Humor: Schadenfreude And The MMO Conundrum (Gamasutra)(Warcraft News)
The last time I played Dungeons & Dragons was in 1984 – I got up to go to the bathroom and while I was gone, a kobold wielding only an oyster fork murdered me in cold blood and stole my Hand of Vecna. Many beers later we were all very enthusiastically designing a massively multiplayer drinking game called World Of Barcraft – a cross between Bard’s Tale , Diner Dash , and that movie where Tom Cruise makes fruity cocktails. We had not come up with a game that would beat World Of Warcraft , but I did come to an important realization. I founded this company to make the games I wanted to play, not to copy other people’s games, and certainly not just to make money. To many games out there are made because some money tyrant wants to have his pinky in a pie that isnt for him OR the game turns into half assed mess ups of something that could have been great but fails because they got in over their heads. read more
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