Blogging Months… What’s the point in housing? 25 Apr 2020 In a post musing about the problems with housing in MMOs, Roger from Contains Moderate Peril said that you can ask 100 players and will get 100 answers as to…
Fun!… MMOs are weird virtual worlds… – Where’s the toilet? 29 Jul 2019 With the exception of very few MMOs, there are simply no toilets or just in general bathrooms in MMOs. Apparently, there is no need for hygiene? From the top of…
Elder Scrolls Online… Looking for a new MMO-home 27 Oct 201827 Oct 2018 We still have not heard anything from gamigo and their plans with the games they acquired from Trion. Of course, all of this doesn't necessarily mean that Rift will be…
Housing… Rift Dimension building project: Tempest Island IV 21 May 2017 I switched to different projects thinking I've run out of ideas how to continue with this dimension, but in the end, I always get some ideas for little things I…
Housing… Rift Dimensions: Tree House in Moonshade Pools 2 Apr 201713 Apr 2017 For months, I've been dreaming about making a tree house for my elf (Kelari, actually) rogue in Rift. I had chosen the Stone Grove already, but something didn't "click". It…
Housing… Rift Dimension building project: Tempest Island III 16 Jul 2016 I just realized that the last time I showed my Tempest Island dimension was almost one year ago. I did not add too much to the main rooms on the lower…
Housing… Rift Housing: Stone Grove 4 Jul 2016 My newest housing project is "Stone Grove". I want to build a house up in the trees. I guess I'll also have to plant a few more trees, as the…
Fluff… Wildstar’s Jumpstart Pack – Is it worth the price? 19 Mar 20161 May 2016 I only just wrote about Wildstar's housing and wondered whether you could get the housing teleporter and now they added it to their store for the cost of 720 NCoins.…
Game Design… Housing in MMOs: Wildstar 13 Mar 2016 The first parts of this series were posted a long time ago, but I recently stumbled over one of them again and figured I should add Wildstar to this list.…
General… Project: Wildstar Housing 3 Feb 2016 I did it! I managed to get my second character to level 14 which is where you unlock your housing plot. In case you're now sitting there in front of…
Guild Wars 2… Claiming Lost Precipice 31 Oct 2015 Yesterday, our German guild had planned their first try to claim their guild hall. To be honest, we have kind of neglected those guys this year. We know each other…
Housing… Rift Dimension building project: Tempest Island II 26 Jul 2015 It has been one week since I showed you my newly acquired dimension "Tempest Island". Don't worry, this will not be a weekly column. I am sure building will slow…
Housing… Rift Dimension building project: Tempest Island 19 Jul 201520 Jul 2015 For weeks, I'd been waiting for patch 3.3 to arrive in Rift. With it came new dimensions and I had set my eyes on "Tempest Island". I used to build…
Housing… Rift: Time of Day 7 Feb 2015 Rift just as many other MMOs has a day and night cycle. This change of light is also happening in dimensions. Of course, sometimes you want to set a certain…
Housing… My personal oasis in Rift (December 2014) 26 Dec 20149 Jan 2015 The last time I have shown you my dimension was in November after the expansion had landed in Rift bringing with it the minion system which led to an influx…
Housing… My personal oasis in Rift 9 Nov 20149 Jan 2015 With the new expansion, Rift added the "Minions" mini game. I won't go into how the "game" - let's rather call it "activity" - works. I will save that for…
Fluff… Nightmare Tide CE’s dimension items and Bloop 5 Oct 20149 Jan 2015 With the expansion being postponed, my plans to play said expansion during my vacation (it was a coincidence that my 5 day vacation was exactly when the expansion should have…
Game Design… Housing in MMOs: Everquest 2 23 Feb 2014 I felt that there could not be a blog post series about housing (with Lord of the Rings Online, Aion and Rift) without Everquest 2. Even though I have never…
Game Design… Housing in MMOs: Rift 1 Feb 20149 Jan 2015 This is part 3 of the series "Housing in MMOs". After looking at Lord of the Rings Online and Aion, I will focus on Rift today. The most important difference…
Games… Housing in MMOs: Aion 27 Jan 201427 Jan 2014 This is part 2 of the "Housing in MMOs" series. Part 1 was looking at Lord of the Rings Online. Today's MMO is Aion. This blog post was largely written…
Game Design… Housing in MMOs: Lord of the Rings Online 10 Jan 2014 There are many things I want and expect from MMOs and one thing is housing. I love feeling as if I was in a virtual world and for me, having…
Housing… Lotro: Buy your housing chests before Helm’s Deep arrives! 15 Nov 2013 Unfortunately, there aren't many exciting news about housing changes on the horizon, if at all. The most important change at the moment is that the chests available in your personal…
Housing… Finally home: Rift 26 Jun 2013 I've always had a soft spot for Rift and when I heard it would go free to play, I was ecstatic. I had heard that they added housing (called "dimensions"…
