Molyneux, WoW and more

Lots more gaming stuff up today. First up Peter Molyneux finally admits he was given undue credit in the past.


"Not so much these days, because the role of a designer is much, much more understood. But for a very long time, I was way, way over-credited for many things."


Then there is a look at advertisers trying to reach gamers. Plus a closer look at how games can be used in schools. I can only assume things have come on since the mid 80s when "games in school" meant Chuckie Egg on the Beebwww.game.es.


I've stuck my oar in too, and have taken a look at World of Warcraft and the potential competitors it may face this year. Warhammer or Conan anyone? Expect more game stuff later this week too.


In case the link is broken or you can't be bothered to click, here is the WoW article. Think I missed anything out? And can WoW - and its successors - ever be toppled?


Orcs, elves and 10 million paying subscribers: World of Warcraft is a PC gaming phenomenon. Three years since its release and the online game is still riding high, but could 2008 finally see it face some competition?

Blizzard, the creators of WOW CD-KEY, and their cleverly designed virtual world have blown the Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) genre wide open. Previously a niche gaming offshoot, it is now worth more than $1bn in the west alonewww.miniclip.com.

World of Warcraft is primarily responsible for this growth, adding polish and accessibility to the rough template originally developed by pioneers like Everquest.
"With World of Warcraft we tried to maximise the fun, pick-up-and-play aspects, and make an MMO that was as approachable as possible without losing that lasting depth," said the game's lead producer, J Allen Brackwow powerleveling. "That resounded with players on a much greater scale than we'd ever anticipated."

A new expansion pack, Wrath of the Lich King, is due out later this year and is likely to shoot to the top of the charts. But by this time WoW will face the first batch of credible challengers to its online gaming crownwow power leveling.

The biggest is Warhammer Online. The game has a similar look and feel to WoW but has far more emphasis on player versus player battle. This large-scale combat will see groups of opposing players battling it out for land and virtual bragging rights. Throw in the Games Workshop licence and you have a potentially worthy competitor.
Oli Welsh, MMO editor of Eurogamer.net agrees: "Warhammer will probably get a little closer to World of Warcraft because it specifically appeals to hardcore fans who are pretty bored with WoW at the momentffxi gil."

Another challenger due at around the same time is Age of Conan. This grittier take on fantasy allows players to build and conquer cities, and boasts a more dynamic combat system than the online gaming norm.

Elsewhere, NCsoft's Aion has the potential to add more depth to the usual conflict with three factions - two playable and one computer-controlled - battling for control.
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There is also a substantial new update due for Lord of the Rings Online, which was originally released in 2007 and has quietly built a decent reputation - even if the subscriber numbers are dwarfed by WoW. "The Lord of the Rings Online isn't just combat," says Ed Relf, who heads up the project for publishers Codemasters. "The focus is on faithfully recreating the fantasy world of Middle Earth in an online universe."

The consoles will also provide some belated competition when NCsoft launches its MMO title for the PS3 in 2009.

Publicly, at least, most of the competitors see WoW as a positive for the market.
"World of Warcraft has been a blessing for the genre and has opened up massively multiplayer gaming for millions of people all around the world," said Erling Ellingsen, product manager at Conan developer Funcomworld of warcraft gold.

And Blizzard itself is magnanimous: "Rather than look at the new wave of titles as competitors, we see them as games that will further broaden the overall appeal of online gaming - and we're looking forward to playing them too," said Brack.

But while the market currently remains dominated by swords and sorcery the real growth is likely to be in less fantastical settings. "I expect The Agency (spies), All Points Bulletin (crime) and Lego Universe to do really, really well," says Eurogamer.net's Welsh.
Titles aimed at casual and younger gamers are another growth area. Disney's Club Penguin and Toontown Online have been successful in attracting the pre-teen audience - and the latter has over a million subscribers. Jagex's Runescape, which takes the more cheap wow goldtraditional role-playing setting and repackages it for a younger age group, has a similar number of paying players.
Relf recognises the trend: "One of the biggest growth opportunities within the online gaming space is represented by the relatively untapped younger or more casual gaming audience."

Welsh sounds a word of warning though.
"There's no such thing as a casual MMO playerbuy wow gold. Successful MMOs turn casual gamers into hardcore gamers - it's how they work, economically."

