We bloggers (forum posters) are on the fortunate site that we can speculate, make improvement suggestions and have great ideas how a game would be a great game, without facing the need to form that thoughts into something playable and fun for many players, not only ourselves. Long sentence.. but that just popped up my mind [...]

Again just a short post..but it’s better than nothing. I’m quiet busy in RL so posts are atm most likely very short one. In WAR we have the statues in the capitols for chars who earn most renown in the week (though sometimes I get the feeling that the update schedule is much faster). I think it [...]

Most of this past weekend was spent playing Blood Bowl by Cyanide Studios, to the point that my fiancé calling me a crack addict because of my want to play it constantly. So in Eurogamer terms, the game is a 2/10, although I’ve now played it for too long to meet the high EG standards. Top-notch [...]

People often credit WoW’s success because, in part, it’s a little bit of everything for everyone (in theory at least), and while that’s a great way to get into the genre, if you really want to focus on any one aspect you soon find WoW is somewhat limited. Yes WoW has PvP, but it’s limited [...]

As I stated in my earlier posting, I intend to spend a great deal of time and effort over the next few weeks/months thanking the people and companies that I’ve been fortunate enough to work with over the years.  The first of these posts is to a collection of individuals and the company that they [...]

After he left Mythic Mark Jacobs reactivated his blog over at online games are a niche market. Head over to it and read his stuff.. Today he thanks Games Workshop and by reading it you can get a glimpse of how he must feel at the moment… It must be a tough time for him.. Though I don’t [...]

I re-subbed one of my EVE Online accounts last night, and today I get a ‘Come back for five days free’ email from CCP about that same account. F U CCP. Double F U  because I could actually use this for my other account, which since logging in I’ve discovered has the majority of my ISK. [...]

Every once in a while, we all pull a Eurogamer and get our facts wrong. It happens, most people apologize, no big deal. Sometimes, for whatever reason, we defend a company and help support their bullshit, going so far as to create misleading examples to further the cause. In most cases, others will point out [...]

After 15 years of leading Mythic Entertainment, my time with the studio (and EA of course) I co-founded with Rob Denton has come to an end.  Early in May, Electronic Arts let me know that they wanted to make some changes within the Games Label and as a result of those changes I have been [...]

Well.. a quiet misleading headline, but not a total lie ;) Yitu did an interview with a Vampire… book author. To be precise, he interviewed Steven Savile who wrote the Warhammer novels about the Vampires. You can find that interview here.  Go ahead.. don’t be afraid. It’s a german blog, but an english interview ;) [...]

LotD officially launched yesterday in Warhammer Online, just not fully. Only the event-winning side had access for the first 24 hours, and the new dungeon was closed, leaving everyone to try out the various PQs and lair bosses. The good news is the new PQs are interesting, with some nice variety if not overall challenge (hard [...]

Too many MMO-related topics flying around in my head and it’s going to take some time to sort it all out. DarkFall: Aside from feeling like a euro in regards to the whole NA deal, the big ‘expansion’ patch is going to be make or break for many, myself included. Oddly enough, I can’t put down [...]

Since Mythic implemented the quest for defending keeps, I’m not happy with it. It is no major issue, but from time to time it annoys me a bit ;) In patch 1.3 they added medals as quest reward, but still I don’t like the principle there. I think it’s a good idea to reward fighting, but [...]

Ding, two years of blogging done! I’m going to try and follow the format I used in my previous yearly review in order to make the comparison a bit easier. Like last year, the overall ‘Blog Stats” are up first. Blog Stats 2009 Total views: 335,842 Busiest day: 11,852 — Thursday, September 6, 2007 Posts: 523 Comments: 5,393 Blog Stats [...]

100+ vs 100+ player battles are apparently too difficult for Blizzard to figure out after only having 5+ years to work on it. Or, if you try to issue a pass like some people, it’s just technically not possible to support something ‘so successful’ that you have to scrap its original intent. I mean, that’s [...]

The Casualties (of whatever game we play) guild is trying to put together a static group for DDO, something I’m rather interested in. DDO is a tough MMO to crack, because it’s not only forced grouping, but also suffers more than most if you join a bad PUG group due to how the quest instances [...]

I saw this excellent use of The Sims 3 thanks to Raph Koster’s blog. Great writing and use of screen shots, and certainly shows the depth a sandbox game can go if used correctly. Looking forward to future updates for sure.

Right now I’m in the mood to rant about some stuff in WAR, but will hold it back for now..at least I will try to ;) I just got aware that I wasn’t in ORvR for the past 2-3 weeks and I thought about the reasons why. Lack of activity on my side was not the [...]

Patch 1.3 arrives today and for two days we were able to download the pre-patch stuff.. Were we? I couldn’t download the pre-patch, because for some unknown reason the download program couldn’t connect to the GOA servers and refused to tell me why. Well.. It told me that it can’t connect and I should check my [...]

I know I’ve already done an extensive, professional game journalist Sims 3 review here, but despite my high Eurogamer standards back then, I’ve got a few more things to say about the game and how it relates to the MMO genre. For starters, the MMO-like launcher is a great tool for getting user-created content into your [...]

…unbearable. This is worse than waiting for a beta to go live, because at least in beta everyone is playing like its beta and you know it does not count/matter. This is worse because half the population is in “I don’t care, I’m rerolling” mode, and the other half is still going full-time because they are [...]

Starting with the genre’s second major title, EQ1, the solution to raising the level cap without increasing the gap new players must cross to join their friends has been to reduce the time it takes to go from 1 to cap. While this does indeed help new players play with their max level friends faster, [...]

Some of you still visit me here, but we moved…but I want you to know Mythic sent me some puzzle stuff.  Check it out.

EVE Online has a mile-long list of unique features that set it apart from all other MMOs, including being the only MMO with a constant and ever-increasing player base. WoW grew faster and bigger than any MMO before or after (in terms of profits anyway, other games hold the honored records for most pink bunnies [...]

It seems it’s been too long since everyone’s second favorite topic (hardcore vs casual being #1), RMT, has been discussed. Tobold has two posts about it and recently DDO went F2P. As readers here know, I’m not a huge fan of RMT games, and it’s certainly not because I could not afford to keep up with [...]

Beau from Spouse Agro found the missing 8.5 hours of the EuroGamer review, and for great justice has posted it. For anyone looking for a good breakdown of what DarkFall is all about, especially from the perspective of someone who is not a basement-dwelling mouthbreather (that would be everyone else playing DF, in case you [...]

The last patch for DarkFall fixed my memory crash and resolved the sound = lag issue, the two things really putting a damper on my enjoyment of the game from the tech side. This, combined with the “We are moving, lets just PvP for the F of it” attitude thanks to NA-1 coming soon has [...]

The Sims 3: Fun game. 9/10.

Yitu said this on his blog to me and it brought back some memories when and why  I started this blog.. Du bist ja der einzige deutsche WAR-Blogger in ENGLISCHER Sprache. DU bist der WAHRE Exot! I’ll translate it for you ;) You are the only German WAR-Blogger in English language. YOU are TRUELY exotic! He mentioned it when [...]

Dyeing can be a lot of fun..and a lot of frustration in WAR. Some weeks ago I got most of the Sentinel Set and I was totally frustrated when looking at the colors. This is how Karic..(actually his new name is Carik) now looks like The blue tone is quiet nice, but it’s not our guild color [...]