Alright, I figure I’ve kept you waiting long enough. My test was successful by the looks of things.

A while ago I wrote this to try and make a point - that gamers want a good to hear a good story. Numerous people kept asking me when part two was going to be uploaded (I cheekily told them to wait, knowing full well there was actually no part two at all) because they wanted to see more.

I devised this little test based on a major grievance I have with MMO games. Do not misunderstand me, I mean every last MMO game in existence. There are no exclusions, no exceptions… nothing.
Every MMO I have ever played has failed to deliver any kind of immersive story-based experience whatsoever.  By now you’re probably bright red with rage and ready to throw whatever  potentially dangerous instrument you can find directly at my head, but allow me to explain further before you decide to severely injure me.

MMO’s have only ever been designed to kill time. Questing, grinding, questing, etc… all very repetitive, all designed to delay the players from reaching the end of an “open” game. If this process is followed as predicted by designers, then the

I’ve seen a few articles lately discussing the good and bad things about “cloned” MMO’s. The closed beta release of Wind Slayer has reignited debate on whether blatantly cloning an MMO is good for the gamers, the game itself and the industry as a whole.For those who haven’t seen it, Wind Slayer is almost a carbon copy of another MMO; Maple Story. It does have a few differences in some areas (such as PvP) but the similarities are too many to ignore. Wind Slayer just doesn’t seem to have any original ideas of its own and even resorts to flat-out plagiarism at times; one of the NPC quest givers is named “Gangdalf”, naturally he’s a kindly old wizard (who would have guessed?) and in one of the quest texts his name is misspelled as “Gandalf”. But Wind Slayer is not the game that shamelessly plucks its essence from other sources: Wind Slayer vs. Maple StoryLineage 2 vs. ShaiyaLord of the Rings Online vs. …well, a little bit of everything. While the focus is currently on whether or not cloned games are any good, I’ve become a bit more worried about the genre overall. Cloning games, while not always a good thing, is still accepted in the MMO community. The humble MMO seems to be now stuck