Wow, What an Massive WoW Infographic
Publishers and developers love showing off the numbers of their babies. From subscribers to users to concurrent users the MMORPG genre is probably more open than most others in the […]
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Diablo 3 Auction House Shutdown: Why it’s Happening & the Elements of Good Economy Design
Blizzard announced earlier this week that both the real money and gold auction houses for Diablo 3 would be shutting down soon, and the reactions have been mostly positive. Despite […]
An In-Game Store is Coming to World of Warcraft. Soon.
Let the rumor die. Bashiok, the hungry tree, has made it official. An in-game store is coming to World of Warcraft sometime in the future. The rumor kicked off last […]
In-Game Microtransactions Coming to WoW?
Short answer seems to be “Yes” A bit of datamining by the nuts over at WoWHead turned up an interesting item, the Enduring Elixir of Wisdom. Every F2P gamer out […]
What I Want from a Battle.net Desktop Client
There have been some hints at a possible new Battle.net client found by data-mining some strings in Diablo III’s 1.0.7 patch beta. A page on Blizzard’s career site also referenced […]
Diablo 3 Real-Money Auction House to be Live Today
Diablo 3‘s auction house has been having its ups and downs (quite literally), delaying the release quite a few weeks from the game’s launch 28 days ago. If in-game messages […]
Diablo III Real Money Auction House: Analysis of Fees, Market Forces, and Strategy, Part 2
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Last time, we looked at how the fees for the different auction houses will affect trading in Diablo 3. Today, I’d like […]
Diablo III Real Money Auction House: Analysis of Fees, Market Forces, and Strategy, Part 1
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 On May 15th at 3 A.M. PDT, the heavens will tremble and Diablo 3 will be live. Players will be able to […]