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Category: Paeroka’s Ponderings

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Paeroka’s Ponderings: What’s new in this year’s Halloween festivities?

21 Oct 202221 Oct 2022
I love and hate festivals in MMOs. In general, I think that most MMOs capture the spirit of the respective festival quite well. This is especially true for the Halloween…
Blogging Months…

Paeroka’s Ponderings: Living in an MMO

4 Aug 20224 Aug 2022
Answering one of my own prompts here: If you could – or had to – live in an MMO world for the rest of your life, which one would you…
Blogging Months…

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…

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…
Games…

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…
Games…

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…
Blogging Months…

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…
Games…

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…
Blogging Months…

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.…
Fluff…

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,…
Guild Wars 2…

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…
Characters/Classes…

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…

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…
Community…

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,…
Game Design…

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…
Characters/Classes…

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…
Game Design…

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…
Game Design…

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…
Game Design…

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…
Game Design…

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…
Game Design…

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…

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 Months…

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…
Games…

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.…
Blogging Months…

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…
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