Let’s start the new year off with a discussion about PvP. I was thinking about why PvP — more specifically RvR/WvW — hasn’t succeeded or ultimately been a lot of fun for me in the past few years. We had a brainstorming session on our Ventrilo server, and I think we nailed it. PvP has [...]
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MMOs are not given room to grow anymore. Launch perfect or die!
January 16th, 2012
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When World of Warcraft launched in November 2004 is was new, it was shiny, but it really wasn’t as polished or infallible as people think of it today. Aside from WoW’s launch issues, which mostly stemmed from Blizzard not anticipating the demand, WoW had issues that crop up in most contemporary MMOs. WoW was evolving [...]
KDR Leaderboards in MMO’s
December 6th, 2011
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Sanya Weathers, Director of the Community for Dominus (formerly Prime: Battle for Dominus), posed a question/poll on the Dominus forums today: “Do you want KDR/IRS scores on our leaderboard?” In short, No, I do not want kill to death ratios or any extensive stat tracking in any MMO that I play. The following reasons outline [...]
Warhammer Wrath of Heroes
August 16th, 2011
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I’ve given up trying to keep track of what to call them these days. It’s not Mythic Entertainment, EA Mythic, or EA Bioware-Mythic.. I guess it’s just “Bioware” now that handles the Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning brand. Whoever they are, they announced Warhammer Wrath of Heroes at Gamescom. It’s part of EA’s Play4Free push. [...]
