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MMOG Subscription Analysis Provides New Insights
Thanks to jer0 for pointing to SirBruce's updated MMOG Subscription Growth analysis page, which tries to "chart the trend in active subscriptions" for major MMO titles using public and private data. This "major revision" has the "chart separated into three tiers" dependent on subscription size, and shows Lineage as the worldwide MMO leader at "just under 2.7 million" (though this may be reliant on bulk 'PC Baang' subscriptions in countries such as South Korea, and the game has "only 7,000 [subscribers] in the United States.") Other notable entries include City Of Heroes ("surpassed 180,000 subscribers... proof that a well-executed MMOG can still garner substantial numbers even in the current competitive climate"), and the also recently launched, but less successful Horizons ("After peaking at around 35,000 subscribers, they have since fallen to somewhere between 20,000 and 25,000 subscribers.")
significant attention to them
What MMOG really need is a 'death' time.
I play MMORPG's a lot, as does my wife....and we own our own house so we're not in line to be kicked out of our parents basement...but I digress.
I've always thought there should be a RPG that has aging and perm death. All these kiddies walk around saying how lame PvP is on different games yet they curl up in a ball and piss themselves when I tell them my thoughts on PvP and MMORPGs
You should start out very young, age through the game and at some point in the future die of old age if the environment doesn't kill you. Also, if you die, you're dead....you lose everything and can never come back. Your account AND credit card that you used to set up the account are locked and can never be used again! If you want to join the game again you have to buy a whole new version with a different credit card.
Anything less than this and you're a little girl care-bear loser wimp! Don't even try to argue with me! You're a wimp care-bear! Eat it and STFU!
"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it." - John Lennon.
I've always thought there should be a RPG that has aging and perm death. All these kiddies walk around saying how lame PvP is on different games yet they curl up in a ball and piss themselves when I tell them my thoughts on PvP and MMORPGs
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You should start out very young, age through the game and at some point in the future die of old age if the environment doesn't kill you. Also, if you die, you're dead....you lose everything and can never come back. Your account AND credit card that you used to set up the account are locked and can never be used again! If you want to join the game again you have to buy a whole new version with a different credit card.
Wow, that sounds like an online version of Nethack, except that it can only be executed as root, and if you die it executes a "rm -rf
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So be it. Your LAME!
Nothing can turn me off a game faster then seeing a bunch of dweebs with names like n30, The0n3 and teh1 running around chanting "whoa, dude!" over and over.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
They will just force you to run it at a resolution of 65536 x 49152 with 16x antialiasing, and there, you got it, bullet time on your PC.
This unique feature gives real strategic depth to an FPS game, because you can think a minute for every move.
And it will contain a programmable backdoor so that you feel how it is to be in the Matrix when it is hacked.
I'm still trying to figure out what people mean by 'social skills' here.
... Just like The New York Times site has over fifty million registered users?
Note: figure completely made up.
If I see a spider in my appartment, I run and scream like a girl. (Not too difficult cause I am a girl!) Then I go play my MMO, kill things, and pretend they're spiders in my appartment.
Back in my day it was MMPOLRPG, then MMPORPG, later MMORPG, and now MMOG? How long before it's just M? Just a thought...
I am a girl!
Will you marry me?
I'd pay more, up to $29.99/month, for a game in which player death is NOT permanent, so if I'm like killed in a car crash or something then the game company resurrects me (presumably so they keep getting my subcription monies...)
Talk about customer service!
You can tell Keanu has gotten older, because in The Matrix the line is only "Whoa."
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it