MMORPG - MMOCrunch

Since leaving the world of Middle Earth, (LORTO) I’ve been 0-2 in my quest for a new MMORPG to play.  I first tried Tabula Rasa which was actually fun for the first month, but didn’t really do it for me and boredom quickly set in.  Up next was Age of Conan and we all know […]

Rant: Potential
How many times have you seen a forum post or an article comparing MMO vs MMO.  If you have been around this genre for any length of time you have no doubt seen it time and time again.  One of the most common arguments used to try to justify the failings of an MMO […]

David over at Trembling Hand makes a very good case that, out there in the MMORPG community, there are actually two flavours of the gamers we have come to term as fanboi’s. He dubs these two flavours, “The Fan” and “The Apologist” - and I think he’s pretty spot on.
The Fan I can live with. […]

The great Sun Tzu, father of modern journalism, once said in his treasured writings: start with a Mime and you can’t go wrong. Of course I just made that up, and I assure you that the WoW-killing Mime is not yet with us. We’ll leave mimes and memes to rest for a moment, and venture […]

Review: Warhammer Preview Weekend
For this entry I am going to try something new and take a break from ranting about the usual MMO debacles. Instead, I am going to give my impressions of the Warhammer Preview Weekend from the perspective of an MMO veteran, guild leader, and a gamer coming off the of the AoC […]

The whole Age of Conan debacle did more than just highlight that the entire staff at Funcom probably shouldn’t be entrusted to mail a letter, let alone produce a multi-million dollar MMORPG. It also resurrected an old MMORPG community meme that has been repeated 1000s of times in forums, blogs and podcasts. What […]