Category Archives: ARK

Dear devs: Get gud

Posted on October 1, 2018 by SynCaine

Polygon has an article up about the challenges of indie game devs, focusing around the fact that there are so many games being made and released on Steam that it’s hard to stand out. It reminded me of my post … Continue reading →

Posted in ARK, League of Legends, Mass Media, PUBG, Random, Rant, Steam Stuff | 9 Comments

High cost, low cost; a good game sells, a bad one struggles

Posted on November 30, 2017 by SynCaine

Raph Koster has a post about video game costs, which in large part is a continuation of the discussion from TAGN blog about the topic. In terms of game devs, I like Raph (I obviously don’t know him personally), but … Continue reading →

Posted in ARK, Blogroll, Camelot Unchained, Crowfall, League of Legends, MMO design, PUBG, Rant, RMT, Steam Stuff | 23 Comments

Rigging, lockboxes, and all the innocent children!

Posted on October 27, 2017 by SynCaine

The topic of lockboxes and matchmaking rigging is making its way around the blog world of late, so lets pile on another post to the fire. I’ll use Az’s post about it as a starting point, because I think it … Continue reading →

Posted in ARK, Camelot Unchained, Clash of Clans, Clash Royale, Crowfall, League of Legends, MMO design, PUBG, PvP, Rant, RMT, Star Citizen, SW:TOR, World of Warcraft | 19 Comments

The problem with eternal Early Access

Posted on May 2, 2017 by SynCaine

PC Gamer recently had a good article about Survival games (ARK, Rust, etc) almost never making it out of Steam’s Early Access, whether or not that was the correct use of the system, and if overall that’s a problem. The … Continue reading →

Posted in ARK, MMO design, Rant, Steam Stuff | 11 Comments

Gaming at 3440 x 1440

Posted on August 10, 2016 by SynCaine

My 1080 GTX finally arrived, and after figuring out how to go from two 6-pin power cables to two 8-pin power cables (turns out my 6-pins had tucked-away 2-pin additions, so it was actually very simple once I found those … Continue reading →

Posted in ARK, EVE Online, League of Legends, Random, Review | 2 Comments

ARK, FO4, TW:W, EVE, and CoC updates

Posted on August 1, 2016 by SynCaine

Gaming update time. Basically I’m kinda hovering in most games as I wait for the 1080 GTX to arrive, which will hopefully be this week. I started playing ARK again with the old crew I played with almost a year … Continue reading →

Posted in ARK, Clash of Clans, EVE Online, Fallout 3, Goons, Random, Site update | 3 Comments

ARK: Primitive+ time?

Posted on July 29, 2016 by SynCaine

Quick friday note: ARK has released a new official mod called Primitive+, which limits the game to stone and below tiers, and also introduces new lower level tiers of building. It looks pretty interesting overall, and ARK has changed so … Continue reading →

Posted in ARK, Uncategorized | 3 Comments

Steam is only 15% of the PC market?

Posted on January 5, 2016 by SynCaine

Via Polygon, here is a lot of great data about Steam via Steam Spy. First of all, Steam is only 15% of the market? If the number was 50% I would still think that’s a bit low, but 15%? What … Continue reading →

Posted in ARK, Fallout 3, Random, Steam Stuff, Uncategorized | 8 Comments

What’s been keeping me busy gaming wise of late

Posted on October 13, 2015 by SynCaine

Slow gaming times for me of late, hence the lack of blogging. I’m still playing a bit of ARK, though restarting on a server is a bit rough, as you are basically retracing previous steps, and with the rapid pace … Continue reading →

Posted in ARK, Blood Bowl, Random, Site update | 6 Comments

New ARK Server, and the BB2 campaign

Posted on October 5, 2015 by SynCaine

Two items for today. I’m playing on a new, unofficial ARK server. Search the unofficial listing for “Narco Heads” to find it. Unlike most unofficial servers this one doesn’t have silly 8x or 10x rules, just 2x from the official … Continue reading →

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