The Evolution of WoW’s Behavioral Psychology
World of Warcraft launched a shade over ten years ago with typical game design motives of RPGs and MMORPGs. The reason we players kept returning to Azeroth was the simple […]
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Gamescom 2013: Blizzard Reveals Design Mishaps with Dailies, Questing & Secondary Professions
Blizzard is an incredibly secretive company. Wait, let me rephrase that. Blizzard is an incredibly secretive company about upcoming revelations. Not only does it hide specifics to the absolute last […]
Dailies – The Pinnacle of Lazy Gaming
When I started playing MMORPGs, there was no such thing as a daily quest, but as theme-park MMOs developed and became the standard, and leveling times shrunk, developers needed a […]
Questing: A Very Wildhammer Wedding
Questing is a column dedicated to highlighting the best quests in MMOGs. We’ll slog through all the horrible “Kill 10 rats,” FedEx and slow escort quests to bring you a […]
RIFT 1.12 Preludes Upcoming Major Content Patch
Don’t be confused by the numbers. Patch 1.2 is still scheduled for a May 10th release, along with some delicious new content to nosh on, but anybody who logged into […]
Forsaken World: Final Impressions and the Bottom Line on Whether You’ll Like It
You can’t really argue that Perfect World Entertainment has quite a share of the free-to-play MMO-market in the West. The company’s stable of titles includes the likes of the ever […]
Forsaken World – It’s interview time!
Recently, Perfect World Entertainment announced that Forsaken World will be launching on the 9th of March (today!). As you may know, the Lore Hound crew has been checking the game […]
Dastardly Dailies Demand Due Diligence
The concept of daily activities, aka dailies, isn’t new in the gamer lexicon. They’ve been around for years. I wouldn’t agree that these digital chores have been with us for […]