This Week, Cosmik Updated More Often Than I Did

Posted on September 25, 2006 by Scott Jennings| 12 Comments

So, I got no excuse for why I haven’t been writing here. Work’s been busy, but that pretty much stays as a constant. We moved to a new house, but, well, we’ve BEEN moved, and this is about the third move this year anyway so I’ve gotten awfully good at dodging the worst by paying other people to do it for me. The industry’s been kind of in meh-mode, but, well, it’s been in meh-mode for how long now? Oh yeah, since WoW launched and took our creativity with it. Right.

So, some random hits since that’s about all I can do when my muse takes a holiday:

- Community Relations managers have their own blog now. It’s, like, a community about communities. Meta!

- Eve’s Magnus Bergsson talks a bit about their design with Shacknews.

- Brad McQuaid, in a thread on MMORPG.com, says that Vanguard is so not going to be all brown and gray like EQ2. No, instead they’re going to be brown, gray and PURPLE. So, uh, yeah, take that, haters! Innovation, thy name is diku.

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  • http://www.nerfbat.com/ Ryan Shwayder

    In one week, I move on from SOE and a Community Relations position, and apparently a few other community folks joined the blogger world. I think they were waiting for me to become non-industry before their blog got linked by you. Any idea who the people that run the OverModerated blog are?

  • scottj

    One of the writers is “Tisirin”, aka Richard Weil, recently of NCsoft and currently consulting and, apparently, blogging! I suspect Jo and Nomad are also (current) NCsoft community folk.

  • Freakazoid

    That CR blog: Needs less boring, more nutless assmunchers.

    You being not busy: I suggest you duel Raph Koster in a Battle of Deep Thoughts. It’ll be fun!

  • Evangolis

    There are a few classics, like the Tweety Rant, or the “I disagree with what you said” rant (Was that GBob, or some other Bob? Can’t remember off hand) that would be worth assembling/linking and discussing the merits and demerits of. I have a friend doing a CR gig ATM, and he hates it. Given that he’s a real people person, I think that speaks to some lack in what he/we know about doing CR.

    Is there some guide to what works? Not the relatively general stuff, but some detailed info? Maybe a couple of clever but frazzled CR people could sit down and do a CR for Dummies book.

  • http://www.cesspit.net Abalieno

    Yeah, it looks like an experiment mirroring the SOE’s mmoroundtable.

    Oh yeah, since WoW launched and took our creativity with it. Right.

    Or maybe since they schooled everyone else ;p

  • Aufero

    You being not busy: I suggest you duel Raph Koster in a Battle of Deep Thoughts. It\’e2\’80\’99ll be fun!

    Lum would just rename the blog “Deep Thoughts: Silent Running” and stop posting.

  • Nomad

    I wish I could match Tweety, but… I’m still getting paid for this, and would like to keep it that way. So calling players “nutless assmunchers” is… well, not likely unless I get really drunk. So, we’ll see – we weren’t really ready for publicity yet, but I guess we’ll have to get cracking.

  • Xanthippe

    With regard to Vanguard being brown, grey and purple – WOW has a nicely done albeit cartoony colorful world and happens to be the most successful mmog to date. So why do all the new games go the brown and grey route (although I would call it “brown and green”)?

    The nicest looking new game I’ve seen has been Oblivion. I’d play an mmo made with that engine even if the game was shit because the world is so pretty.

  • http://www.nerfbat.com/ Ryan Shwayder

    On the Battle of Deep Thoughts idea, I’m considering getting Lum, Raph, and Psychochild in on the next round table blog war. Basically, we pick a generic topic and each of us runs with it, posting at a specified time and date so we can’t steal each other’s ideas or direction.

    The first one we did was on crafting, and produced the following:
    Mine: The Role of Crafting in Massively Multiplayer Games
    Moorgard’s: Crafting in MMOs (Or, \’e2\’80\’9cCan\’e2\’80\’99t We All Just Get Along?\’e2\’80\’9d)
    Aggro Me’s: Craft This

    Lum, email me if you’re up for such a discussion. It will probably have to wait until the launch of Echoes of Faydwer so Danuser has time to participate, but it’s a lot of fun reading each other’s posts.

  • http://www.corpnews.com Andrew Crystall

    If I’m not mistakem, Nomad, you’re involved with AutoAssualt?

    Evangolis, yea, that was Gbob.

    And yes, CCP are talking up a part of their design which, is, um, going to force a lot of players to use 3rd party sites to let them sell high-end loot. *thud*

  • Nomad

    Auto Assault, Lineage, Dungeon Runners, and Exteel, atthe moment.