Tonight I was reflecting on the problems with the current MMORPGs, and why I’m not happy with them.. World of Warcraft(WoW) is a good game, in the traditional sense of MMOs, its probably the best “Standard Template” MMO out there. But that doesn’t mean it’s free of issues, or filled with vision…One of the biggest problems I see with WoW(and traditional MMOs), is that they have an exponential levelling curve.. Meaning level 10 is about 100x+ stronger than level 1, and the result is, at lev...

I'm sure everyone is aware of the major brawl that happened at an NBA game here in Michigan last week. Not only has it been big local news, but its been hitting the press and airwaves nationally and worldwide as well. Its been the talk of the sports community, and much to the dismay of the NBA, has been used by people dislike sports to point out that sports breed this type of behaviour. I'm not a big sports fan. When I grew up my dad was a pretty famous Real Estate developer in this sta...

I've really had it with copy protection. As a gamer that BUYS his games, i'm incredibly inconvenienced with horribly obnoxious copy protection to the point I don't even feel like buying games anymore! They should start putting the type of copy protection on the outside of boxes, so I can make my buying decision with this method. Consider that I have two children, and both play games. Even with caution, kids scratch CD's, its just a part of life. So with protection schemes that require the...