a weblog about mmorpgs, psychoanalysis and media studies
Posted in mmorpg on Jan 24th, 2010
ever since the first expansion – Mines of Moria (MoM) – in November 2008 lotro seems to release new content updates/patches too slowly. i am by no means a hardcore player but if you play lotro almost every night (as i do) you get through new content pretty fast and then what? that’s the big [...]
Posted in mmorpg on Jan 22nd, 2010
well, it has been a while since i last posted here and aion is long filed under the “tried, was disappointed, didn’t subscribe” tag. yet another hyped, newly released mmorpg that failed to deliver what it promised. my open beta impressions where mostly positive and to be frank the first 20 to 25 levels are [...]
Posted in mmorpg on Jan 18th, 2009
in this article about what MMO players want in 2009 and beyond the author lists a few quite obvious things and i would like to comment on those in regards to my own MMO experiences. more content, fewer bugs for all the games i have seriously (i.e. longer than 30 days) played i can only [...]
Posted in mmorpg on Aug 31st, 2008
the open beta of Warhammer: Age of Reckoning (WAR) is going to start next sunday and i happen to have an open beta key. i am looking forward to give it a try and see myself what the hype is all about. somehow i do have the feeling in the back of my head that the [...]
Posted in mmorpg on Nov 27th, 2007
having a real life couple in your mmorpg guild is asking for trouble. i have reached that simple conclusion after over three years of experience in different mmorpgs. i have met several couples in various games and had a few couples in my guilds but all had one thing in common: they were a good source of [...]
i have a confession to make: i am playing a mmorpg again (*sigh*). it’s “Lord of the Rings Online“. before jumping to fast conclusions, hear me out. i strongly believe that playing an online game is – like almost everything in life – about self-control. you do not have to let the game “get you”. [...]