Category Archives: Rant

Dear Tobold

Posted on January 18, 2010 by SynCaine

Before this goes any further, I want to clear up a few things. I don’t hate Tobold. I only know him about as well as some of you, which is through reading his blog over the last few years and … Continue reading →

Posted in Random, Rant, Site update | 21 Comments

This just in: fans cheer/jeer during rivalry

Posted on January 18, 2010 by SynCaine

First off, if you are going to address someone, don’t be cowardly and do it anonymously, if for no other reason than to keep your readers from having to decode what you are talking about. Just trying way, way too … Continue reading →

Posted in Darkfall Online, Mass Media, Random, Rant, Site update, World of Warcraft | 26 Comments

Ignorance is not bliss

Posted on January 14, 2010 by SynCaine

I don’t have much interest in personally playing Star Trek Online. Between being totally happy and engrossed with DarkFall, not being a huge fan of the ST IP, generally not being a big Cryptic fan, and not seeing/reading anything about … Continue reading →

Posted in beta, Fallen Earth, Mass Media, MMO design, Random, Rant | 31 Comments

Not that I wish death often, but here it can’t come soon enough

Posted on January 13, 2010 by SynCaine

I have somewhere around 3000 hours logged into World of Warcraft according to Xfire (most of that in vanilla, some in BC just prior to WotLK), so when someone with 3000 hours has trouble deciding if the screen shot used … Continue reading →

Posted in Mass Media, Random, Rant | 16 Comments

Why the WoW PUG scene is so great now

Posted on January 7, 2010 by SynCaine

EZmode = happy masses. It really is that simple. The reason your PUG group today does not implode halfway through an instance like before is because short of getting the five absolute worst players on the server in one group, … Continue reading →

Posted in Combat Systems, MMO design, Rant, World of Warcraft | 44 Comments

300k subscriptions to fail, 50k to profit.

Posted on December 22, 2009 by SynCaine

Much like Tobold’s knowledge of MMO blogging history (Lum invented it, if you did not know…), his understanding of business success also seems to be a little off. Actually I’m going to go out and say the above-linked post is … Continue reading →

Posted in Aion, Darkfall Online, EVE Online, Rant | 63 Comments

Failure post is fail

Posted on December 21, 2009 by SynCaine

This post by Lum is a little funny. Funny given the source, and funny given the ideas within. It’s also funny because in parts it’s more or less a time capsule of, oh, 5-10 years ago? I won’t bore you … Continue reading →

Posted in Aion, Combat Systems, Dark Age of Camelot, Darkfall Online, EVE Online, MMO design, PvP, Rant, Ultima Online | 122 Comments

Keep your shiny, I’ll stick with my rules.

Posted on December 21, 2009 by SynCaine

It would seem that a ‘silly’ argument sure provides a lot of discussion, so after half a dozen posts and hundreds of comments, what exactly have we learned from last Fridays Blog War™? For starters, the very fact that we … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogroll, Darkfall Online, MMO design, Rant, World of Warcraft | 21 Comments

What I REALLY meant to say regarding content.

Posted on December 18, 2009 by SynCaine

It’s funny that in the wall of text below, I never actually got to what I originally meant with my line of “DF has had more content added in a year than WoW has in 5”. The straw man Tobold … Continue reading →

Posted in Combat Systems, crafting, Darkfall Online, Housing, MMO design, PvP, Rant, World of Warcraft | 52 Comments

You call THAT content?

Posted on December 18, 2009 by SynCaine

Now this might be a first; Tobold starting Friday Blog Wars? Who is this guy, and where has the real Tobold/Gevlon gone? The funny thing about all of this is we are going by ‘numerical’ measure of content, as if … Continue reading →

Posted in Combat Systems, crafting, Darkfall Online, Housing, MMO design, PvP, Rant, World of Warcraft | 66 Comments