Recent content by Chas Blackwell

I'm finding this incredibly frustrating, having preordered it through Steam and I still can't get it to even start up, let alone deal with the bugs. I preordered largely because I'd seen a talk from last summer by Chris Avellone on the dialogue and storytelling system the game uses (which even...

The idea that you're handicapped just because you're a new player and you'll never catch up to older players is not exactly correct. Yes, in terms of skill points, you're always going to be behind someone who is an older player. On the other hand, the advantage that those skill points give...

Well, as someone whose played the game for 3+ years straight now you can probably guess where I come down on this. Eve is a very different game from WoW or pretty much every other MMO out there. Most of those are based on the old MUD model; find some monsters, kill them, get better stuff, etc...

As the recruitment director for an RP corp on Eve Online, all I can say is that this article may be true about WoW, but it is tragically incorrect if you try to apply it to all MMOs. The roleplaying scene in Eve is fairly large, vibrant, and competes on equal footing with even the best of the...