World of WarCraft loses a million subscribers, and contrary to popular belief I think this is a great thing for Blizzard. In fact, I think this is what Blizzard wants. I have always said (long before I began blogging in 2007) that only Blizzard can kill WoW, and the only way people will stop playing [...]
Posts Tagged ‘MMORPG’
Rift F2P
May 15th, 2013
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Rift is going free-to-play on June 12th. To me this was never a question of if Rift would go F2P, but when. Rift’s numbers are declining as all games do over time. To be honest, they made it quite a long time for never quite being a true blockbuster success; much longer than most. EQ [...]
Why I’m excited for WildStar
May 13th, 2013
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Over the past few days I’ve had this horrible pit in my stomach caused by an acute lack of MMOs to play. Looking around to remedy my situation, realizing nothing will currently cure me, and hoping there was something in the future, I turned to a game that I’ve only had slightly visible on my [...]
Why are MMOs trying to make everybody THE hero?
May 10th, 2013
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I was thinking about this earlier, and I find it kind of odd. It seems lately quests in MMOs are trying to portray you as some important person or somebody who interacts with important people. What I mean to say is that according to the story in the game you seem to be quite the [...]