So what happens next in online gaming? Ellingsen thinks diversity is key. "If the message the market receives is that you need to create World of Warcraft in order to be successful, no one is going to dare do it. I truly hope that we will see a lot more niche online games that will get a healthy number of players."

Welsh argues that price is the real driverWow gold. "The growth of the free-to-play market in the west will really help grow the audience for this kind of gaming."

Diversity, price and big brands like Lego will all help widen the online gaming market, but Relf urges caution to any potential entrant. "World of Warcraft is the iPod of the MMO genre. It's a phenomenon that may never be replicated again in this space."


起来~不愿做潜水的人们
把我们的砖头~盖成我们新的大楼~

论坛到了最H最BL的时候~
每个人被逼着期待下一张CGX的女主角~
彻砖~彻砖~彻砖~!
我们万众一心,冒着河蟹的危险~
等待
冒着河蟹的危险~
等待~等待~等待~待！！！

UST announces its graphite shafts captured win at Ginn Open


FORT WORTH, Texas -- For the fourth consecutive week, UST (United Sports Technologies) high-performance graphite shafts provided superior consistency and accuracy at the top levels of the game to win a pro tour event. This week, UST hybrid shaft technology helped deliver a victory at the Ginn OPEN on the LPGA TourAol.


The Ginn OPEN champion played a Ping Rapture Hybrid (21-degree) custom-fit with a UST IROD? Hybrid shaft to top the field. She currently ranks No. 1 in birdies, rounds under par, rounds in 60s, Top 10 finishes, greens hit and scoring average.


“UST congratulates this year’s Ginn OPEN champion on a terrific victory,” says Jim McIntosh, tour representative for UST. “UST’s hybrid technology has produced some of the most successful shaft designs on any pro tour, and each design possess unique characteristics which optimize the performance of hybrid-design clubs.”


The IROD and UST’s newest hybrid design — Proforce V2 Hybrid — are specifically designed for hybrid performance, and have become incredibly popular on pro tours around the world.


Featuring ‘graphite rod’ technology, UST’s award-winning IROD Hybrid shafts revolutionized shaft performance and first introduced ‘hoop strength’ technology to pro tours around the world. Similarly, the Proforce V2 Hybrid features its own unique graphite fiber orientation in the mid- and butt-sections that helps the shaft recover consistently when loaded or flexed. The V2 Hybrid shaft provides unparalleled stability and consistency, higher ball flight with increased ball velocity and optimized spin for superior distance control.


In the past four weeks, UST high-performance shafts have won the Ginn OPEN, graphite crucible Championship, Kraft Nabisco Championship and Safeway International.


For more information on UST or UST products, contact UST Sales and Public Relations Manager Randy Stuart at 281.250.8465 or visit ustgolfshaft.com.


Headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, UST operates four manufacturing facilities worldwide that produce more than four million graphite shafts a year for original equipment manufacturers and custom clubmakers. UST makes graphite golf shafts for golf consumers and supplies many original equipment manufacturers, such as Titleist, Ping, Nike, Callaway, Cleveland, TaylorMade, Adams, Nickent, Wilson, Sonartec and others. UST also produces and distributes such revered graphite shaft brands as Proforce?, IROD? and Frequency Filtered? Putter shafts which are played in more than 100 tour events on the PGA, SPGA, Nationwide and European tours. The ACCRA? brand is an exclusive shaft brand produced by UST exclusively for PGMC. For more information on UST, visit www.ustgolfshaft.com.

Cubic Zirconia of April: Barry Zito, San Francisco Giants

Once upon a time, I adored this man. The killer curveball, a high-leg kick that beckons, and a hot penchant for wearing high socks—it all made me quite smitten—and being named the 2002 Cy Young winner just fueled my infatuation.

All the magic disappeared when the familiar green and gold uniform of the Oakland A’s was replaced yttria stabilized zirconia beadwith the orange and black from across the Bay Bridge.

The high-leg kick and hot uniform style are still there, but the only thing his pitches kill is my hope for a win that evening.

In April, Zito has gone 0-6 with a 7.53 ERA and only 11 strikeouts. The Giants’ fourth man in the starting rotation, Jonathan Sanchez, recorded 10 in his last outing.

