GDC: 10 Reasons NOT to Make MMOGs

Warrior-GS writes "Gordon Walton, who helped create such games as Ultima Online and the Sims Online, is at the Game Developers Conference giving a seminar on "Ten Reasons You Don't Want to Run a Massively Multiplayer Online Game". GameSpy has been providing coverage of GDC, with several game previews and several conference reports. They also have a hands-on report of the Nokia N-Gage from four of their editors, and a somewhat unorthodox report of the Game Developer Choice Awards, where Metroid Prime was named Game of the Year. The convention continues through Saturday."

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and the #1 reason......

[stratjakt]

They suck once you realize it's just an IRC chatroom with graphics that you're paying $40 a month for.

I'd comment on this...

[Anonymous Coward]

But I need to get back to the game, sorry.

Brought to you by the letter "M"

[Sgs-Cruz]

Why you don't want to make MMOLRPG Haiku:

Internet attracts
nitpickers with no money;
driving you to drink.

One of the reasons:

[GreyyGuy]

"You make too much money and have to hire more accountants. Trust me- you don't want to have problems like that"

Re:Multimedia?

[Sabalon]

That's what I was thinking. I'm guessing that number 11 on the list is "It's hard to get a decent in-focus photo."

Did you see his picture?

[BoomerSooner]

That's reason enough. I bet he had hair before he started.

Re:credit cards are hard to get from customers?

[Coutal]

i don't get it. getting a credit card number is *easy*. just post fake job listingsor something...

so why code a virtual world full of monsters and quests just to get a credit card number?
sheesh. in my days, exploits used to be a few kilobytes each...

(My apologize to those who had their CC number stolen and for the humor impaired in general)
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Re:Next up: BF1942 clones

[schon]

like lemmings, there'll be a few dozen BF1942 clones, and most will die due to too much competition.

Really? There were lots of spinoffs, but I only remember one or two clones of Lemmings.

Re:Electronic crack

[flewp]

A little common sense and some personal responsibility seem to be sorely lacking in the populace today.

That's not my fault!

Re:Metroid Prime

[3Y3]

The reason the first Metroid was difficult would be the fact that you had NO MAP!!!

Sure you could create some bastardized atlas yourself on severla hundred pages of paper using nothing but fat Crayola markers, but really...I'd rather not go into the childhood trauma which was losing those maps.