Posted in Game Related, Guild Wars, Marketing on Feb 17th, 2009
Last night ArenaNet posted a letter from Mike O’Brien, their head honcho, concerning all the rumors swirling around about Guild Wars 2. This subsequently has spawned even more discussion, with many people posting about being mad at ArenaNet for the delay and how Guild Wars 2 was doomed to failure, and others just plain saying [...]
Posted in Game Related, Guild Wars, Marketing on Feb 13th, 2009
Today NCSoft released their quarterly earnings report, and I was quite frankly surprised by some of the numbers for Guild Wars. For the quarter ending Decemeber 2008, Guild Wars had 5,803,000 activated accounts. This number itself was not so surprising as I recall ArenaNet publicizing passing 5 million units sold. What surprised me though was [...]
Posted in Game Related, General, Guild Wars, Guilds on Feb 6th, 2009
Regina posted the final ruling on her wiki as well as over on the Guild Wars Guru forums. Basically both guilds lose the special trim that is normally awarded for placing, gold for placing first in the case of [rawr], and silver for placing in the top 16 in the case of [zero]. I was [...]
Posted in Game Related, Guild Wars, Guilds on Jan 30th, 2009
Well it seems that ArenaNet has determined that this was indeed a violation of the rules and plan on taking action. The question of which rules though is up in the air, since technically the mAT rules only cover through December 2008. I am very concerned by the fact that the decision was arrived at [...]
Posted in Game Related, Guild Wars, Guilds on Jan 27th, 2009
This past weekend Rebel Rising [rawr] won an unprecedented 9th Guild Wars GvG tournament. However, many people are complaining that they broke the tournament rules with an intentional draw versus [zero] at the end of the Swiss rounds. As you can see below, there were several guilds that could have gotten into the single elimination [...]
Posted in Game Related, Guild Wars on Jan 2nd, 2009
First of all - Happy New Year! I wanted to get writing yesterday, but ended up watching too much football and playing too much Rock Band 2 with my kids to get anything done. Today though, back to work! And I just thought of a topic too that I wanted to write about.
Between Christmas and [...]
Posted in Game Related, General, Guild Wars, Guilds on Dec 13th, 2008
One year ago today the guild Team Love [kiSu] was formed. The concept for the guild was borne out of an idea by Axiom at Team Quitter concerning starting a Big Brother Program in order to help grow PvP players for Guild Wars. I suggested to Axiom that it would be good to have a [...]
Posted in Game Related, Guild Wars, Guilds on Dec 11th, 2008
Lately I have been observing some interesting trends concerning a couple of the PvP guilds I help manage and mentor as part of the Team Love [kiSu] project. Just a few months ago it seemed that any time our guilds were looking to participate in Guild vs Guild (GvG) battles, we’d see the same teams [...]
Posted in Game Related, General, Guild Wars, Guilds on Nov 28th, 2008
It has been a couple months since I have last posted. This delay has mostly been due to the start of the Fall semester where I am teaching a couple of classes, plus some research projects I have been putting some finishing touches on.
In any event, I managed to free up some more time and [...]
Posted in Game Related, Guild Wars, Marketing on Sep 4th, 2008
This article was originally posted 28 March 2007 on Guild Wars Guru. I am reposting it a year and a half later because I am writing an interview that discusses these same issues, and I think comparing where we were before adds a good perspective.
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Guild Wars 2 and a Fansite Visit Postscript
Two months ago I [...]