Category Archives: Guild Wars

I called Skyrim UI devs child-raping Hitlers once.

Posted on July 11, 2018 by SynCaine

I wasn’t going to post about this, but between the lack of any posting here, and how this snowball down shit mountain continues to roll, here we go. Buckle up because a few snowflakes are going to melt in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogroll, Guild Wars, Mass Media, MMO design, Rant | 2 Comments

Ravious from KTR added to GW2

Posted on March 28, 2018 by SynCaine

Post with more links at KTR. Hats off to Anet for this, as its a very well done tribute to one of GW2’s biggest fans, and a great blogger that many of us miss.

Posted in Blogroll, Guild Wars | 2 Comments

The MMO genre really has been terrible for a long time

Posted on January 25, 2016 by SynCaine

TAGN has a post about the PC Gamer 50 most important PC games, which includes five MMOs (UO, EQ, EVE, WoW, Second Life). As noted in his post, all those MMOs came out prior to 2004, which basically tells you … Continue reading →

Posted in Guild Wars, MMO design, Rant, Uncategorized, Warhammer Online, World of Warcraft | 9 Comments

GW2: The new F2P champion has arived

Posted on August 31, 2015 by SynCaine

I feel like I should post about GW2 going F2P, only I can’t call it a ‘downgrade to the minor leagues’ because the game wasn’t a sub MMO to begin with. Side-grade I guess? Which, thinking more about it, is … Continue reading →

Posted in Guild Wars, League of Legends, MMO design, RMT | 7 Comments

Living virtual worlds; Now technically possible yet still not here

Posted on January 5, 2015 by SynCaine

One of the fun things about the world in Farcry 4 is that events don’t feel as fake as they do in MMOs. For instance, when PQs were first introduced in Warhammer, they were new and fun. By the time … Continue reading →

Posted in Guild Wars, MMO design, Ultima Online | 12 Comments

Looking back at 2014, looking forward into 2015

Posted on December 15, 2014 by SynCaine

Time to review 2014 and make some 2015 predictions (I don’t get as fancy as some people and do two posts!) Here are the 2014 predictions: EQNL will have everyone loving it the first month of release. Shortly after just … Continue reading →

Posted in ArcheAge, Camelot Unchained, Clash of Clans, Darkfall Online, EQ2, EQNext, EVE Online, Final Fantasy XIV, Guild Wars, League of Legends, Lord of the Rings Online, Star Citizen, SW:TOR, The Elder Scrolls Online, Trion being Trion, WildStar, World of Warcraft | 43 Comments

Candyman, candyman, candyman

Posted on August 18, 2014 by SynCaine

Trollbold is back it seems, and in classic style. Let me just cut that post down completely with one question before moving into the details: What day-one F2P MMO has been more successful than recently launched sub MMOs? Because if … Continue reading →

Posted in Final Fantasy XIV, Guild Wars, Rant, RMT, WildStar | 21 Comments

Final Fantasy XIV: Initial impressions

Posted on August 6, 2014 by SynCaine

My wife and I recently started playing Final Fantasy XIV, in part because it’s been a long while since we played an MMO together, and also because her chain-playing LoL ranked games isn’t healthy for anyone. Currently we are level … Continue reading →

Posted in Final Fantasy XIV, Guild Wars, MMO design, The Elder Scrolls Online, Warhammer Online | 29 Comments

GW2: Spinning in place

Posted on March 14, 2014 by SynCaine

Zubon’s description of GW2 updates since release are nightmare fuel for me in terms of an MMO. It’s basically all of the bad aspects of launch (bugs, everyone in one spot) without the good (playing a foundation towards something more). … Continue reading →

Posted in Guild Wars, MMO design | 9 Comments

EVE: CCP you are the worst, besides everyone else

Posted on February 7, 2014 by SynCaine

Jester has, as always, a great post up about the reaction to the real life EVE monument CCP recently unveiled, which as his post shows, has largely been negative. EVE is famous for having lots of bitter vets, and as … Continue reading →

Posted in Age of Conan, Darkfall Online, EQNext, EVE Online, Guild Wars, Lord of the Rings Online, Rant, SW:TOR, Warhammer Online, World of Warcraft | 7 Comments