...game market, Blizzard Entertainment's ability to predict consumer preferences among competing hardware platforms (including next-generation hardware), declines in software pricing, product returns and price protection, product delays, retail acceptance of Blizzard Entertainment's products, adoption rate and availability of new hardware and...

...game itself "" instead of because of what Richard Garriott said last year about this time In fact it was just about a year ago I wrote an article entitled "Richard Garriott and the Harbingers of Failure." In that article I discussed how Richard Garriott described World of Warcraft as a "system of inventory management" calling it a "harbinger...

...game is it?" - But have me coming up with more than one answer. For those of you who may have missed it, here is the article: "Dutch youths convicted of virtual theft A Dutch court has convicted two youths of theft for stealing virtual items in a computer game and sentenced them to community service. Only a handful of such cases have been...

...game is like a dearly beloved relative; only someone who really cares about you will tell you that you have a gob of snot hanging from your nose "" everyone else will just let it hang there. The second line of thought runs like this: I will give a developer a mile of leeway during beta but not an inch once it hits the shelves First let me...

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...gamer whose game has been scorned. But there is one aspect of gaming, which is particular to MMOs, that DOES have "fury like hell" because it usually makes people as mad as hell if you don't agree with their viewpoint What is that subject That subject, my friends is player versus player (pvp). The proof of which can be found no further than...

...game is like a dearly beloved relative; only someone who really cares about you will tell you that you have a gob of snot hanging from your nose - everyone else will just let it hang there. The second line of thought runs like this: I will give a developer a mile of leeway during beta but not an inch once it hits the shelves First let me...