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Making MMOs More Social
Nerfbat — Raph has a great post about making massively multiplayer games (and other virtual spaces) more social. This is one of the great failures in the age of World of Warcraft, and it’s one of the main things I dislike about WoW. If you played older games like Ultima Online and EverQuest, you know that both were significantly more social environments. Recent games have failed players in their social aspects more than anything else, and Raph has some good thoughts about how to make virtual spaces more social .

Ways of designing social into virtual spaces
Massively — ... making virtual spaces more social by thoughtful design, a subject that we here at Massively take a lot of interest in, strangely enough. While the first two chunks of Raph's post are arguments for actionable design to encourage socialization, it's the last piece of the post where the fleshy... Ways of designing social into virtual spaces originally appeared on Massively on Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.   Read | Permalink | Email this |  ...

The Pace of Action...
Van Hemlock — ... not at all! I am one, you know! But what I do wonder, is if FPS gameplay is meant to be a thing any players of any games can stay sharp at for the sorts of  spans MMOs are typically played for? Many nights, I'd come away after three hours in any of these three titles, feeling phsically drained and mentally shattered. In many ways, it was like trying to sprint a marathon.   At this point, I'd like to direct you to this excellent post on downtime: Raph's Website: Ways to make your virtual space more social ...which I, peanut gallery chimp ...