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…

Happy 10th birthday, Rift…?

11 Mar 2021

Rift launched on March 1, 2011 which means that it's currently "celebrating" its 10th anniversary! Or it should be, given it's such a nice round number! Trion Worlds was acquired…

My MMOs in 2020

25 Dec 202025 Dec 2020

No new MMO has made it on my list this year. I did give New World a try, but ultimately ended up not liking it. It's okay and I am…

Which MMO does Halloween best?

13 Oct 202013 Oct 2020

I really like the autumn and halloween events in MMOs! When I saw ArenaNet announce the date for their Halloween event (it starts today, by the way) for Guild Wars…

Mixing my MMO

14 Apr 201914 Apr 2019

I am currently playing very different MMOs, because they each give me something I want from this genre while lacking in other areas. Elder Scrolls Online has this seemingly huge…

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,…

Announcing: Trove & Defiance 2050 Giveaways

8 Jul 201829 Jun 2020

We just started a giveaway for Trove and Defiance 2050! The actual giveaway can be found on our usual giveaway page. So go over there in order to enter the…

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…

MMO gaming-goals this autumn

13 Sep 20173 Aug 2019

I really miss the time where I played only one MMORPG (World of Warcraft) and Guild Wars 1 for its story whenever I found time. I am currently trying to…

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…

Help! I like too many MMOs…

24 Apr 201624 Apr 2016

In the past few weeks, I thought I had finally fallen out of love with Rift. It was to a point where I did not even log in anymore to…

Bookahneer’s Geekwatch: MMO+

20 Sep 2015

Welcome to Bookahneer’s Geekwatch! This is the place where we talk about miscellaneous things like little pieces of gaming news that have attracted our interest or what's recently been in…

Let me show you all my mini-mes – Blaugust Day 20

17 Aug 201516 Aug 2015

Apparently, it has been almost two years since I have last shown you all my virtual "mini-me"s. I figured that Blaugust is the perfect month to give you an updated…

Diversity in regional design: Spring

8 Nov 20148 Nov 2014

I really love spring in "real life". When the sun starts to feel warm on your skin again. The snow is melting (if there had been some). The first birds…

World of Warcraft: 10 years – 10 questions

7 Sep 2014

I stumbled upon a post by the ALT:ernative chat blog asking former and current World of Warcraft players 10 questions. This post is from August, so I was worried I'd…

Project 10/10: Where did day 8 go?

11 Jun 2013

Do you remember that not that long ago, I announced that I was joining Syp in his 10/10 Project? If you have, you probably saw the first seven posts. And…

The 10/10 project: Wurm Online (Day 7)

9 May 201323 Aug 2019

Game number 7 for the 10/10 Project was Wurm Online. Even though the game officially released on December 12, 2012, this is not a new game at all. According to…

The 10/10 project: Age of Wushu (Day 6)

29 Apr 2013

The 6th game for the 10/10 project was Age of Wushu. This game released on April 10, 2013, with its US publisher Snail Games. It's been released in China last…

The 10/10 project: Champions of Regnum (Day 5)

8 Apr 2013

My fifth day of the 10/10 project brought me to "Champions of Regnum". This is a free to play MMORPG with a focus on RvR (open world PvP, so to…

The 10/10 project: Dark Age of Camelot (Day 4)

1 Apr 20131 Apr 2013

I chose Dark Age of Camelot which was released in 2001 to be the 4th game I would play for the 10/10 project. I played Warhammer Online for a full…

The 10/10 project: Pirate101 (Day 3)

29 Mar 201331 Mar 2013

I have played (well, tried out, rather) Wizard101 before and expected Pirate101 to be more or less the same just in a pirate setting instead of the wizarding school. I…

The 10/10 Project: Everquest (Day 2)

25 Mar 201331 Mar 2013

Everquest is the second game for Syp's 10/10 project. This will not be a long post, however. As you can probably guess from this, I did not play it long.…

The 10/10 Project: The Missing Ink (Day 1)

23 Mar 201331 Mar 2013

The first of the 10 MMOs that I'll be playing for the 10/10 project was "The Missing Ink". All in all, I had 30 games on my list and went…

Bookahneer’s Geekwatch (March 21, 2013)

21 Mar 2013

Welcome to today’s Bookahneer’s Geekwatch! The place about miscellaneous interesting news related to Guild Wars 2 – and on occasion, other games. Today is more about other games than about…

First Impressions: Hello Kitty Online

21 Jan 201223 Aug 2019

Here it is, the "special MMO" I've mentioned some time ago. I'd actually played the tutorial several months ago but recently went back and played through it again. This has…

SWTOR First impressions

30 Nov 201123 Aug 2019

Yep, I'm still here. Busy with my job and busy playing games (on my free days, at least). For the time being, it seems that I've pretty much paused playing…

How many chances do you give a game?

14 Nov 201114 Nov 2011

When bookahnerk first let me play WoW on his account, I was immediately hooked. Poor guy had wanted to nap a bit but couldn't because I kept bothering him with…

MMORPGs and their expansions

9 Sep 20119 Sep 2011

Recently, there's been a lot of diversity regarding Lotro's upcoming expansion "Rise of Isengard". I'm not even going into the pricing "issue" now. But I've seen a lot of people…