Category Archives: Business

You are an older MMO. You don’t look sexy anymore. Your players think a graphical upgrade would help you recruit new players. They tell you how embarrassed they are to be seen playing you and how easily they could convince … Continue reading →

Scott Jennings of Broken Toys (whom I still call Lum in my head) posted last week about the upcoming slate of 2011 MMOs. It’s a good post, and if you read this blog I expect that you have already read … Continue reading →

So Bobby Kotick said some dumb things last year. Everybody hated him, rar, rar, okay, let’s get back to work. We already knew Activision was super greedy, so why are we surprised to see proof? But recently a weird thing has … Continue reading →

Several sources that I read told me today that, during the Activision Blizzard Fourth Quarter Calendar 2009 Results Conference Call (whew!), Mike Morhaime (president of Blizzard) said the following about World of Warcraft: “Our research shows that trial players who … Continue reading →

Someone asked me the other day if they should even bother applying for an MMO job. I make the career sound so crappy in other blog posts… maybe it’s best not to even try? Well, it’s true that most MMO jobs … Continue reading →

Run Screaming… If I were to tell you that I was thinking of making an MMO with a database-centric design, using a DB to serialize entities from one sub-server to another, you would be in good company if you thought I … Continue reading →

If you go to a game conference about MMOs, you’ll hear about how awesome microtransactions are and how they’re the key to the future. They have several huge benefits: Low barrier to entry for new players because the game is … Continue reading →

The recent major layoffs at Mythic have caused quite a buzz. Here’s what Mark Jacobs had to say about them: With respect to customer service, quality assurance and play testing, prior to the launch of WAR, we hired additional people to … Continue reading →