Author Archives: SynCaine

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About SynCaine

Former hardcore raider turned casual gamer.

LoL-cloning should be amusing

Posted on August 18, 2011 by SynCaine

Attempting to clone LoL has been the FOTM in the gaming industry ever since Riot started seeing it’s amazing success. Luckily for most dev studios LoL is not an MMO, but the fact that it is a PvP game will … Continue reading →

Posted in DoTA, League of Legends, PvP, RMT | 5 Comments

Fantasy Football time again

Posted on August 16, 2011 by SynCaine

The Hardcore Sunday Casual Funday fantasy football league is back! If you are interested let me know here and I’ll send you an invite. Please only join up if you can stay active the entire season.

Posted in Site update | 17 Comments

Third faction finally added to Warhammer Online!

Posted on August 16, 2011 by SynCaine

The F2P knockoff game that is. If you are still playing WAR, how much does this kick in the nuts hurt? “Oh hi, we screwed WAR by making it two faction like WoW, but we made the knockoff a threeway. … Continue reading →

Posted in beta, League of Legends, PvP, Rant, Warhammer Online | 16 Comments

Final Fantasy Tactics on the iPhone

Posted on August 15, 2011 by SynCaine

Square Enix has been releasing older Final Fantasy games for the iPhone for a while now. FF1 and FF2 were released for $8.99. FF3, which got a pretty heavy overhaul when it was released for the PSP (I believe), was … Continue reading →

Posted in Console Gaming, iPhone | 16 Comments

Is Darkfall vaporware, again?

Posted on August 13, 2011 by SynCaine

With most MMOs you have to deal with a lot of hype pre-release. Ideas looking amazing on paper, fans letting their imagination run wild on what could be, all of that. Is Darkfall the only MMO to ever repeat this … Continue reading →

Posted in Combat Systems, crafting, Darkfall Online, MMO design, Patch Notes, PvP | 17 Comments

-placeholder- Creative title for this blog’s four year anniversary

Posted on August 12, 2011 by SynCaine

I’m like the WoW Magazine of yearly blog reviews; each one is out just a little later than the previous one. Four years. Now officially longer than any job I’ve had, longer than any relationship I’ve had other than to … Continue reading →

Posted in Site update | 4 Comments

Trion’s RoN will be MMORTS 2.0!

Posted on August 11, 2011 by SynCaine

Are you as excited for RoN not being pay-to-win as you are about Rift (1.2 and beyond) not being in Azeroth anymore? I know I am!

Posted in Random, Rant, Rift, RMT | 5 Comments

The new MMO business model?

Posted on August 11, 2011 by SynCaine

Not to bank on financial writers for solid reporting related to MMOs or anything, but this little blurb I found interesting for one reason: how important are initial sales for an MMO? Of course they are important, after all if … Continue reading →

Posted in Mass Media, MMO design, SW:TOR, World of Warcraft | 11 Comments

While I climb to 1500 ELO…

Posted on August 10, 2011 by SynCaine

A while ago Riot announced that when Season One officially ends, anyone with an ELO above 1495 would receive a special Jarvan skin as a reward. Prior to that announcement I was happily making my way up in ELO, getting … Continue reading →

Posted in League of Legends | 17 Comments

Dawntide: A little more time

Posted on August 9, 2011 by SynCaine

I played a little more Dawntide (I can’t explain why, other than that I’m a sucker for sandboxes I guess), and while I still would not recommend it to most people, I have seen a few noteworthy things. The combat … Continue reading →

Posted in beta, Combat Systems, crafting, MMO design, Random | 1 Comment