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• • EverQuest II: Correspondent - Why the Hate?

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    I DON'T WANT TO WASTE YEARS OF MY LIFE PLAYING  A GAME THAT ALL OF A SUDDEN TURNS INTO ANOTHER GAME
    

     

    That quote jumped out at me (it's in caps and red afterall...) and that seems to be a common complaint of SoE but didn't World of Warcraft do the same thing?  It's been a while since that happened, but I was on a business trip at the time and came back to a different game and whining guildmates.

    MMMOGs are "living entities" in a sense and do evolve and change.  The EverQuest of 9 years ago isn't the EverQuest of today.  The same applies for Ultima Online (they have Elves!  Horror of horrors!) 

    Of course the SWG NGE is the HUGE black mark on SoE's report card and they do have more games published and are hence a larger target.

    The only constant is change.

  • Posted: 8/21/08 5:24 PM
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• • General: G.I.R.L. Power

  • Originally posted by Raenz
    

    I'm torn on the whole G.I.R.L. initiative thing from SOE.  It's one thing to encourage women to get into the game industry, it's another to give them preferential treatment because of their gender.

    dis·crim·i·na·tion 

     (d-skrm-nshn)

    n.

    3. Treatment or consideration based on class or category rather than individual merit; partiality or prejudice:

     

    By that definition though, 90% of scholarships given out are discriminatory.  All scholarships have parameters and those are based on what that particular foundation / group providing the scholarship is trying to accomplish.  There are few scholarships that are provided for study in any field in the winner's school of choice and based on individual merit alone.

    Take any of the sport scholarships.  Why football?  Why not tiddlywinks?  (as an extreme example)

    When this first scholarship was announced, there were cries of "Why not MY college?" and "How come they are discriminating against foreign students?"  etc. etc.

  • Posted: 8/21/08 5:12 PM
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• • General: Laura Genender Memorial

  • Laura, my friend, my co-conspirator, my debate mate, my room mate at Conferences we both attended for MMORPG.  How disparate and yet how alike we were.  How hard we had to work to find topics where we could passionately argue opposites in Girl Gamer issues.

    You will be missed.  The world has lost a jewel, the heavens have gained a star.

    Rest in Peace.

     

     

  • Posted: 8/18/08 1:41 PM
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• • MapleStory: E3 Interview

  • The success of MapleStory in the Western World is the reason that American developers are giving the micro-transaction business model a second look. 

    www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php  In this story in Gamasutra in early 2007, they were claiming 50+ million users worldwide.  They currently claim over 72+ million users.  You have to remember that only a small percentage are paying customers.

     

    {edited because I don't know how to insert a formatted link.  }

  • Posted: 7/24/08 7:17 PM
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• • Runescape: Update from E3

  • Originally posted by Vanake
    

    Under 35? Come on, many of my friends play MUD. And I'm 19. It's not dead yet !

     

    Kudos to your friends!    Do you play as well?    No, it's not dead yet.  Not by a long country mile.

  • Posted: 7/23/08 1:12 PM
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