Recent content by Romothecus

The fact that Tokyo is leading Rio in this poll just highlights how stupid it is to ask people questions they know nothing about. Hey, let's make a poll: how tall is Emperor Akihito? I'm sure we'll get lots of well-informed answers.

What is the point of this article? If LOTRO is supposed to be "anything but a wrap job", then why is it so crappy? The game plays like a total conversion mod of Warcraft. Virtually every aspect of the game is informed by previous MMO convention, and the game is BORING.

Well, think about this. Theater films have been around for close to a century. Broadcast television is about half a century old in America. In internet time, I'm sure 10 years seems like an eternity. Please try to keep reality in mind; it takes 3-5 years to bring an MMO to market. How many...

Again, my position is that there are no "safe estimate[s]" for MMOs yet. The genre is still in its infancy. WoW is totally unprecedented in total worldwide subs as well as speed of growth. Sure, there were plenty of less successful MMOs prior to WoW. That doesn't provide even one datum about...

"Usual historical number"? Excuse me, but how many case studies and data points do we actually have for that? Warcraft is a virtually unprecedented phenomenon. There is nothing to compare it to. Warcraft exceeded EQ's success in a matter of months, and trying to compare cancellation rates of...

" it is safe to assume that in any given month, 5 percent of WoW's player base cancels their accounts. Where do these people go? Some undoubtedly dive back into the MMOG pool and spread out among the infinite titles floating around, but at 5 percent, that means there are roughly 425,000 WoW...