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Blizzard Previews Revamped Battle.net 188

Posted by Soulskill from the find-out-precisely-how-bad-you-are dept.
Blizzard updated the official StarCraft II site today with a preview of how the revamped Battle.net will function. They emphasize the social features, competitive matchmaking system, and the ease of sharing mods and maps. Quoting: "When the legacy Battle.net service introduced support for user-created mods such as DotA, Tower Defense, and many others, these user-created game types became immensely popular. But while Battle.net supported mods at a basic level, integration with tools and the mod community wasn't where it needed to be for a game releasing in 2010. The new Battle.net service will see some major improvements in this area. StarCraft II will include a full-featured content-creation toolkit — the same tools used by the StarCraft II design team to create the single-player campaign. To fully harness the community's mapmaking prowess, Battle.net will introduce a feature called Map Publishing. Map Publishing will let users upload their maps to the service and share them with the rest of the community immediately on the service. This also ties in with the goal of making Battle.net an always-connected experience — you can publish, browse, and download maps directly via the Battle.net client. Finding games based on specific mods will also be much easier with our all-new custom game system, placing the full breadth of the modding community's efforts at your fingertips."
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Virtual Currency Becomes Real In South Korea 203

Posted by Soulskill from the license-to-print-money dept.
garylian writes "Massively is reporting that the South Korean Supreme Court has stated that virtual currency is the equivalent of real-world money. For those of you who might not be drawing the link, the core there is that selling in-game currency for real money is essentially just an exchange of currency and perfectly legal in South Korea. This could have sweeping implications for RMT operations the world over, not to mention free-to-play games and... well, online games in general. The official story is available online from JoongAng Daily."

Comment He first has to hit rock bottom (Score 0) 811

by Sgt_Astro (#28069531) Attached to: How To Help a Friend With an MMO Addiction?
Until he realizes that he has a problem there is NOTHING you can do to help him. In all likelihood his problem isn't computer games... it is that he has a problem (a mental anguish) that (for him) only computer games will temporarily take away. The addiction to the MMO is more of a symptom of a bigger emotional problem that this person has. If you are determined to try and help this person I'd recommend trying to get them out of the house to do other activities that might make them feel better about themselves. But keep in mind that although you care about this person, it is ultimately their life and they get to decide what to do with it, no matter how bad their choices are, you can't change the way a person thinks.
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Server Structure in EVE Online 141

Posted by Soulskill from the more-the-merrier dept.
Massively takes an interesting look at the server model used by EVE Online. It's unusual for a MMOG because it doesn't divide the player load among different servers or "shards." Instead, the same cluster handles the entire EVE universe and all 300,000 subscribers (total; record concurrent load is around 40,000). The EVE Dev Blog recently announced some upgrades to keep things running smoothly and allow for battles involving over 1,000 ships. They call the technology StacklessIO.

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