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The Barbarians At The MMOG Gates
simoniker writes "Areae president Raph Koster is perhaps best known as a designer of Ultima Online and the previous CCO of Sony Online Entertainment, and in an in-depth Gamasutra interview, he discusses his views on 'game grammar', the uniting of MMOs and online worlds, and the software patent problem. In particular, he's been talking about the 'barbarians at the gates' for hardcore MMO makers: 'Even the creation of the MUD in the first place was that. It was the Internet-based reaction to the stuff that had existed on the microcomputers and the Plato network and all of that. All of a sudden, "Oh, wait! We can put a text MUD on Arpanet!" And it was like, "Whoa!" and it spread like wildfire, and all of a sudden, all of that other stuff went away. So it's really possible for that stuff to be happening now with microtransactions, with portals versus traditional publishers, with digital distribution publishers versus traditional publishers, and with MMOs from MTV versus MMOs from Sony or EA or NCSoft.'"
No, you're just mature.
The only real selling point of any MMOG is "community", but 99% of the people playing them are either complete dicks or immature little twats who have unfettered access to a parent's credit card. Generally speaking, the sorts of people that drift to online social gatherings are exactly the sort of people no normal human would want to socialize with. Normal human beings don't want pimply little nincompoops trash-talking them across the internet just because the lifeless nerd managed to hit the proper combination of keystrokes to win at PvP or morons talking about their nutsack while you're trying to have an epic battle with some fantastical creature of legend out in the wilderness.
MMOGs are almost exclusively the realm of immature brats and idiots. Until someone fixes that problem... I'm with you brother. Hand me the other control pad.
Talk to me about WoW and I'll punch your faggot face.
again, hi koster.
you had your chance. No one outside of your delusional circle-jerking group of failures thinks you are anything other than a marginally-educated fat and lazy fraud.
this is slashdot, not mud-dev, you won't fool anyone here.
Go back to waving your e-peen at thirteen year olds in Warcraft. They might actually think something of it.
Talk to me about WoW and I'll punch your faggot face.
That's not a logical conclusion at all. In fact, it doesn't even make sense.
In fact, to the contrary, if we assume you're one of the retards addicted to MMOs, it really only just provides more evidence of my claim that you're all idiots and dickheads.
Talk to me about WoW and I'll punch your faggot face.