This post is going to be about broad fandom, but I need to start with one of the animating, wrestling-related reasons I’m writing this today, so stick… Read more “Performance Metrics and Fandoms – Why Do We Obsess Over Sub Numbers and Ratings?”
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Sidenote: Thoughts on Two Years of Audiophile Hardware for Gaming
Two years ago now, I finally made a move away from gamer-focused sound cards, headsets, and the like, and made a fairly large move to audiophile/pro-grade audio… Read more “Sidenote: Thoughts on Two Years of Audiophile Hardware for Gaming”
A Brave New World (Not The Novel)
Two weeks ago now, Amazon Games finally launched their first project – the MMORPG New World. Launched on Steam to near-million player concurrency, the game has been… Read more “A Brave New World (Not The Novel)”
Preparing for Legion Timewalking’s Mage Tower
(Update 10/31/2021: These ideas are all speculation and most have been disabled or worked-around with the recent PTR testing of the Timewalking Mage Tower. Further update 12/7/2021:… Read more “Preparing for Legion Timewalking’s Mage Tower”
Some Analysis of Endwalker Healing Gameplay Based on the Leaked Tooltips
My last post was also sort of on this topic, but I tried to stay a bit away from healing design and instead wanted to talk about… Read more “Some Analysis of Endwalker Healing Gameplay Based on the Leaked Tooltips”
The FFXIV Endwalker Media Tour Tooltip Leaks and A Lot of Thoughts on Sage Gameplay
Yesterday, the news was a murmur in FFXIV corners of the internet – someone on Media Tour had leaked screenshots of tooltips, with full assortments of tank… Read more “The FFXIV Endwalker Media Tour Tooltip Leaks and A Lot of Thoughts on Sage Gameplay”
What Am I Playing Lately? A Quick Check-In
Right now is perhaps slow for me, but not for the MMO space at-large, as New World’s launch last week definitely proved. I might have words on… Read more “What Am I Playing Lately? A Quick Check-In”
WoW Classic’s Season of Mastery and What Lies Ahead
This week, Blizzard announced something that seemed likely for a while now – a fresh start server for the Vanilla WoW experience. However, instead of just a… Read more “WoW Classic’s Season of Mastery and What Lies Ahead”
50 Days To Go – Revisiting My Endwalker Goals
At the start of August, I wrote about the goals I had for the remaining time in Shadowbringers, before Endwalker came out in Early Access ready to… Read more “50 Days To Go – Revisiting My Endwalker Goals”
Will Blizzard Counter-Program the Endwalker Launch?
This is a thought that hadn’t occurred to me until today, and the more I think about it, the more I find questions. In the past, every… Read more “Will Blizzard Counter-Program the Endwalker Launch?”
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