The patch notes for PTS 1.2 are up: http://www.swtor.com/test-center/patchnotes/313976 Simply put, the number and degree of class changes are significant. I’m an advocate of the approach of tweaking fewer things, putting them on Live, and seeing how balance is impacted.…
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Producer Chris Hager on TERA’s Hitboxes, RMT, Events, and Political System
At GDC 2012, GAMEBREAKER writer Jason Winter and I attended a private session and hands-on boss fight demo in the En Masse Entertainment (EME) media booth. Afterwards, we spoke with EME’s Chris Hager, the Producer for NA TERA. Our discussion…
BioWare’s SWTOR Team Peaked at Over 650 Team Members
At GDC 2012, I attended the panel on launching SWTOR as a AAA-quality MMORPG hosted by SWTOR Executive Producer Rich Vogel and Director of Production Dallas Dickinson. Massively provided a nice writeup on the panel. There are two takeaways from…
Posted in Business Analysis, SWTOR
Interview: En Masse Entertainment COO Patrick Wyatt on Bringing TERA to the West
At GDC 2012, I interviewed En Masse Entertainment COO Patrick Wyatt on bringing TERA, a Korean MMORPG game, to the West (North America, Europe). Here are notable segments from our conversation: 1:02: respective roles of the developer (Bluehole Studio, BHS)…
GDC as a Bellweather: the Gaming Industry is Shifting Towards F2P and Cross-Platform
The Game Developers Conference is the world’s largest and longest-running professionals-only game industry event. As the target audience is not the gaming public, the focus and feel of GDC is very different from other recent conferences that we attended, such…
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