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Make no mistake about this. I"ve said since day 1 we are NOT competing for dollars any more. Yes there is a price point in the online space, yes you have to manage that, but that"s not going to change. MMO"s are FAR AND AWAY the best entertainment value in the world. There will never be...

Oh I totally agree, and the beauty of this industry is there is no shortage of those people around. However there is a smaller majority who turn themselves into non-entities due to their style. Rush Limbaugh, Maher, Coulter, Olbermann. Most of them are pretty damn bright, but they are so...

It"s really easy honestly. Ut"s contributions add nothing, and only take away if you read them. Blind squirrels find nuts every now and then, everyone is right if they throw enough against the wall, but the quicker you get people that are intentionally anti or white noise for the sake of...

Ya it"s been awhile....

Just have to convince those hundreds of thousands, to millions, that it"s worth their time, and a few hundred bucks, to live in this multi-million dollar house. I"ve always looked at this in this way. I"m looking for a place to live, I have two choices: A) The landlord that hands me the...

Understood. It"s my belief that once you hear her speak it will be clear why she"s now doing what she is. However, as we"ve all alluded to, none it amounts to jack until we do something tangible that you can sink your teeth into. Then you can flame away. The only plus, well one of the...

He"ll be the first to tell you, he"s not and never has been a gamer. Your CEO doesn"t have to be to run the company right and successfully. Jen"s got a lengthy resume working IN the game industry, but her forte, her expertise, is business, and running one. That"s why she"s the CEO, period.

To some degree you are 100% correct. People aren"t just going to fall in love and start reading quest text dialogue boxes because RA wrote them. One of the way we have to innovate is in HOW and WHEN we tell the story. Those are as important, if not more so, than the story itself. Yep. There is...

Except that this house costs around 100mm to build

Fear of failure is something I"ve had an abundance of since I can remember. It was the single largest motivator for me as a player. Others found fear of failure to be a paralyzing thing. Success in the MMO space is, depending on perspective, very skewed. Some people in the business world see...

And I have spent all these years paying pro"s to do it....

Exactly. We have art people for that, but again, exactly.

The hardest part, for me anyway, being in this industry is the amount of times I want to talk, versus the amount of times it"s either smart/right to talk. This is certainly not the forum to talk about any of the reasons behind something like this, not even close, but this is also the forum...

I"ll let her handle that in the coming weeks as people come to us to talk about it. I didn"t get defensive, just when someone talks like a 9 year old it"s hard not to respond as such. As far as you being unimpressed with her "credentials", um, so what. Why would it be relevant if you...

Kind of a simple way to put it, but ya.

No doubt. One of the things I used to get bent about was stuff "we thought of first" and then hearing things in various games that either sounded like or were mirror images of things we thought we"d nail first. Came to realize, especially given the length of time it takes to make an MMO that...

Other than the press release? Not really.

I have yet to see any real game experience on her resume. What? In the post you refer to, right at the top, it reads McLean began her career in online game content in 1992, when she joined Micropose Software. In 1996 she became the product manager of AOL"s Game Channel, then Programming...

For you folks here that have used and liked the AA service, well actually for those that tried it and maybe didn"t find as much use for it as you"d have liked, I wanted to post some update stuff and if anyone here has feedback I"d love to hear it. Over the past few months, the Azeroth Advisor...

Guana, As the father of a 9 year old son who has Asperger"s, you need say no more, and you need not apologize. You may have asked, I may have missed. I don"t ever intentionally miss and usually, especially for people I game with, always "hook a brotha up" The only flat out no"s I ever...

Interesting discussion in the McQuaid topic, min specs and tech. Something we have talked long and hard on from day 1, min specs..... It"s an interesting and not nearly as easy to define piece as I thought when we first started, but certainly has enormous ramifications on potential user...

It"s an insanely frustrating thing as I raise 4 kids with my wife. LotR was as good as it gets movie/trilogy wise. Having said that it didn"t come close to the experience I had reading that the first time. Imaginations are in neutral for our kids these days. There is no need to "work" to...

That pretty much sums it up. I would say a great story can make a good/great game something not done before. But ya, no amount of story will ever make a bad game good.

One of the cool things I never put much stock in, or paid attention to is the UI as it pertains to story telling and questing. Watching Irena work her magic after leaving as the lead on WoW has been pretty damn entertaining and enlightening. There is an immense amount of science behind...

Is it fair to say that people love stories but that some don"t like to read, and some do? They don"t love stories any more or less than the other, but part of that group will put effort into finding a good story (aka people that read) and others will love a story only if they see it or are told...

I"d argue that where we play, the console, the PC, is the reason it"s missing. Good story tellers are just that, but no one"s figured out how to "tell" that story within the framework of the MMO experience. I can only use our example, but one of the things we know for certain is that just...

DING DING DING!!! I am 99.9999% sure that"s it. I need to see the game box... Hang on! Yep! This is the one, damn, nice work. I swear it looked way cooler back then!

No it was true high fantasy image wise. Elementals, demons, and heavy on the hard drive space. It was not cartoony or gimmicky, at least I don"t remember it as such.

It wasn"t Battle Chess. I do have another time sink game I forgot about. I swear to you I could have sailed across the ocean and back with the amount of time I spent playing this one.This was the first game I got my father in law playing on the computer. Oh and here"s the pre-cursor to AH-64...

Just found this list, quick glance.... Barely played 1, and 4, 5 and 10 were huge time sinks and I totally forgot about 11, 11 was the first cool sports simulation I remember playing but was bugged all to hell.

HOLY CHIT! After 20 years I just found it, TOTALLY FORGOT! Typhoon of Steel!!! Haha! That"s friggin funny.

Funny thing is the first time I did that I had serious flashbacks to the game I am talking about.

Oh damn, forgot about Panzer General, much funner game than I ever thought. Checking Wiki to see if any of the names ring a bell and they don"t. I have to find images of this game. The Chess game is a nightmare, no one could remember it and it"s not Battlechess or Archon.

No and no. The WWII game was SSI, I am almost 100% positive. The chess game, I think, had Water Elemental s as pieces, and Demons.

I had this same conversation on another board and it was almost the same discussion, talking about older games we"d played and there was a game that I cannot for the life of me remember the name, it"s not Archon. It was a fantasy Chess game, in 3D, and I remember it because I remember wiping my...

Up until original EQ this game might have garnered more playing time than anything I ever played by a long shot. That and a WWII on the apple that to this day I cannot remember the name of. Top down cheesy graphic individual squad/vehicle game. I played that the entire off season in 89 and...

Intellivision Baseball, thumbs still hurt. My cousin and I wore out the directional pads playing 1-0 and 2-1 games all summer long. That and Madden are pretty much the only sports games I ever got into with some zest. Here"s one, Bird vs. Dr J? Anyone play that? I remember thinking that...

Oh damn, another one. PoR was awesome. I even bought the last one they tried to market, but was way to MMO biased to want to play a single player RPG anymore. Come to think of it, Wizardry was the first game, and the first perma death game for me. I can remember always being prepped to reset...

Never touched Zork either. I couldn"t do the text stuff and enjoy it, especially not after Wizardry"s "3D" game environment. To this day one of my favorite "story based" games was Curse of the Azure Bonds. Not sure why but I remember that game and that story being so damn cool it just worked...

Holy flashback.