By Frank on January 4, 2010
Ah, zombies and a cricket bat. What a way to start off the new year’s worth of posts, right?
If there’s one thing I see flying around when it comes to MMO, it’s the declaration of death for one, the sort of funereal kneel that some people like to declare for titles that are going to [...]
Posted in Gaming | Tagged Gaming, Massively multiplayer online game, mmo
By Frank on December 7, 2009
One of the benefits of writing for more than one site is the birds-eye view you get of its community and those who observe the object of its content. By being able to read comments, digest information that others have posted about your articles, and submit your own feedback, you get a better sense of [...]
Posted in Gaming, Star Wars: The Old Republic | Tagged Gaming, Massively multiplayer online game
By Frank on November 28, 2009
So in Aion I soldier on, making an effort to get ever so closer to the upper echelons of the grinding ladder. Still, I could never get through this without the entertainment that chat ends up being, so without further ado, here’s what I’ve overheard on chat this week:
Religious education, MMO style:
We love those bots [...]
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By Frank on November 24, 2009
There’s a small buzz around the ‘Net, and it revolves around NCSoft East’s 9-minute trailer introducing the expansion for Aion, including a ton of new features such as housing, town sieging, mounts, and more. Here be the trailer for said goodness:
Now, I’ve always advertised that optimism is a good thing, and that we should endeavor [...]
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By Frank on November 18, 2009
Last night my good friend Kristen and I managed to discover what I find most enjoyable about Aion. It isn’t the graphical detail or the simplistic class system or the flight. It isn’t the marked progression of gear and a very active economy system, either. Hell, it isn’t even leveling.
No, the thing that I enjoy [...]
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By Frank on November 10, 2009
…oh yes, so bright, Neo has to give me some of his cool shades for me to wear.
Two posts made me feel a disturbance in the MMO force today. One was Kill Ten Rats’ Ravious, who uses a restaurant comparison to paint a bleak picture of WAR, and perhaps MMOs in general. Spinks is not [...]
Posted in Gaming | Tagged Gaming, Massively multiplayer online game, mmo
By Frank on November 6, 2009
There’ve been a lot of folks this week that are buzzing about Blizzard’s decision to allow people to purchase in-game pets for a crazy price over in their store, in what is admittedly another step in the long line of paid services Blizzard has created with WoW. It was interesting to hear about all the [...]
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By Frank on November 5, 2009
If there’s one thing that gets talked about frequently as a measure of success in MMOs, it’s the Great Subscriber Number. The number of players that are interested in the persistent world of an MMO is, after all, more likely to feel “massive”, more interesting in social dynamics, and, for the money folks out there, [...]
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By Frank on November 2, 2009
By now, folks keeping tabs on Bioware’s Star Wars: The Old Republic know that the latest class reveal is the Jedi Knight, the second in the line of Force users revealed for the upcoming game. While there’s the usual buzz of excitement surrounding any major information chatter for this anticipated MMO, there’s also an undercurrent [...]
Posted in Gaming, Star Wars: The Old Republic | Tagged Gaming, Massively multiplayer online game, mmo, Star Wars: The Old Republic, swtor
By Frank on October 31, 2009
True to form, my self-proclaimed nemesis strikes again. At Hardcore Casual, Syncaine’s taking what seems to be an almost unhealthy and sadistic delight in the folks that have found recent MMO title Aion not to be their cup of tea and quitting. If you’re not quite sure that’s the right description, here’s the Eminem song [...]
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