Year: 2007

Allergies knocked me down yesterday (well, technically, it was the Benadryl that knocked me down). So here’s another roundup, and perhaps someday we’ll return to the days of overly lengthy articl;es stuffed full of colorful and insightful commentary.

•  Toby Ragaini, of Asheron’s Call fame, is back with a casual MMO startup called Thinglefin.
• Runescape has 1 million paying subs now, and Gamasutra has an interview.
• Kart Rider, probably the most popular Korean game ever, is launching in the U.S. The question for me is, how many American kids have already played it? I am guessing the answer is “a lot.” After all, XFire stats show…
• Actually, let’s do a whole line item for XFire stats. Take a look at those top ten MMOs by hours played. Look odd to you?

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I was off traveling lately, at my dad’s retirement party, and of course there were plenty of interesting things happening that could have merited a blog post. Here’s some of them:

• Ypulse has an interview with the CEO of Gaia Online.  It gives out plenty of stats, and also gives some real insight into what the core of the service is: not in-world hanging out (there is a 2d virtual world hidden in there) but instead hanging out on forums. I suspect that this is probably true of many MMOs: that forum activity may well outweigh in-world activity for a substantial number of players.

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