mmo – Kaylriene

The War Within’s Early Access Controversy

The War Within marks Blizzard’s first time trying something new with the release of a World of Warcraft expansion since they moved to simultaneous global release –… Read more “The War Within’s Early Access Controversy”

A topic that I found interesting was sparked by Belghast’s recent entries on trying the New World PTR testing for a massive, game-changing update that addresses a… Read more “What Is Convincing Enough To Try An MMO A Second Time?”

This one is going to be fun, I can feel it! Like with the first and previous post in this series, on New World, today I just… Read more “The MMO Uninstallation Chronicles Part 2 of 2: World of Warcraft”

I’ve made two posts in the last several months documenting a set of goals and my progress towards them as we get closer to the launch of… Read more “My Endwalker Goals Realized – Mostly, Sort Of”

Hey, have you heard about the critically acclaimed MMO with a free trial including the first expansion, totaling over 100 hours of gameplay? I’m sorry, I had… Read more “Why Are All These WoW Creators Trying FFXIV? An Analysis”

If you ask a lot of lapsed WoW players (or current Classic players) to detail the moment at which they sort of fell out of WoW, you… Read more “A Match Made In…Well, Somewhere: Matchmaking Systems and Social Breakdown in MMOs”

In part 1 of this series, I discussed the history and implementation of Mythic Plus, and the core ideology of the mode of play. In part 2,… Read more “The State of Mythic Plus Part 3/3: Where We Go From Here, In WoW Or Other Games”

2020 as a year is going to be the butt of jokes for a long, long time. It was a thoroughly exhausting, sometimes sad and depressing year… Read more “Looking Ahead – Some 2021 Predictions for WoW, FFXIV, and Gaming Technology”

MMO controllers seemed like they could be the next big growth market in PC peripherals. Those hopes were high in 2009 when Logitech released the first G13s… Read more “MMO Controllers and You – My Summary of Two Weeks Using The Azeron Classic Gamepad After 11 Years of the Logitech G13”

The other day, Wilhelm Arcturus had an excellent post up over at The Ancient Gaming Noob, discussing the possibility of a level squish in every expansion in… Read more “The Role of Levels in World of Warcraft – Do They Have A Place?”