Category Archives: World of Warcraft

Fail and try again, succeed and move on

Posted on February 27, 2014 by SynCaine

“Few people go back to content that was trivially easy; most people repeat content they failed the first time.” – Zubon I believe the above is true on average. Yes, some people rage-quit instantly, while others love nothing more than … Continue reading →

Posted in MMO design, World of Warcraft | 13 Comments

So is $60 the price point for skipping 9 years of content now? What tremendous value they place on their product.

Posted on February 26, 2014 by SynCaine

Title stole from TAGN commenter Asmiroth, because it sums up my feelings on this whole thing. Congrats, you are paying more to have less content. Or, in the situation where you want to play with all your lvl 90 friends … Continue reading →

Posted in World of Warcraft | 30 Comments

Themeparks: PvP is the filler between the cracks

Posted on February 25, 2014 by SynCaine

Wilhelm is asking if an MMO must contain PvP. It’s actually a more interesting question when you really thing about it, especially if you limit the discussion to themeparks (the answer for sandboxes has its own tab on this blog). … Continue reading →

Posted in MMO design, PvP, The Elder Scrolls Online, World of Warcraft | 27 Comments

Smed talks sandbox

Posted on February 12, 2014 by SynCaine

Smed has a new blog that yells at you with giant text. I wish he had named it “MMOs are still a niche market”, but no dice on that. His first post is about sandbox design. “When we first began … Continue reading →

Posted in EQNext, EVE Online, MMO design, Ultima Online, World of Warcraft | 2 Comments

EVE: CCP you are the worst, besides everyone else

Posted on February 7, 2014 by SynCaine

Jester has, as always, a great post up about the reaction to the real life EVE monument CCP recently unveiled, which as his post shows, has largely been negative. EVE is famous for having lots of bitter vets, and as … Continue reading →

Posted in Age of Conan, Darkfall Online, EQNext, EVE Online, Guild Wars, Lord of the Rings Online, Rant, SW:TOR, Warhammer Online, World of Warcraft | 7 Comments

WoW is just trolling itself now

Posted on January 16, 2014 by SynCaine

Glad to see the A-team is back and hard at work on WoW.

Posted in World of Warcraft | 18 Comments

The Day LoL Died

Posted on January 14, 2014 by SynCaine

Whelp, it’s been fun. The picture of him is perfect too. That “would you like more welfare epics?” smile, those eyes that reassure you death is impossible, that hair that represents all his good ideas. Bastard. (This is the welfare … Continue reading →

Posted in League of Legends, Rant, World of Warcraft | 6 Comments

ESO: Our driving game may or may not feature driving cars

Posted on January 3, 2014 by SynCaine

To continue the recent nefarious trend of ‘crosslink to win’, here is a post from TAGN about his interest in upcoming games for 2014. Elder Scrolls Online is on there, and what Wilhelm wrote helped me realize why, despite knowing … Continue reading →

Posted in The Elder Scrolls Online, World of Warcraft | 8 Comments

Closing out 2013. 2014 predictions

Posted on December 30, 2013 by SynCaine

2013 ends much like it began for the MMO genre, with a collective ‘meh’, and this blog overall has reflected that both in post volume and the number of posts about MMOs vs other games. My most played MMO this … Continue reading →

Posted in Darkfall Online, EQNext, EVE Online, Guild Wars, Lord of the Rings Online, MMO design, SW:TOR, The Elder Scrolls Online, Ultima Online, WildStar, World of Warcraft | 22 Comments

Clones making clones

Posted on December 23, 2013 by SynCaine

Around this time of year, most blog authors will do year-end posts (hopefully I’ll get one up as well, but no promises), and I think a trend we will see this year was that 2013 was pretty blah for the … Continue reading →

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