Category Archives: Mass Media

Shocking news; F2P is dead

Posted on August 21, 2013 by SynCaine

Well that didn’t last long, huh? Wish someone had called F2P a fad, that would have been pretty insightful of them. Am I happy that the F2P plague is dying? Of course. Will F2P still exist in some capacity? Yes. … Continue reading →

Posted in EQ2, League of Legends, Mass Media, MMO design, Rant, RMT, SW:TOR, The Elder Scrolls Online, World of Warcraft | 61 Comments

EQN: Leading off with your best

Posted on August 6, 2013 by SynCaine

When someone states their MMO is doing something different from everyone else, which of the following innovations would you rather see: WAR’s Public Quests, changing how you go about getting into a group to do group content. Or EQN’s “parkour”, … Continue reading →

Posted in EQNext, Mass Media, MMO design, SW:TOR, Warhammer Online | 34 Comments

EQN: The next big AAA disaster

Posted on August 5, 2013 by SynCaine

In case you don’t want to sit through the EQNext showing, here are the cliff notes: “If someone should do it, it should be EverQuest. Again” (UO…) Lighting Lighting Lighting Lighting Adventure Lighting Lighting How do you like it? :mild … Continue reading →

Posted in DDO, EQ2, EQNext, Guild Wars, Mass Media, MMO design, Rant, The Elder Scrolls Online, Ultima Online | 33 Comments

The price of fame

Posted on August 2, 2013 by SynCaine

Via Zubon on KTR, we have this Penny Arcade report about a dev quitting his job over negative feedback/threats over Twitter. Zubon’s post is an attempt to help raise awareness for the situation so negativity/threats slow or stop. I couldn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogroll, Mass Media, PvP, Random, Rant | 29 Comments

Honesty

Posted on June 7, 2013 by SynCaine

GamesIndustry International recently spoke to David Reid, CCP’s chief marketing officer about both EVE and Dust 514. “The thing about Dust is not the shiniest guns or the perfect shooting mechanics; it’s about this meta-game, and the persistence, and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Console Gaming, EVE Online, Mass Media, Rant | 10 Comments

Making an MMO is hard

Posted on June 6, 2013 by SynCaine

Are you trying to make an MMO but what you have so far is garbage? No problem, just declare your game is not an MMO, and boom, problem solved! At least until someone noticed your ‘multiplayer’ Elder Scrolls game sucks … Continue reading →

Posted in Mass Media, The Elder Scrolls Online | 8 Comments

DF:UW – Newbie perspective

Posted on May 20, 2013 by SynCaine

My guess is most of you did not catch MJ from Massively live streaming a little over an hour of her DF:UW experience a few days ago. It’s not exactly appointment viewing given the length, but it’s actually rather interesting … Continue reading →

Posted in Darkfall Online, Mass Media, MMO design | 18 Comments

Blizzard: “Didn’t want those subs anyway”

Posted on May 9, 2013 by SynCaine

Oh look, the D3 scam subs are officially off the books, and Blizzard doesn’t have another game or bundle coming out to bundle players into a WoW sub. And I was so sure MoP would totally save WoW too… Of … Continue reading →

Posted in EVE Online, Mass Media, RMT, World of Warcraft | 43 Comments

DF:UW – Arise my champion!

Posted on May 2, 2013 by SynCaine

Darkfall: Unholy Wars being the first sub-based MMO to use Steam’s new subscriber system has many benefits; market exposure, higher in-game population, easier to acquire the title, etc, but I think it’s pretty obvious that the biggest advantage is the … Continue reading →

Posted in Darkfall Online, Mass Media, Rant | 31 Comments

DF:UW – Zerging Massively

Posted on April 28, 2013 by SynCaine

Niche, yo. (This weekend has been ridiculously fun in-game for me. Monday should have a great post or two. Yarr!)

Posted in Darkfall Online, Mass Media | 7 Comments