With all of the talk lately about buying gold, I thought it would be interesting to examine all of the different ways to potentially ‘cheat’ at World of Warcraft. Some are obvious, some less so, but all to a certain degree, to quote Wikipedia’s definition of cheating, are “employed to create an unfair advantage, usually [...]
Posted on March 8, 2010, 10:54 pm, by
Gordon, under
EVE Online.
After being away for several months, I resubscribed to EVE Online yesterday to a glorious feeling. It’s hard to describe but after cutting down all of my subscriptions to only include World of Warcraft, hitting the reactivate button on the account website was akin to cracking open an icy cold beer, smoking a cigarette after [...]
Whilst writing yesterdays article, I noticed something a little odd about Ten Ton Hammer’s 2009 MMO awards (note that their tagline was “Recoginizing excellence in the MMOGs of 2009″): their award for best RPG went to… Dragon Age: Origins?
DA:O is a great game and deserves recognition but I was slightly baffled as to why it [...]
Posted on March 1, 2010, 11:31 pm, by
Gordon, under
EVE Online.
EVE Online’s February newsletter revealed that the game was voted the best MMO community of 2009 by Ten Ton Hammer. I wasn’t surprised at all by this and I’m not going to dispute the award but I did think it would be interesting to look at it in more depth and comment on some of [...]
Posted on February 27, 2010, 10:30 pm, by
Gordon, under
General MMORPG.
There really isn’t much to be known about the upcoming Warhammer 40K MMORPG or even if it will ever materialise (let’s face it, it’s not uncommon for MMOs to die before even hitting the shelves). Still, after the disappointing Warhammer Online MMO from 2008, I’m hoping for a better implementation of such an exciting IP.
Although [...]
Posted on February 26, 2010, 11:34 pm, by
Gordon, under
General MMORPG.
IGN PC had an article today with a quote from THQ President and CEO Brian Farrell in which he states that the forthcoming Warhammer 40K MMORPG won’t be competing with World of Warcraft.
Ex-squeeze me? Baking powder? Isn’t that a little like saying Burger King doesn’t compete with KFC or the Xbox 360 doesn’t compete with [...]
Posted on February 10, 2010, 11:10 pm, by
Gordon, under
General MMORPG.
We’ve all had bad group experiences with players who don’t have a clue what their doing. Healers who don’t heal, tanks who haven’t even placed taunt on their action bar and DPS classes who ninja AFK and loot everything in sight (not that I’m pointing fingers or anything). In fact, bad players are so common [...]
Although I’ve dabbled with PvP in many MMORPGS, the only game that I truly gripped me with it was Everquest 2. I played for several years on first Darathar and then Nagafen and I stand by my opinion that SOE managed to create one of the best PvP experiences available. Aside from creating a fair [...]
Just to clarify, I’m referring to physical game boxes and packaging in the title here not an actual cricket box. Interesting fact: I once held a used cricket box over my face when I was a child in an attempt to impersonate Darth Vader. I didn’t know what it was for at the time.
Anyway, I [...]
Regular readers will know that I have a bit of a man crush on Brian “Psychochild” Green and with just cause. He’s got a fantastic blog, writes excellent articles and his little finger knows more about the MMORPG industry than my entire brain does (and I have a big brain). Yesterday he wrote an interesting [...]