Archive for September, 2008
Read these posts by Sanya Weathers.
Old though they may be (I first read them near the start of my time working on Fury) they are as relevant today as they were then, and will probably still be relevant in many years to come.
I have seen many people try to categorize or explain what a community [...]
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Tags: Community Management, Sanya Weathers
Another AGDC article on Gamasutra, this time about a talk on psychology in gaming communities.
The panel was comprised of moderator Sean Dahlberg from BioWare Austin, Troy Hewitt of Flying Lab Software, Meghan Rodberg of Turbine, and Dr. Sam Gosling and Dr. James Pennebaker, of the University of Texas.
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Tags: AGDC, Community Management, Psychology
Funcom Co-Founder Quits
In an article on Gamesindustry.biz it is revealed today that Gaute Godager, one of the original co-founders of Funcom, has left the company and handed responsibility over to Craig Morrison (previously producer and game director for Anarchy Online).
It is time to get new, fresh eyes on Age of Conan, and I wholeheartedly support the [...]
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Tags: Age of Conan, Funcom
Gamasutra has posted this story about Damion Shubert’s talk from the AGDC, covering why endgame content is so important in MMO titles.
“The most important thing about your endgame, about elder gameplay, is that it’s one of the few things in your games that’s actually massive. And at the end of the day, that’s what we’re [...]
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Tags: AGDC, Damion Schubert, Endgame, Gamasutra, Guild Wars, PvP, Raiding
Whether or not to have official forums – one of the oldest debates in community management. Both sides have their respective pros and cons, and never has any definitive formula or answer been found.
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Tags: Community Managment, Forums, Mark Jacobs, Warhammer Online
This article was put up on DailyGame a couple of days ago, giving an interesting insight into the rate at which Word of Warcraft has grown over the past three years.
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Tags: DailyGame, Subscriptions, World of Warcraft
Richard Cox of MMORPG.com recently published a hands on report of Aion, from PAX this year.
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Tags: Aion, NCSoft
Unicorn Spotted in Africa
Well, not quite.
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Tags: Discovery, Unicorn
Silly British Media
Surely it would make more sense to assume that he was obsessive about GTA due to being a violent and mentally ill nutbag, rather than GTA making him that way?
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Tags: Grand Theft Auto, GTA, The Sun, Violence
