Birth of Massive Online Games Addiction, Divorce, RMT Part 2
www. markeedragon. com – Take a look back to the mid to late 90’s when MMORPG was a brand new term. Marcus Eikenberry aka Markee Dragon is interviewed about his experiences at the birth of this new kind of games. Marcus talks about having killed his pets and being horrified, being overly emotionally attached to the games, the difference between games from 10 years ago and games of present day. Other topics include being addicted to these games Divorce by MMORPG RMT – Real money trade of in game items, pharming Sales in Ultima Online Community advancement over the past 10 years, guilds, communication and groups working together, external communities such as forums.








That’s exactly my point! The comment was suppose to be read in a more positive tone, at least that is how I wrote it.
@TehPownisher who doesn’t want to be in a happier place.
To understand why people become addicted to games, we must look at why people become addicted in the first place. Addictions serve as an unhealthy escape from reality; World of Warcraft, heroin, and cocaine all do this. The only difference with between WoW from drugs is that there is NO chemical addiction and that’s is 100% a mental addiction.
And to end on a note. It wasn’t my fault at all that I was so religiously addicted. UO was the FIRST mmo and I started in 1998. There was absolutely no press covering the addiction and there wasn’t such a robust community so you were by yourself all the time except at “guild” meet ups every 2-3 days for an hour.
There was just no way to know. It’s like somebody handed me a box of cereal and said “this tastes really good try it” and turned out that there was cocaine in the cerial.
Guinea pigs
I’ve been a gamer all my life and if a company doesn’t have to work their hardest, they won’t. Put some real fire down their throats. Suggest that they hire hackers to fix the problems for them.
Hackers are good people, we just love doing what we do. We are completely willing to work with the developers, MOST OF THE TIME FOR FREE but they seem to never want our help, which in turn seems as a huge insult to us hackers and things just get worse.
Speak up, ask them to hire people from defcon.
Because I’m a hacker I can tell you that one of the biggest thrills is “beating the big boss” to say. To have control over an entire company just by yourself and when a new patch comes out you just get that much more motivated.
Here’s my advice, since I wrote programs and scripts, YOU, as a community can make it harder for hackers. You need to understand that the game is all code. You need to rally together and say to blizzard “If you don’t fix this we will boycott your game”.
I had 2500 dollars worth of gold that was worth like 400 dollars very quick. I was pissed off of course but it came down to me. There’s a real world stock market and my money just went into a recession overnight. It was really my own fault.
Scripts, and client side programs do make the gold more meaningless but just monitor your shit and don’t get greedy. Hackers are relentless.
I don’t know why people get there panty’s in a bunch. Hackers on uo with scripts like easy uo use to farm the shit out of it and it was fairly easy to pull off especially if you knew how to script.
I was a legit player. A million gold went from 50+ dollars a million down to I think 5-10 dollars a million real quick because of hackers. I’m a born hacker but I never used scripts. I was part of the easy uo community and even wrote scripts but I wouldn’t even use my OWN lumber script.
Wow is extremely n00b friendly. Which I think is awesome. However, I gotta say I get a little rilled up when my friend is playing wow and making fun of uo being a sissy game because of it’s “graphics”.
I played for 6 years religiously. Seems pathetic but people in uo were so slimy and greedy that it tought me some good ethics and business skills when I quit, like always watch your back with your money and how to invest wisely. So all in all it was a good and a bad thing.
lol that kid looks like a faggot who would rage like a fuck, but not all ppl who play r like him
these guys pfft, go out side like a normal person!!!
I was thinking about play WoW, but after see these guys i dont want anymore.
wow is a lifestyle! hehe
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y does it look like his mom dressed him?? lol
dam i wish it was still in the 90’s
i think the whole part of real world money for items in the game is because it makes it easier for the players inside of the game if they dont have all that time or maybe they are just lazy, personally i only bought stuff for real world money for things in game because i was lazy and didnt feel like doing all the work myself when i can just enter a few things onto a website and buy whatever and not have to even do much. whole thing that is really going on aboutthis trading for real world money
look at the way you type you fucking retard.
do YOU get laid?
Well ever since The burning crusade came to being released and gear became so easy to get the attractiveness soon worn off as soon as you seen everyone else with either just as good or better looking gear. Same went for SWG really, as soon as everyone could be a Jedi then lots of people left and got really angry at SOE because months of prep and grinding was taken away within a patch. I was in the first category really, I had a General Mage. I was so pissed when WL gear was ez 2 get.
thats true but raids and instances arent quests, they have quests but u get the best gear in the game from raids, and u have to do quests to level to get to the level requirement for the raids and if the quest system wasnt so addictive, more people would quit before they go the best gear.
What makes WoW so addictive is the fact you have a character in a fantasy world that you get engrossed into by envying other people who have cool looking gear.
It isn’t so addictive now they took the PVP honor system out and Raids are slimmed down to 25.
so, does these guys get laid or what
ima have to disagree with what he said from 4:00 to 4:40. i think what makes WoW so addictive is the quests system, it never ends.
dam i need a shit
NO its fun unlike you who just put stupid random comments on youtube get a life cunt!