September 2006

• Amusement park gaming (was: [REPOST] Value) Siege)
• Risk vs Reward [was: Value] Mike Rozak
• • Risk vs Reward [was: Value] Matt Chatterley
  • • Risk vs Reward [was: Value] cruise
    • • Risk vs Reward [was: Value] Sean Howard
      • • Risk vs Reward [was: Value] cruise
        • • Risk vs Reward [was: Value] Mike Rozak
          • • Risk vs Reward [was: Value] Sean Howard
            • • Risk vs Reward [was: Value] cruise
              • Risk vs Reward [was: Value] Mike Rozak
              • • Risk vs Reward [was: Value] Sean Howard
                • • Risk vs Reward [was: Value] Mike Rozak
      • Risk vs Reward [was: Value] Matt Chatterley
  • Risk vs Reward [was: Value] Michael Hartman
• [DESIGN] *Starting* Real Currency Based Worlds Nick Koranda
• • [DESIGN] *Starting* Real Currency Based Worlds ghovs@plex.nl
  • • [DESIGN] *Starting* Real Currency Based Worlds Lachek Butalek
      On 9/16/06, ghovs@plex.nl <ghovs@plex.nl> wrote:
      > You don't need to have a stash of gold to cover every single item. Most
      > players will first pay a lump of money to go out and try stuff, and by
      > the time their in-game currency is depleted, they'll either pay again or
      > go play something else. It's uncommon to put in money, instantly make
      > more, and demand a withdrawal.
      
      This is true for established MMOs with a playerbase largely interested
      in the game aspects of the world. However, if you start an MMO with
      the explicit purpose of implementing RMT, you will attract relatively
      large quantities of people who are less interested in playing your
      game and more interested in making money. "Gold farming" in games
      where RMT is against the EULA has reached a very high level of
      sophistication despite being "illegal".
      
      Depending on your barrier of entry (i.e. sign-on fee, distribution
      channel etc) and the wealth of your game world (i.e. how many
      thousands of trees worth $0.01 each) you will have a varying number of
      leeches of varying destructive capacities. If your barrier of entry is
      low ($5 to sign up, payment by PayPal, online client download, no
      limit to number of accounts) and your game world is populated with
      wealth at launch (100k+ trees worth a fixed amount of $0.01 each
      sellable to NPC vendors) the number of "macro harvesting" characters
      would outnumber the number of player characters minimum 10 to 1. Your
      game world would be clearcut within days (hours if it was a text-based
      MMO rather than a graphical one, since it would be that much easier to
      script), your economy would fail, your real players would leave, and
      you would be left with a broken game and a big hole in your pocket.
  • [DESIGN] *Starting* Real Currency Based Worlds William Leader
  • • [DESIGN] *Starting* Real Currency Based Worlds Nick Koranda
    • • [DESIGN] *Starting* Real Currency Based Worlds Johnicholas Hines
      • [DESIGN] *Starting* Real Currency Based Worlds ghovs@plex.nl
      • • [DESIGN] *Starting* Real Currency Based Worlds William Leader
        • • [DESIGN] *Starting* Real Currency Based Worlds Michael Hartman
  • [DESIGN] *Starting* Real Currency Based Worlds Lachek Butalek
  • [DESIGN] *Starting* Real Currency Based Worlds Johnicholas Hines
  • [DESIGN] *Starting* Real Currency Based Worlds cruise
• [DESIGN] MMO's are for Newbies Nicholas Koranda
• • [DESIGN] MMO's are for Newbies Nicholas Koranda
  • [DESIGN] MMO's are for Newbies Richard A. Bartle
  • [DESIGN] MMO's are for Newbies John Buehler
  • • [DESIGN] MMO's are for Newbies Richard A. Bartle
    • • [DESIGN] MMO's are for Newbies John Buehler
      • • [DESIGN] MMO's are for Newbies Richard A. Bartle
        • • [DESIGN] MMO's are for Newbies Sean Howard
          • • [DESIGN] MMO's are for Newbies Richard A. Bartle
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