Category Archives: World of Warcraft

FFXIV: The view from level 50 as it stands today

Posted on February 29, 2016 by SynCaine

Having returned to FFXIV for a few weeks now, the experience has been surprisingly great. I’m level 51 on my main class (Paladin), and I’m currently working through the main quest content that was added in patches after launch. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Final Fantasy XIV, MMO design, World of Warcraft | 2 Comments

Quick, guess Blizzard’s panic move!?

Posted on February 16, 2016 by SynCaine

First, no, I’m not dead. It was close (worst cold/flu of my life), and moving into a newly built house during said death illness didn’t help, but what REALLY did me in was Comcast. Despite calling them early on, telling … Continue reading →

Posted in Clash of Clans, Mass Media, Rant, StarCraft Online, World of Warcraft | 11 Comments

The MMO genre really has been terrible for a long time

Posted on January 25, 2016 by SynCaine

TAGN has a post about the PC Gamer 50 most important PC games, which includes five MMOs (UO, EQ, EVE, WoW, Second Life). As noted in his post, all those MMOs came out prior to 2004, which basically tells you … Continue reading →

Posted in Guild Wars, MMO design, Rant, Uncategorized, Warhammer Online, World of Warcraft | 9 Comments

Warhammer Online killed the MMO genre

Posted on January 19, 2016 by SynCaine

Sensationalized blog title for all of the clicks! Except not really, because WAR really did kill the MMO genre, at least in terms of being a mainstream genre similar in popularity to say RPGs, Sports titles, or FPS. Now don’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Age of Conan, Aion, Camelot Unchained, Crowfall, Dark Age of Camelot, Darkfall Online, Lord of the Rings Online, MMO design, Rift, Star Citizen, SW:TOR, Uncategorized, Warhammer Online, World of Warcraft | 10 Comments

2016 MMO predictions

Posted on December 21, 2015 by SynCaine

2015 was, FFXIV aside, basically a waste in the MMO space in terms of what was delivered. A bit of ‘wake up’ progress was made regarding F2P MMOs, but for the most part nothing new of significance arrived, though some … Continue reading →

Posted in Camelot Unchained, Crowfall, Final Fantasy XIV, Inquisition Clan, MMO design, World of Warcraft | 1 Comment

2015 predictions review

Posted on December 15, 2015 by SynCaine

Prompted by Wilhelm again, lets look back at my 2015 predictions. DF:UW will shut down. The population is at an all-time low, AV is completely lost with the title, and Forumfall continues to stick daggers into the one game even … Continue reading →

Posted in ArcheAge, Camelot Unchained, Clash of Clans, Crowfall, Darkfall Online, EQNext, EVE Online, Final Fantasy XIV, Kickstarter, League of Legends, Lord of the Rings Online, Random, Site update, SOE being SOE, SW:TOR, Trion being Trion, World of Warcraft | 16 Comments

At least we know why Blizzard won’t be reporting WoW sub numbers anymore

Posted on November 6, 2015 by SynCaine

With Legion not coming out until 2050, pretty easy to see why Blizz doesn’t want to talk about sub numbers anymore; they won’t have any. Nice run WoW had, but looks like its off to the retirement home. No worries … Continue reading →

Posted in World of Warcraft | 14 Comments

King of cashing out, Blizzard matches three, sets fire to $5.9b

Posted on November 3, 2015 by SynCaine

Blizzard buying King is really a match made in heaven. What’s Blizzard famous for? Taking a game, cloning it, and putting the Blizzard polish on it. Not familiar with King? Some light reading for you via Forbes about all of … Continue reading →

Posted in Clash of Clans, Random, World of Warcraft | 8 Comments

ARK – A micro-MMO

Posted on August 26, 2015 by SynCaine

My obsession with ARK continues, and it has now bled into the MMO-thinking part of my brain. To be very clear, ARK isn’t an MMO, but in a lot of ways it certainly plays like one. The big thing is … Continue reading →

Posted in ARK, EVE Online, MMO design, World of Warcraft | 1 Comment

It’s in the books, FFXIV is the largest sub MMO out today

Posted on August 21, 2015 by SynCaine

The troll job from SquareEnix using ‘registered accounts’ for subs continues, this time to announce that the game has crossed the 5m sub mark. As WoW has likely continued to bleed subs since the 5.4m announcement, I think its rather … Continue reading →

Posted in Final Fantasy XIV, World of Warcraft | 29 Comments