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38 Studios better watch itself

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Kendricke at Warcry reports that Jason “Dymus” Roberts has left his position at SOE of EQ2 Lead Designer. It’s rumored that he may join the crowd at 38 Studios in their unannounced MMO. 38 Studios has some great talent. But if they come out with another generic fantasy MMO that tries to be everything for … Read more

An MMO Brokerage?

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Brenlo has said that your Station Pass money is distributed proportionally among the games you play based on the time you play them. Well, if SOE can do that with their games, why can’t they do that with other people’s games? I’d pay $29.99 a month if my “Station Pass” could buy me access to … Read more

Home Beta

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I mentioned in a comment to a previous post, and it has been said many times by others, that the world is poised on the brink of spending as much time in the virtual world as the real one. Project Darkstar was maybe the first step along the path — a shared “back end” that … Read more

Project Darkstar

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Could this be the first seed of the Metaverse? Sun has given their Project Darkstar to the open source community. Project Darkstar is a generic backend that can support any sort of game or other collaborative activity transparently allocating servers and managing data so that if your game is meant for 5 players or 5,000, … Read more

Playing together alone

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From Raph Koster’s notes on GDC… a stunning insight into the innovation WoW brought to the MMO realm… given the chance, players only group less than a third of their playtime and for the vast bulk of their playtime, like playing solo, but still chatting and being part of the community. This is why I … Read more