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Blizzard Puts Foot Down on Unattended Macroing

According to this random post on Markee Dragon, WoW has filed legal action against WoW Glider, the 3rd party app that allows players to grind unattended. Blizzard and Vivendi ( www.blizzard.com ) today...

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Sprint Kicks Out Customers For Requiring Too Much Handholding

Sanya has the story. I’m just now getting to it because I’m lame. Anyone who has ever run one a service with CS costs is nodding their heads in understanding, whereas the customers are outraged. This...

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Put On Your Tinfoil Hat

This guy claims to be an ex-Arena.net employee, and he’s decided to burn some bridges to the ground. Among his unusual assertions: 1) Some enterprising lower level employees of Arena.net has forged an...

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Great Moments in Community Management

3rd Place: “Shut up and give me my ten bucks per month, little man. My Porsche needs some performance upgrades.” 2nd Place: “It’s not a mirror.” 1st Place: “I disagree with what you said.” Other...

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Conan Applies the Brakes

In regards to their twice-a-week patch schedules, the Conan team is already slowing things down. A recent disastrous patch may be the reason.  

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Rethinking service in MMOs

Adam has a good post on the whole ‘it’s not a product, it’s a service’ mentality, and what that actually means for running an online business: What’s the most important high-level goal of a Product...

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Playground Monitoring Middleware Solutions

For most game designers, the excitement of making an MMO for the under twelve set is quashed by the idea of having to make game design decisions aimed at reducing the odds your game becomes a...

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Eve’s Unholy Rage

Eve has been waging war on RMTers in their game (in an operation they call Unholy Rage). Here’s a report on their efforts, with cool graphs showing the reduction of CPU process time and affection of...

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Important Legal Update for MMOs and Online Services

You can still, legally, be banned for being a mouthbreathing asshat.   Original comments thread is here.

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Multiplayer VR Experiences Need to Worry About Harassment Right Fucking Now

While I was at E3, Polygon published an article about a new, horrifying problem that to be honest, so far I haven’t even considered in my analysis of why VR has a bumpy road ahead, and that is that...

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