Scott Jennings

Whenever MMO devs get together there’s always the standard questions. “Where’s the alcohol?” “Are you hiring?” “How many users do you have now?” “No, really, I’m not kidding, where’s the alcohol.” “WTF is up with Blizzard, anyway? WoW cost like, 100 million dollars to make, right?

Resurrecting an old flame: the “look, I don’t have time to pontificate deeply, but here’s some news” post. China: World of Warcraft Hurt Me Deeply Tang Jun of Shanda, one of China’s major MMO publishers, is quoted in Pacific Epoch as saying that foreign developers “are not

Completely usless statistical information! These posts are always popular. I don’t know why. It’s MY navel. Quit looking at it. But since you insist, some more detailed stats than usual. Mainly so everyone else can benchmark your stats, and perhaps SirBruce can do MMOGBLOGCHART.COM. It’s very

As spotted on Raph’s blog, Matt Mihaly is blogging now. Why should you care? \tab * He’s one of the more outspoken voices in the dev community (his point-by-point napalming of the “Burning Down the House” GDC session on Terra Nova still cracks me up) \tab * His

From Cnet’s Dan Terdiman, an interview with the PARC PlayOn team, plaintively /auctioning their wares… “When faced with the decision, ‘Do I put in another dungeon or do I improve the experience for (groups of players)?'” said Ducheneaut, publishers often say “‘I’ll put in another dungeon.’ I

via Cnet: The terms of the settlement do not provide for monetary compensation for Kopp, which he had originally sought. Instead, the companies agreed to withdraw their previous take-down notices and to drop their infringement claims. They also said they’d refrain from filing any future take-down notices