Paeroka’s Ponderings: When is a game too cheap?

29 Nov 2021

Quite obviously, developers need to make a living, so they do need to earn enough to pay for rent, food, health insurance and all that other nonsense that people like…

Paeroka’s Ponderings: Railroading in MMOs

24 Jan 2021

It took me a long time until I could finally step into the Shadowlands expansion in World of Warcraft. And I am immediately longing for WoW Classic again (well, the…

Paeroka’s Ponderings: Gamescom 2020 – What’s the verdict? What did you discover?

12 Sep 2020

Altogether, I was very happy with the online version of gamescom. Having moved away, we aren't able to go to gamescom anymore and we probably wouldn't even go if we…

Paeroka’s Ponderings: Guilds and their leaders

24 May 2020

The members of Dragon Season (a guild on the EU servers in Guild Wars 2) may remember a time where I was actively playing the game and organized our guild…

Paeroka’s Ponderings: Choosing the wrong class in MMOs

13 Apr 2020

I usually like the levelling process in MMOs. The amount of alts I have is proof enough! But it does get tedious at some point - both in MMOs with…

The worst game genre?

23 Jan 2020

I know there is no way to realistically and objectively call any genre the worst, of course. But I guess every gamer has this one genre that they cannot stand…

Paeroka’s Ponderings: Why I stopped liking Guild Wars 2

24 Aug 2019

What to do when you're actually just waiting for your nostalgia trip to start in World of Warcraft Classic? I thought I'd like to advance my guardian further into Mirkwood.…

Paeroka’s Ponderings: Mounts in MMOs

7 Aug 2019

This post isn't about whether MMOs should have mounts or not. I love them and even Guild Wars 2 found a way to implement them in a meaningful way. However,…

Paeroka’s Ponderings: Vertical maps

7 Jul 2019

For a while, I'd been very excitedly levelling my guardian in LotRO and was really happy when she'd gotten to level 50. But then, a few levels into Mines of…

Warlock then and now

10 Jun 201910 Jun 2019

As I mentioned before, I decided to give the "old-school" World of Warcraft a try on a private server. Directly after playing a warlock over there, I went back to…

Paeroka’s Ponderings: Back to the roots…?

23 May 2019

I guess every MMO enthusiast has heard about WoW Classic by now. At the end of August, servers will open. A few months of playing the "good old World of…

Paeroka’s Ponderings: Goodbye, Rift?

23 Oct 201823 Oct 2018

As some of you know, I love Trion Worlds and the games they have created - well, most of them, at least. I have not always agreed with their decisions,…

Paeroka’s Ponderings: Defiance 2050

4 May 20183 Aug 2019

I had originally planned to write about my impressions of the Defiance 2050 beta, but for several reasons, I have not been playing it enough to warrant a whole and…

Paeroka’s Ponderings: Racial skills?

5 Feb 2017

I have recently tried hopping into Elder Scrolls Online again and as I want a fresh start, I looked up guides and possible builds for the classes, to get a…

Paeroka’s Ponderings: When is a game worth your money?

17 Sep 201617 Sep 2016

I know there are a lot of gamers with a huge backlog of games and a bad conscience whenever they get yet another game even though there is this long…

Paeroka’s Ponderings: Gear and level-advantages in PvP

28 Aug 201628 Aug 2016

Some time ago, I read a topic in the German section of the Black Desert Online forum where a player suggested that the game's PvP may be better if there…

Paeroka’s Ponderings: Bored-out instead of Burnout?

6 Jul 20166 Jul 2016

Excuse the bad pun up there, but something got me thinking... In a conversation about GW2's content drought, somebody wrote (I don't have a link, so I'll paraphrase here out…

Paeroka’s Ponderings: Original vs. expansion “maps”

16 May 201616 May 2016

When an MMO originally launches, I often find myself exploring the world and simply enjoying the stories that can be found. When you play a hobbit in Lord of the…

Paeroka’s Ponderings: Splitting your game in two

27 Feb 201617 Apr 2016

A few weeks ago, Daybreak Games announced H1Z1 being split into two games, H1Z1: Just Survive and H1Z1: King of the Hill. Is splitting your games in two about to…

Paeroka’s Ponderings: Spending money in Trion’s games

29 Jan 2016

A side note first: I am very late with continuing the "Blogging 101" challenges, as I did not have any good ideas for some of the last tasks. Blogging 101…

Blogging 101: A little fly on the wall…

20 Jan 201631 Jan 2016

Day 11 of "Blogging 101" asked me to take a daily prompt and make it fit to my blog's content. The first prompt was boring as I had more or…

Busy October

10 Oct 201531 Jan 2016

As I mentioned back in August, October is a pretty busy month with several games releasing or adding updates that I've been looking forward to. There is one notable exception.…

Why the rush? – Blaugust Day 16

14 Aug 201531 Jan 2016

I was so close to level 18 with my spellslinger, that I headed off to a nearby quest hub, grabbed all the quests I saw, killed whatever had the quest-icon…