Sweetie, that is just embarrassing.

In Zito’s last start, he allowed six runs in the first inning against the Cincinnati Reds.

Being the first receiver of my “zirconia bead” recognition is not the worse thing to happen to the $126 million man—he has been demoted to the San Francisco bullpen.

起来~不愿做潜水的人们
把我们的砖头~盖成我们新的大楼~

论坛到了最H最BL的时候~
每个人被逼着期待下一张CGX的女主角~
彻砖~彻砖~彻砖~!
我们万众一心,冒着河蟹的危险~
等待
冒着河蟹的危险~
等待~等待~等待~待！！！

网络营销方法中的三大王牌方法

营销策划方法有太多太多了。因为互联网中网站的形式特别多，有什么门户的，论坛的，搜索引擎的，行业网站的。很多很多的，但是很多人都只是明白有这些东西，但是却不知道真正应该怎么来用，第二个是这些不同的形式 他们的着重点在什么地方，能够起到什么样的作用，这是现在很多人所不知道的。所以今天我进行一下总结和突出这几种王牌方法。
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        1、信息获取王牌—搜索引擎

搜索引擎(天下信息都被搜索引擎所获取)，其实谁要说什么web3.0搜索引擎就是最大的web3.0，全是拿其它人信息，作个摘要。然后我们的网民全部都去提取这些信息出来看网络营销。对于信息的获取来说，搜索引擎为王牌是当之无愧的，因为他的蜘蛛程序几乎在互联网中无所不及的去收集信息。本人是搞seo的所以对其属性还是比较熟悉的。有一丝的痕迹就可以收录你得网页。

而现在90%以上的中国网民都会用搜索引擎获取自己想要的信息。所以说在搜索引擎中获得绝佳的排名是至关重要的。于是竞价排名诞生了，seo诞生了。那么基于这层上面网络营销策划方法就是信息展示和网站主要流量的来源。

2、成也口碑，败也口碑—论坛

论坛是一个说三到四的地方，在里面的信息是五花八门，让人们自由的交谈和讨论，甚至是大骂，发泄。这个地方的信息通常会成为人们茶余饭后的话题。因此这里最具备口碑的传播性，再加上如果人们觉得这里的信息不错的话，轻轻松松的一个复制+粘贴的过程，很快就可以传播开来，因此其口碑的应用和建立是最好的地方。所以论坛营销的精髓在于引导与辅助让其形成口碑。

3、不得不谈的名人战略—博客营销
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个人的观点特别是语不惊人死不休。到达这个效果了，博客的看头绝对和论坛是有的一拼的，但是不同的地方是博客更具备官方的性质，很容易形成品牌效应和名人效应，因为一般能够用博客当众喊出心声的人，要不就是要炒，要么就是掌握的这个行业的话语权。所以博客的魅力在于人与互联网大众的交互，不管是骂名也好，还是正名也好，都能够形成良好的眼球效应。

其它的方法倒是有很多，但是是和广告有关的，但是掌握好这三个方法是一个基本的要求对于网络营销来说。所以以后我还会继续探讨网络营销的方法和他们的重点在什么地方。


起来~不愿做潜水的人们
把我们的砖头~盖成我们新的大楼~

论坛到了最H最BL的时候~
每个人被逼着期待下一张CGX的女主角~
彻砖~彻砖~彻砖~!
我们万众一心,冒着河蟹的危险~
等待
冒着河蟹的危险~
等待~等待~等待~待！！！

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我国中小企业数4200多万户，占全国企业总数的99.8%，信息化服务市场巨大。从最新统计数据来看，2007年全球个人用户平均每天的邮件信息量将达到730亿封，企业用户平均每天达1240亿封，预计到2011年，个人用户与企业用户都将各自保持稳定的增长。企业邮局存在一个巨大的发展空间。同时企业邮箱是信息化的基础，不仅可以统一形象，彰显实力，更是企业商业往来不可或缺的沟通方式。

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起来~不愿做潜水的人们
把我们的砖头~盖成我们新的大楼~

论坛到了最H最BL的时候~
每个人被逼着期待下一张CGX的女主角~
彻砖~彻砖~彻砖~!
我们万众一心,冒着河蟹的危险~
等待
冒着河蟹的危险~
等待~等待~等待~待！！！