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| Username | kedoremos  |
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| Rank | Novice Member |
| Joined | December 12, 2005 |
| Gender | Male |
| Age | 28 |
| Location | Nashua, NH, United States |
| Last Visit | November 29, 2008 |
| Post Count | 242 |
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| Quote | "What the fuck is a robster craw?" |
5 Most Recent Threads by kedoremos [more...]
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Who will buy Adventurine once Darkfall is very successful? (Poll) on 10/20/08 @ 2:30PM
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R.I.P. Darkfall... on 10/20/08 @ 1:14AM
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Darkfall sub predictions on 9/27/08 @ 5:28PM
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Have fun while it lasts on 9/26/08 @ 10:57AM
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Ryzom: Front page of Fileplanet on 9/13/08 @ 3:48AM
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Latest Blog Entry - The life of an MMORPG addict
From my blog Frustration Sprinkled With Happy Thoughts [kedoremos]
Here is the typical life cycle of an MMORPG gamer:
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Veteran player talks friend into joining him in his adventures.
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Friend goes and buys a copy at his local game store.
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Goes home, installs it, patches it, and creates an account and character.
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Logs in. Sees a golden “!” right in front of him.
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Instantly turns into a foaming at the mouth, physically addicted, socially inept, tool for The Man (The Man works for Blizzard by the way).
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Spends the next year or so really enjoying his time in the game. Starts to feel a little annoyed with certain aspects (mostly due to all the people who complain, “bitching by proxy” I like to call it)
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After a year solid he’s starting to feel like he’s really wasting his life. He tells his wife/friends/girlfriend/co-workers that he’s quit the game for good this time. He deletes his characters, uninstalls the game and breaks his disks. It’s finally over.
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Or so he thought. A few weeks pass, now he’s trying to figure out what to do when he’s not getting all the extra work done he’d missed in the last year. He’s trying to fill in the gap that this game filled for so long. He starts watching TV – it’s boring because Lost, Heroes, and all the other good shows are in their “mid-season break”. He tries to rent a lot of movies – no dice. He’s seen them all. He says to himself “Self, I’ve come this far, I’m not giving up now!”
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Three days later: He’s really bored now. He gets angry at the littlest things. He barks at his wife/girlfriend/friends/co-workers for no reason.
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He gives up, rationalizing “This game is my social life. I didn’t have much of one to begin with but at least when I was playing I actually had like-minded people to talk to. I’ll just learn to control myself better, set limits on my playtime and such.”
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Goes to a game store, buys a new copy and like a kid on Christmas he gleefully installs it and starts to play again. He has to start all over but he’s just happy his life is back to “normal” again.
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Two weeks later: His self control has faltered (again), his self esteem is lower now because he feels like he’s a failure (he is, actually) for giving in to his habit all over again.
Sooner or later you start to realize it’s all pretty stupid. You’re letting yourself get caught up in something that means nothing. You justify this by saying “well everything pretty much means nothing when you’re dead” so you chug along like the tool you are, hoping that some day you’ll have the self control to control yourself.
ps. I'm moving this blog from Blogger to mmorpg.com because, well, I wanna.
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- Who will buy Adventurine once Darkfall is very successful? (Poll)
Originally posted by sandboxy
Originally posted by kedoremos
Originally posted by sandboxy
OP, ever heard the word 'investors'? Those are the people or institutions who are willing to fund your company, provided you have a good product or business idea, for a share of the profits you'll collect in the future. If Darkfall proves to be a (very) succesful game, Aventurine will have no problems what so ever to find these investors.
Bad, or failed games are the ones getting bought by companies like SOE. I foresee AOC going down that road pretty soonish.
Yes and owning the majority share in a company is called "owning" said company.
Yes... you got a point down there somewhere?
It's my nature to be concise until confronted, forgive me please.
When an investor buys exactly 51% of the shares of the company they, effectively, own the company. So if Microsoft or EA or SOE were to invest in Adventurine by buying stock and if they bought enough they would own the company.
- Posted: 10/20/08 3:24 PM
Darkfall
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- Who will buy Adventurine once Darkfall is very successful? (Poll)
Originally posted by sandboxy
OP, ever heard the word 'investors'? Those are the people or institutions who are willing to fund your company, provided you have a good product or business idea, for a share of the profits you'll collect in the future. If Darkfall proves to be a (very) succesful game, Aventurine will have no problems what so ever to find these investors.
Bad, or failed games are the ones getting bought by companies like SOE. I foresee AOC going down that road pretty soonish.
Yes and owning the majority share in a company is called "owning" said company.
- Posted: 10/20/08 3:09 PM
Darkfall
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- Who will buy Adventurine once Darkfall is very successful? (Poll)
Originally posted by Alioth
Why would they sell it if it's successful?
Because a large company could, potentially, make much more money off it than a smaller one and would therefor be willing to pay much more money for it than Adventurine could likely make.
It takes money to make money and Adventurine has little compared to the big guys.
- Posted: 10/20/08 2:37 PM
Darkfall
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- Who will buy Adventurine once Darkfall is very successful? (Poll)
Assuming it will be successful, who will buy the company and/or the Darkfall game/IP?
"Why would Adventurine sell Darkfall if it is successful?"
Because a large company could, potentially, make much more money off it than a smaller one and would therefor be willing to pay much more money for it than Adventurine could likely make.
It takes money to make money and Adventurine has little compared to the big guys.
- Posted: 10/20/08 2:30 PM
Darkfall
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- R.I.P. Darkfall...
Personally, I completely understand what you are saying Arcken. I understand the skepticism as well, I never put any faith in DNL, Vanguard or AoC so I missed those frusterations, but I would be jaded as well I think. As you talk about the darkfall commnuity, and what you dont like about it, think about this however. We are posting in a thread called "R.I.P. Darkfall" which is an open provocation, we are also on the internet, and almost every game/board/site is full of assholes from what I have seen. In my experience unless you play a game with some tiny adult roleplaying community where one server dosent have 1/100th of the population it needs, you are surrounded by assholes.
The Brain: Behold, I can create fire from a little box.
Alan: So what?
Cannibal #1: Big deal.
Cannibal #2: Let's eat 'em.
The Brain: I can steal your souls and put them in this glass.
Alan: So what?
Cannibal #1: Big deal.
Cannibal #2: Let's eat 'em.
Pinky: I can make bubbles with my spit.
[the cannibals gasp and begin to bow]
The Brain: *Now* do you believe we were sent by your god?
Alan: Naw, that's just *really cool*.
- Posted: 10/20/08 11:54 AM
Darkfall
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