UCI Game Conference Spotlights WoW
by Mike D'Anna 
Apr 21st 2006 at 9:00AM
We all know that WoW has
been a success for Blizzard Entertainment beyond all expectations, reasonable & unreasonable...and some of the
finest minds in our country are putting their heads together to try and figure out why.No, I don't mean the guys from Microsoft. University of California, Irvine recently held a conference on the future of MMO gaming, featuring network technicians, gamers & anthropologists (no mention of greedy moneymen), to discuss just where we'll all go from WoW. Some interesting topics were raised, and it sounds like it was quite an interesting event. The full story can be read here.
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Virtual selves, Odds and ends, News items
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Donut Apr 21st 2006 10:27AM
I am a lapsed game developer in Austin, a lot of my friends work at Sony and NCSoft.
WoW is successful because it is a GAME first. All of the MMO devs I know talk about making perfect worlds and gigantic simulations - Koster disease. WoW does not do that - vendors always buy, people can't grief on PvE servers, resources are plentiful at low levels, the game is pretty, usable, obvious, helpful, and FUN FUN FUN.
Everquest 2 isn't. SWG certainly isn't.
There you go.