A laggy first day for Rohan Philippines
February 27, 2009 by Joel Tan
Filed under Asian MMO, Asian MMO Players, Guilds/Clans/Factions, Level Up! Games, MMORPG, MMORPG News, MMORPG Videos, My World, Random Rants, Rohan Online
I’ve forgotten how crappy the first days of most online games closed beta testing are. Rohan: Blood Feud’s first day in the Philippines has not been spared. No matter my resolve to continue playing, I find it more and more difficult to level my character. I mean, a choppy latency is bad; not being able to move while watching, usually in morbid fascination, mobs hacking and biting away at your character is definitely worse.
I know, I know. I shouldn’t be harsh, since that’s why online games have a closed beta period—to iron out the kinks and ride out the birth …read more
Granado Espada: What’s up with the lag?
January 20, 2009 by Joel Tan
Filed under Asian MMO, Asian MMO Players, E-Games Philippines, Granado Espada, MMORPG, MMORPG News, My World
I haven’t been playing Granado Espada lately simply because the servers are too laggy, giving mobs enough time to kill off members of my family one by one with nary a sword swing or fireball. Couple this nasty tidbit with the long wait for family members to revive or having to journey back to the point where they fell, then you’ve got a recipe for getting turned off.
No, I’m not giving up on Granado Espada. I’m just laying off it for a while, at least until the guys up at IAH Games resolve the problem. Yes, I know they’ve resolved …read more
Playing online games in countries with weak IT infrastructures sucks, bigtime
December 4, 2007 by Joel Tan
Filed under Asian MMO, Perfect World, Random Rants
Awwww, dead again. Here I am, in front of the computer, staring up the skirt of my dead Level 77 monster summoner who is, at the moment, lying lifeless on the ground after receiving what seemed like a thousand bites from a fanged bunny in a span of a second.
How did this happen and what did my black beauty, Malystryx, do to deserve this gruesome fate? The answers are LAG and NOTHING.
Character death due to lag or lag spikes, such as the one experienced by my Perfect World avatar several minutes ago, can be an extremely frustrating experience even for …read more
