Sharing with you a good article by business site Forbes.com
The story tells a tale about two top executives who started out as gamers. Among them is Elliot Noss, chief executive of domain name provider Tucows, and 20-something Stephen Gillett, a gamer who became chief information officer of Starbucks. Both have applied leadership principles acquired through their own video game experiences.
It’s over!
We have a new Philippine Champion! Team Shivans defeats their sister team, Naked for the honor to represent the Philippines in this year’s RWC. They will fly to Jakarta, Indonesia and compete.
Last year, we finished 1st runner up vs. Japan. Who knows what will happen to us this year? Is it time to become champions? With 4 girls in the team, I hope “girl power” will be FTW!
More photos after the break…
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Tags: 2010, philippines, Ragnarok, RWC
It used to be simpler 8 to 10 odd years or so ago, the online gaming market wasn’t as cramped, cutthroat and saturated like what it is today. In today’s unforgiving industry, a LOT of games get designed, put on the proverbial closed beta axe and (around 80% to 90%) will never get to see the light of day. This may be due to the fact that most games are just rehashes or old gimmicks or, sadly, clones of more popular AAA titles. There toooo much fantasy titles out there. The teams that tried to stay away from them are also having a hard time.
Only the innovative designs strike a big chance of seeing their titles go past the betas and earn money in the “commercial” stage. A like-the-rest-of-em game may be a modest hit but if another similar title comes up with better graphics, it’s difficult to start all over again and retain players.
Here’s my unsolicited advice for the design/developer talents out there… some ideas off the top of my head on how to make things work…
Scammers are getting wiser. Since we started Ragnarok in the Philippines way back in 2003, scammers also started their fiendish “art”. The most common method was impersonating a GM and asking for your username and password. Sadly, a lot of people fall for these tricks.
Now, they use more complicated methods; replicating a game’s customer support page, top up page or even log-in page. They also use YM spams and e-mail. A couple of days ago, I received this message in my personal mail.
Traditionally, the Early Bird “pila” outside WTC is a festive gathering of gamers, guildmates and friends. This year, it’s the first time ever that some gamers (from RF Online) were there as early as Thursday!
I went out on Friday night (Nov 6) to check on the gamers at the line… enjoy the vid.
If an MMO were a human being, it would need nourishment in order to survive.
Sadly, a lot of MMOs die without even seeing their commercial launch. This prompted me to write this short article on what “vitamins” a game really needs in order to survive this cut-throat industry were hundreds of games compete for success.
Let’s examine the vitamins, one by one, shall we?
Posted in MMOments, Marketing, Musings Tags: gm tristan, Level Up, Marketing, Online Games, vitamins
With the advent of new technology and faster broadband connection, we may see the “graphics gap” between MMOs and PC/Console games such as Crysis come closer and closer.
It’s safe to bet that in a few years time, PCs will be more powerful enough (and so will the connection speeds) to render photo-realistic graphics in real time. There are several MMORPGs in the market today that are trying to attempt this. But I think that technology is still not ready, especially for countries such as ours (the Philippines).
Posted in Gaming, General, Girls, MMORPG News, MMOments, Musings, Online Tags: graphics, Online GamesHere’s what happens to MMO games in the future. In this movie (thanks to Kiven’s blog where I first saw it), players get to control other REAL HUMANS in an uber-violent FPS called Slayers. Who else better to star here than King Leonidas himself, Gerard Butler.
Check out the trailer. Gamer will be released September this year. Ahoo-Ahoo!…. oops, wrong movie.
Whatchathink?!?
Ragnarok Philippines has always been close to my heart… I’m sure it’s also close to yours.
Maybe 9 out of 10 Pinoy MMORPG players started with Ragnarok, the game that ushered in the birth of the online gaming revolution in the country. And now, thanks to the efforts of my new RO Brand Manager, Ryan Sacares, his RO team and of course, to all peeps and departments in Level Up who helped in the project, we recently launched the YGGDRASIL LIF project - or the BALIK RAGNA campaign.
The premise is simple: Invite your old Ragnarok playmates/friends. If they return and top-up, you get corresponding points. Save those points and you can exchange them for FREE INGAME ITEMS which will help you in making your character stronger.
I’ve reprinted the entire mechanics after the break for your convenience…
Woot!
Jeff Paulino, the dashing Brand Manager of Crazy Kart was recently interviewed by Inquirer. Check out the video interview as he describes the new CK Drift Car and takes you through the new “Pinas Map”, a special map designed just for us Pinoys.
‘Nuff said…
Via Inquirer VDO
Posted in Crazy Kart, Level Up, MMORPG News, MMOments, Marketing, Videos Tags: Crazy Kart, jeff-paulino, Level Up, map, Marketing, MMOments, MMORPG News, philippines, pinas, video, Videos
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