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Scott Jennings

Cryptic Marcom Malreported, Verify Ungood, Rectify Candygive

There’s been some movement on the Cryptic poaching City of Heroes players thing F13 turned up. Mainly, we have an Ivan Sulic sighting! Ivan Sulic was the TOTALLY AWESOME community manager for Hellgate: London who memorably told angry players in the aftermath of a lack of LAN play, “who

Eh, What The Hell, It's All Men In Tights

F13 with the story of Cryptic using City of Heroes as a recruiting tool for Champions Online. As I mentioned in the thread, pretty sure I remember Blizzard doing much the same in Everquest for WoW, but of course now with better community tools poaching your competitor’s client base

Tell Me, Tell Me, How To Be A Gazillionaire

MMO publishers have been fairly static for the past decade or so: EA, SOE, NCsoft, a few other forays from Asia and the occasional indy (that more often than not promptly gets borged by one of the above). But wait! A challenger appears! Gazillion sure knows how to make a

World of Warcraft May Be Losing Millions Of Subscribers

And protectionism is to blame. The General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP) intends to tighten approval criteria for online game imports in an effort to protect the development of domestic online game enterprises and avoid the excessive penetration of foreign culture among Chinese youth, reports Sohu quoting GAPP Technology

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Sci-Fi Channel Has A New Name – Now It’s Syfy “We couldn’t own Sci Fi; it’s a genre,” said Bonnie Hammer, the former president of Sci Fi who became the president of NBC Universal Cable Entertainment and Universal Cable Productions. “But we can own Syfy.” Another benefit of

SOE Adds RMT To Vanguard, Vision In A Corner Weeping Softly

SOE continued its adding RMT components to its games last week with the addition of LiveGamer support to Vanguard. Notably, unlike Everquest 2 where Station Exchange (now operated by LiveGamer) was limited to a few new servers, Vanguard players were told that it was being added to the entire game.

Warcraft Killed The Community Star

Rich Weil on why community seems to be the same ol’ okey doke after a decade: Community relations is not a new phenomenon, it is merely young in the games industry. A kind of professional isolationism exists here that puts any kind of independent existence of OCR entities in peril.