A very thoughtful post ( Read more... )

The result of this of course is a great number of fantastic mods like Auctioneer that have dramatically changed how the game itself is played.  Here is a typical review of a user of what UIs do they use and do not use:

The result of this UI mod activity is innumerable variations.  The WoW UI itself is a long-tail marketing phenomena:

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After waiting 5 weeks and multiple faxings of identity cards Blizzard has un-banned my wife's account on the US servers ( Read more... )

It has been a while since I made a post... I feel that I will ramble a bit here.  First, off I have never flown so much in my life... 18 flights in one month, three times to Japan, three times to the states... my average speed for the month was over 100kmp!

One on of these trips I had to make a round trip from Seoul to Los Angeles where I landed at ( Read more... )

So I just did one of the coolest things yesterday ( Read more... )

Over and Zen of Design Damion has brought up the advancement of MMO gameplay by relaxing the UI hunt for quests and using the golden exclamation point.

I was tickled to see GoPets/me pop up in reason #3.

I am unabashed about copying the bits that I like from other games, but especially WoW.  So here is a screen shot from a client (Korean)  viewing a ( Read more... )

So here at GoPets we work against a weekly patch schedule.  That means every week we ship some new features, bug fixes and items.  In general we do it local time Wednesday morning.  From time to time issues hold us back to the evening or to Thursday.  Every once in a while we face the dreaded Friday Patch.  If we have a Friday Patch we know the ( Read more... )

So it is the Korean holiday of Chuseok here, or the equivalent of Thanksgiving, but more like the break between Christmas and New Years.  So we have a lot of time off to be home ( Read more... )

Picked this up from Damion Schubert's blog:
http://www.zenofdesign.com/

(Excellent blog by the way.)

Here is George from Cannibal Corpse discussing his fondness for the quaint game World of Warcraft.

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Brian Reinhardt has a great description of the horizon, the essence of what makes MMORPGs tick ( Read more... )