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Stuff I missed while camping

May 7th, 2007 (Visited 3440 times) Tags:

There’s now a World of Warcraft credit card. Looks like you earn gametime as you buy stuff. Makes sense — tie the users in.
My UO resource system articles (1, 2, 3) have been translated to Hungarian over at the new site mmogames.hu.
NHN’s U.S. portal Ijji.com is out of beta and launching officially. Apparently, they’ve had 3 million registered and are hitting over 25k concurrent with games like Gunbound and GUNZ.
VW2007 audio is up at REZNation. I should call out that Areae’s John Donham is on this one about the roadmap for future virtual worlds.
Linden Lab is jumping into the issue of age and id verification. Land owners will have to mark their land as having adult content, Linden will provide a proof-of-age-and-id system (via a third party) that landowners can query, and “Landowners are morally and legally responsible for the content displayed and the behavior taking place on their land.” Basically, pursuing a very ISP-like policy.

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Ross Smith said on May 7th, 2007 at 1:13 pm:

So it’s not just a figure of speech after all — WOW actually is a licence to print money.

suske said on May 7th, 2007 at 4:08 pm:

raph this all tells me you need to get out there soon.

Hunnenkoenig said on May 8th, 2007 at 1:07 am:

Thanks for mentioning our new site mmogames.hu! The articles 2 and 3 will follow shortly. We just didn’t want to give everything at once. Marketing at its best

Ola Fosheim Grøstad said on May 8th, 2007 at 11:24 pm:

Hmm… SL’s approach is interesting. I guess this will buy them the flare of being a serious provider. Though I have to question the TSL system as described in the linked page. Users are forced to leave TSL and enter SL when they reach 18 and they cant enter SL until they are 18? “But all my friends are 17!” Having no slack makes it perfectly clear that they don’t want their users to follow their rules. SL’s rules are all about non-functional marketing, apparently.

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