Category Archives: Random

Fantasy Football – Need one more team!

Posted on August 29, 2015 by SynCaine

Our Fantasy Football league (NFL, not the kickball and pretend your injured activity) needs one more team. Post a comment here with your email (email can be in your profile, not in the comment Guess WP changed that, leave email … Continue reading →

Posted in Random | 8 Comments

HS: New Blizzard’s method of balancing the game is to not balance it at all

Posted on August 10, 2015 by SynCaine

When Blizzard’s MOBA game was first announced, one of the items I wanted to keep an eye on was how well Blizzard would do at balancing the game, because Blizzard is always slow to make changes, and most recently hasn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Random, Rant | 9 Comments

New Blizzard investor call ‘highlights’

Posted on August 5, 2015 by SynCaine

Items that jumped out at me from the Activision Blizzard investor call: “Destiny now has over 20 million registered players, with an average of about 100 hours of game play each” First, the statement that the average gameplay length from … Continue reading →

Posted in Diablo 3, Final Fantasy XIV, Random, RMT, World of Warcraft | 21 Comments

ARK Survival Evolve quick thoughts

Posted on August 3, 2015 by SynCaine

I picked up ARK Survival Evolved because a few people have bugged me to get it, and also because it was on a small Steam sale. I’ve only spend a few hours with it, and currently all of my characters … Continue reading →

Posted in Random, Steam Stuff | 5 Comments

HS: What’s the problem again?

Posted on July 28, 2015 by SynCaine

So rumor has it tournament Hearthstone games are being decided by a coin flip. What a minute… What HS game isn’t decided by a coin flip?

Posted in Random | 41 Comments

Finally MMO genre is free of Smed, at least for now

Posted on July 27, 2015 by SynCaine

Back from vacation, and this reentry Monday is ROUGH. After every vacation I question whether actually going on vacation is ‘worth it’, because coming back to 500+ emails to dig through isn’t a lot of fun, especially then all 500+ … Continue reading →

Posted in EQ2, EQNext, Random, Rant, RMT, SOE being SOE | 12 Comments

Legends of Eisenwald Review

Posted on July 18, 2015 by SynCaine

A few days back I had written about whether Early Access on Steam was working or not, and today I want to give one example where it worked perfectly. Legends of Eisenwald is a game that likely never gets made … Continue reading →

Posted in Random, Review, Steam Stuff | 1 Comment

That’s not how things work lady

Posted on July 15, 2015 by SynCaine

I’m getting more amusement than I should out of the Amazon Prime Day ‘outrage’, but Jackie Dana ‘wins the internet’ with this: This was the worst sale ever on Amazon. A bunch of crap no one wants that still sold … Continue reading →

Posted in Random | 12 Comments

Hearthstone: The more dice the better

Posted on July 14, 2015 by SynCaine

I’ve posted my overall thoughts about Hearthstone in the past, but the TL:DR is that its less a card game and more of a graphical dice simulator. It looks like a M:TG clone, but the gameplay is a lot more … Continue reading →

Posted in iPhone, Random | 28 Comments

Early Access: Is it working?

Posted on July 9, 2015 by SynCaine

Being in somewhat of a ‘main game’ lull, I’ve been looking over my 100+ list of Steam games of late. In particular, I’m checking back in with a some of the Early Access titles I’ve purchased in the past but … Continue reading →

Posted in Random, Rant, Steam Stuff | 1 Comment