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They promised us at Blizzcon a starter experience for both new races "as great". I would expect, as a Worgen, that you will start as a human, get infected, which forces you to "switch sides" (you start friendly to humans, hostile to other worgen, then suddendly...), and so on. That"s why they...

The only game than went below 3 years was Dark Age of Camelot, and that was because Mythic reused heavily their existing designs and tech from previous games. (of course, when they launched, most dungeons were empty, with mob dropping only cash, not a single item). With the experience of...

And needs to convince X hundred thousands of buyers.

Do not mix jobs as well. Being the CEO means you make sure your company works. Being the game producer means you make sure your game works. Those are different jobs. She worked in the game industry for quite a long time. That means she knows the culture, the mindset, the specifics of the...

And that, I think, reflects an "elder game" mentality. Namely the fact that it"s highly probable that almost every new player in WoW today comes from being invited by someone. Granted, those someones usually make an alt to accompany their friends/family/colleagues in their levelling (even more...

There"s a big difference between random generation and procedural generation. Case in point: LDON/AO dungeons missions vs... EVE"s galaxy. EVE used procedural generation to create and populate their galaxy (cue in the geekish story of them stopping and restarting the process using a hardcoded...

There"s a big difference between "world changing" (the world changes, for you) and "world shaping" (you change the world, for everyone). One is relatively easy, the other is horribly hard to do well (and an enormous uneconomical proposition in terms of dev hours, usually).

Hey, it"s Cuppy"s fault! The Boston Globe said "it takes $50 to more than $100 to complete that kind of game", which translated as "it takes $50 to $100mmore...". The old word-of-mouth exercice strikes back. Massively didn"t even check the tweet vs the original.

The point was, Tolkien hated the industrial revolution. The scourging of the Shire was probably his most pointed allegory in that direction.

Why develop cannons when your mage team can drop the equivalent of a mini-nuke on an opposing fortress? Who needs poison gas when your mages start doing vador chokeholds on the soldiers?

The game that had potential - real, shattering potential - was Stargate. Except it was ran to the ground due to... what? We"ll know probably someday. But when the producer of the show tells you "if there was a game, it would already be out", you know it"s joined the Duke in the valhalla of...

That"s one of the most endearing things with Martin. He will kill anyone if it advances a good story. No one is safe. Most people know Martin from his recent series, but I followed him since the days of the Wild Card series (which is what Heroes should have been, instead of the slowly...

Dofus is Europe"s take on the myriad of asian browser-based games. It"s all written in flash (yep, the same flash you use), is completely multi-platform, lightweight, works on even computers that wouldn"t run vanilla WoW, and targets the teens/young adult. It"s not a MMORPG, it"s more of a...

That"s why I said it was a problem. A different from the "how much does 68 crit rating adds to my chances of critting", but a problem still. There"s a reason I wrote my example using stats named "crit" and "resilience". WoW is already following that road. When you PvP, how much will you crit...

As you note: it works... if you do it in a context where there"s very little item progression. The intent of the game is not that you replace items from one content to the next content (be it "next level", "next expansion", whatever). But even then, when they started to introduce Tech 3, they...