Comments | _mike: craftiness

_mike

craftiness

Jan 21, 2011 01:14

(am still pretty much in work mode, cobbling together vital but unexciting systems. why am i so bad at organizing collections of files? i don't know, but i know that i am)

I'm basically just reading Terra Nova for Tim Burke these days--his recent invocation of Minecraft against the 'virtual worlds' purists (in comments) was pretty sweet--but I ( Read more... )

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yeloson January 21 2011, 16:38:23 UTC

I think there's a lot of technical causes for WoW, but really, it's staying success? Social. It managed to hit the critical threshold to establish itself as THE social network of MMOs, much in the same way Facebook passed up Myspace ( ... )

_mike January 21 2011, 19:29:23 UTC

I think that explains why, when it won, it won as big as it did, but doesn't really answer "why WoW?" Though that question could just as easily be "why not the other guys?" and that one pretty much answers itself; the other guys kind of sucked.

The transition to WoW 2--which has to happen, at some point; they made some smart choices that expended its lifespan, but at some point it'll be a 10 year old computer game--will be interesting!