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Why Subscription Based MMOs Have a Future – Mythic Founder | Eurogamer
Mythic founder and former CEO Mark Jacobs argues that everything is cyclical and even though market for Free-to-play business model is strong currently, it doesn’t mean an end of subscription based MMOs. “When people come out and say something is dead I laugh my arse off. Come on! Everything is cyclical. Change is part of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off )Are Free-to-play Video Games Inferior to Pay-to-play Ones? | Bioblue
A question many have asked before and few have answered without getting into a blind rage, supporting the business model of whichever video game is their favourite currently. Stuart444 at Bioblue on the other hand takes a balanced approach and believes that there are “models that work for F2P and B2P games.” In [Guild Wars [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off )Eurogamer Expo 2011: Beer and Good Company | Attached To Keyboard
Tasha Darke shares her experiences at Eurogamer Expo 2011. I start this post with an admission: size counts. I’ve always steered clear of all UK conventions on the basis that as a nation we have very few big exhibition centres and they weren’t really relevant to my interests. Earl’s Court One, where Eurogamer Expo was [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off )Can AAA MMORPGs Profit Without Subscription Fee? | Gamasutra
Gamasutra talks to Colin Johanson to understand the business model used by AreneNet/NCSoft for Guild Wars(and made profits) and is going to be used by Guild Wars 2 also. They seek an answer to the question “Do AAA MMORPGs require a subscription fee to make profits?” What are the subscription fee for in the first [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off )Is It Possible To Support Duplicate Names in MMORPGs? | Hunter’s Insight
A very insightful post at Hunter’s Insight asks why can’t the players have duplicate names in MMORPGs? I am stumped. Why not? Use some other identifier to uniquely identify the players but let them pick the name that they want, like we do in real life. This will solve so many annoying problems but also [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off )Guild Wars 2 – Charr Plushie Giveaway! | MMORPG.com
MMORPG.com and NCSoft have partnered together to give away three Charr plushies to the Guild Wars 2 fans. Jump over to the MMORPG.com website to read the contest rules and participate! We’ll be running this contest beginning tonight (9PM EST) with entries being accepted through the weekend. The entry cutoff is set for 9AM EST [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Getting My Mum to Play Guild Wars! | Are You Hunting Something
I was smiling constantly while reading the post and it sounds a bit familiar if you have ever tried to get a non-gamer to try out your favourite game. Some period of time later, when Sam and I had started playing Guild Wars, I don’t recall if mum expressed an interest or whether we sat [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off )Guild Wars 2 Guild System – Daring and Innovative
ArenaNet had made an impressive trailer of Guild Wars 2 first shown at the Gamescom convention and those of us Guild Wars fans who have been waiting to see how the newer version of the game would turn out had their breath taken away. I was amazed at the sheer scale of Tyria, only a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )B2P or P2P – The Big Question | GuildWars2Guru
There is a lively discussion going on among the members of the GuildWars2Guru forum about the advantages and downsides of Pay-to-play MMORPGs(e.g. Rift) compared to the Buy-to-Play ones(e.g Guild Wars 2). Jump in to join the discussion and share with the community what you think of the two different business models. #1(Entombed – OP): While [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off )How raiding turns you into a horrible person | Massively
A lot of us can relate to the experiences/observations about raiding in MMORPGs shared on Massively.com by Eliot Lefebvre: Our time at the top [of the raiding scene] made it very clear how raiding changes you and how you move from not caring about a stupid pretend sword to being absolutely livid when someone else [...]
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