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Free Realms like Harry Potter – attracting adults?

March 20, 2009

We raise an eyebrow as commentary on Free Realms continues. Not because Free Realms is a poor idea, or even because there’s no room for this commentary. We raise an eyebrow, rather, because of who the commentary is coming from. Free Realms is WoW for millenials: Free, social, and everyone wins and gets a pet. [...]

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Most self-described “hardcore” PvP gamers are likely full of shit.

February 20, 2009

Scott Jennings makes a great point about why Darkfall won’t make it in the end: …people enjoy hardcore PvP in the abstract. Or, to put another way, many more people believe they are ‘hardc0re’ then actually are. And they dislike being proved wrong pretty powerfully… The Mordred problem is simply that a great majority of [...]

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Reassessing EVE. Or, Our EVE Experiment (mendax.eve?).

February 19, 2009

Our take on EVE Online has fluctuated worse than a woman’s pregnancy mood. Let us summarize: When we were first exposed to EVE through a friend, we didn’t think much of it. Giving it some more thought, however, we loved the idea of a graphical Trade Wars MMO. EVE even brought back memories of what [...]

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World of Warcraft’s success is greatly because of luck.

February 10, 2009

One of the primary reasons that World of Warcraft (WoW) managed to make MMOGs mainstream is because of timing. That’s not to say that WoW isn’t a good game in its own right, but chances are, if the stars weren’t in perfect alignment, WoW wouldn’t have amazed observers with its vacuum-like prowess at sucking in [...]

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Diablo III: the mini-WoW?

January 29, 2009

Show us a gamer who’s not excited about Diablo 3, and we’ll show you a liar. Diablo 2 was the master of hack’n slash, the mother of World of Warcraft (WoW), and the devourer of too many hours of our free time. With a sequel on the way and Blizzard’s massive weight behind it, Diablo [...]

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It’s not about the niche, it’s about the IP.

January 26, 2009

Damion at Zen of Design touched on some of the reasons that Tabula Rasa (TR) failed. Once touted as the next brainchild of Ultima creator Richard Garriott, TR promised to bring an action-packed science-fiction backdrop to the MMORPG landscape. Sadly, TR is slated to close on February 28th, marking less than one year and four [...]

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