Posts Tagged ‘Online Games’

Gamer Sues WoW For Mental Illness

After filing cases against Sony for various reasons such as violation of his rights to the First Amendment, his broken Xbox360 caused him “undue stress”, and for the Nintendo Wii for interfering with his “right to pursue happiness”, Erik Estavillo of San Jose, California is at it again. This time, he has turned his attention against Blizzard and World of Warcraft. Estavillo claimed that the game has a “harmful virtual environment” with “sneaky and deceitful practices.”

He recently filed the $1M suit against Blizzard for causing him undue mental health.

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Top 10 Problems With MMOs

IGN released what it thinks are the Top 10 problems that the MMORPG industry needs to address. This is a good read for both publishers, developers and for the players too.

Maybe those in the industry can get good ideas so that we’ll come out with better games in the future.m Allow me to summarize them after the break…

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Vitamins for an MMO

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?

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Is Photorealism the Future of MMORPGs?

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).

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Obama Speech Live in Second Life

President Barrack Obama is perhaps THE most Internet savvy (or promoted) politician. He has his own Twitter and has appeared in video games during his campaign. Now, his tech machine (advisors) did the historical, his recent speech at Ghana was streamed live at Second Life.

Check out the video after the break…

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Neo Steam MMORPG


Hey, kids!

Just bumped into this over the web. Is this a good game? Tell me what you think by commenting below.

Features after the break

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The Life of A Chinese Gold Farmer

 

Despite government, civic groups and media features, the Chinese gold farming industry - with online game World of Warcraft as the primary vehicle, continues on.

Some proponents of the underground industry are adamant that the supply is still huge. They think that gold farming will continue to exist because players will continue to look for it and pay for it. “The reason people buy gold is the same reason they pay people to wash their car – they would rather spend money than do it themselves”, said one anonymous Chinese gold farmer.

Let’s take a look at the current state of the Chinese gold farming industry and take a behind-the-scenes-look at 2 actual employees.

One more click, sir…

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How MMOS Make Money

 

Often, we just play it. Sometimes, we pay for it. But do we really understand the business of Massively Multi-player Role Playing Games (or MMORPGS)?

The following feature article from MMOSITE.COM will show you the types of business models and how online games make money. Sadly, the market is so competitive these days that most online games even fail to make their Open Betas.

Read on…

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South Korean Government to Invest Millions in Video Games

I regularly visit Korea every year for business and I can vouch that the gaming industry there is alive and kicking. Good thing their goverment is truly supportive of this. In a report by the Digital Chosunilbo, the South Korean government is planning to invest more than $200 Million dollars to support their own video game industry.

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East vs. West in MMORPGs

There are a lot of cultural and game-play difference between Eastern and Western MMORPGs. World of Warcraft, the planet’s biggest MMORPG, is the West’s crowning glory and is the epitome of all things “western”, i.e. subscription, gameplay, style and theme. For us Asians, we embrace the F2P (free-to-play) business model, Item Mall and (to some extent) grinding.

Join me as I examine the many difference between Eastern and Western preference(s) in online gaming…

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