From a gold farmer, wanting to rent a toon from Cuppy:
(16:54:39) ipssuppliers8@hotmail.com the deal is free.don’t worry
(16:54:52) Cuppycake Free?
(16:55:00) Cuppycake You’ll level my character from 60-70 without me paying anything?
(16:55:16) ipssuppliers8@hotmail.com if u rent ur lvl 70 char to us ,u may get 1000g or 20$ per week.
(16:55:43) Cuppycake I don’t get it.
(16:56:58) ipssuppliers8@hotmail.com no. [...]
Apparently making games is hard. And expensive. From Tobold’s blog:
The reader who goes by the symbols = # # = pointed out the news that Perpetual Entertainment, the company that cancelled Gods & Heroes to concentrate on Star Trek Online, liquidated its assets last month and is now under new ownership under the [...]
As seen at Penny Arcade, Bioware is looking for writers. (3rd post down) You don’t even have to be published or have worked in the industry. You just need to do a little work:
So yes, we’re shaking the usual trees and our HR folks are turning over
all the rocks they can think of [...]
From NewScientistTech:
A software bot that masquerades as an ill-mannered human user within the popular virtual world Second Life is being used by UK researchers to investigate the psychology of its inhabitants. The bot starts a conversation with human users and deliberately invades their personal space to see how they will react.
The bot is designed to [...]
I’m tempted to use a “nail, meet the coffin that is the increasingly nail-laden receptacle that—it is almost certain—holds the still-twitching-but-mostly-dead remains of Vanguard” metaphor, but I think it’s unfair to games that actually had any sort of life to make such a comparison. A more apt metaphor might be some kind of [...]
From CNet.com:
A study released by IBM and collaboration software maker Seriosity found significant parallels between business leaders and MMORPG gamers.
MMORPG games, which include World of Warcraft, Eve Online and EverQuest, can include millions of players who come together in various groups to accomplish a specific mission or task.
Gamers learn collaboration, self-organization, risk taking, openness, [...]
From the Auto Assault website:
Today NCsoft is announcing that it will be closing down service for Auto Assault at the end of the summer. The service will close at midnight on August 31, 2007. As of today, any player currently in the service with an active billed account will not be billed again. If [...]
From the Patience, the LotRO Community Manager:
Many LOTRO players have asked if there’s some way they can purchase a Lifetime Membership. While it’s too late to take advantage of the Founder’s Offer, we are pleased to now offer a one-time, US$299 Lifetime Membership pricing option for everyone!
If you pre-ordered Lord of the Rings Online, Turbine [...]
Aries March 21-April 19
Personal praise and an award of bonus DKP’s from your raid leader is bittersweet against the knowledge that while you were AFK for the last 2 hours, your cat was cleaning itself on your keyboard.
Taurus April 20-May 20
While you tend to be popular at fan gatherings, your genetically skinny 3 [...]
I thought this might be fun. Come up with a list of arbitrary length (we don’t do Top 10 lists here on “the AN”™) of iconic characters, real life or otherwise, that MMORPG players would probably recognize even if they had never played the game in question. The rules: It had to be [...]