I Love To Say I Told You So
In an interview with Turbine CEO Jim Crowley, Kotaku.com points out
Not only have more than a million new players signed up for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game since September, players signing up for the optional paid subscription have more than doubled.Things are looking up in the game’s new DDO store, where players have been buying items and new content at a rate three times higher than industry average, increasing the franchise’s revenue more than 500%.
I am, of course, smug in my lack of surprise. It is gratifying to know that a model like this can succeed, if not unseat the Blizzard juggernaut. The game is indeed a worthwhile experience, my only complaint is the lack of community that can be found in the likes of WoW. The free servers just weren’t as populated as I would have liked. More recently Mythic introduced their “Endless Trial” with the hope that this would generate new interest in the game. The restrictions are more binding than DDO, though, and in the long run I think this will amount to the WoW 10 day trial. All in all it might be time to take another plunge back in.
If You Love Something…
Posted by Jak in Computers, Technology on February 24, 2010
Now that the interwebs are mostly over the sophmoric jokes about Apple’s latest offering, it’s time to get serious. I believe that Apple may finally be up against the wall, and if we’re not there quite yet the time is fast approaching. There’s a special level of hell a person goes through when they lose their faith in a person or thing that they truly believed in. The last time I went through this George Lucas was busily carving up my most beloved childhood fable with all the surgical skill of a blunt axe. I got older and a little more jaded and thought myself proof against such betrayals. In a way this is true, or perhaps it’s just the nature in which Apple has progressively worn me down. Oh, yes, I was a most ardent evangelist for the Macintosh operating system and hardware. I still have the very first issue of MacAddict and subscribed faithfully for years. Something happened though, and while I can’t pinpoint the exact moment, I can count the series of little straws that proverbially broke the camels back. Read the rest of this entry »
Micro Reviews
I should have used the time during the DC snowpocalypse to catch up on writing. Obviously, I didn’t. I had started a draft of reviews on a round of rentals I had recently partaken in, but it seems WP ate my homework. I just haven’t had the willpower to rewrite it. So let’s see if I can remember my impressions. Read the rest of this entry »
The Stuff of Childhood Nightmares
I couldn’t resist posting this. I haven’t laughed so hard in a long time.
TerMEHnator Salvation
I want to start by saying that I really expected very little from this film. Reading some form of review after the theatrical release was almost unavoidable, and at best the reviews were uncomplimentary. Supposedly I had seen all there was to see of the major action sequences through the trailers, therefore seeing it on the screen didn’t seem as important to me. Herein lies the problem with reviews, putting too much stock in another persons opinions can lead to regret. Expectations are a tricky thing and I believe there were almost unrealistically high hopes for Salvation. It seems to me now that the reviews were based more on what the reviewer wanted from the film rather than what was presented. Though perhaps by generating a negative expectation I could enjoy the movie for what it was. Read the rest of this entry »
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