ferrel.me - 4/22/2009
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Scott Hartsman, a noteworthy MMO producer and personal favorite of mine, has put together a rather wonderful article on his blog regarding some of the problems with MMO betas and launches in general. It is worth the read but I do have to warn that he is as long winded as I am. Unlike me, [...]
Update: 38 Studios sets facts straight on Copernicus
massively.com 7/31/2009 — In a follow-up to our story posted yesterday , 38 Studios has contacted us with a response on the issue of the game's cost to be between 50 million and 100 million and their "tenative release date" as reported by the Boston Globe . According to 38 ...
Ten things I hope to see from 38 Studios
ferrel.me 3/23/2009 — It would come as no surprise to me if you’ve never heard of 38 Studios or Copernicus. The former is a game studio founded by Curt Shilling and the latter is the yet to be named MMO that they are producing. There has been a lot of speculation about the project but the development shop [...]
WoW Insider interviews 38 Studios' Brett Close about Azeroth Advisor
wowinsider.com 10/10/2008 — Last week we reported that 38 Studios , a company working on its own MMO property, had picked up the Azeroth Advisor , a custom newsletter directed towards players of World of Warcraft . At the time, we were slightly confused -- why would another ...
MMO Antiquities - Crowd Control
ferrel.me 4/6/2009 — I’ve been mulling over a lot of things lately when it comes to game design and features that have disappeared over the years. To be honest I missed one of the glaring ones until I started playing EverQuest again. What ever happened to true crowd control?
In EverQuest an exceptional enchanter ...
MMO design and development…
38pitches.com 10/28/2008 — I was in, and still am, a discussion about MMO’s and particular pieces to them. There was a few questions I was asking of a veteran community and the responses were fantastic. The two questions were:
1) The one core basic feature would you 100% ...
Bringing the Social Game Back
keenandgraev.com 7/11/2009 — Is it even possible? According to Ryan Shwayder (Nerfbat author, 38 Studios employee, game designer, cool guy) it is, but only if it can be done correctly. He even alluded to the “secret sauce” (method) that Copernicus will use. Ryan ...
38 Studios buys WoW newsletter
wowinsider.com 10/3/2008 — Here's a strange little story -- 38 Studios is the MMO/entertainment company owned by baseball player Curt Schilling (who is himself a very big WoW fan ). They're working on a secret project codenamed Copernicus (which our sister site Massively has ...
Video Game companies on Twitter | Sam "QforQ" Houston
qforq.com 1/13/2009 — Digg! Updated January 12th 7pm EST This past summer I made a blog post basically calling out video game companies for not being active in social media , specifically Twitter. In that blog post you can find some tips/tutorials I gave for how to use ...
Gear Problems
omenscourge.blogspot.com 3/12/2009 — Sooner or later everyone realizes one or two pieces of gear are in need of serious upgrade. For me, it is my tanking shoulders and tanking cloak. Currently I'm sporting the Pauldrons of Reconnaissance from Halls of Stone. I've been wearing these to tank with since late November. My upgrade ...
Problems with the MMO Quest Grind
epicslant.com 10/19/2009 — I’ve made it no secret that I am fatigued with the quest grind system that all MMOs seem to have moved to. It is because of that leaning that I’ve been accused of living too much in the past. If that were true, I’d just be demanding every MMO become like EverQuest in every ...
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