the latest patch of World of Warcraft introduced “RealID”: a feature that enables communication across servers (and potentially across games) within battle.net. it’s a nifty addition for sure since i do have a few real life friends that still play on different servers. WoW is at times a fancy chat (curse those raid down times!) [...]
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WoW and the Dungeon Finder
Posted in mmorpg on Feb 15th, 2010
i have a confession to make: i am fascinated by the WoW Dungeon Finder. it is basically a crossover between a “Looking for Group” tool and the cross-realm PvP battlegrounds. that means from any place in WoW you can queue up for five man (PvE) instances and within a short period of time a group [...]
Aion and the grind
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 [...]
what MMOs are missing
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 [...]
the next best mmorpg?
Posted in mmorpg on May 4th, 2008
every once in a while the mmorpg scene is in a buzz because the next big (preferably World of Warcraft killer) mmorpg is about to hit the shelves. this time the game in question is Age of Conan (AoC) that is going to be released at the end of may. the current hype is enourmous [...]
not surprisingly i have stumbled across an article that deals with the question “Why are people leaving WoW?” well, i can only speak for myself here and what i experienced in my “WoW life” in over two years; for me the expansion ruined the game. true, it added some content and new areas to explore, [...]
as mentioned below i stopped blogging pretty much exactly two years ago. you may wonder why and let me try to explain what happened. it all started at the beginning of 2005. i had just finished writing my PhD thesis and was in a sort of “no man’s land”: nothing to do but to wait [...]