my week off with a solid butchering of the English language. What can I say? Now, on to our main topic for today: pay-by-hour games. We don’t see these a lot in the Western MMO market. It’s actually a little strange given that it was a big business model for early …
Time to Understand the Gold Farmers
Happy Easter, everyone! Hopefully this day will be filled we happy times and laughter with your families. My own awaits this morning, but I wanted to stop in and share a sentiment in the spirit of the day. Let’s cut the gold farmers some slack. I know that’s not something you’d expect to hear from …
Let’s talk about immersion
Ahhh…. immersion. It’s the thing most of us look for when we dive into a game. Yet, it’s also one of the most subjective we could choose to look at. Where does it start? How is it supported? And does it matter? I, for one, will say that immersion is one of the top goals …
The future isn’t AAA games
On the last podcast, I mentioned that I didn’t think games like Darkfall and EVE were pushing the industry anywhere. I’m not so sure I believe that anymore. My reasoning was that those games were so niche that they weren’t going to sway big bears like Blizzard. Now though, I’m thinking that I may have …
My gaming outlook – FE and LotRO back in the roster
Hey gang! Sorry for the lack of updates this week. It’s been hectic with the holidays, as I’m sure it’s been for all of you too. I haven’t been absent from my computer, however. Writing this blog and doing the new podcast gives me a great excuse to spend time in-game, which I do, as …
The last refuges of elitism
As people, I think we’re prone to judgment of one another. I mean, think about it, we judge people all the time. In the supermarket, at school, at work, we’re prone to appraising our fellow man. It’s not always in the snouty, look down your nose, kind of way. If for nothing else, we do …
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 …
