All Posts by Dundee
All Posts by Dundee - 186 found
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12/06/06 4:50 AM
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Ah, but that billing model was a leap-of-faith risk from the git-go. Eve has more subs than ever, and is still growing. Making it more like WoW just wouldn't make it WoW. It'd gamble thier bigger-than-ever, and still growing subscriber-base on a longshot bet that they could turn Eve - of all things - into a better WoW than WoW (has to be better, 'cause everyone who wants to play WoW isn't sitting around waiting for something like WoW. They have WoW). So I still think you're safe. 
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12/06/06 4:08 AM
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Oh, I wouldn't worry about that. Making a WoW clone means you have to compete with WoW. That's way more risky than staying the course, doing their own thing. 'Specially since that's working for them just fine. |
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12/06/06 4:02 AM
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Nice blog. Btw, You can make that a proper link in your sig (like my name down there) by changing your sig to something like this: [URL=http://gameloading.blogspot.com/]My mmorpg Blog[/URL] Without all the funky colors, I mean. Just did that to show the different pieces of it. |
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12/06/06 3:48 AM
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There's no question WoW is more popular than Eve. As you point out, it's even pretty obvious which games deliver what, which ones don't, and so it's absurd to use a survey to determine the popularity of things already known. I mean, why even offer the obviously not choices, right? But this also doesn't serve "better vs. worse" comparisons. Eve's old 4-hour tutorial, complicated complexity, and brutal PvP penalties would turn off most WoW fans. But neither can they be labeled as bad, when those are the very sorts of things that Eve fans like about their game. And why should they care if WoW players don't enjoy the things they like about Eve, anyway, eh? Clearly, the survey isn't useful to determine popularity nor to measure quality. There must another purpose being served...  Maybe it's just a team vs. team game itself. Not WoW vs. Eve but WoW players vs Eve players (et al). :) |
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12/06/06 3:26 AM
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Originally posted by iskareot Originally posted by Ransom
Don't fret. I have more experience now than I did when I started. I'm bound to have learned something over the years. Originally posted by iskareot Nah, no conspiracy afoot there. I'm still not going to bash the NGE, though. That would be hypocritical of me on the one hand, unprofessional on the other. Plus just mean to former-coworkers and friends at SOE for no good reason. I am sorry for how insensitive I was with the 'shenanigans' blogpost. Not that my saying sorry is going to take-back hurt-feelings that caused. Various suggestions as to what I ought to do have popped up from time to time - like becoming a hobo, or burning in hell - but I'm not real fond of either of those options. |
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12/06/06 3:09 AM
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It's really not an uncommon thing for a developer to send its fans out to vote in a thing like this. It's free advertising for them, and generally whomever is hosting the poll wants those eyeballs checking out the site. Maybe some will stay. I'm cynical enough to think that's the whole reason for doing it most of the time. Eve's like most everything in so much as some people love it and some people don't. It's unlike anything else in the manner it has started-slow and grown steadily over time. Everyone else shoots straight up, peaks, and glides back toward a sequel. That's a pretty ineat trick. Regarding the original post in this thread, sometimes I get to feeling that WoW and Second Life are the only MMOs journalists can name, so they do, in the same sentence. Just one to three times a week, and without a hint of realization that those things are unlike one another by a lot. |
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