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Interview With Sundog of Radio Free Zion

Posted by Hemos on from the fluffers-for-the-game dept.

RosethornKB writes "KillerBetties.com has an interview with Sundog of Radio Free Zion, an internet broadcast whose purpose is to entertain players of The Matrix Online and will broadcast live events when the game goes live. From the article: "Rosethorn: How will you manage multiple server coverage? Sundog: We are trying to develop enough of a following in beta to allow us to support a different stream for each server, with its own DJs and coverage. So far, the community has been wonderfully supportive of what we are trying to do and hopefully that will translate into the right numbers to allow us to expand that much when the game goes fully live this spring.""

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  1. Now, this is awesome by zwei2stein · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Now, this is awesome, one can listen to live broadcats from work, stregthening addiction more than ever.

    Now if only they did WoW too :)

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  2. Clever idea by chris09876 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The guy does have a point - communities are important in MM online games. I'm not sure music is the right way to bring everyone together (he identified the issue of people having different music tastes...). I know I'm quite picky about my music and I'd rather listen to things I enjoy. ...but having some kind of server-specific radio station talking about recent server events, or organizing current events would be quite cool.

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  3. Nice interview by antivoid · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Not a bad interview...

    I havent *actually *listened** to RFZ, but have heard it is relatively good...

    I enjoyed the matrix movies, as well as the matrix music and so on that goes worth it.

    I wander when the time will come that radio streams will overtake traditional FM radio in lister quantity... Can it happen?

  4. Good Stuff by th3walrus · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I used to broadcast a radio station for one of the in-game clubs for Anarchy Online when it first came out. It really helped build the community and immerse people in the club atmosphere.

    We used to have dance competitions (as you could macro together different animations to create complex dance routines) and theme nights. Hell, I spent more time in the club playing music than I did out in the world on the level treadmill. Also I would do things like play "Bad Boys" when a group would walk in wearing cop armor.

    Hopefully it will work out well for those Matrix inhabitants. My advice is tie it into the game world as much as possible. Set up a place in game to function as the radio station and have events. Radio "call-in" contests giving away in-game items might be cool to do. Things like that...

  5. Re:Radio Free ????? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Ive always thought it meant underground/pirate, not official