Posts Tagged ‘Star Wars: Galaxies’

Another One Bites the Dust

Posted: June 27, 2011 by Twitchdoctor in game design, Game Genres, Games and Marketing
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A storied MMORPG finally gets the finger.

Foreclosure

Posted: December 16, 2010 by Twitchdoctor in Ancient History, Exemplary Games, game design, Game Genres, Games and Life
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One of the most striking things about our virtual worlds, even many years on from the first MMORPGs, is how resistant these worlds are to player transformation; for years the marketing pitch of all these games has, in essence, been “you make a difference.” The reality is that you don’t. That boss will re-spawn for the next player, that field littered with the corpses of 30 Savage Fluffy Froofroos will, in five minutes be teeming with life, that town will need to be defended all over again by the next raid.

Putting Away Childish Things

Posted: December 7, 2010 by Twitchdoctor in Ancient History, game design, Games and Marketing
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I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if a million voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. Then I remembered. Five years ago, something terrible happened.

Everything We Know About MMORPGs is About To Change. . .Or is it?

Posted: May 19, 2010 by Twitchdoctor in Exemplary Games, game design
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The vast majority of MMO players have proven, by voting with their dollars, that they don’t want something new and radically different: they want to play GrindQuest: The Grinding Crusade.