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Team Hammer is live at PAX 2010 writing up explosive new features on hot games like Firefall, TERA, DDO, LEGO Universe, Final Fantasy XIV, and more, and you can find the latest at our PAX 2010 portal.
Being that PAX is a giant fan show and feeding frenzy for the press, we didn't want to hold anything back from either you guys or our general viewing audience. But in the meantime, we have a little more offbeat showcase article for you to check out that you definitely won't find anywhere else...
Sony Online Entertainment Reveals Forums 2.0 Project
Plans for new depth, functionality, and interactivity for SOE's official forums
Surprisingly, Sony Online Entertainment's most talked-about upcoming project at SyndCon 2010 (at least among the projects we can talk about) was their plans to improve on official forums. For all of their nuttiness, "o-boards" have been an invaluable tool for developing companies and game communities for some time. As the MMOG genre forges ahead with new features and exciting concepts, SOE plans the same advancement with their forums.
"Forums haven’t changed in a long time, but the way people communicate has. Back seven to ten years ago, it was heavily text-based. Now people communicate with multimedia and video, so that’s what we’re moving towards… We don’t want to do ‘just text,' text is too boring," said said SOE designer Nathan Spence.
To facilitate this kind of interaction without lengthy production chains or uploads, SOE will offer cloud storage of screenshots, in-game video, and audio (for video voiceovers and for the headslapingly new concept of audio posts - important for SOE's PS3 forum plans) in real-time, as well as a built-in video editor.
Forums are pretty fundamental to the MMO experience, and SOE has some interesting new ideas. Read all about it in our latest showcase, premium-only article: Sony Online Entertainment Reveals Forums 2.0 Project.
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Our premium article this weekend talks about SOE's plans for Forums 2.0, featuring such things as cloud storage of screenshots, in-game video,
and audio (for video voice-overs and for the new concept of audio posts)
in real-time, as well as a built-in video editor.
Do you think that the MMOG community sites in general, from official gaming forums to network forums like Ten Ton Hammer, need to evolve past "boring" text to newer, media-loaded setups? In what sorts of ways would you like to see community forums change things up? Is change necessary, or does the tried and true still work? Discuss!
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