Tag Archive: eq2

SOE Floundering – Painful Observations From the Outside

I’ve been sitting on this post for a week because, well, I don’t currently play any SOE games, so who am I to make a judgment? You know what, though? This is my blog, a place to share my observations, so why be so vanilla as to hold something back I’m thinking on. That’s something …

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The Multiverse – Episode #26: “Guest Starring: Green Armadillo”

Hello again, everyone! Hopefully this Monday is treating you kindly, but to help with that we’ve prepared another episode of The Multiverse for your listening pleasure. This week we had the pleasure of being joined by Green Armadillo of the Player Versus Developer blog. A big thanks goes out to him for tolerating Ferrel and …

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The Multiverse – Episode #22: “The Greenest Grass is Always Lego”

Happy Hump Day Folks! We’re back this week with the much delayed Episode 22 of The Multiverse: MMO Radio. We first tried this show back on the ninth – right before real names on the forums got canceled – but, as luck would have it, my hard drive crashed and the show was lost. But, …

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Content Explosions are Overrated

Ravious writes today asking whether content explosions are still the best way to introduce new content to an MMO. By explosion, he means, of course, the traditional method of delivering large patches every six months. This is the model most AAA MMOs opt for, but, as he points out, there’s a much wider array of …

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The Multiverse – Episode #19 – “In Defense of Gold Buying (and the Point of MMOs)”

Afternoon, gang! Another week, another Multiverse. This episode we discuss the week’s new (LotRO going F2P, MMOs have no point, and more) as well as tackle a very on topic discussion: what is the point of MMOs and what keeps us coming back. Later, Ferrel and I debate about buying gold in MMOs. He thinks …

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First Days in EQ2

Happy Monday, folks! As I mentioned on a recent episode of our podcast, I never quite felt like I gave Everquest 2 a proper chance. Several of my friends and favorite bloggers play it almost exclusively, so I’ve always felt a bit of a gap in my MMO knowledge by not having played more of …

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The Multiverse – Episode #18: “You are my Cold Sore (featuring Syp)”

Welcome back, everybody, to another episode of The Multiverse. We were happy to be joined by a surprise guest this week, Syp from Bio Break and his new digs at Massively! We covered the week’s news (which lead to some extensive and great conversation), what Syp’s been up to for Massively, and entered into Blog-o-Whirl …

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Some Assembly Required: The $25 Article

Hey Guys, I’m 8 minutes late in letting you know! Sorry about that. My latest article is up at Lagwar and in it I discuss the $25 CashCat SOE just dropped on their player base. I have a question for you guys, too. Why was everyone up in arms at Blizzard and so few EQ2 …

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The Multiverse – Episode #16: “I am Betty White”

Happy Monday Everyone! To start the week off right, we’re here to bring you the one-week-delayed Episode 16 of the Multiverse. Things didn’t go off a smoothly as planned but the results are a funnier show. Go figure. This week, our main topic is what it takes for an MMO to get, and keep, our …

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The Multiverse – Episode #15: “Schnitzelholic”

Happy Tuesday Folks, We’re well on our way into the week. So, to make work/school go a little quicker for you, we bring you our fifteenth attempt at MMO Radio. I think we’re getting this down 🙂 Ferrel was stuck in Germany due to the volcano, so we spent a little time talking about the …

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