Item Luck in MMORPGs
Luck plays all sorts of roles in MMORPGs. I'm wondering how much randomness we really need, and how much of this random luck based gameplay can be replaced with the player…
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December 3, 2014
Social Progression vs. Gear Progression
In yesterday's entry I hinted around the idea that players often want the newest gear because they want to look 'cool'. I'm not necessarily speaking to just the aesthetics of…
November 26, 2014
Quit Wall
I coined the phrase 'Quit Wall' in a WildStar post I wrote the other day, and thought I would elaborate a bit on what they are and maybe how they…
September 16, 2014
Expansions are Barriers to Entry
There's an interesting quote floating around from Blizz dev Tom Chilton. “By building expansions, you are effectively building up barriers to people coming back. But by including the level 90…
August 19, 2014
Why level so quickly?
I was writing an entirely different post this morning and stumbled upon this rather interesting idea that forced me to stop and think: Why do players always want to level so…
August 13, 2014
Time Frames
This world we live in -- the real one, not your virtual world of choice -- is one in which we value time over anything else. Â We're constantly trying to…
August 1, 2014
I Hate Mounts
Here's a random topic for you today: I hate mounts in MMOs. I was watching a video of Camelot Unchained where Mark Jacobs was fielding questions and two of them…
July 30, 2014
Choices Should Matter
"...Choices matter --Â even bad ones." Â That's a quote from our interview with Mark Jacobs in response to whether or not players should be allowed to "gimp" themselves at character creation.…
July 28, 2014
Slower Combat Had More Depth
I love the image above from a post I wrote a year ago about combat in MMOs changing from slow and methodical to fast-pace button mashing. The summary you all can already…
July 22, 2014
Downtime
Downtime has always been considered a negative. It's meant to be something players have to mitigate. Developers create abilities meant to reduce downtime or make it more bearable. That said,…
July 21, 2014
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