gamasutra.com - 8/8/2009
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Another week, another free-to-play RPG, right? With the flood of imports from Asia, kids games' popping up like mushrooms in the wake of Club Penguin , and domestic developers with an eye on the social gaming and MMO space ramping up production, it's hard to know which games will maintain any ...
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Matt Mihaly talks microtransactions and Earth Eternal
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... It looks like we're not the only ones on the block to talk to Matt Mihaly, as Gamasutra has recently sat down with the Sparkplay Media CEO. The topic of the conversation: microtransactions. Matt's no stranger to microtransactions, having ...
Earth Eternal: Matt’s Musings
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... EARTH ETERNAL: EARTH ETERNAL’s Matt Mihaly, CEO at Sparkplay Media, has been interviewed at Gamasutra. In the fairly detailed and interesting chat, Mihaly expounds on such topics as micro-transactions, the fantasy MMO’s projected audience and game design choices. ...
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