When we talk about “Legends”, these guys are of course, larger than life. People look up to them as role-models of the community. They idolize them due to their achievements, respect their views and often, follow them to the “ends of the earth.”.
These gamers may closely epitomize King Leonidas of the 300, one who will be the first one in a fight and the last one to leave.
What does it take to become a “Legend” inside the MMORPG or game that you play? Is it for everyone? In fact, is it easy at all?
They pissed off Adam Sessler, host of G4TV. According to Gaming Today, Sessler was playing Xbox Live when a 10-year-old kid started calling him names. Surely, these bigots can’t get enough of ruining a good guy’s day. This doesn’t happen just in Xbox Live, mind you. I’ve seen it (and experienced it) first-hand during the course of MMO playing.
For the almost 5 years I’ve been in the gaming industry, I learned a lot of things. How to do things right and, in the course of handling the different aspects of the games and the business, I also learned what NOT to do.
During these times, experience has been my greatest teacher. I’ve had a lot of mentors too. Those who told me how to do the “corporate” stuff like juggling numbers, managing people, deliverables, to them - I all owe my sincerest gratitude. But like what I said before, failures are also something to embrace. Why? Because you learn from them. The taste of success will be sweeter if you get up when you fall down.
My hats off to GM Atma and crew for coming up with a social and geographic advocacy. Who says MMO’s can’t help the environment?
It’s called the Help Stop Global Warming event. This is simply awesome. Now that we all know the potential effects of air pollutants, trash and toxic waste on our environment, we can all pitch in to do a little something for Mother Earth.
The FlyFF team even managed to incorporate an in-game event to help spread awareness about the global warming, the Madrigal’s Bounty Event which will run from June 4 to 18, 2008.
This is a wonderful project led by our Sales team in cooperation with the local goverment of Cebu city.
They “reclaimed” a long, plain brick wall and gathered the brightest young artists and gamers to put their creativity to work.
The result is an awesome and artistic rendition of game art, all shining with color and adorned with key values. Who says that gaming and social responsibility doesn’t mix? Check out more of the murals here
This means close monitoring of both supply, demand and the number of rare items in a given server. Fail to this, and the economy will falter. A game with a super-inflated economy will lose players faster than you can say “dupe”.
I think I read it somewhere or overheard it a few days back…
They say that one close analogy to MMORPGs is a Barbie doll. Why? Come to think about it. 99% of us play online RPGs to “dress up” our characters. Isn’t that what collecting Barbies and clothes, accessories, etc. all about?
Is it a guy’s Barbie? Could be… I mean, we all started out as noobs, novices (call ‘em what you will) with mediocre chracters. After a few dozen quests, you finally find something nice for your character to wear, eh?
A couple of days ago, I got a phone call from friend and RF Online ”addict” Kevin Roy. Yup, that’s the same Kevin Roy who’s the lead vocal for Razorback. And yes, they also did a couple of songs for RF Online.
Kevin tells me that a couple of his RF friends have met a guy who’s a Councilor in a town somewhere South of Metro Manila. I won’t name the town yet, dudes. But anyways, this politician is deep into the game.
So deep that he even recruited his boss, the Vice-Mayor. This got me all excited. Kevin then adds that they’re trying to convince the Mayor himself to play too and perhaps to get him into their guild. I hope he can convince Mayor Lim to join too. Hehe
