Category Archives: Rant

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

Gaming moving in the right direction (mine)

Posted on June 4, 2013 by SynCaine

Remember when certain people would argue that World of Tanks is not pay-to-win? That gold ammo can’t aim for you and gold tanks aren’t even that great and blablabla? They look a bit silly now that the company behind the … Continue reading →

Posted in League of Legends, Random, Rant, RMT | 13 Comments

Ghost audience

Posted on May 6, 2013 by SynCaine

When I wrote my PvE sandbox series of posts, I wrote them thinking that the audience would be similar to those that play PvP sandbox MMOs, but instead of competing directly against each other, those players would be more focused … Continue reading →

Posted in MMO design, Rant, RMT | 44 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

SimCity MMO still going strong

Posted on April 25, 2013 by SynCaine

Looks like the 2.0 patch for SimCity the MMO is a huge hit. In EA’s defense, running an MMO is really hard, and they are new at this, so lets just give the little guy a chance!

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Camelot Unchained: Concerns based on MJ’s history

Posted on April 9, 2013 by SynCaine

As previously mentioned, the Camelot Unchained kickstarter is up and running, but as of now I’ve not contributed due to a few concerns that I want to cover today. First and foremost, the total removal of PvE raises some doubts. … Continue reading →

Posted in Camelot Unchained, Dark Age of Camelot, MMO design, PvP, Rant, RvR | 41 Comments

The Tortanic band is still playing everyone!

Posted on March 29, 2013 by SynCaine

There is a lot that can be said about this piece from Massively about SW:TOR, but it’s Friday so I’ll just get right to the good stuff: Based on BioWare’s pre-launch metrics, the team expected players to get through the … Continue reading →

Posted in Random, Rant, SW:TOR | 15 Comments

Forcing the issue

Posted on March 6, 2013 by SynCaine

Yesterday the topic of Origin holding back SimCity and other titles focused on the player’s perspective. Today I want to focus on the devs. Imagine you’re part of the team creating SimCity, and some suit from EA tells you to … Continue reading →

Posted in Random, Rant | 20 Comments

Be un-massive for a reason

Posted on February 15, 2013 by SynCaine

One of my least favorite parts of blogging is presenting a topic and having people directly apply it to the now. The best example of this is talking about item loss, and having WoW players say it would never work … Continue reading →

Posted in DDO, EVE Online, MMO design, Random, Rant, SW:TOR | 21 Comments