Category Archives: EVE Online

Player vs Business success

Posted on January 19, 2011 by SynCaine

(Numbers and games used in this post are just examples. Don’t comment that they are ‘wrong’. Thanks) As a customer, what does WAR having 100k subs and Darkfall having 20k subs mean to you? What does it mean to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Darkfall Online, EVE Online, Rant, Warhammer Online, World of Warcraft | 24 Comments

MMO PvP: Never fair and balanced

Posted on December 29, 2010 by SynCaine

Comment that caught my attention over at Massively, from Jef’s excellent Soapbox piece about RP and FFA PvP: “It isn’t PVP because it is never fair and balanced.” A lot of layers to that one line. For starters, what defines … Continue reading →

Posted in Combat Systems, Darkfall Online, EVE Online, Mass Media, MMO design, PvP | 19 Comments

Looking back at 2010

Posted on December 17, 2010 by SynCaine

Prompted by Lum doing it, lets review my 2010 predictions and see how I do. I’m not sure when I’m going to do my 2011 predictions, but my guess is sometime next week. I’ve not really thought about 2011, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Aion, Darkfall Online, EVE Online, Fallen Earth, League of Legends, Random, Site update, Ultima Online, Warhammer Online, World of Warcraft | 7 Comments

“It seems much easier to make interesting, sandbox PvP content then it is to maintain and create PvE treadmill content”

Posted on November 30, 2010 by SynCaine

Every now and then you come across something shocking it’s just too hard to ignore. Today is one of those days. This is a comment from a post Keen made, waiting for WoW to embrace its PvP nature (pro-tip: HKO … Continue reading →

Posted in Age of Conan, Aion, Combat Systems, Dark Age of Camelot, Darkfall Online, DDO, EQ2, EVE Online, Lord of the Rings Online, MMO design, PvP, Rant, Ultima Online, Warhammer Online, World of Warcraft | 39 Comments

More thoughts on Perpetuum

Posted on November 22, 2010 by SynCaine

I spent a solid amount of time playing Perpetuum over the weekend, wrapping up the introductory assignment (quests) line and a few Corp assignments after. I feel that I’m at the point now where I ‘get’ a good portion of … Continue reading →

Posted in beta, EVE Online, MMO design, Random | 2 Comments

Perpetuum Review (EG style)

Posted on November 19, 2010 by SynCaine

EVE – spaceships + robots = Perpetuum. Normally people write the above as a joke because something within the game is sorta like something from another game. Not the case here. At all. The above is fact. I’m 100% serious. … Continue reading →

Posted in beta, EVE Online, MMO design, Random | 15 Comments

EVE does things better than your game does them, again.

Posted on November 17, 2010 by SynCaine

Not. Even. Fair. Edit: Awesome, three word post and I go 2/3 with the spelling.

Posted in EVE Online | 18 Comments

Character grind

Posted on November 16, 2010 by SynCaine

Darkfall has come a long way since launch in almost all areas. The PvE is much better (and in sync!), PvP balance is at a good level (it’s never going to be perfect, but can always improve), server and client … Continue reading →

Posted in Combat Systems, Darkfall Online, EVE Online, MMO design, PvP, Rant | 9 Comments

MMOs being niche, the non-issue?

Posted on November 12, 2010 by SynCaine

What hasn’t been conquered, still, is making alternate worlds accessible enough to broad audiences. Raph Koster over at his blog. I’d ask if this is really a problem that needs solving. I think this is one of the unfortunate side … Continue reading →

Posted in Asheron's Call, Darkfall Online, EQ2, EVE Online, Guild Wars, MMO design, SW:TOR, Ultima Online, Warhammer Online, World of Warcraft | 19 Comments

3000+ players playing lag-free? Ha, that’s impossible!

Posted on November 10, 2010 by SynCaine

A bit of a follow-up from CCP Veritas on that record-breaking fleet battle in EVE can be found here. I found it an interesting read overall, but it also once again highlights some of the major benefits EVE has going … Continue reading →

Posted in EVE Online, Mass Media, MMO design, PvP, World of Warcraft | 36 Comments