…is “we all know each other.”
No matter how many studios rise and fall and rise again, the MMO industry remains remarkably small. Let me illustrate:
I was working on an article a little while ago when my IM blooped at me. It was an old friend, pinging to ask for an unofficial reference.
Enough of you clicked on my Examiner page that they decided I was overpowered for Baltimore. I am now the national MMORPG Examiner thanks to you people, so the link has changed. It’s now http://www.examiner.com/x-5353-MMORPG-Examiner
The elderly beagle you’re helping to support expressed her appreciation by horking up a wad of hair and carpet fuzz in the fireplace this morning. I do not know what this means.
My old friend Rich spoke here: http://rpgvault.ign.com/articles/962/962114p1.html
If you have a Reddit login, I’m whoring my article out there: Vote whoring
If you don’t, you can go directly to the page: http://www.examiner.com/x-5353-Baltimore-MMORPG-Examiner
One of my projects apparently needs photos to illustrate. I’ve got one, and I thought that was sufficient, but I’ve been advised to get two more.
So, it’s 10 AM EDT on Wed. I need to submit by noon. If you are a pretty devoted MMO gamer, with multiple maxed toons, AND in a long term relationship, I need a picture of you and your mate. Please note that I have not been gender specific. Love is love. Bonus if you and the mate met in an MMO, since the one image I already have is of a gamer and his non-gaming wife. But I’m really not picky since I’ve only got two hours to make this happen.
I can be more specific about how I’m using it to the people who send pictures, and I’ll tell the rest of you in a couple days.
Thanks.
EDIT TO ADD: I love you guys, SO MUCH. I mean that. No one comes through in a crunch like Bee Eaters.
“But the guy who puts up one of those names thinks he’s the most startlingly original thinker since Einstein. Assuming Einstein was a coprophiliac.”
And with that, I would like to tell you guys where I’m ranting at this time.
One of “my” guild leaders from back in the Camelot days has been a pain in my ass and a thorn in my side for so long now that he’s practically a friend. One day, he pinged me and said, hey, you know what the world needs? A forum that is totally unmoderated.
Put down the bong, was my translated reply.
Fast forward several days, and I was on board to wrangle editorial content, and rant. What can I say – he’s got a plan, and even though it’s not foolproof (the internet is really good at inventing bigger fools), I do believe that his plan *can* work – and if anyone can pull it off, I think he can. Also, while there isn’t going to be traditional moderation, we can and will delete spam and kiddie porn and the like. But the intent is unmoderated, occasionally foulmouthed, always interesting discussion of games and the people who play them.
Another GamerDNA article on Gamasutra: http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=22486
What’s funny is that the last one I did that went there, I’d written especially for them, but instead they did a… hasty… rephrasing. This one, I wrote for the GamerDNA audience, and wasn’t trying to draw any real conclusions, just point up some nifty patterns… and here it is under my name. But hey, Gamasutra. So I’m cool.
In my never ending quest to make enough money to pay for dog kibble without having to relocate, I do a lot of different things. In addition to talking, writing, and consulting about video games, I also ghostwrite, proofread, and edit. I clean up resumes and write sample cover letters. I tutor. Copywriting is on the menu. Customer service is available. A friend of mine swears that my time beating on incomplete patch notes written in Swahili makes me a technical writer. In short, if the written word is involved, I’ll do it. The one thing I won’t do is lie, unless the result is clearly labeled fiction or satire.