MMORPG: Should PVP be based on Skill or Gear?

Oh the great debates we could have!  I hear people complaining in World of Warcraft battlegrounds all the time when a twink kills them.  They complain because he is uber powerful with all that extra gear!  Being that I’m usually playing a twink myself the complaints go in one ear and out the other without …



WAR on the Grind

Warhammer Online is definitely garnering more and more of my attention lately with the let down of Age of Conan and the repetition of World of Warcraft making me look for new horizons.  Yesterday afternoon I was reading some Ten Ton Hammer interviews with WAR developer Mark Jacobs about the …

WAR For The Win!

I just finished reading a post from Syp over at Waaagh about his predictions on how Warhammer Online will fair in the MMO market and what he thinks are the keys to getting it there.  Syp lists 10 points that he believes will influence the outcome …

Age of Conan Subscription Cancelled

Well, that feels like a waste of $90.  I have this fancy box, this cool leather map and a game account I’m no longer going to play – at least not in the near future.  Age of Conan for me was a fun break away from the normal MMORPG in it’s unique style of combat …

MMORPG Feature Innovation

Getting back to the MMORPG Cookie Cutter topic, to keep MMORPG’s from getting stale and give developers a fresh perspective on things gamers want, I started thinking about some interesting ways to bone up on features in new and even some current MMORPG titles.  Now, these aren’t necessarily a major …

Age of Conan: Game Freeze

I’ve been receiving a lot of requests for help from people experiencing problems with the black screen issue in Age of Conan in response to my post on the issue.  But now I’ve also been getting a lot of complaints of people freezing or locking up sometime around the boat scene or …

Age of Conan: Letter from the Director

Gaute Godager over at Funcom wrote a letter to the community today discussing some of the upcoming changes to Age of Conan along with some additions and fixes.  The first bit of good news is that Funcom seems pretty dedicated to making this as smooth of a launch as possible.  There have already been some …

Age of Conan Armory


 

Cursed.com has launched a beta of the Age of Conan Armory.  The beta version of the Armory currently supports a functional feat calculator as well as community driven feat builds for players to show off their PVP feat setup.  The beta site …

Age of Conan: Crash on Exit

A few patches ago I began getting consistant crashes when exiting AoC asking me to report the error to Funcom. It was annoying but I was pretty much just living with it until I found a fix posted online by Lefty1117 (gotta give props). Basically the problem seems to be caused by right permission on …

Age of Conan: Message from FunCom

My heart just about stopped today when I read my email.  I got my first message from BestBuy stating that they are giving me a coupon for $10 off of my next purchase because my pre-order of Age of Conan Collector’s Edition was delayed leaving the warehouse.  Guess who my next email was from?  FunCom, …