Level Caps Killing Your Game? – Written by Sean “Blazek” Emes, Edited by Jordan “Doomhammer” Kahn The Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) industry has been in a pretty sad state over the last seven years. Many games have been released only to disappoint hundreds of thousands of fans who proceed to discard the game within months,… Continue reading ‘Are Level Caps Killing Your Game?’
Welcome Back! Here’s what you Might Have Missed – Written by Sean “Blazek” Emes, Edited by Jordan “Doomhammer” Kahn It’s been an entire month, but vVv Gaming is finally back from our winter break! While we were gone the gaming world continued to turn and caused quite a few stirs among, some surprising and some… Continue reading ‘vVv Gaming looks at Best Buy Blunders and SOPA protests’
Exploring the realm of Free to Play – Written by Sean “Blazek” Emes, Edited by Jordan “Doomhammer” Kahn If you’re like me, you’re the type of gamer who will wear out a loved game like a favorite pair of shoes. Eventually you’ll squeeze every last ounce of fun out the title (or just get fed… Continue reading ‘Exploring “Free to Play” games’
Holy Trinity: The Standard or a Relic of the Past? – Written by Sean “Blazek” Emes, Edited by Jordan “Doomhammer” Kahn To anyone who has ever touched an MMO game, the idea of the “Holy Trinity” of character classes is nothing new. In fact, it is the most common class distribution deployed by MMO developers.… Continue reading ‘The Holy Trinity of MMOs’
Competitive MMOs, Where Art Thou? Written By Sean “Blazek” Emes, Edited by Jerry “LordJerith” Prochazka There is no doubt that the popularity of competitive gaming is on the rise, and surprisingly, many companies have been giving their support for our scene. The entirety of the Multiplayer Online Battle Arena, or MOBA for short, has made… Continue reading ‘Gamer Rant: Where are the competitive MMOs?’
Can we trust Bioware with an MMO? Written by Sean “Blazek” Emes, Edited by Jordan “Doomhammer” Kahn With dozens of failed and lackluster MMO’s over the last 5 years, it is becoming increasingly difficult for a long time player like myself to put much faith in all the over-hyped games produced each year. Some claim… Continue reading ‘Is The Force with Bioware and Star Wars: The Old Republic?’
CCP Shows us How NOT to Treat Customers – by Jordan “Doomhammer” Kahn It’s almost amazing how rapid a company can go from praised to shunned. For CCP Games, it took less than one week. June 21 marked the release of Incarna, a graphically impressive expansion to the 9 year old MMO known as EVE… Continue reading ‘CCP Games blunders with Eve Online expansion’
Needless Self-Destruction – By Sean “Blazek” Emes, Edited by Jordan “Doomhammer” Kahn Over the last several years, many gamers and developers have been making claims about upcoming MMO’s that would supposedly kill the titan known as World of Warcraft (WoW). All of the games that came in its wake held great claims that they could… Continue reading ‘Is World of Warcraft self-destructing?’
Final Fantasy 14: A Second Chance – Written by Sean “Blazek” Emes, Edited by Jerry “LordJerith” Prochazka Like many fans out there, I was quite displeased with the release of Final Fantasy 14 (FFXIV) as it had far too many issues, bugs, lag, and workarounds required. At first I was ridiculed by Square Enix Fanboys… Continue reading ‘Final Fantasy 14 Revisited’