Rock, Paper, Nada?

Keen’s talking about missing a third realm in WAR’s two-faction design, and I have to say, I agree with him. This has long been my biggest dislike about the WAR design. I’d go through my blog and point to the times I mentioned it, but I’m lazy and don’t feel like making people read my [...]

WAR Graphics: A look back into the early beta

I wrote this post last winter, when I had first started playing the WAR beta. I’m going to post it to illustrate a point. Much of what I wrote has changed; the graphics were upgraded many times between when I wrote this and now. What I want to show, though, is how much my initial [...]

Two WAR beta Public Quest stories

I’m writing this before the WAR NDA drops, on the last day of July. Twice in the past week, I’ve had outstanding moments in the WAR closed beta, participating in Public Quests. For those of you who haven’t played WAR yet, I wouldn’t expect experiences like this in your very first public quests. There’s a [...]

Couple words for Brent

Hah. I really was only going to write a couple words, but I got carried away. I realize I’m not going to change Brent’s mind. I’m not really interested in changing his mind. I think Brent has seen games, MMO’s, that have changed the way he thinks about MMO’s, and he can’t stand the thought [...]

Why no posts after the NDA?

So, yeah, I complained for a long time about how I couldn’t wait for the NDA to drop, and when it drops, I don’t post. I thought a bit of an explanation was in order. First, I agree with Brent, and WAR will be Dead on Arrival. Haha! Kidding! Seriously, I’m getting my ass kicked [...]

Syncaine’s a dirty NDA breaker!

Haha, I saw that! It’s still in my Google Reader, lol. With the NDA down (it is down, right?), lets finally start talking WAR details. I tried to click through to the actual post to disagree about the NDA actually being down, but the post is already gone. Google says there were 8 comments, I’m [...]

Why I don’t give a !&*# about advance NDA drops

If you’re following Warhammer Online, you know that some websites have permission from Mythic to break the closed beta non-disclosure agreement. I know this has pissed off some dedicated WAR bloggers, like Syp. And I don’t blame Syp. It’s really a shame that his dedication to WAR goes unrewarded here, but I suppose EA/Mythic feels [...]

My turn: Warhammer Sales Predictions

I saw Syncaine take a stab at this, and he got the idea from Tobold. I’m well-versed in talking out me arse, so I’ll make a Warhammer subscriber prediction as well. First, I’m going to take WoW’s number, around 10 million subscribers, and chop 6 million off the top. That’s my approximation of the number [...]

WAR vs. WoW mathematics

There’s no shortage of online opinion about Warhammer: Age of Reckoing and how it’s going to perform against World of Warcraft. After listening to podcasts on my daily commute, though, something occurred to me. I was surprised to hear that Van Hemlock didn’t play Dark Age of Camelot (noted on his very fine podcast, episode [...]

Eve skills: What am I missing?

Ok, I’ll admit it, I’m stumped. I’ve read the guides, checked the Eve-O forums, done some googling, but I still can’t figure it out. In Halada’s “The Complete Miner’s Guide“, he’s talking about fitting out a Retriever, which I recently gained the skills to fly. He mentions fitting a Mining Laser Upgrade, which I also [...]

Tobold and WAR: The other possibility

Tobold wonders today if the WAR Open Beta is capped at rank 20 because Mythic is trying to hide unfinished higher-end content. Gee, I wonder where he got that idea? I mean, is there some sort of track record where a MMO developer puts a ton of effort into levels 1-20, but levels 30 to [...]

Casualties of WAR

Casualties of WAR (CoW) I’ve been a little quiet the past couple days because I’m over at the new Casualties of WAR guild forums. If you haven’t heard of Casualties of WAR yet, it’s an outgrowth of Boatorious‘ idea to create a WAR guild for all the WAR bloggers that talk back and forth to [...]