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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”

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”

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”

Diablo II Resurrected came out last Thursday. The outlook going into it was interesting – Blizzard had completely botched the Warcraft III Reforged launch and overall design,… Read more “Diablo II Resurrected and The Value Proposition of Remasters”

It wasn’t that long ago, but just 5 short years ago, the idea of what a content cycle in WoW looked like was fundamentally quite different from… Read more “A Look at the Impact of Seasonal Content Cycles on World of Warcraft”

It was only a few short days ago that we got the first look at Endwalker combat design, through a long live letter dedicated to discussing the… Read more “A Brief Summary of Endwalker Combat Live Letter Thoughts”

For most of my tenure in FFXIV, I’ve played a White Mage main – I have everything leveled to cap (except I haven’t finished 60-70 on Blue… Read more “Uh-Oh, I’m Switching Jobs for Endwalker – Thoughts on the Sage Preview”

The first fully-dedicated Endwalker live letter is in less than 2 hours as I write this! AHHHHHHH! The excitement is absolutely there, but it is a curious… Read more “The Endwalker Combat Live Letter Predictions Post”

Sire Denathrius in Castle Nathria was a boss with some interesting breakpoints in his fight. Phase 1 demanded perfect execution against simple mechanics, but a part of… Read more “The Pace of a Boss Fight – Why Sylvanas Is An Awful Fight Design”

I had a draft version of this post I was working on, no joke, for 4 days. The idea was there, but it was getting bogged down… Read more “Power Progression and Player Participation – Talents, Stats, Builds, and Cosmetics”