I feel like I’ve abandon the blogging internet world for a while because I have returned many comments, haven’t blogged in a while or been on twitter! I haven’t checked twitter for almost a week now. Well I have an excuse for abandoning this for a while, I’ve been busy playing Battles of Immortals, I know so geeky. It’s way to addicted and I just can’t stop playing it.

I’m going to be a bit more free time now because there’s going to be some changes at work. Currently I work 9am – 5.30pm which isn’t so bad. However my actual travel + work hours are 7.30am – 6.45pm. In the morning I get to work before 8.30am and I don’t really have a choice because that’s the only train that I can take what will get me to work before 9am. I don’t get home for over an hour because the train doesn’t leave till 5.48pm so I have to sit around and wait in the office for 10-15mins. So I end up sitting around for about 45mins a day, just waiting for the work day to start and end, kinda annoying really.

My work place is going to be implementing flexi time meaning we can start anytime between 8.30am – 9.30am and end 5pm – 6.00pm (we must work at least 8hrs 30mins though). This is perfect for me since I get to work before 8.30 anyways so I can start straight away and go home earlier (5pm)

Another cool change is that we is that every Friday is half day!! So I will be finish at 1pm on Fridays. Yay for 4 1/2 day a week instead of 5 and get paid full time.

You’re probably wondering why the hell they decided to do that, well it’s because many people have left in the last 6 months (over 30% and there’s only 50-55 employees) and most of them are senior roles. That isn’t good for the company at all. It obviously means there’s something wrong. They are doing this as a desperate measure to keep people here. Hopefully meaning that they will actually deal with the problems. All these extra benefit will keep employees happy for a while but eventually the problems will overwhelm them if not dealt with.

I have no problems with my work place (my first job, so I don’t really know any different and I’ve only been here for 9 month). I’m going to be loving these extra hours. I’m so excited about half day Friday, more time to play BOI (geeeky)!

The users’ views and opinions are one of the most important factor in a successful project, especially in software and games development. I’m a big MMORPG fan and have been playing them since I was 15 (yes I know, I’m a total geek). A successful MMORPG not only needs to be fun, unique and exciting, but it also needs to meet the users’ needs. This is the same for software too.

One very common issue is mis-interruption or thinking too far ahead when it isn’t needed. The users want something pretty simple that might only take a few hours to a days to completely. The developers would develop something amazing and clever but it that took months and months to completely. By then the users are not longer interested and in the case of a game they would have quit and forgotten about it.

I like to play free MMORPGs where they have cash shop for players to buy in game enhancements with real cash. Many of these types of MMORPGs generally take a long time to release small bug fixes and a even longer time to release anything new. It’s also common that the new features aren’t really want the players want. I feel that most MMORPG companies don’t listen to players. It seems that all they can think about is how to learn money so they just release more items to the cash shop rather than to the game.

Earning money is really important but without players where will the money come from. It’s so important to earn money but also keep the players happy. If players are happy they will stay loyal to be game and will spend money on it. It just annoys me so much when game companies do that. They don’t bother doing anything about the game till they’ve earn enough money or sometimes don’t even bother at all because they are earning enough.

I do have the habit of playing MMORPGs when they’re first released. That is actually a pretty bad move because a free MMORPG generally don’t become good and stable for at least 6 months.

I’m currently playing Priston Tales 2 and wow it’s bad! So many bugs and issues that needs addressing. They have claimed that they will be releasing a big patch with loads of changes soon. I’m not so sure that changes are a good thing, they should stick with addressing current issues and what players really want. Sometimes the changes can make it worse. Well I’ll find out soon enough, when the patch is released.

I’m doing a giveaway at Essencious Jewels. This time it is for a single medium heart necklace. You can find out all the information here. You have till the end of the month to enter. This time it isn’t a contest, just a simple raffle style giveaway. Make sure you check it out and don’t miss out on this

Priston Tales 2 is going live tonight. I’m so excited to play. I’m such a MMORPG geek. I love love love MMORPGs and play them all the time.

I have been playing mmos since I was 14 (back in 2003) and I have been playing them pretty often since then. I cut down a lot since last summer when I started looking for a full time job. Since I started this full time job, I haven’t really hard the time to hardcore any mmorpgs. I remember I use to hardcore these so much back at university. I spent at least 6-8 hrs playing some mmo a day and I still had the time to party twice/three times a week and study (just about). I don’t think I could do that again tho because I didn’t sleep much back then. Guess I’ve grown old haha.

Anyways really really looking forward to playing Priston Tales 2 (I played the first Priston Tales back in 2003) so I really really hope this one will be good

Any mmorpg lovers want to join me?