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Sun Claims They Make Worlds Biggest MMO
Next Generation has a piece up examining Sun's claim that they develop the worlds largest Massive game: the stock market. They also go into some detail about Sun's actual MMOG middleware, Sun Gaming Server. From the article: "I argue that we've been the principle architect of the largest massively multiplayer online game in the world. It's Wall Street. If you took a look at all of the mechanics that go in to building an online trading system, they're almost one-for-one, the same functions needed to build an MMOG. Except we've done it with more redundancy, reliability and scalability than pretty much anyone else."
WTS [DOW Jones Stock] PLS SEND TELL!!!!11
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I suppose that's a fair statement. Wall Street has its fair share of Min-Maxers, Power Gamers, and Exploiters all the same. The Broadcast and Trade channels are full of people trying to rip off the casual players. And most people are throwing away money every month for the ability to waste time and energy on a world that doesn't exist. Yeah, I'll agree with that statement.
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You know a stock market MMORPG might be a good idea, hell I'd welcome anything that isn't another "me too" fantasy MMOG. Think about it, no classes, no levels, just your wits and some start up money you inherited or something. I'd pay good money for that...
More on topic: There main selling point seems to be the ability to run more than one type of game for different end user hardware. Which would lower may lower the cost to MMORPG currently available and developing in the future, so I guess we will be seeing even more MMORPG.... More is not always better......
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I don't, though, buy:
It's like saying television programming cannibalizes each other which is why we only had four television networks. Well cable came on the scene and we now have 250+ channels of programming that blew a hole right into the side of that market space. You could say that most of those channels are crap, but there's an audience for every single one of those channels. I don't think the people running Home & Garden Network are in any way cannibalizing the Sci Fi channel's audience.
Is he kidding? Of course cable channels have cannibalized the broadcast networks! The 250th channel may not be taking viewers from the 249th, but channels 5-250 sure as hell took viewers from 1-4!
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And often, when you lose at the game, you commit suicide. Rated M!
I've played a lot of Stock Market. The end guy is hard
And here I thought Ron Jeremy was the only one who could actually suck his own cock.
That was the sound of an allegory flying straight over you at great speed.
Whats even scarier is the fact that there are Sun banner ads for this article...coincidence? I think not.
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Except we've done it with more redundancy, reliability and scalability than pretty much anyone else.
Way to brag. Does it have anything to do with the money there being real? I am also swinging higher than the kids in the park.
I agree with them to a point. MMO economies often mimic Wall Street. The big difference being: If I fail to save Princess Pretty-Pants from the evil Rat Wizard it doesn't have the potential to send a multinational corporation with thousands of employees into a tailspin from which it will never escape, effectively ruining the lives of many, many people. Considering its effect on the economy and the well-being of normal people, thinking of the stock market as a game is a dangerous thing.
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Worst. Game. Evar. (Sorry, it had to be said. Now, I'm off to WTFPWNBBQ those N00BS at NASDAQ. Zerg foreign currency FTW!)
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The Stock Market's been around for how many years now? Pfft. Just wait for the sequel.
Yes, we know just how successful Sun has been at promoting computing as a utility...
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http://www.eve-online.com/
A game that currently has a really good and detailed market system is EVE-Online. It's a space-based MMO that doesn't have server sharding. With peak concurrent connections of up to 17k and an (active) subscriber base of roughly 70k.
The economy is primarily player controlled with blue prints, manufacturing, refining, mining, escrow player made missions, bounty hunting (yes, really), and of course...being a pirate and smuggling illegal goods. Trading is also another thing can affect the market. Players are constructing huge stations in the far reaches of the systems for trade hubs and it's pretty cool. You can track prices and volume sold/bought per region/system/station. You can also place buy and sell orders for player materials, ore, equipment, ships, trade goods, etc.
So, if corporations instead of Guilds are your thing...check it out.
Slightly unrelated, but if your talking about games and "market/economy" stuff, this is probably worth something to someone out there...
I'll be selling some of that Wall Street gold very soon ! Also a downloadable handy cheat guide!
CNN is reporting that Jack Thompson has recently discovered SUN makers of the popular MMO "Stock Market" have created a game wich had lead to many deaths. It seems players of this game have become so distraught after losing all their "Stock" the in game term for money that they have commited suicide. Also some other users become so addicted that they neglect family and friends. Jack Thompson is proceeding in a class action law suite funded by former Enron and Wordlcom executives. When reached for comment Mr. Thompson had this to say, "This game is an outrage! This is the worst threat to our moral society since the fiends at Penny Arcade!"
The reason Sun talks about the stock market is because like an MMO the stock market has massive amounts of transactions that occur in real time. Unlike games, however, it's a lot more critical to get the transactions right. If you think duping can screw up a game imagine what it would do to the world economy, and I would imagine that it is simply unacceptable for the stock market servers to crash and have all the transactions for the past 15 minutes 'rolled back' when they reboot (for that matter it's probably unacceptable for the entire system to go down in the first place, so when a transaction server crashes other systems have to pick up without the end users ever knowing anything happened).
As a result the transaction servers developed by Sun are leaps and bounds beyond what MMOs are using. Sun is saying it can bring that expertise to developers, saving them from the expense of coding their own, usually inferior, transaction servers.
Of course a lot of this is me reading between the lines. It seems like the author of the article himself doesn't really grasp what it is that Sun is saying, but maybe the truth is that I am reading way too much into things.
So would farming consist of scouring the internet for the newest startups that have the most potential? Or going after other stockholders and killing them for drops? (hoping that they carry their stock portfolios on them at all times). :D hmmm a stack of 10 [CSCO] is on the AH for 500g
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It was called NASDEQ: Shadow of Doubt
It did pretty well when it first came out, but it had some serious balance issues, and they nerfed a bunch of stuff.
What were you expecting?
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Hey, I just started, can someone give me some Berkshire shares, so I can power level my account?
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I have no problem with that. I just need them to add a beginner mode with lots of free credits.
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