Twitter, Blogging, and the Depth of Online Friendships
There’s been a bit of discussion going around for the last few days about online friendships. Most of the talk has been between Belghast and Braxwolf, with Bel writing that he treats online friends the...
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Crowfall Kickstarter is Smart Marketing
Hey, did you guys hear that Crowfall launched a Kickstarter today? I’m not a big user of Kickstarter myself. A lot of people who I like and respect are into it so no slight to them, but it’s never been...
View ArticleIdentifying with a Brand, or Blizzcon Sass
So I was looking at today’s Blizzcon announcement and noticed that tickets are US$199. Two hundred dollars! I mean, it’s not like Blizzcon makes a ton of profit and as Wilhelm said to me on Twitter the...
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Waiting for Heavensward
The upcoming expansion for FFXIV, Heavensward, became available for pre-order yesterday. While I’m not planning on pre-ordering myself until a couple of weeks out from the June launch I wanted to see...
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3 Things RIFT Did Better Than Anyone Else
While I’m still having a grand time in Final Fantasy 14, lately I’ve been reminiscing about the glory days of RIFT. Before Storm Legion and before cash shops, RIFT was my favorite MMO ever. It didn’t...
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The WoW Token Almost Got Me
This week Blizzard debuted their new “WoW Token”, allowing players to purchase months of subscription time with in-game gold. I haven’t put a lot of thought into the theorycraft behind the Token so...
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WildStar and the Mixed Blessing of Free to Play
Carbine Studios announced today that WildStar is going free-to-play, and I just don’t how I feel about it. On the one hand WS is a legitimately great game that never really found its audience, probably...
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Blizzard Convinces Players to Accept MMO Attunements
I haven’t written much here about WoW’s flying drama, although we did talk about it on the podcast. You probably already know all about it but here’s a very short summary: A few weeks ago Watcher...
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GW2 and Heart of Thorns: Has Steam Devaluation Finally Hit MMOs?
Yesterday this blog post “about the liberating and energizing effects of complete commercial failure” made the rounds on Twitter. The very indie studio behind critical successes Tale of Tales, Sunset,...
View ArticleGuest Post: Clothes make the Hero, not levels or achievements
Liore is on vacation, but blogging never sleeps! Or, um, something like that. Today’s post is by Murf from the blog Murf Versus. ——————————– For the first five minutes of my MMORPG career, I was stuck...
View ArticleGreatest MMOs of All Time.. Sorta
Yesterday MMORPG.com published the last in their “Greatest MMOs of All Time” series. Their list was devised by giving all of their writers, myself included, a list of 100 MMOs and asking us to rank...
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Heart of Thorns First Impression
Last night at midnight PST the first ever Guild Wars 2 expansion, Heart of Thorns, went live. I only had the chance to play the new content for about an hour before going to bed, but credit where it’s...
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Crowfall’s Sausage Party Problem
Crowfall made a big splash on the MMO scene earlier in the year with their very successful Kickstarter. Thus far the team at ArtCraft Entertainment has raised almost $6 million for their game, which...
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2015 in Review: MMOs!
One year-end roundup you won’t see here is games in general, and that’s because we’re going to cover it all on the December 30th episode of Cat Context. (This next episode is our annual trivia...
View ArticleLearning Object Impermanence in MMOs
A few days ago a friend and I were talking about the development stages of their young child, and they mentioned object permanence. Babies, as it turns out, don’t understand that things still exist...
View ArticleSave or Kill: the MMO Holy Trinity
Over the weekend myself and Isarii from the Errant Penman engaged in a battle of rhetoric over at MMOGames.com. The topic: is it time to let go of the holy trinity of classes? I won’t repeat all of my...
View ArticleDesigning an Ethical MMO Cash Shop
If you haven’t yet, perhaps go read my rant from a few weeks ago about cash shops in MMOs. This post is sort of Part Two. —————— One common response to my rant was a rueful reminder that MMOs need cash...
View ArticleFactions Are Old Fashioned
@belghast Faction walls in PvE content are an anachronism. The only thing they do is make PvE worse for everyone. — Chris Eaton (@LordTridus) March 17, 2016 There was a minor scuffle on Twitter this...
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