MMOs

Massively Multiplayer Online games – our first step into the Metaverse.

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

EQ Diku

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EQ and its related games (pretty much every modern MMO) have long been dismissed as nothing but “DikuMUDs with a graphical interface slapped on top of them”. I’ve been playing with the DikuMUD code over the last few days to get a feel for world building and to add a feature (what I call “rally … Read more

EQ2: Rise of Kunark rumors

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THIS TURNED OUT TO BE A JOKE. Sorry for falling for it. It really did sound to good to be true. — Take this with a generous helping of salt. Someone was claiming they had found a feature list for EQ2: Rise of Kunark, and it included these things: Beast lords New look for Iksar … Read more

EQ2: Tarinax, Bloodlines and More Unrest

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Last weekend was the last weekend I’ll be able to play EQ, as I am moving cross-country and it could be a few weeks for everything to arrive, Internet get hooked up, life to settle back to normal, fingers get unfrozen enough to type.
But, it was a good weekend.

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