Author Archives: SynCaine

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About SynCaine

Former hardcore raider turned casual gamer.

AoC bashing, LoTRO update, ISK talk.

Posted on June 20, 2008 by SynCaine

Ah Friday sweetness. Heartless and Rick over at /random both commented on a Massively report about AoC and it’s troubles with its much-hyped endgame PvP. It would seem that massive amounts of high details characters letting off fancy spell effects … Continue reading →

Posted in Age of Conan, EVE Online, Lord of the Rings Online, MMO design, PvP | 13 Comments

Focused crafting, not just a bullet point on a box!

Posted on June 19, 2008 by SynCaine

Psychochild breaks down the general ideas behind crafting in his recent post, a topic that was addressed here on this blog not too long ago. While I don’t want to rehash the great discussion we had from my previous post, … Continue reading →

Posted in EQ2, EVE Online, Lord of the Rings Online, MMO design, World of Warcraft | 5 Comments

Google the crime dog.

Posted on June 18, 2008 by SynCaine

Overall a sad story, but this has to be mentioned for stupid move of the year. How do you even defend that in court? ‘Oh I was just Googling it for fun…’ . Not to give crime advice, but if … Continue reading →

Posted in Random | 1 Comment

Warhammer Online and the queue issue, RELAX!

Posted on June 18, 2008 by SynCaine

I really should not be getting this worked up about a pre-release MMO topic, but this just hit a nerve for some reason. Keen, and today Tobold, made posts about Mythic’s plans for realm balance, and that ONE tool they … Continue reading →

Posted in Dark Age of Camelot, EVE Online, MMO design, PvP, Warhammer Online, World of Warcraft | 20 Comments

“Top of the world baby, top of the world!”

Posted on June 18, 2008 by SynCaine

Banner 17 baby! What a game. Unbelievable that the Lakers just mailed it in and quit on that game. Granted they were playing a clearly superior team, but still, you don’t just let yourself get beaten that badly on a … Continue reading →

Posted in Random | 5 Comments

100k views, plus some rambling.

Posted on June 16, 2008 by SynCaine

100,000 views, ding! At some point over the weekend that ‘milestone’ was reached, just before the one year anniversary of the blog. I think that’s a lot… is it? I mean I know major sites get like millions of views … Continue reading →

Posted in Civilization Series, EVE Online, Site update | 5 Comments

Cutting down the money tree, MMO style.

Posted on June 13, 2008 by SynCaine

This is a rather amazing back and forth. Quite a long read to get the full story, but well worth your time. It’s rather hard for me to comment on anything specific because I’ve never played SWG, but like everyone … Continue reading →

Posted in MMO design, Ultima Online, World of Warcraft | 14 Comments

More reasons we need Warhammer Online.

Posted on June 12, 2008 by SynCaine

Is it just me, or is most of the blog-o-sphere just killing time until Warhammer Online goes live, or at least starts open beta? I just can’t help but get the feeling that a lot of people are just searching … Continue reading →

Posted in Site update, Warhammer Online | 20 Comments

Stupid cool.

Posted on June 11, 2008 by SynCaine

Found the link at Kill Ten Rats, but THIS is amazingly cool. The writeup is also quite witty. Job well done!

Posted in Lord of the Rings Online, Random | 2 Comments

Spam milestone!

Posted on June 11, 2008 by SynCaine

Yesterday this blog cracked 5,000 spam comments. Truly amazing how much of that crap gets put out each day. The latest trend seems to be Poker sites, along with the usual spam suspects. In other news, the one year anniversary … Continue reading →

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