I was just reading an article by Kevin Murnane over at Massively about greed.  Kevin’s right in that there is a lot of greed in MMO’s – friends stabbing friends in the back for epic loot and the like.  With that in mind I started reflecting on end game content and …

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 …

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 …

Dice and Electronic Arts are sitting on a virtual gold mine with the battlefield series as a possible candidate for the next big MMO.  Overall the vast majority of gamer’s fall into one of three main categories: MMORPG, FPS and Strategy.  With a title like the Battlefield series that originated in the FPS and already …

I remember the thoughts that ran through my head when I first started reading pre-release info about Star Wars Galaxies, my first step into the MMORPG world.  Before this I was an FPS ‘stat’ whore and competition shooter.  I only played first person shooters, mostly in the Delta Force series from Novalogic back in those …

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 …

I recently read a few posts at various other sites talking about how all the MMORPG’s coming out as of late have been pretty well cookie cutter games.  In other words, the same game repackaged with a few ‘stand out’ features.  Like AoC for example, a lot of people are comparing that to WoW in …

Open beta for Rohan Blood Feud has begun and is already jam packed with testers, so much so that YNK Games has more than doubled their number of servers in the first few days of testing to accomodate the huge influx of fans and they promise to continue to increase capacity as demand also increases.  …

One of the longest running MMORPG’s is getting a much needed upgrade. Runescape, which is the successor to DeviousMUD, is a popular persistant online world that has been running since 2001 and has retained a respectable player base, due in large part to it’s free to play option.  For the past 7 years, the game …

There are rumors floating around that Bioware is working on two things right now, first they seem to be working on a new MMO project.  Kotaku has an article about some of the MMO rumors and is speculating that the new MMO is not going to be based on KOTOR.  However, if you look …