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The Secret World: Great Facepalm Moments in Marketing Betas, Part 2
The first beta facepalm moment of The Secret World (TSW) beta sign up showed that Funcom wasn’t thinking about how they’d be perceived when they “broke” their own beta registration. This next moment...
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The Secret World: Fighting The Previous War
There has been one MMO that I’ve been interested in for a long time and that’s The Secret World (TSW). I joined the forum back in June 2007, but my account had issues with posting in threads, plus I’ve...
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New Blogger Initiative (#MMONBI) – Fear The Power of Syp!
In the past month: Dominus closed EA BioWare laid off a lot of people from Star Wars: The Old Republic 38 Studios imploded Fallen Earth was cut back to bare bones staffing numbers The Secret World...
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What Can We Learn From Picking Winners?
Having spent a bit of time looking at some infamous AAA MMO failures, it’s worth trying to see what lessons can be learned from them. It’d be easy to say that these titles were always going to fail...
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The Secret World: Half As Successful As Conan
I bet Funcom wishes they could declare this information as ‘secret’ and not have to tell shareholders. According to a Google-translated-so-oddly-worded article, Funcom’s The Secret World (TSW) is a...
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The Secret World: Only 200k Copies Sold
Funcom’s Q2 2012 financial report paints a bleak picture for the company. Only 200k copies of The Secret World (TSW) were sold, which is a long way behind their Age of Conan’s (AoC) 800k during its...
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The Secret World: Buy-To-Play Isn’t The Answer
The following thought occurred to me in viewing the seemingly back-to-back articles about The Secret World going buy-to-play (B2P) and Amazon knocking 50% off the box cost of TSW (if you live in the...
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The Single Biggest Problem Facing MMOs Today
Usually at this time of the year I’d be writing up a full year review about how MMOs have been doing for the past year. Or even just reviewing my predictions and making up forecasting new ones....
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Reviewing My 2012 MMO Predictions
At the end of 2011 I made a set of predictions about MMOs and the MMO industry. This is a pretty common thing to do, but I also feel I should own my predictions and actually check how accurate they...
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MMO Predictions 2013: Morituri Te Salutant
Predicting what is going to happen to the Western MMO market in 2013 seems a lot harder than doing the same for 2012. But when it comes to random guessing about stuff I only half understand...
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