Saturday, March 13, 2010

TourGuide Interview: Copyright, Advertising, Blizzard and Addons

A fascinating and complex interview with TourGuide's creator, touching on how it became a vehicle of a paid leveling guide service,  how other leveling services used TourGuide, and with a bit about Blizzard's policy towards addons, including the problems with Carbonite's ads, PLUS what this all means.  A very convoluted story, with implications for the future and also copyright protection issues.
http://www.wow.com/2010/03/13/what-happened-to-tourguide/#continued

***************************
Copyright Solo MMO Player at http://solommo.blogspot.com

From GDC: Blizzard and Game Design

An interview from the Game Developers Conference with Rob Pardo about Blizzard and game design.
http://www.wow.com/2010/03/12/rob-pardo-speaks-about-blizzard-game-design/

***************************
Copyright Solo MMO Player at http://solommo.blogspot.com