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Less Massive: Ubisoft Offers Unity Compensation

Assassin’s Creed Unity launched on November 11th, and since then has proven itself to be quite problematic for Ubisoft. The seventh major installment in the series of the same name launched with heavy technical issues, from performance problems to humorous graphical glitches (as seen above). Since the game launched, Ubisoft has launched at least two major patches … Continue reading “Less Massive: Ubisoft Offers Unity Compensation”

Community: MMO Fallout Ethics Q&A

I’ll be honest with you folks, I am poorly prepared this week. Those of you who follow me on Twitter will know that I’ve been snowed into my house with no internet since last Monday, I haven’t had the capability of doing anything other than a few news pieces on my barely passable Chromebook. So … Continue reading “Community: MMO Fallout Ethics Q&A”

Community: A Never Shall I Ever Option

For this week’s Community Mondays, I wanted to talk about something I’ve taken to calling the Never Shall I Ever option, and how such a mechanic would be well received in MMOs. The idea comes from RuneScape, back when Jagex announced that players would be able to talk to an NPC to reset certain skills, … Continue reading “Community: A Never Shall I Ever Option”

Community: Another Indie Dev Meltdown

(Editor’s note: minor language) When it comes to indie development, I consider myself to be a big fan of the genre. After all, gaming would look monumentally different if the small, poorly funded developers of the early days, and even those of the modern days, didn’t throw caution into the wind and give ideas a … Continue reading “Community: Another Indie Dev Meltdown”

Star Citizen Calms Its Community

Christopher Roberts, of the Roberts Space Industries brand, had some damage control to do this past weekend. Apparently a PS4 devkit was spotted on the desk of one of the developers and some members of the Star Citizen community, being of sound mind and invulnerable to over-the-top reactions, assumed that it could only mean … Continue reading “Star Citizen Calms Its Community”

[Community] The Despicable DDoS

If I had a nickel for every time some individual or group launched a denial of service attack against a website or service that they didn’t like, I would put those nickels in a sock and use it to beat them unconscious. I’m old enough to remember a time when DDoS attacks were much … Continue reading “[Community] The Despicable DDoS”

[Community] NCSoft's Support Timeline

For this week’s Community Concerns, I decided to put together a graph of NCSoft’s library of MMOs, past and present. The above graph shows each game’s support timeline from the year it launched to the year that it shut down or to present if it is still running. Several of the titles may seem inaccurate … Continue reading “[Community] NCSoft's Support Timeline”

[Community] NCSoft’s Support Timeline

[Community] RuneScape Prestige Mode Rejected

How violently can a person say no? RuneScape is a grinder’s game, there are over twenty five skills all of which require more than thirteen million experience in order to hit level 99, and one which goes further up to level 120. As far as even MMOs go, RuneScape takes a long time to … Continue reading “[Community] RuneScape Prestige Mode Rejected”

[Community] Stop Saying Kool-Aid

On this week’s Community Concerns, I want to talk about a phrase that makes my blood boil every time I hear it: drinking the Kool Aid. If you aren’t familiar with the phrase, “drinking the Kool Aid” means the unquestioned faith in another’s words or instructions. The phrase comes from the 1978 Jonestown Massacre where … Continue reading “[Community] Stop Saying Kool-Aid”