Category Archives: Mass Media

How character transfers will effect DarkFall’s NA and EU servers.

Posted on October 8, 2009 by SynCaine

With EU to NA server transfers coming (hopefully) sometime this month in DarkFall, there are some who are worried about population and balance being ruined on both servers. Some fear EU will become under-populated, while those on the NA server … Continue reading →

Posted in Darkfall Online, Mass Media | 11 Comments

Eight easy steps to becoming a ‘kind of a big deal’ blog

Posted on August 26, 2009 by SynCaine

This may come as a surprise to some, but generating traffic and comments on an MMO blog is not all that difficult. It’s also not (IMO) all that fun for the writer long-term, but if your beer money or (god … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogroll, Mass Media, Random, Rant, Site update, World of Warcraft | 42 Comments

Warhammer Online: After almost a year, does Mythic finally get it?

Posted on August 18, 2009 by SynCaine

I’ll fully admit I might be too close to this to see it clearly, but with that said, I’ve noticed a pattern in Mythic’s approach to patching Warhammer Online, one that might be applicable to other MMOs as well. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Age of Conan, Dark Age of Camelot, EVE Online, Lord of the Rings Online, Mass Media, MMO design, Patch Notes, RvR, Warhammer Online, World of Warcraft | 16 Comments

DarkFall: Don’t worry, that review won’t be around for long

Posted on July 28, 2009 by SynCaine

Sorry for the lack of posts around here of late; a bad blogging combo of work being very busy and nothing really jumping out at me in terms of topics. Hopefully both situations resolve themselves soon. One side-bonus to a … Continue reading →

Posted in Darkfall Online, Mass Media, MMO design | 16 Comments

DarkFall: EuroGamer is here to make us laugh yet again. 4/10 style this time.

Posted on July 19, 2009 by SynCaine

As others have pointed out, the bastion of journalistic integrity, Eurogamer, has another DarkFall review up. It seems since release, DarkFall is now 100% better in the ever-virtuous eyes of EG, funny how that works… To quickly summerize the four … Continue reading →

Posted in Darkfall Online, Mass Media, Rant | 36 Comments

Second year of blogging is in the books!

Posted on June 22, 2009 by SynCaine

Ding, two years of blogging done! I’m going to try and follow the format I used in my previous yearly review in order to make the comparison a bit easier. Like last year, the overall ‘Blog Stats” are up first. … Continue reading →

Posted in Darkfall Online, DDO, EQ2, EVE Online, iPhone, Mass Media, MMO design, PvP, RMT, RvR, Site update, Warhammer Online, World of Warcraft | 15 Comments

The lost DarkFall EuroGamer review is found!

Posted on June 9, 2009 by SynCaine

Beau from Spouse Agro found the missing 8.5 hours of the EuroGamer review, and for great justice has posted it. For anyone looking for a good breakdown of what DarkFall is all about, especially from the perspective of someone who … Continue reading →

Posted in Darkfall Online, EVE Online, Mass Media, MMO design, PvP | 8 Comments

Sims 3 Review (EG style)

Posted on June 5, 2009 by SynCaine

The Sims 3: Fun game. 9/10.

Posted in Mass Media, Random | 10 Comments

Another amazing FreeRealms record!

Posted on June 3, 2009 by SynCaine

“First” concert record for Free Realms. The string of amazing press releases continues, which is at least a good source of entertainment thanks to Free Realms. And just like DarkFall is the place for all those basement-dwelling sociopaths, at least … Continue reading →

Posted in Darkfall Online, FreeRealms, Mass Media, Random, Rant, Site update | 1 Comment

Phasing out ‘multiplayer’ in MMOs

Posted on June 3, 2009 by SynCaine

Tobold has a post up today talking about direct and indirect social interactions in MMO games. It’s a good read with interesting points, but is a somewhat odd topic to be discussing in a genre with Massive and Multiplayer in … Continue reading →

Posted in Combat Systems, Darkfall Online, Mass Media, MMO design, PvP, World of Warcraft | 24 Comments