This week’s Thursday Top 5 has to do with communication. The names and titles we give to products and the way that companies and their customers communicate. As I have to say every week, try not to take this as an affront to your favorite game/developer. I use some specific examples of games, but those … Continue reading “Thursday Top 5: New Rules For MMO Language”
Wizardry Online has officially launched, and the problems appear to be stacking against Sony Online Entertainment. Players are reporting issues including being unable to create characters, rampant server instability, a mass of gold farmer spam in chat, disconnections and other bugs resulting in item loss and permanent death, and more. While Sony runs around performing … Continue reading “Wizardry Online Pulled From Steam To Address Issues”
Remember a time when that thing you loved was better than it was now and those guys were not as much as they are now and those problems with the things didn’t exist or weren’t as bad? Jagex remembers, and Mod Mark appeared on the forums to gather suggestions from players as to how they … Continue reading “Jagex Invites 24 Hour Idea Blitz”
The War Z developer Hammerpoint Interactive seems to be in a constant state of apology lately. The game was released on Steam and then pulled shortly after when players began complaining that features advertised were not actually in the game. Sergey Titov then went on Gamespy to blame the Steam community for misreading the details, … Continue reading “Hammerpoint Interactive Issues Open Letter To Community”
Updated Story: Snail Games has decided to give everyone who bought the Elite package the permanent horse. d. The permanent mount. There was quite a bit of miscommunication regarding this from both sides. When we were working on the package for the Elite players we honestly did not see it as an issue. There was … Continue reading “Age of Wushu Yanks Certain Preorder Bonuses”
Let’s talk about the dead coming back to life. Some of you may recall a long time ago in a galaxy not so far away, that Earthrise shut down due to a lack of funds to fully bring the game over to a free to play platform. If you don’t remember, just re-read that last … Continue reading “Earthrise Posts New HTML5 GUI”
NCSoft may have announced that City of Heroes is shutting down on November 30th, but that doesn’t mean the community (or Paragon Studios for that matter) are going down without a fight. Since the announcement, the community has rallied in multiple ways, from encouraging users to write to NCSoft, setting up rallies in-game and on … Continue reading “City of Heroes Isn't Going Down Without A Fight”
NCSoft may have announced that City of Heroes is shutting down on November 30th, but that doesn’t mean the community (or Paragon Studios for that matter) are going down without a fight. Since the announcement, the community has rallied in multiple ways, from encouraging users to write to NCSoft, setting up rallies in-game and on … Continue reading “City of Heroes Isn’t Going Down Without A Fight”
If the Elder Scrolls community can be called anything, it is passionate. So with the details that the Elder Scrolls MMO will, for better or for worse, share very minimal game features with its single player brethren, response has understandably been mixed. In an interview with Eurogamer, Game Director Matt Firor wants it known that … Continue reading “100% Personal Storyline In Elder Scrolls Online”
As the Roblox saga comes to an end (for now, anyway), I wanted to showcase several select creations from Roblox hand picked by myself and a few of the guys from Roblox Corp. It has been a fun few weeks, but the show must go on. 1. Roleplay City by ConceptDesign Roleplay City was one … Continue reading “ROBLOX Part 3: A Gallery Of Creations”
MMO Fallout 