Is it just me, or is calling this about “piracy” missing the point here? (and, in case this isn’t obvious enough: yes, this is a deliberately very flippant post, but the points are serious :) ) EDIT: just for the record, I actually bought and played the game, quite a […]
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…according to Ed Castranova’s snippet that Scott J posted from the MDY vs Blizzard trial notes. Courtesy of Scott, here’s a hosted copy of the source documents. Ed writes a nice little explanation of why / how bots damage an in-game economy. I liked that. Good stuff – go read […]
EDIT: downloading the nice plugin recommended in this post will now break your blog if you’re using WordPress 2.5 – the wordpress authors have made some incompatible changes. But it’s OK – bengreen has fixed the plugin, and made a new version available (read here for some very basic information […]
AGDC is a small computer-games conference (about 1,000 attendees) with a particular focus on online and massively-multiplayer online games (MMOGs). In that context, it’s pretty big – with such a niche within a niche, it tends to have talks and representatives from most of the players in the space. Every […]