EverQuest II on Chasing Dings!

EverQuest II goes retro with Anashti Sul

Sat, 04 May 2024 16:48:35 -0500

It’s probably intentional that the latest EverQuest 2 server, Anashti Sul, is named after a deity once known as the “Lifegiver”, but now more known for bringing life to the dead.

This Day In Blogging: August 1, 2006

Tue, 01 Aug 2023 07:00:00 -0500

I’ve been blogging for 25 years. Here’s the things I was blogging about on the first day of August in 1998-ish, 2006, 2008, 2012, and 2020. Enjoy!

MMOs on the Bubble

Sat, 07 Aug 2021 10:11:39 -0500

I don’t play every MMO that comes out – not by a longshot. But, I follow a lot of gamers, streamers, and game developers, and…

EverQuest II: Soloing to Fifty

Mon, 07 Dec 2020 08:32:02 -0500

My time in EverQuest’s latest timelocked progression server, Aradune, didn’t go anywhere this summer. I still felt nostalgic for the older days of MMOs, though,…

What makes an MMO an MMO?

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 07:54:27 -0500

Yesterday, “Kingdoms of Amalur: The Re-Reckoning”, an update of 2012’s “Kingdoms of Amalur: The Reckoning” was released. It’s a refresh of a game that seemed…

Does Crafting have any place in modern MMOs?

Tue, 18 Aug 2020 20:01:55 -0500

This is going to be a little Twitter-heavy, and I apologize for that….

EverQuest is dead. Long live EverQuest! New games trying to capture EQ nostalgia are doomed.

Mon, 11 May 2020 01:02:22 -0500

I’ve been running around in an EverQuest Time-Limited Progression (TLP) server the past couple of days. Is there even such a thing as a new EverQuest player anymore?

Favorite Game Series #2: EverQuest

Thu, 30 Apr 2020 11:44:46 -0500

Before you start objecting to having an MMO up this far, I’m just going to present my bona fides: There’s a TON of games in…

EQ2: Failure Cascade

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:37:16 -0500

I didn’t want to talk about Winterwing before she finished the Butcherblock quest line, but while I was messing up an alliance between the Timorous…