I Was In The Room At The Time, And Yes, That Was A Good Answer! Someone asked me “So what would you do if you had a forum with 5 million active posters?” and my immediate answer was “Shut it down.”
This Wouldn't Be News Except For The Whole Eleven Million Subscribers Thing Jeff Kaplan leaving as World of Warcraft lead designer, moving to new Blizzard project
NCsoft: Follow The Bouncing Money Adam Martin breaks down the (not very) hidden subtext behind the recent NCsoft ‘restructurings’. All this waffle about becoming “a unified organization under NC West”, and the reporting by bloggers and journalists that this was “consolidating” the subsidiaries and offices (they were already consolidated, you know) … what a load of
I'm Just A Poor Mid Level Line Producer Whose Intentions Are Good Only in 2009 can you have the intersection of game balance kvetching, business ethics, and charts about the Great Recession. And believe it or not, this time it’s not even me! This was brought to my attention by a hit on my referral logs from my earlier primal scream
Barbarians At The Gate Raph Koster breaks down the recent Eve hoohah. Lots of folks lose their livelihoods when an empire falls, and players invested in BoB are likely upset that years of work were lost. But EVE is not a game about the height of the Roman Empire. It’s a game about
My Space Tank Is Fight httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PEU_201IfI&eurl=http://www.google.com/reader/view/&feature=player_embedded
ENOUGH WITH THE GODDAMN LAYOFFS NC Austin and NC Europe today. Hey, management? You’re doing it wrong.