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.I don’t usually plug stuff, but I think this is worth it. The Intel 2007 Game Demo contest has started and a new friend of mine has an entry there. He was in the lead with over 800 votes when Intel reset everything to “officially” start the contest…again. So, now he only has 28 votes.
Go check out his game, Hexaxis XXI and if you like it, give him a vote!
I met him a few weeks ago at the Digital Games Expo here in Raleigh and he really impressed me with his skills and creativity.
Thanks!
I don’t really even know what to say about this, other than pointing out that it is not April 1st. Lord of the Rings Online is adding “session play” to the game in the next content update.
Session Play is a new system that allows you to play as a character other than your normal character. These characters do not have permanence, so you don’t keep them like you do your Free Peoples or monster play characters. You could play as a Ranger, a Troll, or… a chicken. It’s an opportunity to explore Middle-earth from a different – and sometimes unexpected – viewpoint.
A what?
Yup, avatars: Your character model. The representation of your character(s) in the game world. How important are avatars to you?
The contest is over, the random drawing has been held. “Lachek” from Ontario Canada is the winner of a signed copy of MMO Evolution. The book was donated by the author, our own Nicodemus aka Robert Rice. Congratulations!
– Ethic
Yep, part one of the interview is live.
Reading over my own comments, I realize I should have edited them a bit more than I initially did. Silly me. Still though, take a look to see what I think about some stuff and my own real world MMORPG adventure with Neogence Studios and Immortal Destiny.
Robert / Nicodemus
Our dear friend Tobold has an interesting post about WoW’s subscriber numbers surrounding the expansion. WoW repeats the same pattern of other games, just on a grander scale:
So the decline doesn’t matter? Far from that. We will never know the exact numbers, but the WarcraftRealms graph suggests a 10% decline from the peak in February. That still leaves more players than WoW had in December last year. But if you happen to work in a company, imagine you having to tell your bosses that you just lost 10% of your customers, starting the first decline after 27 months of growth. Big as WoW is, losing 10% means losing more people than Everquest ever had, and it also means losing over 100 million dollars.
ATSRTWT
: Zubon
Congratulations to PrettyPonyLady of Champion, who just hit level 50, giving my wife her first level-capped character ever.
: Zubon
After a very brief stint guild-less, Abryn and I joined up with a newly formed raid guild, comprised of some old friends, and individuals representing most of the uber guilds of our server’s history. Focus was formed with two objectives; to have fun, and push the bleeding edge of progression raid content.
The question is, is it really possible to accomplish both?
[City of Heroes] Since I got the question, I am going to explain an excellent City of Heroes/Villains system that every game should steal. Every account gets a global name, one that is unique across all servers. In-game you would refer to it starting with an “@” so I am @Zubon. This has several uses.
No matter where I am or what I am doing, I can find my friends.
: Zubon
[City of Heroes] Much of City of Heroes happens in instances. There are a few zones where people hang about outside for various reasons, mostly the auction houses these days, but the missions are instances so we spend most of our time in no particular zone. You could spam broadcast all day long and irritate only a few people at a time. This makes Paragon City feel pretty empty for many new players once they leave the newbie zone.
Instead, we use the global chat system to communicate. That and supergroup/coalition chat, but we use a global channel as the de facto guild chat because at any given time someone might be in an alt supergroup, on the other side of the hero/villain divide, or playing on another server. The same idea makes global channels (multi-)server-wide general chat, reaching people in instances and all zones.
But if you don’t know the server’s favorite channels are, you are still in silence. When I visit another server, I am still listening to the chatter from back home. Let’s help each other out here: what is your server’s most popular global chat channel(s), and what is/are it/they used for? On Pinnacle, for example, we mostly use PinnacleBadges, for general chat as well as sharing badge hunting/missions; using it to look for a normal group is usually considered poor manners, but looking for task force members is perfectly fine. Off-topic chat is extensive.
With any luck, the comments here will be a useful resource for players trying to find the community across the servers.
: Zubon