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GDC: 10 Reasons NOT to Make MMOGs

Posted by chrisd on from the he-tasks-me dept.

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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  1. Re:and the #1 reason...... by rblancarte · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And I thought you were going to say that it prevents you from getting .... FIRST POSTS!!!

    RonB

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  2. Re:and the #1 reason...... by stratjakt · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FIRST POSTS is the only MMOG I play!

    And I won!

    bazooooo

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  3. firsty posty by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    wooooop wooop woooop. fuck me.

  4. the real reason is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    he has a super-secret mmog in the works and wants as little competition as possible!

  5. 7: Getting a Credit Card from a Customer is Hard by ASDFer · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I have an abyssmal credit, DAMMIT! I don't have credit card, you insensitive clod!

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  6. The real reason... by Guitarzan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Yours won't be any more fun than anyone else's!"

  7. Re:To summarize by Joe+the+Lesser · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I second number 0.

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  8. Re:One of the reasons: by unicron · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That's why I play. Took Fennin down last night, actually. Got my first Kerasyn bracer..FT4 on that bitch, NON-LORE.

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