Let me start by sharing with you what I don’t do: I don’t buy every new MMO on the market I no longer feel a strong interest in playing on the first day of Alpha Much of this has to…
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The Business Models for MMORPGs Must Evolve
Let’s review what we’ve seen in recent years. In 2008, we witnessed the failure of 2 hugely-hyped titles: Warhammer Online and Age of Conan. Mythic cut 4 of the 6 capital cities and 4 of the 24 classes just before…
Posted in Aion, Allods Online, Business Analysis, Game Design, Guild Wars 2, League of Legends, PVE, RIFT, SWTOR, Warhammer Online, World of Warcraft
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…
Posted in Aion, Allods Online, Business Analysis, Guild Wars 2, LOTRO, RIFT, SWTOR, World of Warcraft
2011 = Bounceback Year for the MMORPG Industry
Back in January 2010, I predicted that Social Gaming may kill the traditional MMORPG industry. This was after the spectacular failures of two huge IPs that launched in late 2008: Warhammer Online (WAR) Age of Conan (AoC) The developers for…
Posted in Aion, Allods Online, Business Analysis, PVP, RIFT, SWTOR, Warhammer Online, World of Warcraft
Trion’s Balance Update Shows They Get It
Trion shared their proposed class/spec balance update today, and they are planning to: Re-work (balance) Pyro Mage’s Ground of Strength. It its current incarnation GoS provides total CC immunity indefinitely for the Mage plus the ability for their spells to…
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