JonnyG
03-25-2004, 11:26 AM
John Feil has updated his blog (http://www.gamefeil.com/blog.html) with more info on the GDC conference day 3.MMO Communities: Fans and Flames: Kevin O’Hara
Description: Roundtable discussing MMOGs and their relationships with the online communities that gather around them.
What I expected: A discussion about online communities.
What I got: This was a pretty good roundtable. Almost every MMOG was represented, from There.com to Pirates of the Burning Sea to Dark Age of Camelot to Star Wars Galaxies. And Mythica, of course. We talked about whether developers should be allowed to talk to the community (answer: most people think “no”, because some developers have given the rest of us a reputation for bad spelling, worse English, and a tendency to react poorly to flames) about how to deal with griefers (information gathering and banning) and about the development of the community from announcement to beta to live.
Some neat stuff (http://www.gamefeil.com/blog.html). Very interesting. You know me, I disagree on the allowed to speak to the community. I think it drives interest up. But what do I know, I'm not in the games industry.
Description: Roundtable discussing MMOGs and their relationships with the online communities that gather around them.
What I expected: A discussion about online communities.
What I got: This was a pretty good roundtable. Almost every MMOG was represented, from There.com to Pirates of the Burning Sea to Dark Age of Camelot to Star Wars Galaxies. And Mythica, of course. We talked about whether developers should be allowed to talk to the community (answer: most people think “no”, because some developers have given the rest of us a reputation for bad spelling, worse English, and a tendency to react poorly to flames) about how to deal with griefers (information gathering and banning) and about the development of the community from announcement to beta to live.
Some neat stuff (http://www.gamefeil.com/blog.html). Very interesting. You know me, I disagree on the allowed to speak to the community. I think it drives interest up. But what do I know, I'm not in the games industry.