Quick question - do you still have schedule space in your life to regularly have 8 hour uninterrupted blocks of gaming?

I just want people to read this, and realize that this sort of play-till-your-eyes-bleed masochism is what these folks are *eager* to return to.

Yeah, 150,00 players were interested in doing that *for free*. Even if all of them are willing to sign on to an offical legacy realm and *pay*, assuming 4 million current suscribers, that’s a 3.75% population increase in exchange for doubling their software maintenance costs.

Okay. I took the scores of the last 10 PL games, last day of MLB, and week 17 of the NFL season (divided by 7,rounded down). Here’s the average total scores per game:

Here’s the last six World Cup finals:

*sigh*

Aw, and here I was hoping the sequel would be named “Valiantly Foreclose”.

You’re on a Gawker site, man. Only NYC homer references are allowed.

To be fair, the series *started* with a time-traveling necromancer guiding the potential savior of the world. Continuity issues were baked in from the start.

“Given how pretty everything is, I almost wish the game had been even less of a game than it is.”

It’d probably take a fresh explanation for each joke. None of these are standalone amazing, it’s the cumulative effect that makes it work; if you don’t get it at first pass, it’s probably not worth your time to sort it out.

I’m gonna say that if you’re doing anything, with anyone, telling them “I didn’t have this problem when I did this with other people” is going to do nothing good and something bad.

I’ve always referred to Eve Online as “Spreadsheets & Sociopaths”.

Eve is a crappy game, but a *fascinating* social experiment.

Makes me wonder if they ever tried to air a variant of this commercial in China.

Magically make the bulk of the U.S.’s best athletes *not* go into baseball, basketball, and gridiron football?

The grammar pedant in me is feeling very sorry for that Nox protagonist being, thanks to the comma, “filled with necromancers”.

The “situation 2" games would need to state that they need to be marketed and approached and interacted with in a markedly different way than other games. Most of these differences will result in them being treated similarly to movies or TV shows. I suppose we can still call them “games” at that point, but if they’re…

And why these interactive story efforts are determined to keep the “game” label kinda baffles me. Many of them have distinct artistic aspirations, and being called a “game” is the kiss of death to being taken seriously as art. (If comedy eats at the kids’ table, and musical comedy eats at the trough, games have been…

Yes,but the issue is: