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Pirates of the Burning Sea is too expensive

2008-01-11 11:42:00 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
...attract more than a quarter of a million subscribers, while free games like Club Penguin, Second Life, or Habbo Hotel attract millions of players. Doh! Stop the press! Headline: "People prefer free stuff over having to pay for it If you have two restaurants sitting right next to each other, and one is offering high-quality meals for $15, and...
 
Tags: food, junk food restaurant, junk food, greasy junk food, price, lower price tag, potbs database, potbs, quality
 
 
 
 
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The fairer sex

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2008-04-20 21:42:55 by Jason Hill in Screen Play
...attract more female developers, but it's a real chicken and egg situation, because young women strolling into the average game store are likely to get the impression that it's a very male-orientated industry, and might consequently dismiss games as a potential career One interesting thing I've came across, and a strategy the games industry...
 
Tags: industry struggles, industry, australian ict industry, games industry, games industry attract, attract female players, female players, games, games designer
 
 
 
 
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In-Depth: 'Meet the Editors: The State of Game Journalism'

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2008-08-08 08:00:52 by Simon Parkin in GameSetWatch
...attracts is more than matched by raw readership figures, which would be the envy of many a news editor in 2008. The biggest-hitting gaming websites attract in excess of a million unique hits a month, and even boutique-y publications, such as Edge Magazine, while boasting monthly ABCs of only 31,304 issues, exert a global influence on the...
 
Tags: industry, games industry matures, editorial review policy, editorial, review, videogame review scores, review section, games, games journalism
 
 
 
 
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Expansions - are they a good idea?

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2008-09-25 12:46:00 by Hektor in MMOdus Operandi
...attract new players, since all the new content is so endgame-centric If you weren't playing WoW 3 years ago, you won't have seen this guy the way he was meant to be seen. And, sadly, you'l never have the chance It's a shame to think that all of the zones I played through when I was a WoW subscriber are now unused, even the big raid zones...
 
Tags: zones, earlymid-game zones, level, single level, level cap, game world, world, game, game overly
 
 
 
 
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Developing for PlayStation 3 Becomes Twice Cheaper

2007-11-19 10:36:00 by George S. in Video Games Blog
 
...attract more developers to PlayStation 3. The Japanese maker of gaming consoles has halved the price of "Reference Tool" - the software needed for developing games for PlayStation The package is now priced at 950,000 yen (approx. $8,600) in Japan and $10,250 in the USA I think this is a very timely and effective strategic move. On one hand...
 
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Building bridges

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2007-12-06 21:01:16 by Jason Hill in Screen Play
...attract more women into games development in Australia and overseas, do you have any thoughts on how the industry can attract more women You can market more games to women. You can have more women being shown in games commercials. You can have articles in women's magazines that talk about women who are successful in the field. You can...
 
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Mass market MMORPGs

2008-01-09 08:10:00 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
...attract large numbers of subscribers is to make your game accessible for everybody. You need to lower the barriers to success until people who aren't very dedicated can overcome it. And you need to design your game in a way that people don't really need other players to advance. The original Everquest is a great game, but it clearly showed...
 
Tags: mass market, pvp, pvp greatness, concept, pvp concept, introduce meaningful pvp, pvp game, mass market game, game
 
 
 
 
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Does sex sell MMORPGs?

2008-01-21 08:04:00 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
...attract them. Just take E3 booth babes as example, although that practice has stopped with the reorganization of that video game trade show. Up to now there hasn't been much sex in MMORPGs, at least not officially, just some people having cybersex which is mostly text-based, with a couple of emotes. You can't even strip totally naked in a...
 
Tags: naked, naked female body, game, game funcom, naked pixels, conan game, naked female avatars, sex, avatars
 
 
 
 
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Suda 51 Clarifies Comments About Third-Party Wii Games

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2008-01-22 07:10:36 by Susan Arendt in Game | Life
...attract a different kind of consumer to the hardware, ie. gamers who are looking for a different genre to the products which have been successful on this platform thus far When we combine this clarification with other comments made by Suda about the Wii, we begin to see what he was really driving at. In that same interview with CVG, Suda said...
 
Tags: wii, third-party wii games, games, third-party wii titles, suda, hardcore third-party games, third-party games, comments, titles
 
 
 
 
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Understanding online poker

2008-03-08 04:29:00 by k5115000 in Games Articles
 
...attractive scheme or deals or offers to attract more and more player to play. For that they enroll certain free players in order to attract more players The greatest innovation that has happened to poker online game is rakeback. The word rakeback means a part of money say 5% is paid to poker room to utilize their service for each hand....