Comments on: Barbie Girls (maybe) registers 3m

By: My Little Pony | Cuppytalk

My Little Pony | Cuppytalk — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:07:21 +0000

[...] one thing though, Raph and others have mentioned BarbieGirls and its rapid growth. There is only a matter of time before [...]

By: Azaroth » Blog Archive » When sliding down the “alternative revenue source” slope, eventually you’ll reach the bottom.

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:09:25 +0000

[...] Now, as if we haven’t gone through enough examples of totally bastardizing any original vision that anyone ever had for Virtual Worlds by not only using and abusing the idea of RMT, but wholly designing entire games around it to exploit children (I’m sure Richard Bartle and Raph Koster are currently rolling around in their communal grave that we MMO players made them after PKing them for various system changes), a new example arises. As I’m sure one would every day when it’s this profitable and easy. [...]

By: Silver~Moon

Silver~Moon — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 16:44:15 +0000

“Barbie Girls” is an okay game, but it does have a few flaws. I don’t know if the flaws are only on my BG account, or what. But, whenever someone types a message it shows up as a code. That, so far, is the only flaw I’ve found. Since I’m not what you would call a, “Barbie fan”, I’m not all that interested in the game it-self. After all, I’m more of an anime based virtual world type person.

By: Darth BunnyWabbit: Barbie Girls in a Barbie World

Darth BunnyWabbit: Barbie Girls in a Barbie World — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:59:59 +0000

[...] rant about this more later, but for now, checkitout: the new Barbie MMO already has 3 million subscribers and it’s only in Beta.Which means it’s number 3, or maybe number [...]

By: ...on pampers, programming & pitching manure: What should World of Warcraft and David Copperfield both fear?

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:38:56 +0000

[...] and all of that.OK, so where am I going with this?There’ve been few posts as of late (Techcrunch, Raph Koster, etc) about the new Barbie Virtual World. Some see it as a response to Webkinz, which in one way is [...]

By: Jessica Mulligan

Jessica Mulligan — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:36:33 +0000

Looks like a Habbo Hotel clone so far, but a well-done clone, at that. It probably didn’t cost all that much to put together, but retains a consistent atmosphere and “Barbie feel” (and no comments from you budding pedophiles).

This is one of those brands that has power in its market, enough to bridge the gap into a virtual world. Be interesting to see how they extend the experience.

By: XboxIsMoreFun

XboxIsMoreFun — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 10:58:54 +0000

Proof that Second Life sucks so bad most of its users are flooding Barbie World.

By: magicback (frank)

magicback (frank) — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 04:16:44 +0000

Has anyone gone to your nearest big box toy stores and look at the Barbie merchandise displays? It looks like an avatar gear and loot store.

Doll dress-up has been around for a while. Girls got Barbie and Boys got GI Joes. Boys now have hack’n'sack MMOs and Girls now have Barbieworld.

It’s all getting with the times.

By: moo

moo — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:33:55 +0000

Ugh..

It is not uncommon for young teenagers to have 30+ friends on their friendslist

I parsed that wrong and had to re-read.

By: Ola Fosheim Grøstad

Ola Fosheim Grøstad — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:52:35 +0000

(To avoid confusion: When I said “retain their users”, I mean Barbie-fans, not visitors…)