New World – Scopique's

Grab Bag for October 28, 2021

Scopique October 28, 2021

New World As if this wasn’t a surprise, I think I’m done with New World. There comes a time in all games when the tutorial-ness of the situation wears off and all that stretches before me is the actual game. I really…

New World – Queue Queue Blues

Scopique October 4, 2021

It’s the kind of problem a service game loves to have: too many people wanting to get in and not enough space to accommodate them all. Wait…I mean…massive interest, but limited seating. No, hold up. What I really mean is that in…

New World – Going Down The Only Road I’ve Ever Known

Scopique September 29, 2021

Way back in 2016, according to the reckonin’, I “expressed interest” in Amazon’s New World. It was only a vague announcement, a promise that Big Evil’s new games studio would be making a Moomorpigger, which was around the time, give or take,…

Wrong Eggs In Wrong Baskets

Scopique September 23, 2021

I don’t really MMO any more. I used to with alarming frequency, and at one point had been able to call myself primarily an “MMO blogger”, but over time I’ve lost interest in the genre. I have a partial ear to the…

Palpable Tension

Scopique July 20, 2021

I’m just writing to report that I am still mired in that weird space between not caring much about any new game that is scheduled to drop, and being faced with several cases where new games or updates to games are scheduled…

I am So Confused Right Now – New World

Scopique August 26, 2020

Amazon’s New World is a game that’s already seen some pretty significant ups and downs. Originally many people thought it was an oPvP game. Then it was considered a kind of 50/50 PvE/PvP split. Now it seems that it’s more 75/25 in…