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On Starting Experiences – Addendum 3 of 2 -Why Is There an “Endgame” Anyways?

Before I resume the pile-on of Shadowlands beta info, I wanted to get out two additional posts about starting and level-up experiences in MMOs. One comment in… Read more “On Starting Experiences – Addendum 3 of 2 -Why Is There an “Endgame” Anyways?”

Another week and boy are there things to be excited about! While I’ve called out one specific topic in the title, there was some good news this… Read more “Weekly Hype Train Week of 7/22/2020! The One With All The Shadowlands Beta Stuff”

My post yesterday sparked a lot of great discussion about Blizzard and balancing that I think are worth looking at in detail and via comparison to other… Read more “On Balance and Choice – The Difficulty of WoW’s Legacy Systems”

One of the more broadly contentious aspects of the Shadowlands design paradigm is the use of Covenant abilities. Rather than building a spec-based system like Legion Artifacts,… Read more “The Paradox of Choice: On Covenant Abilities and Community Reactions”

(Editor’s Note: This is a spoiler-free post, although if you try to read chat logs in screenshots, there might be some names or dialogue there! Also, this… Read more “Shadowlands Beta – My Hypothesis About Endgame World Content”

Day 2 of Shadowlands beta was less overall eventful, but I decided to spend the day playing on my level 60 premade. I had a list of… Read more “Shadowlands Beta Day 2 Recap – The One Where The Servers Went Offline As I Fought My First Torghast Boss”

Literally right as I finished my hype train post that went up…yesterday, now, I mentioned I hadn’t gotten into the Shadowlands Beta but that invites seemingly hadn’t… Read more “Attempted Spoiler Free Post – My Leveling Experience in Shadowlands Beta Part 1: Bastion and the Introductory Experience”

In what is sure to be an interesting week for us WoW players, there is a decent amount to talk about, so let’s dive in. Shadowlands Beta:… Read more “Weekly Hype Train Week of 7/15/2020!”

Professions in WoW, as of late, just aren’t doing that great. Gear crafting has always been of limited use, but up through Mists of Pandaria, new craftables… Read more “Runecarving, Professions, and Undeserved Scares About Shadowlands Professions”

In my Shadowlands media blitz recap post, the most text for me was devoted to The Maw. There is a fairly simple reason why – the design… Read more “The Maw In Focus – How To Design Unwelcoming, But Fun, Spaces and Why It Seemingly Falls Short”