One hour after this post and it's live. Way to go,/.
As others have said -- it's a European competition to win tickets to "an event celebrating the launch of Xbox 360 in the United States for three nights in November 2005". Seems to be in four stages (2 tickets for every bunch of fruit). There's also a funky video explaining "What is Origen" which seems to back up the Latin hyperbole.
Good luck anyone who enters -- now, update the article!:P
Dude, I meant "hot on the heels of the announcement":P
Indeed, they're not close in revenue, but it's still pretty impressive that given the number of articles from various games companies whinging that "WoW is stealing our customers!", ArenaNet & NCsoft still manage to push out a game with over 1m sales.
What a pointless article. I can summarise it (removing all the grammatical mistakes, and incorrect facts):
"Some games can be extended with Lua."
Wow! Cos, like, I'd never noticed any of my WoW addons using Lua, and never opened any of the files in curiosity. No...
Anyway. Anyone who actually uses Lua out there? What's a good site with a tutorial on how to develop an addon, or just an intro to the language? Sure, I can google, but with an article like this I'd expect a little more info for the 'hardcore' alongside such a fluffy, wussy introduction, so I'll just rant on/. instead and hope someone posts something useful for a change..
Haha. Well, I'm part of a large clan of female players, and a lot of us play WoW; also, I know many many other women who play, far out of proportion to (say) the number I encounter on Halo 2. Check out the Daedalus Project for facts'n'figures...
What is your reaction to the reasonably high proportion of female players present in WoW (compared to across all games) and do you think you could further redress the balance by marketing? Do you plan to do so?
The Preview playlists cover all nine new maps, not just the five (not four!) that were just released for an extra cost. They'll be free by the end of August.
Wow, I find you on all the cool tech sites:)
I had another Slashdot account years back, but, well, long story; this is me, now. Lets met get away with a bit of gratuitous PMS promotion, that sorta thing.
Yeah, on all the recent women in games threads, including another one talking about the same article, nobody mentions PMS. Or, when they do, they're talking about how women can't play games because they get PMS, or some such stupidity. Gotta love the/. crew!
Curses, missed this post yesterday. Surprisingly familiar, and the ELSPA white paper's old news, but still:
The game I play most at the moment, generally 4-6 hours a day, is Halo 2 on Xbox Live. I play it so much because I socialise within the game as well as advance my level; in fact, I play way more custom games than matchmade games at the moment.
I also play World of Warcraft (less heavily now than I used to), but contrary to stereotype, I generally play it alone. I haven't got a cadre of ingame friends and admirers, I like to solo hard quests to prove I can do them. I try and quest above my level when possible.
I'll play anything, though. Other FPS (Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon 2 and Conker: Live and Reloaded are getting attention right now, and I'm learning to play Counter-Strike), RTS and RPG (I'm slowly making my way through Jade Empire, KOTOR, and playing Warcraft 3 when I get time), driving games (Forza mainly).. and yes, I do play The Sims, but mainly 'cos I'm trying to work on some custom items for the University expansion to make it more realistically like an English university:) The Sims to me is more a RTS than anything else. I hate the socialising part:)
Oh yeah, I'm a girl, in case it wasn't blindingly obvious.
Most of the driving games do encourage fast, dangerous driving, and allow you to kit out your car (pimp your rig, as I believe it's called) with ridiculous extras. I do know a few girls who play them, but driving genres really aren't a favourite of mine, and they certainly tie in with the machismo you describe!
I love the fact that you can buy the exact same item for a male and female avatar in, say, World of Warcraft.. yet it's tantalisingly small on a female but big and protective on a male character. Pah. Pixellated boobs do nothing for me, anyway. Give me Master Chief any day:-)
On a related note I wear an Atari hoodie to lectures occasionally and frequently get compliments, though rarely expressions of surprise. The article in the story is linked to some fairly solid research on actual gamers, though, so I don't think it's too bad on the Sims-stereotyping; makes a change from most other articles, though, which are.
I actually find it quite interesting that they've tied it in with real cabbies; as another poster pointed out, this week is a really good week to choose Wimbledon, but if it were a simulator I doubt you'd get that effect. At weekends you might want to not choose The City, too; it's that human aspect that makes it fun to play.
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Indeed, RTFA, who on earth modded this as Interesting?
NC are doing a great thing for MMO billing here.
One hour after this post and it's live. Way to go, /.
