Video game blogger (1999 – 2011ish) Dark Age of Camelot, Mythic Entertainment (programmer) (2001 – 2006) Various titles, NCsoft and elsewhere (programmer/designer) ( ) Shroud of the Avatar, Portalarium (programmer/designer) ( ) Don’t worry, I hate it when people just read what’s on a Powerpoint slide and call it a presentation. Who is this guy?
The death of massively multiplayer online games has been somewhat exaggerated. (Also, World of Warcraft has lost more subscribers than other subscription games can ever hope to have.)
Free-to-play has complemented, but not supplanted, subscription revenue. (Also, World of Warcraft is the #7 game in micro transaction earnings despite being based on subscriptions.) (No, you can’t be World of Warcraft.)
Free – to – play (adjective): when someone spends $90.00 to buy a glowing sword made entirely of ham so that they can slaughter you with impunity.
In the good old days you just gave someone a game and they went off and played it and it was fun! And they didn’t hunt you down and tell you much they hated you! Much.
Now, it’s a bit different. Your players are your customers and they are forever and they will never leave you and they have locks of your hair hidden away. Just to remember.
Your average online game, week 1.
Your average online game, week 50.
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This is a very frightening and confusing story. Especially if you like metrics. WARNING!
NEVER GOING TO GIVE YOU UP NEVER GOING TO LET YOU DOWN NEVER GOING TO LET YOU UNSUBSCRIBE AND DESERT US
ULTIMA ONLINE Launched: September 24, 1997, 9:00 AM First GM Petition about someone being PKed: September 24, 1997, 9:02 AM
ULTIMA ONLINE Most recent patch: August 6, 2014, 8:11 PM Number of major content patches to date: 86
I AM NOT HAPPY WITH YOUR DESIGN DECISIONS
It’s Friday night, time to kill yet another dragon And get yet another pair of magic pants With +12 to Krang Interrupts Because right now our Krang Interrupt score is only 76
In online games, we are all winners.
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it’sOK