When you have an MMO that is long-lived, you eventually hit a point where a playerbase saturates and needs new blood to replace people who leave, whether… Read more “New Player Experience Is Important, But WoW and FFXIV Are Kind Of Bad At It”
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Final Fantasy XIV Fan Fest Las Vegas 2023 Was Kind of a Shitshow
So over the weekend, I attended my first-ever Final Fantasy XIV Fan Fest, going to the first leg of the 2023-2024 tour in Las Vegas. It was… Read more “Final Fantasy XIV Fan Fest Las Vegas 2023 Was Kind of a Shitshow”
Generative Artificial Intelligence Sucks and It Shouldn’t Be The Future
It’s hard to escape the idea of AI these days, with models refining their approach and appearing more and more every day. ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, MidJourney, and… Read more “Generative Artificial Intelligence Sucks and It Shouldn’t Be The Future”
Augmentation Evoker and the Support Role in World of Warcraft
WoW has defined its holy trinity paradigm so rigidly that support will never work in WoW. Well, that’s what I would have said a few months ago.… Read more “Augmentation Evoker and the Support Role in World of Warcraft”
On Player Behaviors, Incentive Sets, and Forming Groups in Online Games
On my initial WoW guild exodus in the summer of 2021, I did try to find a replacement guild before going back, then leaving and creating my… Read more “On Player Behaviors, Incentive Sets, and Forming Groups in Online Games”
Blizzcon 2023 And The Challenges It Faces
Well, we finally have the last pieces of the puzzle for the first Blizzcon post-pandemic (I hate this term because it is inaccurate, but also because it… Read more “Blizzcon 2023 And The Challenges It Faces”
Final Fantasy XIV 6.4 Impressions and Fan Fest Thoughts
Endwalker 6.0 was an experience that really, profoundly hit for me. Sure, as time has wound on from the initial shock of it in December 2021, there… Read more “Final Fantasy XIV 6.4 Impressions and Fan Fest Thoughts”
Are Affixes Actually THAT Bad? An Analysis of Mythic Plus in Dragonflight
The morning of June 6th, 2023, some Mythic Plus players thought that Blizzard had brought them a present – keystones, rolled from the Great Vault with no… Read more “Are Affixes Actually THAT Bad? An Analysis of Mythic Plus in Dragonflight”
My Early Experience in Dragonflight Season 2 Mythic Plus
I’ve been pushing quite hard in keys this week, I think it is fair to say: In total this week alone, I’ve run around 40ish keys between… Read more “My Early Experience in Dragonflight Season 2 Mythic Plus”
I Streamed On Twitch Every Day For One Month, and Here’s What Happened
I’ve been on Twitch since 2017, longer if you count my original Twitch channel, which I used actively for precisely one month in 2013, but I’ve rarely… Read more “I Streamed On Twitch Every Day For One Month, and Here’s What Happened”
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