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Wolfshead has started a really great discussion on his blog: Waiting for the Next MMO Revolution The reason why I’m in a perpetual state of angst is that I feel that the MMO industry has squandered all of the great potential that was evident a scant 10 years ago during the first MMO [...] By now, many of you have read my article What Went Wrong with Warhammer Online? Is it a failure? Since I wrote the article, new leadership really has not done much to address those issues. In a recent interview, the head dev. of Warhammer put the blame for WAR’s problems on the game being too [...] This story is amusing at first: Amazon Coughs Up $150K for Lost Homework But when I think about it in more detail, it starts to make me nervous. How much is someone’s MMO character worth? What if a character is lost and: Cannot be restored. The backup lacks expensive, virtual items. The account is banned [...] According to an article on Gamasutra (Analysis: Why EA Isn’t An Acquisition Target (For Now)) this is not going to happen, but it raises two interesting questions. 1) Would a Microsoft buyout of EA be good for the industry? 2) Would a Microsoft buyout of EA be good for gamers? My answer is no to [...] One thing about Threshold I have always taken a lot of pride in is the fact that our population is almost an exact 50/50 split of men and women. I think this one fact has been vitally important to the strength of our community. This is incredibly common in the MMO industry, however: “Currently, 64% [...] The Nintendo Wii is a smash success, but not with a lot of serious, hardcore gamers. But it doesn’t have to be that way. With a few years left in the Wii’s lifecycle, now is a good time to go after those serious gamers. My suggestions, or what would make ME buy/play more Wii games: [...] Often these types of legal proceedings are pretty dull, but I find this one interesting: Bethesda Sues Interplay Over Use Of Fallout License Fallout rights holder Bethesda Softworks has made good on its threat to sue developer Interplay for allegedly failing to hold up its end of agreements inked in April 2007. The plaintiff said [...] Perhaps because I make games and because I believe so strongly in the importance of community in MMOs, I like to think that my industry treats its customers better than other industries. Apparently I am not just wrong, but getting more wrong by the day. Some examples: World of Warcraft: They have bragged for years [...] Ok, this is very immature. But I cannot help it. I am a PC fanboy at heart, and every time the PC gets a better version of something than the consoles I am happy. Valve Confirms Left 4 Dead DLC Free On PC, Paid On Xbox 360 Living up to previously-made claims that Left 4 [...] The last blog post inspired some interesting thoughts and opinions. So I did a little surfing and found some interesting articles (with pictures of course) that touched on the issue as well. Boobs Through the Years Soul Calibur IV keeps laying on the sexuality Soul Calibur IV gets boob job This is a particularly interesting [...] This is a really interesting idea for game financing. It sounds utterly impossible and unlikely to ever work, but it is still worth pondering. Gabe is a smart guy with a great history in the industry (his company is Valve, you may have heard of it… they did Half Life, Steam, Left 4 Dead). Valve’s [...] Wow. The bad news just keeps rolling in. This was reported on Gamasutra: Sony Online Entertainment Lays Off 41 This is after they recently reported losses of over a billion dollars (Sony, not SOE specifically), and the CEO of Activision threatening to stop making games for the PS3 if they don’t cut prices. EQ2 struggles [...] I met Jon Radoff, the founder of gamerDNA, at IMGDC. He is an all around great guy and a pioneer in the MUD/MMO/online gaming industry. His new company is extremely interesting and already has a couple of really fun applications out there. Without spoiling the more detailed article, gamerDNA basically creates a community out of [...] I was reading another article from one of my excellent Bright Hub writers and it got me thinking about this topic: 5 Best Wii Games for Couples Aside from the Wii, is there any platform at all that really makes an effort to develop gaming content specifically for couples? And I am not referring to [...] I just returned from a really exciting event. My wife and I led a roundtable about text games at the IMGDC. We were very pleasantly surprised by how packed our roundtable was. People seem to still be very interested in text games! I am more energized than ever about Threshold, Primordiax, and the other games [...] The closing down of an MMO is a sad event. Thousands of players have just lost the core of their gaming community, and they really have no recourse. I recently wrote two articles about the development history of Tabula Rasa and its final event: History, Timeline and Post Mortem of Tabula Rasa The End [...] The video game industry netted over $20 billion dollars in 2008. It continues to expand into new markets and new platforms. The Netbook is the next logical platform for growth. For detailed analysis, please read this article I wrote and then tell me what you think about the topic: Netbooks Are the Next Gaming [...] As you may recall, I wrote a review of Age of Conan a few months ago: Age of Conan is a Hot Mess. My review was extremely unfavorable. I have followed the game in the news since then, and while I have read about improvements nothing has really addressed the (imho) core flaws. Then I [...] I imagine some of you have read a few of the articles from the last year or so where writers try to draw comparisons between raid leading in a game like WoW, and management in the business world. I seem to recall the Wall Street Journal even wrote about it. I must admit, every time [...] This is an abbreviated version of the story designed to get some discussion going. For the full story, with all the details, read my article here: Wikipedia’s War on Gaming History and Threshold RPG . 1) Wikipedia is full of people gunning for an administrator promotion. In the current climate, the easiest path is getting [...] |
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