MMORPG Columns
Scott Jennings
Scott Jennings is a veteran MMO designer and the Internet personality once known as Lum The Mad. Every Wednesday he provides us an insider's look at the MMO industry.
MMORPG.com's Scott Jennings turns his sights this week on turning raw data into processed data for fun and profit. Well, profit, anyway.
MMORPG.com columnist Scott Jennings takes this week's column inches to look at why Bioware's Star Wars: The Old Republic has the potential to be a disaster for the MMO industry as a whole.
The battle lines are being drawn between “social games” and traditional gaming, and the rhetoric is getting bloody. Today, MMORPG.com columnnist Scott Jennings takes a look at the issue.
Today, MMORPG.com columnist Scott Jennings devotes his column to a single thought: Activision lowers the boom on Infinity Ward, and illustrates a fundamental problem with game development.
MMORPG.com columnist Scott Jennings writes about the recent uproar over Allods Online's microtransaction prices.
Outspoken MMORPG.com columnist Scott Jennings looks at the convention of questing in MMOS, how it works and whether or not it's really necessary.
MMORPG.com columnist Scott Jennings has been playing Cryptic's Star Trek Online and today uses his article to talk about the game, pointing out the good, the bad and the ugly.
Last week, Scott Jennings used his column this week to remind us of "some of the most spectacular MMORPG flameouts." This week, he takes a step back and looks at how those failures were preventable.
MMORPG.com columnist Scott Jennings uses his column this week to discuss "some of the most spectacular MMORPG flameouts" in part one of a two part article.
MMORPG.com Columnist Scott Jennings lays out the reasons, both good and bad, that he'll be picking up Cryptic's Star Trek Online.
MMORPG.com columnist Scott Jennings responds to news this week that Google will be pulling out of China by taking a look at the western MMO industry's relationship with our friends in the East.
It's easy to look back on the year that was. Many different writers are recapping the year 2009. It takes a special kind of writer though to skip ahead into the future and recap the year ahead. In his usual tongue in cheek style, MMORPG.com columnist Scott Jennings looks into the future to recap the year 2010.
Scott Jennings returns with his column this week to talk about the year that was, in 2009, and the trail of destruction that it left in its wake... at least where MMO development is concerned.
MMORPG.com columnist Scott Jennings writes this look at two ways that including PvP in your MMO can end in complete disaster.
MMORPG.com columnist Scott Jennings writes this look at expansion packs in the world of MMORPGs and how they can often be less of a blessing that one might first think.