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A story ran in the Guardian this morning about what MMOs are doing (or not) about griefers and self-policing. Luminaries quoted include Richard Bartle and yours truly.

Amazingly, when you make the most popular game on the planet, you can pretty much set your own agenda. So despite Vivendi announcing that Blizzard was going to get right to work on cranking out the meat loaf… Nothing in that rumor is true in regards to Blizzard. If I

Well, then!

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