Author Archives: SynCaine

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About SynCaine

Former hardcore raider turned casual gamer.

Wipe or Expansion: What’s the difference?

Posted on July 14, 2011 by SynCaine

Jef Reahard over at Massivily asks if you would keep playing if your MMO had a character/server wipe (side point: if a character wipe is a ‘full’ wipe in your MMO of choice, what does that say about its world?) … Continue reading →

Posted in Darkfall Online, Housing, Mass Media, MMO design, Patch Notes, PvP, World of Warcraft | 19 Comments

Rift: EG review of 1.4

Posted on July 14, 2011 by SynCaine

One small step towards F2P, one giant leap towards Azeroth.

Posted in Patch Notes, Rant, Rift, World of Warcraft | 1 Comment

Eurogamer talks Darkfall, again

Posted on July 13, 2011 by SynCaine

Eurogamer has an article up about Darkfall. Who wants to play “count the errors”? It’s like the ‘journalism’ version of Where’s Waldo, fun for the whole family. I also love how they include two videos of the game, one a … Continue reading →

Posted in Darkfall Online, Mass Media | 2 Comments

Terraria and MineCraft: The sandbox is coming back?

Posted on July 12, 2011 by SynCaine

I picked up Terraria when it was on sale, and so far it’s a very interesting game. In a nutshell, it’s a more ‘gamey’ Minecraft in 2d. There are plenty of reviews out, so I won’t do one here, plus … Continue reading →

Posted in Random | 8 Comments

Darkfall 2.0: The reset

Posted on July 11, 2011 by SynCaine

Back from my mini-vacation. Cruises are not for Aria and I. It felt too much like we were living in one long infomercial. Direct flights to a beach going forward I believe. Some interest stuff happened last week though, gaming-wise. … Continue reading →

Posted in Darkfall Online, Patch Notes | 10 Comments

Vacation

Posted on July 5, 2011 by SynCaine

I’ll be on vacation until Sunday, so entertain yourselves here and try not to burn the place down.

Posted in Site update | 9 Comments

ForumFall mass suicide ‘soon’?

Posted on July 1, 2011 by SynCaine

As of this writing still no activity report, but ForumFall is just about ready to jump off a bridge.

Posted in Darkfall Online | 5 Comments

Good F2P, bad F2P

Posted on June 30, 2011 by SynCaine

A proper free-to-play game allows players to enjoy the game and still spend money based on the amount they feel comfortable with Psychochild The “they feel comfortable with” is, for me, the key part here. Comfort to me is when … Continue reading →

Posted in Atlantica Online, Inquisition Clan, League of Legends, MMO design, Random, Rant, RMT | 10 Comments

It’s all fun and games until you start making millions

Posted on June 30, 2011 by SynCaine

Via a link in Tobold’s soon-to-be-departed comments section, this RPS article is pretty funny, and the comments related to it are hilarious. I’m also surprised this has not happened yet. Not the whole “two paragraphs for free” part, but the … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogroll, Mass Media, RMT, Site update | 9 Comments

An hour with the Heroes 6 beta

Posted on June 29, 2011 by SynCaine

The Heroes 6 beta was released yesterday, and I was able to spend 60 minutes with it (exactly, according to Steam). Consider this a complete review. Basically. If you enjoy EG. Graphically the game looks/feels like a Heroes game, but … Continue reading →

Posted in beta, Random | 8 Comments