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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Greetings again all you men, dwarves, elves and hobbits (And hello to any Orcs who might be reading as well). My favorite online game (just so you know where my opinion sits), The Lord of the Rings Online (LotRO) has just released its first retail expansion, The Mines of Moria. ...
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
If you have spent any time running around Middle Earth with your speakers on, you have heard the various tunes and kinds of music around. The Shire with its warm Celtic feel, the Lone Lands with its... well I can't actually remember what kind of music it has. Memorable or ...
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
Creating an MMO isn't an easy job under any circumstances. Regardless of the area of gameplay -- terrain design, quests, loot tables, UI, back-end support -- all of them have a host of perils and pitfalls that can ruin the eventual player experience. Even so, no area of gameplay comes ...
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
There is a culture of players in World of Warcraft that play the game not for fun, but for profit. To the citizens of Azeroth, these players are known as Farmers. Farmers spend their time killing monsters in out of the way places for the items they drop. A farmer ...
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
Nearly 500,000 people in developing nations earn a wage making virtual goods in online games to sell to players, a study has found.
Research by Manchester University shows that the practice, known as gold-farming, is growing rapidly.
The industry, about 80% based in China, employs about 400,000 people who earn ...
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
Sony Online Entertainment announced that its upcoming titles, The Agency and Free Realms, will support real money transactions, through the company's ongoing partnership with e-commerce platform Live Gamer.
Earlier in the year, SOE and LiveGamer built a new platform for microtransactions, incorporating and ultimately replacing EverQuest II's Station Exchange. The result ...
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
I thought I should take a break from feverishly studying for my Operations Management final exam, which is a mere 22 hours away, to comment on this interesting story that Gamasutra ran today. It looks like a number of major companies are getting involved with a new start-up that seeks ...
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