Category Archives: Rant

Rift interest: Kinda high

Posted on February 16, 2011 by SynCaine

Exhibit one: Exhibit two: Exhibit three: Not being able to log in and actually play last night, the first night of open beta. The last one was, admittedly, a somewhat weak attempt. At just before 10pm EST I loaded up … Continue reading →

Posted in beta, Rant, Rift, Site update | 9 Comments

Doing my part to keep the massive Rift hype going

Posted on February 10, 2011 by SynCaine

Since everyone is doing it, I’m just here to state that I plan to continue to over-hype Rift so all of my readers are horribly, horribly disapointed a month after release when they realize it’s just a solid MMO. So, … Continue reading →

Posted in Rant, Rift | 10 Comments

Bobby Kotick knows gaming!

Posted on February 10, 2011 by SynCaine

Bobby Kotick is amazing. Every single time he is quoted, I hate him just a little bit more, and at current hate levels, that’s impressive. Not only is he hell-bend on bleeding franchises dry, but it’s going to be a … Continue reading →

Posted in Console Gaming, Mass Media, Rant, World of Warcraft | 5 Comments

WordPress going F2P!

Posted on February 3, 2011 by SynCaine

The F2P/RMT model is nothing new to the MMO genre, but today’s email from WordPress about premium blog themes is the first time I’ve seen such a direct sale of blog-ish content. League of Legned’s style skin sales, now available … Continue reading →

Posted in Random, Rant, RMT, Site update | 8 Comments

With or against, it’s still more than a queue

Posted on February 2, 2011 by SynCaine

Tobold, after all these years of blogging, has finally figured out that it’s more fun to troll WoW fans than it is to provide for them. Welcome to the club. My trolling aside, there is one thing I would like … Continue reading →

Posted in Darkfall Online, MMO design, PvP, Rant, World of Warcraft | 18 Comments

Crafting sucks

Posted on January 28, 2011 by SynCaine

I think I spend a good hour or more last night getting the water entrance to my new structure in Minecraft ‘just right’. That activity involved placing and deleting dirt squares repeatedly. Finally it’s now a waterfall that only has … Continue reading →

Posted in Console Gaming, crafting, MMO design, Random, Rant, Ultima Online | 6 Comments

Non-factors raging again? Good thing we can easily replace them!

Posted on January 27, 2011 by SynCaine

I don’t always agree with Tobold, as we generally approach MMO games from two very different viewpoints, along with having different writing styles, but I’m in total agreement with the basis for this post and the ones before it, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Combat Systems, MMO design, Rant, World of Warcraft | 58 Comments

Player vs Business success

Posted on January 19, 2011 by SynCaine

(Numbers and games used in this post are just examples. Don’t comment that they are ‘wrong’. Thanks) As a customer, what does WAR having 100k subs and Darkfall having 20k subs mean to you? What does it mean to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Darkfall Online, EVE Online, Rant, Warhammer Online, World of Warcraft | 24 Comments

Rift’s biggest issue? The hype

Posted on December 23, 2010 by SynCaine

Has anyone seen anyone post about Rift? So hard to get info about that game… I kid, and of course, I myself wrote about it yesterday, so pot kettle black blablabla. Head over to Virgin Worlds to find the latest … Continue reading →

Posted in beta, Mass Media, MMO design, Rant, Rift | 16 Comments

More than five hours

Posted on December 7, 2010 by SynCaine

Installing and patching The Witcher from it’s v1.0 CD to 1.5 is, I believe, humanly impossible. First you download the huge 1.4 patch, only to have it inform you that you need to install the language pack. Grab that 400+mb … Continue reading →

Posted in Random, Rant | 2 Comments