Social Media games have introduced an entirely new solution to an age-old social gaming problem, and it’s as insidious as it is genius. It’s also only a matter of time before you see it in your favorite MMO. Read on after the break to hear what I’m talking about.
I started this post off, thinking I would write a (typically) long winded diatribe on the recent blog fury that I’ve been reading in the wake of this year’s GDC. So I started going over the different articles (yes I’m so old fashioned I still refer to blogs & news posts as “articles”) in this post, and I spent a much longer time re-reading over all of them than I certainly should have, by any right.
So if you ever do any blogging, the end of the year always presents an interesting challenge. That challenge is.. do I do a “year in review” post, or a “predictions for the upcoming year” post. If you’re especially prolific, which I’m not, you do both. The “year in review” posts can be fun because it’s always interesting to look back, see what was launched, which trends took hold that we didn’t expect, and to see how things panned out. But they also require work, as you actually have to spend time going back through articles, checking dates, cross-referencing performance numbers against your claims (it’s all well and good to say that Champions Online tanked, but did it really? I’d have to check my numbers. Honestly I don’t think it did. It just felt like it did), and in general do research. Prediction posts, on the other hand, are much easier, We get to simply talk out of our butts about whatever we think is going to happen, and there’s almost no work involved at all, save putting our prophetic statements to paper. Lazy blogger that I am.. you can guess which kind of post this is.
