Archive for the ‘Warhammer Online’ Category

Travel In MMOs

Travel in MMOs is a tricky thing to get right. It’s more than just a way to get a player from A to B, it’s a way to immerse them in the online world and let them experience the natural flow of it. It’s also a very hard thing to balance. If it’s too easy [...]

2009 Predictions

Here are my predictions for MMOs in 2009:
Star Wars: The Old Republic, Star Trek Online & DC Universe Online
Won’t be released this year. They will all be delayed until 2010.
World of Warcraft
Will continue to power on as usual but, as before, it will eventually lose subscribers to other games after a few months. This won’t [...]

AoC Is Better Than WAR

2008 saw the release of two highly anticipated games - Age of Conan and Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. I remember at the start of year reading the usual threads on forums about how they will conquer the universe and destroy World of Warcraft, making Blizzard cry and us laugh with shottenfreud. Never happened. In [...]