No really, it *is* an MMO…

25Aug08

After yesterday’s blog post, I had a little discussion with some friends about AOL chat rooms. *grins* this discussion took place in an IRC chat room, by the way. As I said yesterday, I felt playing games in chat rooms were much like MMO‘s. AOL and IRC have thousands of people on at the same [...]

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Tags: Age of Empires, AOL, Diablo II, irc, MMO, PvE, PvP

It’s the People…

21Aug08

Yesterday I talked about cows and people. The biggest draw for many folks to an MMO environment is the other people running around with similar goals. My very first experience of the power of an MMO type of environment was in an AOL chat room many many years ago. It was back when AOL sent [...]

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Tags: AOL, chatting, irc, MMO, social networking