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Archive for February, 2008

More Real Life Characters

Disclaimer:  All names are pure concoctions, its their personalities that are real: believe it or not.
Josh, Fizzlegiggle Tizzletops, the emoter, thirty-something guy who plays the off-the-wall classes, that no one else wants to play, but often critical to group mechanics.  Josh is the player who just loves using his emotes at the end of every [...]

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The A Typical MMO Group

According to recent statistics released by Sony, the average MMO gamer (I assume for Sony games) is a thirty-one, with eighty-five percent of them being male, living in a standard family structure, and belonging to the middle income bracket.  The image that I conjure up of this player is much different than the ones that [...]

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Components vs. Time

A thought struck me as to how over the last several years and generations of MMOs, that have been designed, that we have moved away from component based skills and spells. Our games are now a time controlled set of actions, spells, and skills.
Remember in the days of old, when the mage required malachite to [...]

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