Blessing of Kings

Gevlon has posted a very interesting, and quite insightful, take on PA's GIFT : Let me offer the "4 fun ppl theory", which ...

Massively asks: How do you feel about Loyalty Rewards? For the most part, I think loyalty rewards are unnecessary. The reward for subscrib...

World of Orcraft recently unveiled the cinematic for the Warlords of Draenor expansion: Still not as good as the Lich King cinematic: ...

For a very long time Blizzard has not allowed ordinary quests to be done in a raid group. When asked, they've always said that they fear...

Alternative Chat is running a survey in advance of WoW's upcoming 10th anniversary. Here are my answers. 1. Why did you start playing...

Last week, I posted a story from the Mittani detailing how Goonswarm  beat Test, not specifically on the battlefield, but by breaking them ...

I came across this story from the Mittani (leader of Goons in Eve): THE WOES OF TEST RECON IN FOUNTAIN  Two interesting comments popp...

As you know, I am of the opinion that the reason of lot of DPS players play badly is not because they don't care, or are innately bad. I...

I was thinking over how I currently play MMOs, and how I used to play MMOs. I noticed a small and unusual pattern. Back in Vanilla, I used...

From Reddit : I'm not exactly sure what just happened   I'm fairly new to MMORPG's in general. FFXIV is the first time I...

This post contains significant spoilers for the Republic Trooper storyline in Star Wars: The Old Republic. I finished the Republic Trooper...

In the latest alpha patch, WoW introduced a new gearing mechanic: Secondary Stat Attunement . Each specialization is "attuned" to ...

This thought was inspired by a post by Njessi of Hawtpants of the Old Republic . With the increasing amount of cosmetic gear and options l...

I've been in a bit of a funk with games over the last couple of weeks. I just haven't felt like playing anything. Here's a bit o...

Most games follow a pretty simple loop. The game presents a challenge, the player masters the challenge, and the game presents a harder chal...

Wilhelm wrote an account of an Eve Online battle where a new player/account (only one-day old) contributed to a battle by "tackling...

I didn't try to purchase tickets for Blizzcon, but by all accounts it was another fiasco. Effectively causing a self-inflicted Denial-Of...

Here is a very interesting reddit post on the difference between Japanese and American players in FFXIV. A sample: However the biggest d...

There are a lot of battlegrounds these days. Eleven in total. And Warlords may bring more. In Vanilla, there were only three. While that m...

Lately a number of games, especially F2P games, have started selling "Founder Packs". These packs give some goodies, but mainly gi...