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Boobs and you This week"s topic is one that"s near and dear to my heart. Well, it"s near to my heart, at least, and I mean that quite literally. It"s also a perfect topic for today"s holiday! I mean, who doesn"t like to talk about large breasts on Thanksgiving? (Score one for the terrible synonym.) |
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Disguising the grind Believe it or not, grind is an essential part of an MMO and we might be pretty lost without it. Repetitive content is the cornerstone of the MMO genre but it"s not all just smacking monsters over the head for hours on end or completing yet another "kill ten rats" quest. The repetitive elements in an MMO give us predictable gameplay in a form we can digest. |
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The trouble with goals in MMOs One of the major problems of a game in which you can do anything is that... well, there"s not necessarily much of a reason to do anything. That"s a Terrible Idea recently had an interesting piece on the difficulty of generating goals and objectives in MMOs, especially in contrast with single-player games where your goals are equally pre-generated. |
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The9 sees enormous drop in profits after split with Blizzard In a news story that we"re sure will surprise precisely nobody at all, The9 -- China"s previous operator for World of Warcraft -- has reported a serious decline in profits for this last quarter. Since last year when The9 still had World of Warcraft in its stable of games to now, they have seen a staggering 94% drop in revenue. |
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