MMO natural selection, and what it means to your game. (flag)
syncaine.wordpress.com — In the most recent SUWT podcast (always good stuff btw), the crew got off on a tangent when talking about the cultural differences between players of EVE Online and WoW. EVE players embrace scams, trickery, underhandedness, and generally resent any changes that would ‘dumb down’ ...
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    Good commentary on culture differences across a couple different games--the extremes, I guess.
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Natural selection applied to MMOs
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