MMO Communities

R.I.P. The PRC©

January 5, 2008

So, I finally decided to pull the plug on The Pacific Roleplaying Community© after roughly six years. I’ll go into my reasons why later, but first I thought I’d chronicle something I was thinking about while out on my run. The PRC© has a user database of roughly 654 users as of today. I thought […]

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MMO Growth deadly to communities

July 18, 2007

So I was thinking about this the other day while in traffic. One of the large contributers to the size and vitality of the early UO community was the total lack (and slow growth for the first few years) of competing products. As the market grew, and continues to grow the community size dwindles down into […]

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And people say I’m nostalgic..

July 6, 2007

I’ve had my nose to the grindstone for awhile now on this wiki project. I’m glad to say the technical side of things is all but handled, now comes the hard part. DATA ENTRY  – Thats right folks, I said it. It would be time for the slow and dull task of pulling both my […]

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A sign in the door: Help Wanted

July 5, 2007

So I filled four out of my manditory five positions today, bringing what I believe to be quality community leaders who are already doing the jobs I’d ask them to do onboard. I admit to being a little nervous though, this can easily go either way. We’ve been making sweeping changes at the site, designed […]

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A letter to EA-Mythic

June 27, 2007

Jeremy, Please don’t take this the wrong way, but I felt pretty strongly that I should say my peace. As a subscriber to Ultima Online for coming on ten years now, I have a good amount of emotional investment in the franchise. Between Third Dawn, UO:R, and Ninjas.. Well let’s just say I’ve felt gypped […]

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Dynamic player created content. Blessing.. or CURSE?!

June 27, 2007

I had a long discussion with one of the more vocal PRC users last night, and it brought up a long running annoyance of mine. In the last few (six at least) years the communities in Ultima Online have become so lethargic its almost laughable. Take Pacific for example, sure there are pockets of player […]

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Die MediaWiki, Die.

June 26, 2007

So I’m still treading water on this PRC MediaWiki install. God knows I have these grand dreams and visions for it, but I can never seem to find the time to roll everything out. Why can’t MediaWiki come with all the infoboxes, templates and such preinstalled? >< I really need to sit down and get […]

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