Monthly Archives: November 2011

EVE: Day one reactions to Crucible, and another war for DiS

Posted on November 30, 2011 by SynCaine

I feel that I greatly underestimated Crucible in terms of its overall impact on EVE (at least day-one impact), which is somewhat surprising to me since I watched all the dev videos and read all the blogs. I thought I … Continue reading →

Posted in EVE Online, Patch Notes, PvP | 12 Comments

Bobby does have a point…

Posted on November 29, 2011 by SynCaine

When Bobby talks about generic themepark MMOs that might have trouble retaining players, he is speaking from experience here. I mean look, what’s more likely to get you to keep throwing $15 into a hole, dated-looking Pandas, or ten blaster … Continue reading →

Posted in SW:TOR, World of Warcraft | 15 Comments

MMO Expansions

Posted on November 29, 2011 by SynCaine

It’s expansion day in EVE today, and Crucible sounds like it will get the game back to its winning ways. What’s interesting about Crucible is that it comes without a ‘killer app’ of a feature. Nothing that really jumps out … Continue reading →

Posted in Darkfall Online, EVE Online, Inquisition Clan, League of Legends, Mass Media, MMO design, Rant, World of Warcraft | 18 Comments

Back from vacation

Posted on November 28, 2011 by SynCaine

I find it very amusing that Trion has called their latest event currency a “unique snowflake”, considering the actual event sounds like a rehash of every other event. I’m laughing, but not WITH you Trion. I’m still playing a lot … Continue reading →

Posted in EVE Online, Patch Notes, Random, Rift | 6 Comments

Blizzard announces new dev team for WoW

Posted on November 23, 2011 by SynCaine

Odds of these guys producing another WotLK/Cata?

Posted in World of Warcraft | 23 Comments

EVE: Grind leads to greatness

Posted on November 22, 2011 by SynCaine

I found a few comments interested related to the R&K video I posted last weekend. In particular, the mention of ‘grind’ related to getting into Nova. If getting into Nova was not ‘hard’, Nova would not be worth what it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in EVE Online, MMO design, PvP, Rant | 13 Comments

The real SW:TOR killer

Posted on November 22, 2011 by SynCaine

First, how can SW:TOR be a WoW-killer when Cata already did the job? We should call it WoW-finisher instead, right? Sucks for Bioware that Blizzard beat them to the punch on that one. Second, and far more important, it sucks … Continue reading →

Posted in Random, SW:TOR, World of Warcraft | 33 Comments

EVE: Losing the battle, ‘winning’ the war

Posted on November 21, 2011 by SynCaine

My ‘war’ preview linked to my kill mail, and left people guessing at what happened. Pretty interesting to see people try to piece things together. Here is what actually happened. The war-dec was pulled back shortly after it was declared, … Continue reading →

Posted in EVE Online, PvP | 18 Comments

EVE: Best 37 minutes of your weekend, possibly your year

Posted on November 19, 2011 by SynCaine

Rooks and Kings: Clarion Call 3 It’s 37 minutes. Watch it. 100% totally worth it whether you play EVE or not. PS: That’s basically how PvP looks for me. Basically… PPS: I have no clue wtf was going on in … Continue reading →

Posted in EVE Online | 21 Comments

EVE: War story preview

Posted on November 19, 2011 by SynCaine

Yup

Posted in EVE Online, PvP | 8 Comments