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Topic: Facebook Poker; Now With 100% more Richard Garriot (Read 3293 times)
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IainC
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Tebonas
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If thats the whole truth its just sad.
From world building to creative director for a poker game.
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01101010
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You call it an accident. I call it justice.
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 Or this could be a seed.
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Does any one know where the love of God goes...When the waves turn the minutes to hours? -G. Lightfoot
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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How is this in any way sad or surprising? World building is dead, creative people are a limited market and the mass market just wants to fuck with them, driving away the core audience of a world sim.
Meanwhile, facebook games are huge and every mouthbreather in the world thinks he's a poker shark.
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Ratman_tf
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After Tabula Rasa, I think this is the best place for him.  |
 "What I'm saying is you should make friends with a few catasses, they smell funny but they're very helpful." -Calantus makes the best of a smelly situation. |
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UnSub
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There's a good opportunity in getting into the market and becoming the defacto development platform, or at least a major player in it. Ultimately you get paid even if a title never launches because you're a third party supplier.
The HeroEngine springs to mind here - if Simultronics was just developing a MMO, they would have been dead long ago.
Plus: if I was Garriott, I wouldn't want to be back in front of a huge AAA title either.
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schild
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He has zero to do with the game itself. He's more of a symbol of the studio than anything else. It is, in fact, a job I too would take. That is, if just by existing I created marketing and investment opportunities like he somehow does.
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Lantyssa
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Nostalgia. And people wanting bilk others based on their nostalgia.
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Stephen Zepp
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We found it pretty interesting that not only is the game in Torque, but he's also now distributing a plugin to play games in a browser. Hrm!
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HaemishM
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the Confederate flag underneath the stone in my class ring
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Interesting as in "Motherfucker didn't pay us for a dev copy?" or as in "Bitch needs to name-drop us?"
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Slyfeind
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Holy crap, yeah. I just caught wind of this. I always thought Garriott would be perfect for small casual games, for the very reasons he cited. But what the hell, poker? He says he wants to do more, but...poker?! I can whip up an Ultima game in like 30 minutes with Torque.  |
"Role playing in an MMO is more like an open orchestra with no conductor, anyone of any skill level can walk in at any time, and everyone brings their own instrument and plays whatever song they want. Then toss PvP into the mix and things REALLY get ugly!" -Count Nerfedalot
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schild
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Once again, RG had little to nothing to actually do with it. Please stop saying otherwise.
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Slyfeind
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Indeed. Nobody said otherwise.
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"Role playing in an MMO is more like an open orchestra with no conductor, anyone of any skill level can walk in at any time, and everyone brings their own instrument and plays whatever song they want. Then toss PvP into the mix and things REALLY get ugly!" -Count Nerfedalot
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Ratman_tf
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"What I'm saying is you should make friends with a few catasses, they smell funny but they're very helpful." -Calantus makes the best of a smelly situation. |
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