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Role Playing (Games)

Dragon Age: Origins To Get Paid DLC Expansion — On Launch Day 241

BioWare's upcoming RPG, Dragon Age: Origins, is set to launch on November 3rd. Today they announced details about some of the downloadable content they have planned for the game. In fact, it's scheduled to become available on the same day the game launches, at a cost of $7. (The PS3 version will be slightly delayed). "Called the Warden's Keep, the DLC will add a dungeon-based quest to the game along with six new abilities, a variety of items, and a base where players can trade with merchants. It will feature a supernatural storyline set in an ancient — and possibly haunted — fortress once used as a redoubt by the Grey Wardens, the ancient order at the center of Origins' main storyline." There will be two additional bits of DLC that are available for free to people who have purchased the game new. One "adds a stone golem character to the player's party from the beginning of the game, unlocking numerous story options," and the other increases a character's defense against some attacks in-game.

Comment Re:Tiny budgets help a lot (Score 1) 163

Never trust big brothers. Mine used to tell me that the Enterprise could land on a planet. To do so, it flipped over on its back; internally, all of the rooms rotated to maintain a proper vertical orientation. I don't know who was dumber, him for believing that or me for believing him. Fortunately, one of us got smarter.

Comment Re:Joss Whedon? (Score 1) 163

Clearly they do. Joss' brother Jed directed the music video and co-wrote the song (he provided the music and Felicia did the lyrics). Felicia also stars in the unaired Dollhouse episode "Epitaph One". As for Joss helping her on this, I could be wrong but I don't believe so. I suspect his hands are full with Dollhouse.

Comment Re:Felicia Day in Blizzcon feed (Score 1) 163

They don't use subscriptions. It was initially self-funded and they eventually added a "donate" button to the site. They started the second season using the same model but soon made a deal for funding and distribution with Sprint and MS. They are supplementing their revenue with DVD sales (and now sales of the music video via iTunes and the mp3 through amazon. But you are right, you could never use the same business model to produce a show like Lost and be profitable. It really all depends on how the show is written and what sets you need. When you center your show around your characters and not fancy special effects, sets, and big name guest stars, it can make a big difference in your costs.

Comment Re:Simple answer (Score 1) 163

Didn't say they were profitable, just successful and it all depends on how you define successful. It this case I would say that developing a fan base counts although money never hurt anyone. Given that the WSJ article just came out and this is the first time I've seen anything about it on /. you can hardly say they have anything to do with its successs MS Live isn't the only vehicle for distribution, the episodes are available on MSN. It was only for the first episode of Season 3 that it premiered on Xbox Live first (MSN is next week).
Television

Submission + - How the Web Series 'The Guild' Stays Successful (wsj.com)

ChronoDragon writes: The Wall Street Journal points out that it is possible to make a successful web series without the backing of a studio. With the release of a music video, Do you Wanna Date My Avatar, and the start of Season of 3, the web series The Guild is ready for even more success. The Guild, created by Felicia Day (Doctor Horrible), is a low budget comedy series about a group of MMORPG gamers and their interactions both online and off. While there are a lot of references that will be instantly recognized by gamers, the show is still very accessible to non-gamers.

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