Length: 46:49

Synopsis: Creative Director Paul Barnett joins our eleventh Loading... Live vooncast from Game Developer's Conference 2009, though not in a Warhammer Online capacity. Instead, after we discuss this week in MMORPG news, Paul delivers his impressions on this year's low-key event and what game developers in general (and MMO designers in particular) need to do to succeed moving forward. If you like snappy, lazer-focused podcasts, this one might not be for you, but if you've seen a WAR presentation you know that one of the things that makes Paul a great communicator is that he speaks in parables. His capativating style is in full effect in this very informal and enjoyable 46-minute vooncast live from GDC 2009, enjoy!


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Participants

Hosts

  • Jeff "Ethec" Woleslagle
    Ten Ton Hammer Editor-in-Chief
  • Ben "Machail" de la Durantaye
    Managing Editor - Ten Ton Hammer Network

Co-Hosts

  • Garrett Fuller
    Industry Relations - Ten Ton Hammer Network

Guests

  • Paul Barnett
    Creative Director, Warhammer Online
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Introductions
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  • 0:23 Introductions

We introduce our special guest and not-so-special host and co-host, then move straight to the news so we have plenty of time for questions.

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  • Loading... - Ten Ton Hammer's daily newsletter and column

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News and Events
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  • 0:50 The Machail Report
  • 1:10 - Blizzard's New Add-Ons Charges
  • 3:39 - EVE among most important MMOs of all time
  • 5:05 - The Agency, DCUO in 2010

In this week's Machail Report, we discuss Blizzard's move against in-game marketed add-ons in World of Warcraft, Chip Magazine's placing EVE Online among the most important MMOs of all time, and SOE CEO John Smedley's keynote announcement that The Agency and DC Universe Online wouldn't arrive until at least 2010.

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Dev Chat with WAR's Paul Barnett
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  • 7:16 Meet Paul Barnett
  • 7:30 Impressions from GDC 2009
  • 13:10 If you're an MMO fan, and you want to come to GDC....
  • 16:12 Where business is being done
  • 25:17 GDC "in a funk"
  • 29:20 How games will be made in the future
  • 31:40 Creativity and design
  • 35:30 How MMOs will survive
  • 43:07 The new niche MMO

Paul Barnett, a veritable connoiseur of games events, takes up on a tour of an extremely low-key Game Developers Conference this year. With not much to say about the Conference part of the event, we turn to Game Development and Paul's always interesting insights on what the future holds for game design in general and MMOs in particular.

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Last Updated: Mar 13, 2016

About The Author

Jeff joined the Ten Ton Hammer team in 2004 covering EverQuest II, and he's had his hands on just about every PC online and multiplayer game he could since.

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