You know things are looking good for SWTOR when Bobby Kotick goes on record as doubting the game’s profitability.
Archive for November, 2011
A sign that Bioware are onto a winner?
Posted in general mmo on November 29, 2011 | 20 Comments »
[SWTOR] My first thoughts on beta
Posted in general mmo, tagged beta, bounty hunter, female sith, first thoughts, jedi consular, preview, sith warrior, swtor on November 28, 2011 | 29 Comments »
((A sith warrior and jedi consular from my beta weekend – does this robe make my bum look big? YES!!)) After playing a bit (*coff*) this weekend, I’m very positive about the game. Star Wars: The Old Republic is a well executed themepark style MMO in the WoW mould – I’m looking forwards to playing [...]
Evolution of the F2P model (pay to win is coming)
Posted in general mmo, tagged bigpoint, darkorbit, evolution, f2p, pay to win on November 24, 2011 | 16 Comments »
Brief post: Tobold commented earlier this week that he feels that the Facebook model for gaming is broken. Tami Baribeau gives a more detailed analysis of why she feels Facebook games are an unsustainable business strategy. I think the latter post is the more intriguing because she identifies that Facebook games were never designed to [...]
[SWTOR] So the NDA is down, ‘open’ beta weekend looming. Also GW2 and Torchlight 2 delayed. What’s a girl gonna do?
Posted in general mmo, tagged beta, delays, guild wars 2, nda, preview, swtor, torchlight 2 on November 21, 2011 | 5 Comments »
I’ve been racking my brains on what to say about SWTOR as the fansite NDA went down last week and my RSS feed filled up with previews and opinions from people who have already experienced the beta. I’ll link to a few here, it’s just a subset of the many good posts out there since [...]
Do we really need to separate PvE and PvP servers?
Posted in general mmo, tagged pvp, server type on November 14, 2011 | 34 Comments »
The first MMO I played, DaoC, didn’t have separate PvE and PvP servers. (I know the US side got full PvP servers later on but they were always something of a curiousity.) But there was plenty of open world PvP. It just meant that some areas were designated for PvP and others weren’t, and there [...]
[Links] Something for the weekend
Posted in general mmo on November 12, 2011 | 3 Comments »
As regular readers have probably noticed, the blog is in a go-slow period at the moment. This is partly because I’m crazy busy at work (but in a good way) and mostly because my MMO playing is mostly on hiatus until next month when SWTOR is released. I have been dabbling in MUSHdom again though, [...]
Thought of the Day: Duelling new players?
Posted in general mmo, tagged duel, newbie on November 5, 2011 | 18 Comments »
In some games (like WoW) when you head to a prime newbie zone, chances are that you will be inundated for requests to duel. Many of these requests will be from characters many levels higher than the newbies for whom the zone was designed. I definitely remember creating new characters in WoW and being challenged [...]
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