There are so many ways to sell the Marketplace that it should have been a rousing success, but being timid in this day and age usually puts you out of business, or at the least being highly ridiculed. As far as I can tell, the latter is already rampant on the internet. Turn the tables, Sony, and let the players receive what they really want — some good old fashion XXX!
Archive for December, 2008
Marketplace Fix
Posted in Blogroll, Emerald Tablet, tagged Drugs, Marketplace, Sex, Sony, Violence on December 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Time vs. Money
Posted in Blogroll, Emerald Tablet, tagged Everquest II, Marketplace, Microtransaction, MMO, Sony on December 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One of the largest outcries from people that play Everquest 2 or for that matter any MMO, is that people shouldn’t be able to buy (with real world currency) favors, abilities, or items. It seems OK if the purchases are purely aesthetic but if it actually gives you an edge in the game, many [...]
New Old Friends
Posted in Blogroll, Emerald Tablet, Pay No Attention To The Man Behind The Curtain, tagged Comstock Park, Friends, ICU, Life on December 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This year I spent some time looking up old friends. People that I have not said hello to in more than twenty years, and for the most part I have been so insanely successful I cannot believe it. Its so good to talk to the people of your youth and to see how their lives [...]
Everquest II Marketplace Flop
Posted in Blogroll, Emerald Tablet, tagged Everquest II, Marketplace, Microtransaction, MMO, Sony on December 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I predicted more than two years ago that Sony would enter the microtransaction market. In essence a microtransaction is an exchange of real world dollars for digital aesthetic materials in a virtual economy — I guess it could be for a tangible (or valueable) item as well, but that opens up another whole argument. Two [...]
New Year’s Goals
Posted in Blogroll, Emerald Tablet, Pay No Attention To The Man Behind The Curtain, tagged 2008, GDC, Goals, Virginworlds, Writing on December 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Ya know its not that far off and soon we’ll be scratching off 2008 on our checks and shaking our heads as we scribble 2009. Just the other day I wrote 2005 on a check, then stopped and looked at it funny and thought to myself, ‘is it 2005?’
Doh!
Since we are nearing the end of [...]
Lotto Let Down
Posted in Blogroll, Emerald Tablet, tagged Dreams, Everquest 2, Lotto on December 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I play on the Kithicor server in Everquest II and for as long as I can remember no one has ever won the Goblin Gambler lotto, until now. It was up to over 4,500 platinum coins. Over the last several years I have spent huge gobs on money in the hopes of winning it.
Sadly, my [...]
Has anyone tried the Tabletop D&D
Posted in Blogroll, Emerald Tablet on December 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I was told awhile ago that Wizards of the Coast was going to release a version of D&D that allowed the DM to create a visceral (a tangile visual) world where players could come into and play the game, experiencing more of the pen and paper side of RPGs than MMOs?
I was told that one [...]
Everquest 2 Drain
Posted in Blogroll, Emerald Tablet on December 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
everquest 2, Addiction
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