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From Gamespot: Crown of Glory is a turn-based strategy game that takes place 200 years after the start of the Napoleanic Wars. …which would be around 2005.\’c2\~

Only Raph gets away with this stuff. Why? Honor thy ancestors, for they solved most of thy design problems. Oh, OK then. They’re all pretty dead on, by the way. Even if he violated more than a few in his career. THAT’S HOW YOU LEARN!

The new EQ1 (yes, EQ1) servers “The Combine” and “The Sleeper” went up last Wednesday. They’re using a new “classic” ruleset where content from expansions must be unlocked by someone on the server. To open the planes, you have to down Nagafen and Vox, to open Kunark you have

Recently, the EQ2 Blogger Cartel posted some interesting thoughts about crafting. Blackguard in particular pretty much nailed the various interplays between loot-centric and craft-centric systems, and how the two pressure groups tend to battle for dominance within games. My reaction to this: \’e2\’80\’9cHuh.\’e2\’80\’9d

Here’s an interesting post: everything you know about community management is wrong. This relationship is readily apparent in World of Warcraft. Every time there is a new patch, the users complain on the forums, and the Community Managers get fed up with the users, and the users think that

Settling the eternal Star Trek vs Star Wars debate – FOREVER.

From Dan Rubenfield’s modest proposal: If you run the game, your cost of goods for item sales will ALWAYS be lower than the gold farmers. So you want to beat them and make cash on the side? Change the playing field. You sell the items. You sell the gold.