:P
As others have said -- it's a European competition to win tickets to "an event celebrating the launch of Xbox 360 in the United States for three nights in November 2005". Seems to be in four stages (2 tickets for every bunch of fruit). There's also a funky video explaining "What is Origen" which seems to back up the Latin hyperbole.
Good luck anyone who enters -- now, update the article!
Dude, I meant "hot on the heels of the announcement" :P
Indeed, they're not close in revenue, but it's still pretty impressive that given the number of articles from various games companies whinging that "WoW is stealing our customers!", ArenaNet & NCsoft still manage to push out a game with over 1m sales.
What a pointless article. I can summarise it (removing all the grammatical mistakes, and incorrect facts):
/. instead and hope someone posts something useful for a change..
"Some games can be extended with Lua."
Wow! Cos, like, I'd never noticed any of my WoW addons using Lua, and never opened any of the files in curiosity. No...
Anyway. Anyone who actually uses Lua out there? What's a good site with a tutorial on how to develop an addon, or just an intro to the language? Sure, I can google, but with an article like this I'd expect a little more info for the 'hardcore' alongside such a fluffy, wussy introduction, so I'll just rant on
Haha. Well, I'm part of a large clan of female players, and a lot of us play WoW; also, I know many many other women who play, far out of proportion to (say) the number I encounter on Halo 2. Check out the Daedalus Project for facts'n'figures...
What is your reaction to the reasonably high proportion of female players present in WoW (compared to across all games) and do you think you could further redress the balance by marketing? Do you plan to do so?
The Preview playlists cover all nine new maps, not just the five (not four!) that were just released for an extra cost. They'll be free by the end of August.
Wow, I find you on all the cool tech sites :)
I had another Slashdot account years back, but, well, long story; this is me, now. Lets met get away with a bit of gratuitous PMS promotion, that sorta thing.
Yeah, on all the recent women in games threads, including another one talking about the same article, nobody mentions PMS. Or, when they do, they're talking about how women can't play games because they get PMS, or some such stupidity. Gotta love the /. crew!
Curses, missed this post yesterday. Surprisingly familiar, and the ELSPA white paper's old news, but still:
:) The Sims to me is more a RTS than anything else. I hate the socialising part :)
The game I play most at the moment, generally 4-6 hours a day, is Halo 2 on Xbox Live. I play it so much because I socialise within the game as well as advance my level; in fact, I play way more custom games than matchmade games at the moment.
I also play World of Warcraft (less heavily now than I used to), but contrary to stereotype, I generally play it alone. I haven't got a cadre of ingame friends and admirers, I like to solo hard quests to prove I can do them. I try and quest above my level when possible.
I'll play anything, though. Other FPS (Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon 2 and Conker: Live and Reloaded are getting attention right now, and I'm learning to play Counter-Strike), RTS and RPG (I'm slowly making my way through Jade Empire, KOTOR, and playing Warcraft 3 when I get time), driving games (Forza mainly).. and yes, I do play The Sims, but mainly 'cos I'm trying to work on some custom items for the University expansion to make it more realistically like an English university
Oh yeah, I'm a girl, in case it wasn't blindingly obvious.
Most of the driving games do encourage fast, dangerous driving, and allow you to kit out your car (pimp your rig, as I believe it's called) with ridiculous extras. I do know a few girls who play them, but driving genres really aren't a favourite of mine, and they certainly tie in with the machismo you describe!
I love the fact that you can buy the exact same item for a male and female avatar in, say, World of Warcraft.. yet it's tantalisingly small on a female but big and protective on a male character. Pah. Pixellated boobs do nothing for me, anyway. Give me Master Chief any day :-)
On a related note I wear an Atari hoodie to lectures occasionally and frequently get compliments, though rarely expressions of surprise. The article in the story is linked to some fairly solid research on actual gamers, though, so I don't think it's too bad on the Sims-stereotyping; makes a change from most other articles, though, which are.
Eh, it's me, unfortunately. Lucky rjw57!
I don't want to explode. Or get my tits out. Eh. Does that make me a girl gaming minority?
I make games. The vast majority of my customers are women. The media doesn't care about me. :)
I think the media have come to the conclusion that you don't exist...
The BBC have also picked up on the 'women in games' issue recently: more coverage on Wonderland and the Guardian Gamesblog. Nice to see us girl gamers being written about, again...
I actually find it quite interesting that they've tied it in with real cabbies; as another poster pointed out, this week is a really good week to choose Wimbledon, but if it were a simulator I doubt you'd get that effect. At weekends you might want to not choose The City, too; it's that human aspect that makes it fun to play.