Blogs about: Mmo Design
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Reverse WoW-thinking.
Working on Book 3 in LoTRO last night reminded me why MMOs are as great as they are. When you get a group of people together, and everything goes well, the experience is far greater than anything a si… more »
Hardcore Casual
Reverse WoW-thinking.
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syncaine wrote 1 day ago: Working on Book 3 in LoTRO last night reminded me why MMOs are as great as they are. When you get a … more »
Mythic's Paul Barnett Has Interesting Ideas
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JZig wrote 3 days ago: Paul Barnett, Creative Directory at Mythic Entertainment (Dark Age of Camelot, Warhammer Online) rec … more »
End-game content is not the ONLY content.
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syncaine wrote 1 week ago: Tobold, MMOCrunch and Random Battle are three blogs which have recently talked about solo vs group p … more »
Can Blizzard dig itself out of this hole...
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syncaine wrote 1 week ago: We have a shortage of tanks, how are we going to fix that? Trick everyone into playing a new tank cl … more »
Stop bitching about skill points newbtards.
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syncaine wrote 1 week ago: Read enough EVE-related posts and you will notice a certain complaint always being made: I can never … more »
Burned out on WotLK already.
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syncaine wrote 2 weeks ago: I wanted to expand on a previous post here, and go into a bit more detail about WotLK and my total l … more »
Avoiding the WotLK beta.
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syncaine wrote 2 weeks ago: The fact that people are actually AVOIDING playing the WotLK beta should tell you all you need to kn … more »
The small stuff sometimes makes the biggest difference.
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syncaine wrote 3 weeks ago: As JoBildo accurately points out, the ‘open group’ feature of Warhammer is one of those ‘n … more »
Not the hardest shoes to fill...
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syncaine wrote 3 weeks ago: If you’re Horde, defending your Relief Hut, and make us spend 10-15 seconds trying to kill you … more »
Power to the MMO people!
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syncaine wrote 3 weeks ago: /begin rant A good game is one that you enjoy (or enjoyed) playing. You can ‘burn out’ on a … more »
Age of Conan: How to Not Run a Community
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JZig wrote 3 weeks ago: I’m not playing Age of Conan any more, but I’m still following it’s development. T … more »
The carebear and the ganker, best friends forever.
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syncaine wrote 4 weeks ago: In somewhat of a continuation from yesterday’s post, and with the idea sparked after reading M … more »
Asshat or PvPer: Which will Warhammer Online have?
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syncaine wrote 4 weeks ago: I read a recent post from MMOG Nation via MMOWTF today that got me thinking, or rather re-visiting a … more »
Mass media gets an MMO story right, no joke.
syncaine wrote 1 month ago: In a clear case sign of the apocalypse, NYTimes.com has posted a positive article about an online ga … more »
Design Collaboration in MMO's
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kanthalos wrote 1 month ago: I just read an excellent post on Moorgard’s blog about writing vs. storytelling. If you have … more »
Breaking down MMO burnout, and ways to avoid it.
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syncaine wrote 1 month ago: Rick over at /random expressed concern that his longtime guild may not be as hyped for WAR as he is, … more »
MMO history, that Bartle guy, and why WoW2 won't blow your mind.
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syncaine wrote 1 month ago: It seems we had a busy weekend in the MMO blog world, fueled by an interview with Richard Bartle don … more »
AoC bashing, LoTRO update, ISK talk.
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syncaine wrote 1 month ago: Ah Friday sweetness. Heartless and Rick over at /random both commented on a Massively report about A … more »
Focused crafting, not just a bullet point on a box!
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syncaine wrote 1 month ago: Psychochild breaks down the general ideas behind crafting in his recent post, a topic that was addre … more »
