Author Archives: SynCaine

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About SynCaine

Former hardcore raider turned casual gamer.

What really makes a themepark tick, and why FFXIV is a rolex

Posted on June 9, 2015 by SynCaine

Where a good sandbox is like a mountain climb with incredible peaks along with plenty of valleys, playing a good themepark is like taking a nice walk on a familiar path; at no point are you overly thrilled, but the … Continue reading →

Posted in crafting, Final Fantasy XIV, MMO design, World of Warcraft | 19 Comments

Hows that $150 trailblazer thingy working out for everyone?

Posted on June 6, 2015 by SynCaine

What’s the term for something that is 90% vaporware? Answer: An SOE product. Smed just doing Smed things!

Posted in EQNext, SOE being SOE | 4 Comments

HS: Speaking of why F2P is the minor leagues…

Posted on June 4, 2015 by SynCaine

$10 for a skin to a throwaway afterthought game huh? Haha, silly Blizzard, you aren’t Riot and you don’t have anything remotely close to LoL with HS, get this sad money grab out of here. But then again, when you … Continue reading →

Posted in iPhone, RMT | 12 Comments

2015 midyear check-in: Still not a single great F2P MMO

Posted on June 4, 2015 by SynCaine

Wildstar announcing it is moving to the minor leagues of the MMO world (F2P) is… something? Personally I have zero investment/interest in Wildstar, as I never saw the point of creating a ‘hardcore’ raiding MMO and then picking a hyper-cartoon … Continue reading →

Posted in EVE Online, Final Fantasy XIV, RMT, World of Warcraft | 27 Comments

Time to catch up

Posted on June 3, 2015 by SynCaine

Missing a week of Internet feels like missing a year of RL; lot-o-catching up to do. I miss anything really major? I’m assuming the normal stuff like Turbine shutting down a game, SOE being SOE, and FFXIV being bigger than … Continue reading →

Posted in Site update | 18 Comments

How many more people will we allow Blizzard and WoW to murder?

Posted on May 22, 2015 by SynCaine

I think its about time someone took up the righteous cause of saving the world from murder/suicide-assisting MMOs and the evil that they bring. Now you might be saying “But SynCaine, surely the developers are setting proper limits here and … Continue reading →

Posted in EVE Online, World of Warcraft | 4 Comments

AoW3 solves the ‘one and done’ problems of most TBS titles

Posted on May 22, 2015 by SynCaine

Long-game TBS games like Age of Wonders 3 take a long time to fully judge, especially if you are interested in how well the game holds up after a dozen or so multiplayer games, when the players know what they … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments

CoC: Supreme Cream! Vs Ganu Bersatu

Posted on May 20, 2015 by SynCaine

(Stats and writeup by Delpez) Another close war and another come-from-behind victory! With 90 minutes on the clock we were still 15 stars behind, but a solid clean-up strategy and some impressive attacks sealed the win. We also got the … Continue reading →

Posted in Clash of Clans | 15 Comments

Fallout 3 is good, still

Posted on May 18, 2015 by SynCaine

I’ve been playing Fallout 3 recently, in part because Fallout 4 is very likely to be announced ‘soon’, but also because while I’ve played New Vegas a few times, I’ve only played Fallout 3 itself once. For a while now … Continue reading →

Posted in Fallout 3, Steam Stuff | 2 Comments

BB: Some solid advice

Posted on May 13, 2015 by SynCaine

Text below is a copy/paste job from this Reddit thread. Credit to Manburpigg and cjlacz. ———————— Never attack player bases until you need them. Save them all for an important upgrade day. Always clear NPC bases every chance you get. … Continue reading →

Posted in Boom Beach | 1 Comment