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WOW, THE NET HAS ALL KINDS OF NEW FEATURES [Author: Lum the Mad]

With the total collapse of the New Economy making ad banners completely obsolete, paradigms have shifted. Now the point of your website is to get as few hits as possible. It’s sort of Zen, much like waking up from a long sleep and realizing all these years, you’ve

NEWS FROM A PROJECT NOT RAZED BY ELECTRONIC ARTS (AT PRESS TIME) [Author: Arcadian Del Sol]

MAKING THE UPGRADE UO: Third Dawn Upgrade Site Open The Ultima Online: Third Dawn upgrade offer site is now open at http://www.uo.com/upgrade.html. This promotion will last for 60 days, during which current UO customers with active accounts will be able to order this special upgrade

DAWN HAS A RIVAL [Author: Eldin]

It\’e2\’80\’99s a little frightening.

SO LET THEM BE BROKEN [Author: Mako]

Temptation is king, online or offline. People believe in a sense of personal honor and integrity in real life, sure. You’re not faceless in real life. Your victims aren’t invisible in real life. On the other hand, we all know the spontaneous shift to pointlessly violent ‘griefer’ behavior

“BUT DUDE! YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND! THE HEAD LOOKS LIKE ASS!” [Author: Lum the Mad]

Massive Multiplayer.Org has an interview with this month’s punching bag, Thomas J. Scott, auteur of almost-possibly-a-real-game-someday Caeron 3000. I was pretty naive about Lum the Mad, not having visited it before, and didn’t really know what it was all about. Once it was clear that I was

REMEMBRANCES FROM THOSE PAST [Author: Lum the Mad]

I find it amazingly ironic that on the one year anniversary of my least favorite day in Origin history they have come up with my new least favorite day in Origin history. It’s crazy. It’s sad. Somewhere, in somebody’s head, it’s a sound business decision, and

DESIGNING PAST UBER: CORE DEMOGRAPHIC ENCOUNTERS [Author: Lum the Mad]

Taken from <a href=” http://boards.station.sony.com/everquest/Forum2/HTML/070432.html”>these posts: 1) The “average” playstyle, as per Verant’s own statements and as per the mechanics of the game, is the 4-6 person group with 2-3 hours to play. 2) This would make