My thoughts on Star Wars The Old Republic have been pretty much completely logged via this blog. For the period of a year I was following the development of the game closely, and then continued to play after launch for around eight months. I loved the …
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Monetization and Cash Shop Regrets
This thought has been brewing for some time but finally, without any doubt, I can say that the cash shop system in guild Wars 2 is an abomination. I actually admires Tor’s restrictive style more as at least that is kind of honest in its implementation. What spurned this on is the recent post from […]
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This is madness. This is Neverwinter.
Neverwinter hasn’t launched yet. Oh no siree. It’s in “open beta”, meaning anyone can play it for free and there will be no more character wipes. But it hasn’t launched yet. People in global chat keep saying so if anyone points out anything negative. W…
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Exploring Addons in Firefall
I have never really had much to do with it mods and addons for games. Usually by the time I’ve finished the regular single player games that foster them my attention span for them is depleted and there is another shiney begging for my attention. It surprised me that Firefall had the capabilities for this as […]
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Darkfall, a Sandbox without the Sand
There is something undeniably huge missing from Darkfall, something which in its absence makes the whole experience feel rather soulless. And now I know, Darkfall is a sandbox without the sand. That may sound a little weird at first but it perfectly explains the gameplay, community, and why it feels so lacking. The box is […]
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moloing, grinding and testing
I’ve been busy on and off the last few weeks. There was a double guild xp weekend in EQ2 and I took advantage and grinded my guild from level 21 […]
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A Sheep among Wolves: Darkfall
I admit that I am still a Darkfall noob, a hardcore PvP noob, and maybe even a little bit of a carebear despite my lust for combat. Apparently, by these social tags I’m probably not suited or even welcome in Darkfall, so decrees the trolls in global chat and the forums. I’m ridiculously stubborn though […]
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Countdown for Camelot Unchained
I was going to write out a list of all the new information coming in as apart of The Mark-A-Thon on Camelot Unchained’s Kickstarter but unfortunately my brain works in such a way that when I’m actually trying to concentrate on the message it gets overridden immediately by external stimuli. He has been answering a […]
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Firefall New Stuffz and World Building
I hadn’t talked about this previously but I am always impressed with the content updates in Firefall so far. They aren’t massive changes by any means but what they are doing well is just gradually improving what’s there and adding in new events and content. This recent changes saw a few nice additions and new content added that […]
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Deeper into Darkfall
Ok, so first of I just want to say that Darkfall does not suck, even if some could claim that. Mechanical and in terms of polish it is lacking in many areas and if I was going to judge it based on the standard areas with a numerical system it would fall into the maybe […]
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State of the peeveepeees
This month of improved culling has really been truly amazing. I had been losing a bit of my passion for it beforehand, especially with being on a Tier 1 server because what’s the point if you can’t see or react to the enemies around you. It was a frustrating affair. This though is a joy […]
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Why I made Camelot Unchained my first ever Kickstarter pledge
Just recently I backed my first Kickstarter project, City State Entertainment’s RvR sandbox MMO Camelot Unchained. What was it about this particular project on the crowd funding site that persuaded me it was worth backing? Read on to find out.For UK re…
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moloing protector’s realm
I’ve been really missing the inquisitor class from eq2 (the hunter in lotro is very similar to eq2′s ranger) so I thought I’d pop back in and give her a […]
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The Journey Continues: Darkfall
uggh where to begin… It seems to me that Darkfall has fallen prey to the same sort of issue that face most new indie sand boxes, nothing is polished enough. A result usually of not enough time, money, and man power that results in a half assed game at best. You can see this lack [...]
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Six years and counting
I can’t believe it’s been six years already. The Lord of the Rings Online is in the middle of its sixth anniversary celebrations this week. It’s a game I played at release for three years before taking an extended break and then recently returning.Part…
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The Longest Beta
Yes Firefall, the mmo that everyone thought would never become anything more is in fact going to release..officially anyway. The date for open beta has been put down as expected for July 9th, originally the date was discovered in the recent earnings call but now red 5 have released an official FAQ. There seems to [...]
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trolls, forests & fireworks
Just a quick post, I’ve been quite busy playing lotro, running 6 and 12 mans (not had much luck with loot but hey-ho), catching up with virtues on Mallendis and […]
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Storytelling and the Adventurer
Syl over at MMOgypsy wrote a rather lovely piece dissecting the stories in mmo’s that was really quite wonderful. It is clear that the narrative in stories is just not well fashioned with creating interesting gameplay and enabling player agency. In mmo’s especially the approach to storytelling that has more in common with that of [...]
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Balancing the Borderlands
There was a post in the SPvP forums a few days ago now where a developer replied that the will be trying to split WvW skills from PvE in the next update and obviously moving onwards from then. While I support their efforts with balancing to an extent I really don’t actually support this approach. I [...]
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The Frocalypse
Terrible title is terrible but anyway. In a recent interview by Mark Jacobs over at VG24/7 had the remarkably claim that free to play games are heading for some kind of apocalypse in the years to come. It is great to see Mark talking about his payment model more as it is a very important discussion point [...]
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