Category Archives: Gaming

Fandom Engagement in MMO’s

Posted on October 3, 2026 by David K.

Despite the player count numbers that are available on Steam charts, there’s a second-level metric that I think is useful to track the health of an MMO, and that’s the engagement of the subreddit(s) devoted to the game. For a … Continue reading →

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The State of Fallout 76

Posted on September 25, 2026 by David K.

Over the past couple of seasons, Fallout 76 keeps creeping towards more grinding against worsening RNG. The current season leans hard into hiding the best items behind things that take some people hundreds of hours to luck into. To make … Continue reading →

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Fallout 76’s Fortunes over the Prime TV Show

Posted on September 25, 2026 by David K.

I asked AI to make a graph of the effect of the Prime TV show on Fallout 76’s population. The solid line is Steam concurrent players; the dashed line is the peak. I also asked for a summary of the … Continue reading →

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Ban Them Too

Posted on July 20, 2026 by David K.

Controversial take, I know, but ban them too, and for the same reason that you’d ban bots. If bots are disrupting the game balance or ruining the economy with some particular behavior, then the actual people doing that same behavior … Continue reading →

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A Tale of Two Games

Posted on April 13, 2026 by David K.

Last year, Microsoft slashed ZeniMax Online Studios to the bone, cutting an unreleased game that had been taking 7 years in development, and firing half the studio that was working on it. Although not fired, per se, the studio lead … Continue reading →

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The Love/Hate for ESO Turns Once Again

Posted on April 3, 2026 by David K.

I’ve written extensively about ESO. I started during COVID with some IRL friends, took a break, came back for Oakensoul and Arcanist, took another long break, recently came back for subclassing, and now I think I’m well and truly done. … Continue reading →

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Developer Deep Dive—ESO’s Class Identity Refresh – The Elder Scrolls Online

Posted on December 3, 2025 by David K.

ZeniMax Online Studio’s Combat Team shares their core philosophies, goals, and planning surrounding the future of ESO’s classes. As it stands, subclassing is objectively stronger than “pure” classing by a large margin for several reasons. This is mostly caused by … Continue reading →

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ESO dev “befuddled” that some still don’t know the decade-old MMO is out

Posted on November 24, 2025 by David K.

Elder Scrolls Online launched way back in 2014, if you didn’t know, and Zenimax has plans to put the ‘underdog’ MMORPG on your radar. The Elder Scrolls Online has enjoyed a bit of a second wind recently, with Lambert and … Continue reading →

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The ESO Forums: Reddit without the Drama… or the Interestingness

Posted on August 31, 2025 by David K.

I’ve documented my love-hate relationship with the Elder Scrolls Online for quite some time. To summarize the current state of the game, I think they’ve dug themselves into a pit, and they keep digging. I don’t think they’re going to … Continue reading →

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Fallout 5 Is Now Reportedly “Fully Greenlit” – GameSpot

Posted on July 15, 2025 by David K.

But it may have come at the cost of ZeniMax Online’s now canceled MMORPG. <snip> Corden said from what he has heard, part of the forward push for Fallout 5 and Fallout in general came at the expense of ZeniMax … Continue reading →

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