Archive for January, 2008

Adrift in a Burning Sea

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

I started off playing Pirates of the Burning Sea with the pre-boarding party, which means that I have been playing for nearly four weeks and have not written very much. I mentioned my first character, a freetrader, in a post.
Of course, I have since rolled an alt, who has quickly become my main. […]

January in Review

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

The Site
I wrote a bunch of nonsense over the course of the month, nothing out of the ordinary in that, but this month a bit of it caught on elsewhere.
First, my “MMORPG Progdictionations” got quite a few page views, some from forum links where things I predicted were being discussed rather seriously. I guess […]

Pirates of the Burning Sea Underway

Friday, January 25th, 2008

Pirates of the Burning Sea went live yesterday after a few weeks of limited pre-boarding. I did the pre-order for PotBS after open beta. I also did the pre-order period for LotRO which resulted in a very smooth launch for that game– in part because the economy got a jump start and the […]

Finally, an MMORPG I Still Won’t Play

Friday, January 25th, 2008

Sorry Taylor. Despite the title of this post, I think all of you should go check out this Kotaku preview of Pirates of the Burning Sea. The land-based portions of this game look like World of Pirates, but the sailing/fighting sections look very cool. I have only dabbled with detailed ship combat games (I mostly […]

SOE, A Grace Period Please?

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

I picked up the pre-order box for Pirates of the Burning Sea, downloaded the client, and have been playing the game since the “Pre-Boarding” party began.
That is pretty much the same story I told when Lord of the Rings Online came out. I bought the pre-order box, played through the pre-release, and then went […]

The Official SOE Podcast #28

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Alan “Brenlo” Crosby and Aimee “Ashlanne” Rekoske host this episode of the SOE Podcast, with Jason “Pex” Ryan reading the news.
Topics:

SOE Gaming News
Thanks to EQ2 Guides
Happy New Year
The Holiday Break
CES - The Agency & Pirates of the Burning Sea
Interview with the Pizza Delivery Dude
EverQuest II - New producer
Aimee’s 30th Birthday/Disneyland Trip
Listener Email: Dillard asks about […]

Is There Hope for a Science Fiction MMORPG?

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

This came to be in the car during my commute while I was pondering the future possibilities of Star Trek Online. I think I actually managed to capture most of it in notes, put great chunks of it down in writing, then edited out the irrelevancies.
This is an attempt to lay down the environment that […]

Pirates of the Burning Sea: Things you wish you knew…

Monday, January 21st, 2008

There’s a good thread going over in the PotBS forums called Things i wish i would have known earlier…. Like a lot of smaller games (especially early on), there is still a fair amount of really useful info that is still in the playerbase “lore” category rather than in a tutorial or in-game help […]

The Unbearable Lightness of UDP

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

I would never go out and buy hardware just to be able to play a game.
Ha ha ha ha!
Yes, I know, what a kidder I am. I have as much as admitted on these pages to upgrading video cards and replacing my whole home system pretty much in the name of gaming.
But this time […]

CES: SONY Pirates of the Burning Sea Party

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

SONY Pirates of the Burning Sea Party
Originally uploaded by JoeDuck
Thanks to SONY Online and Flying Lab software for a very nice party showcasing the Pirates of the Burning Sea, a new Massively Multiplayer online game or “MMO”.   I’ve been researching the MMORPG topic for the past few weeks and it was great to get a […]