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Every time another news article appears about EVE Online, I am reminded why I would never play this game. I’m consistently impressed by their open world, single server, high skill cap design, but depressed by their encouragement of a community based on harassment, abuse, and betrayal. CCP launches investigation after Eve Online FanFest panel accused [...] It seems like the hot trend right now in the MMO blogosphere is talking about why folks are canceling their SWTOR subs. Only time will tell if this is a precursor to the general population doing the same thing, but the similarity in WHY people are canceling leads me to think these bloggers are pointing [...] Not a lot of detail, but some of it is very interesting: Former Mythic boss explains EA split It sounds like Jacobs’ is saying that from the time EA bought Mythic, the direction of game design didn’t go the way he wanted or the way he felt was best. Very interesting. Perhaps this starts to [...] I’ve been working on a list of MMOs and MMO companies that have been canceled (either before or after release) from the last 10 years. In particular, I am focusing on post-2004 (for obvious reasons!). Here is the list I have come up with so far. I am sure I’ve missed tons. Please post in [...] That is the question asked by Wolfshead, and he answers it in the affirmative. He makes a number of excellent arguments in his long and detailed post. I will summarize a few of the more salient points, and give my own answer to this question after the jump: [...] In a comment to my Bill Roper – Computer Game Poison? article, BryanM passed along a link to a recent Gamasutra interview of Bill Roper. As always, it is interesting simply because of how disingenuous and dishonest (or at least in denial) this guy is. And maybe, also at that time, that’s just to where [...] When I linked my last blog post on Facebook, one of my friends (*waves to Carly McNamara*) reminded me that there was indeed a Norse-themed MMO in development a few years ago. As soon as I read that, I instantly remembered Mythica (largely because of the trademark infringement lawsuit between Microsoft, developers of Mythica, and [...] This is the $64,000 question in the big time MMO industry. Can SWTOR compete with WoW, and if so, by doing what? Star Wars vs. Azeroth: Blizzard and Bioware talk competition What do you think? Can SWTOR compete? If so, how? And more interestingly, what is your prediction? Is anyone here playing DCUO or have you heard anything about it? Here is the Bright Hub Review of DCUO. That review is a mixed reaction. I’d love to hear from other people who may have played it. There are a lot of things in MMOs that players consider annoying that are important for immersion. Travel times. Regeneration times. Downtime in general. Etc. But how do you strike a balance that maintains immersion without being needlessly annoying? I sure hope so. I would love to have the freedom to pop into a number of different MMOs here and there, casually, without having to be completely beholden to one. The subscription system means I can basically only justify playing one MMO at a time, and that’s really a bummer. The subscription system also [...] This seems like a moderately huge disaster for Frogster, makers of Runes of Magic, a free to play MMO with ~4 million players. The short version is this. Some group of people claim to have obtained the login details of just about the entire customer base of Frogster’s games (not just Runes of Magic). They [...] For a number of reasons, I will probably never play WoW again. I ended with Burning Crusade. But I still like to keep up with it, and hear about what has changed and what has not. One of my writers recently wrote this article about the Carbonite Add On for WoW. The part that struck [...] I have no idea why they are dragging this out and pretending January 25, 2011 is when this goes live. Anyone who wants to can be in the “beta” of free to play. How in the heck there’s a beta for that I have no idea. This F2P maneuver by CO is one of the [...] This is a question that I raised in the blog section on Bright Hub, but I’ll ask it here as well. What do you think? Has Cataclysm been an overall improvement to WoW or not? Please explain why! [...] Feel free to share your predictions for 2011′s MMO industy. I will start with a few of mine. 1) People will be relatively bored/done with Cataclysm in about half as much time as WotLK. It seems to me that WotLK was the big pro-casual innovation, and this expansion really did not add much. I also [...] A number of major MMOs switched from subscription to free to play in 2010. Inspired by the game saving transition made by Dungeons and Dragons Online, and watching free-to-play games get all the users (aside from WoW of course), a number of major companies decided to change gears and give it a shot. Do you [...] Congrats to Blizzard. They set a new sales record by selling 3.3 million copies of Cataclysm in the first 24 hours. That’s really great because I know those hard working, under-appreciated folks really needed the money… But why just 3.3 million? I mean, if you play WoW, is it really an option whether or not [...] Mudding Communities Are Alive and Well in Alter Aeon “Mudding communites are alive and well in Alter Aeon, a free mud that can be accessed with any telnet client. The game is blind accessible and free. It has a strong community and great stories. Enjoy this text MMORPG.” This article talks about free, text [...]
About a year ago I wrote a very detailed article on Why Warhammer Failed. I basically tried to outline Where Warhammer Went Wrong in as much detail as possible. The only thing I lacked was inside information from a developer who was willing to go on record (though I did [...] |
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