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Massively Multiplayer Online games – our first step into the Metaverse.
Via Cuppy, the Rise of Kunark Beta application is now up. I’ve been waiting for this for years. Kunark turned EQ1 from a casual game to an obsession with me. Maybe that wasn’t entirely a good thing. Pre-Kunark EQ1 was a very casual game; there wasn’t a whole lot to do in the end game … Read more
Leave it to Bristlebane to have a favorite pet who looks designed by a committee. A drunk committee. That had just spent a sleepless night being chased by giant pink rabbits. I left off last night having pulled a prank on a goblin prophet (er, profit) of the King of Thieves. I baked him a … Read more
Everquest 2 still astounds me sometimes with amazing scenes. This shot is a boarding party from Kunark trying to take on my ship with me as its lone defender (after the ship’s usual defenders fall in the first seconds of the battle). What’s happened is that pirates from Kunark have found us. We’re not the … Read more
JoBildo reposted a summary of a talk given by Gordon Watson, co-director of Bioware, at GDC Austin. Work blocks Gamasutra, so I couldn’t get this from the source. Watson’s talk was about the lessons learned from the World of Warcraft. There’s no denying WoW is popular, the most popular Western MMORPG ever made. They did … Read more
One afternoon, after being frustrated by looking for a good group several hours without any luck, I made a desperate wish that the MMO devs would wise up and let all classes solo for XP so nobody would ever need a group, ever again. Some genie dev somewhere pricked up his (or her) ears and said, … Read more