Category Archives: World of Warcraft

Bobby does have a point…

Posted on November 29, 2011 by SynCaine

When Bobby talks about generic themepark MMOs that might have trouble retaining players, he is speaking from experience here. I mean look, what’s more likely to get you to keep throwing $15 into a hole, dated-looking Pandas, or ten blaster … Continue reading →

Posted in SW:TOR, World of Warcraft | 15 Comments

MMO Expansions

Posted on November 29, 2011 by SynCaine

It’s expansion day in EVE today, and Crucible sounds like it will get the game back to its winning ways. What’s interesting about Crucible is that it comes without a ‘killer app’ of a feature. Nothing that really jumps out … Continue reading →

Posted in Darkfall Online, EVE Online, Inquisition Clan, League of Legends, Mass Media, MMO design, Rant, World of Warcraft | 18 Comments

Blizzard announces new dev team for WoW

Posted on November 23, 2011 by SynCaine

Odds of these guys producing another WotLK/Cata?

Posted in World of Warcraft | 23 Comments

The real SW:TOR killer

Posted on November 22, 2011 by SynCaine

First, how can SW:TOR be a WoW-killer when Cata already did the job? We should call it WoW-finisher instead, right? Sucks for Bioware that Blizzard beat them to the punch on that one. Second, and far more important, it sucks … Continue reading →

Posted in Random, SW:TOR, World of Warcraft | 33 Comments

Skyrim is educational!

Posted on November 18, 2011 by SynCaine

Loque Nahak One step forward: I’m 11 hours into Skyrim, right now (level 9) and boy… coming from WoW it seems I’ve been playing a videogame for small children, really. One step back: Skyrim dinamically adds side-quests on the go, … Continue reading →

Posted in EVE Online, Random, World of Warcraft | 27 Comments

If you keep banging your head into the wall, eventually you get to the other side… right?

Posted on November 11, 2011 by SynCaine

This amuses me. The people that are responsible for driving the most popular MMO into decline propose a way to stop that decline, and its accepted as fact. Let’s ignore real facts though. Like the fact that when raiding (and … Continue reading →

Posted in Mass Media, MMO design, World of Warcraft | 17 Comments

Who would you rather: Zynga or Blizzard?

Posted on November 10, 2011 by SynCaine

In this corner, we have scam-factory Zynga. No longer allowed to scam its customers (much), they have moved on to bullying their employees. Be sure to friend them! In the other corner, we have the titanic titan (see what I … Continue reading →

Posted in Mass Media, Random, Rant, World of Warcraft | 15 Comments

EVE: But why can’t I get my epics NOW?!

Posted on November 9, 2011 by SynCaine

Love this little line from the latest devblog: The ability to like posts and share content with your friends in the cloud while syncing your photostream with your mobile devices. Naw, just kidding. I feel like going on a turtle … Continue reading →

Posted in EVE Online, Rant, Rift, World of Warcraft | 2 Comments

Gamer evolution, 30 minutes a day

Posted on November 4, 2011 by SynCaine

Time requirements and complexity in gaming are clearly not the same thing, but they are linked. The more complex your game, the more time required to learn it. But a game can be both ‘simple’ and incredibly hard (Meatboy), or … Continue reading →

Posted in Combat Systems, Console Gaming, EVE Online, League of Legends, MMO design, PvP, Random, World of Warcraft | 2 Comments

More wipes please!

Posted on October 28, 2011 by SynCaine

I’m pretty sure our guild back in 2005/6 wiped more than 400 times in AQ40. Had BC not been announced, I know damn well we would have wiped a lot more in Nax40. We wiped on Onyxia, we wiped in … Continue reading →

Posted in MMO design, World of Warcraft | 55 Comments