Recent content by lepidus

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52 pages (ran out of images)... Clean bill of health for: "Vader". The key is that it must be popular enough to have lots of photos, but geeky enough that the average person who would post those photos is slightly afraid of porn.

You clearly don't read the glorious WarCry Network then! =) http://www.warcry.com/news/view/75193 It was playable by the developers, they never gave me a turn. They had a rather fake game set up to show off the most content possible, but on the other hand, they showed off all eras of the...

WoW has done many things, but I think, as the next poster pointed out, 10 years of data is enough to make an educated guess for the sake of argument and be reasonably confident that it's in the right time zone. If there are 2.25 million subscribers in North America, that's 112,500...

Romothecus, The 5% is a guess, I freely admit it, which is why we didn't over state it in the article. I would like to point out though that it was a very safe estimate and most MMOs are higher. You do raise a very valid point about the Chinese players, but still, I'd argue that even if...

That number was based on research we did into trends for game subscriptions and the usual historical number of cancellations a game sees each month. It was presented as a very cautious estimate. I likely could have phrased where that number came from a little more clearly though, I'll give you...

...and the final part is here: http://www.warcry.com/news/view/73167-Richard-Garriott-Interview-Part-2

.... Seeing people who cannot play guitar rock out to Guitar Hero is impressive, but do we really want people who cannot sing... you know... singing?

One thing that Garriott tried to make clear that may not have come through in the interview is that in most cases both options will show you the unintended consequences. So if you turn in the drug dealers, there are consequences. If you don't, there are consequences. The idea is to challenge...

Hey everyone - There is more if you want some further reading, we're posting the rest of the interview in two parts over on WarCry: http://www.warcry.com/news/view/73107-Richard-Garriott-Interview-Part-1

I agree with what you say about official boards, save one thing: They're a wonderful marketing tool. The trick is to have official boards, but to view them as a marketing tool, rather than a conduit between the two sides of the battle. ;)

OK, now read my logic in this issue! ;) Calendars are for chumps!

Yeah... ummm... Well, next time my name pops up in the Escapist. I got my issues confused ;)

Hehe - I have a theory about this too :) Check back tomorrow for my opinions on that.