One thing I find fascinating about being primarily a WoW and FFXIV player is that sometimes, it feels like being on the outside looking in. I’ve probably… Read more “Analyzing The MMO Community & Its Relationship With World of Warcraft”
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Achievements – How I’ve Been Drawing Out Fun In The Shadowlands Season 1 Rut
So, we’ve been in the start of this expansion for a long time, eh? Well, all week, I’ve been starting and stopping draft posts about Asmongold’s Twitlonger… Read more “Achievements – How I’ve Been Drawing Out Fun In The Shadowlands Season 1 Rut”
Analyzing The Burning Crusade Classic Launch Announcements
In my last post, I promised this would be coming, and here it is! The TBC Classic launch announcements, all of them taken together, spell out a… Read more “Analyzing The Burning Crusade Classic Launch Announcements”
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Classic Launch Details
This post is going to be the first of two. In this one, I’m going to split off the actual information and save the analysis and opinions… Read more “World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Classic Launch Details”
The Torghast Changes of 9.1 – Or, Blizzard Doesn’t Know How To Give Us What We Want
Torghast has a checkered history in its already-short existence of being highly polarizing and controversial. To some players, it is a decent-enough roguelike that has some fun… Read more “The Torghast Changes of 9.1 – Or, Blizzard Doesn’t Know How To Give Us What We Want”
A Much Friendlier WoW Lore Post – The Actually-Good Execution of Jaina’s Post-Wrath of the Lich King Story Arc
The last time I wrote here, it was a long, ranty affair about how Sylvanas Windrunner’s character arc in World of Warcraft is…not great! Stylistically, I’m not… Read more “A Much Friendlier WoW Lore Post – The Actually-Good Execution of Jaina’s Post-Wrath of the Lich King Story Arc”
The Long-Form Storytelling of World of Warcraft and Where it Fails – My Definitive Sylvanas Redemption Rant
WoW is trying to be a lot of things to a lot of people at this point in time. It wants to remain the pre-eminent PvE MMO,… Read more “The Long-Form Storytelling of World of Warcraft and Where it Fails – My Definitive Sylvanas Redemption Rant”
The State of Mythic Plus Part 3/3: Where We Go From Here, In WoW Or Other Games
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”
The State of Mythic Plus Dungeons, Part 2/3: Season 1 of Shadowlands
Yesterday, I wrote a big honking post with the history and explanation of Mythic Plus dungeons and some general pros and cons to them as I saw… Read more “The State of Mythic Plus Dungeons, Part 2/3: Season 1 of Shadowlands”
The State of Mythic Plus Dungeons, Part 1/3: Their History and Current Implementation
Over the last 5 years or so, a new mode of play has created an additional pillar in World of Warcraft’s endgame content – Mythic Plus (or… Read more “The State of Mythic Plus Dungeons, Part 1/3: Their History and Current Implementation”
