Jason Miller has an article which is mostly about whether 2007 will be the year of the online game — apparently he’s the initial source of the idea that Nabeel Hyatt was talking about.

What fascinates me, though, is the difference between the list of top games based on market share, versus the top games based on time spent. Time spent, of course, speaks to monetizing via ads. So, the first list is already heavy on titles that the mainstream online game industry tends to ignore or minimize the importance of. Check out the second list and tell me how many of them you even know?

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The various reports from Project Horseshoe are posted. I was in the group working on the online games. You may notice that the major initiative there is to create a Wiki that attempts to summarize current best practices in the industry: http://www.onlinegamebestpractices.org. We hope to have this Wiki populated to a first pass soon, and then open it to general contributions from the industry.

You’ll also notice that among the goals in there is to get the Rights of Players revised into something that fits today’s climate, and then get it adopted by companies. So if you want to help out in that process, feel free to start right here on this thread!

Definitely read all the reports, though — Dan Cook has already posted a further exploration of the eminently sensible stage gate process that the industry ought to be using for new product development.

Here.

If I were a developer on Saint’s Row, I’d be both amused and slightly humiliated. 🙂 Buggy Saints Row: The Musical.