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Dan Miller has a post up talking about subscription vs. free-to-play, and concludes conclusively that one can make more money with free-to-play/virtual asset sales than with subscriptions. Raph referenced that post as well, stating that the graphs Dan includes in his post demonstrate why a microtransaction model ends up hitting a far larger market than […]
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This is pretty cool. It’s a vest you wear that’s filled with pneumatic air capsules that “simulate” being hit by bullets or punches while you play a game. I realize it’s not for everyone, but I like the idea of feeling some pain when I’m shot/punched/stabbed/etc in a game. It’s one reason I like paintball […]
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McCain Wants You To Sit In Traffic Gridlock
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The man wasn’t wearing a flag pin during the debate tonight. What kind of patriot is that? That’s basically just one step away from burning our beloved flag. Kind of makes you wonder if the Vietnamese got to him all Manchurian Candidate-style. You know, weaken American by getting politicians to stop wearing little pins on […]
Dual Currencies in MMOs
Thursday, September 25th
Scott Jennings has a post up about gold-farming and how to mitigate against it (since you can’t stop it). It’s generally a good read, and he references the work I’ve done at Iron Realms in setting up a dual-currency exchange back in the late 90s. (Those currency exchanges remain very popular features in our MUDs.) […]
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February 8th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
Vesence
If I could work from home, and made a good income, I’d have something like that…
But I’d also have a wheelchair that doubled as a toilet for obvious reasons…This would lead to massive atrophe of course…but I wouldn’t care
February 9th, 2007 at 1:21 am
Kyle
I would just play supreme commander for hours on this thing. Thats about as far as my imagination could go with this.
February 9th, 2007 at 3:14 am
Cael
I feel special. I bought a ZX81 like that in 1981 with money from doing the milking for my dad.
Of course, i then had to attach it to the 12″ portable B&W TV i’d bought with the previous year’s milking money.
(Hey, i was 11).