I was over at the Pirates of the Burning Sea blog, wondering what they were up to these days, as I hadn't heard anything in a while. Turns out they planned it that way . In what was probably a very good move if you have the wherewithal to do it, they.
Topics: massive games, mmorpg, pirates, PotBS, subscriptions

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Alexis Kassan has an article up over at massively detailing a theoretical economic model for an MMO. I have more than a passing interest in the economics of gaming, so I gave it a good long read. It proposes basically a game where there is no crafting,...
Topics: economy, massive games, mmorpg

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Lots of exciting stuff in gaming, the biggest of course being the WAR Open Beta. I tried to get in a couple of times but so far, no luck - I don't know where my invite went - maybe my email ate it. At one point MMORPG.com had 300K beta keys, then 7K..
Topics: beta test, massive games, mmorpg, new games, WAR

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...and speaking of Tobold, he's managed to do something I didn't really think could be done: make me think I should try WAR. The description of how groups work in WAR that he gives sounds positively exciting. A whole pile of folks have noted that.
Topics: groups, massive games, mmorpg, new games, WAR

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Oh lordy - the NDA for Warhammer has apparently been lifted (at least, so says Tobold ). I expect it's going to be tough to find folks talking about anything else for a while.
Topics: massive games, mmorpg, new games, WAR

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