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Bringing players back to older MMOs
Today I want to pose a question to our readers: What would it take to get you to go back and play a MMO? I was thinking about this when I read a statement from the GW2 devs saying something like, “Don’t count us out yet.” My personality tends to feel sympathy for others and […]
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Dungeon finders are dangerous
Group finding tools that instantly pair people together and teleport them to a dungeon are one of the most dangerous innovations to ever come to MMOs. In themepark MMOs, they are a great addition. Without tools like the Dungeon Finder, players in WoW would sit around in cities spamming all day. In SWTOR, I remember […]
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ZeniMax: TESO not a MMO … sorta
This is why community managers are so important: The Elder Scrolls Online Game Director Matt Firor is quoted in an interview today saying the following: “This is more a multiplayer Elder Scrolls game than an MMO. [You’ll see] very limited UI, nice and clean, not a lot of bars.. the combat system is very much […]
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PSA: Water levels in MMOs at an All-time Low
We’re facing an epidemic here, people. Over the past several years vast quantities of water have been rapidly disappearing from our online virtual worlds. We’re already at the point where you cannot find a body of water that is more than knee-deep. If we don’t do anything to solve this crisis– Yeah, this bit is […]
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MMO Crafting
MMO crafting hasn’t seen a lot of innovation for quite some time. In fact, I think crafting has slowly been sliding to a worse state or neglected entirely by the latest generation. The complexity, depth, scope, involvement, and opportunity (I think most of those mean the same thing) of the SWG and EVE era are […]
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