Category Archives: Social

When not to fix a bug

April 30, 2009 – 1:27 pm

In most MMO’s the idea of fixing a bug is a very simple thing. Bugs are bad and there to be squashed. However as soon as you have an economy that pushes roughly $450m a year around the world you start to get into all sorts of problems.

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Why Your Players Will Always Leave You

February 17, 2009 – 1:41 pm

If you buy Gears of War then Epics bottom line isn’t going to be affected by you deciding to watch the football instead.

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Twitter, ARGs and TV

February 16, 2009 – 11:39 am

Twitter is going to completely revolutionise the ARG and potentially change the face of Television.

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MetaBalance or “The Cool Factor”

September 25, 2008 – 6:46 pm

So I’ve been playing Warhammer Online.
Well it was inevitable really. If only so I could find out what they’d done to a game I technically spent 18 months of my life laying the foundations for (and by that I mean developing the failed Climax version which actually has nothing in common with the Mythic version [...]

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