Video game technologist, designer, programmer, co-conspirator and autodidact.
With a video game career that's over a decade long, with deep experience of development and publishing, I've worked with many major publishers - EA, Microsoft, Activision, Sega - and many developers. Games include Rome: Total War and Kinectimals among many others.
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That 's a shame. The choice of name is a bit curious though - it sounds immediately fantasy-fiction focussed, i 'm surprised they did not go with something more neutral. More experiments will probably follow before the industry hits on the perfect blend of social network and game service or ...
The problem with integration devices is not producing them, but selling them effectively. The Xbox 360 has a built in audience of gamers, but extending its reach to cable-cutters and making people see the value of an integrated media device is not straightforward. It 's not like the iPad or ...
When it first came out though, WoW was a great experience. It had no equals, and it was the first MMO to suck the casual crowd into a socially-bonded structure in a virtual world. Just being a better game may not be enough to break those bonds, since the game ...
Given industry average per-man-month costs you 'd expect them to burn through around 50m a year... 400 people is a big studio. But there aren 't many games that require that many man hours before shipping, and it does beg the question what have they been up to. r n ...
There are quite a few game franchises which make that kind of money, which means the investment is not entirely unjustified. However not many MMO 's have done it since WoW. Perhaps they were expecting a Fable-level 3-4m sales from KoA to carry them.
