Cool Documentary on Virtual Worlds

[sunb1ind]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPOxuOCGi9I

This looks pretty good. It doesn't seem as boring as the usual docu's you hear about MMO's.

[Myst]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPOxuOCGi9I

This looks pretty good. It doesn't seem as boring as the usual docu's you hear about MMO's.

march 7. im definitely interested.

[oxx2]

is this going to be online?

[Kaisha]

Did anyone else laugh at the guy who inserted his disc to play?

[sunb1ind]

Did anyone else laugh at the guy who inserted his disc to play?

I didn't catch that part

is this going to be online?

Most likely for purchase. If not, there will be torrents of it within a few days.

[Exoduso]

So glad I quit MMO's lol, now I can just sit by from the sidelines and laugh at the ensuing hilarity that this video is likely to provide me with.

[Senoska]

Cool Documentary on Virtual Worlds

Cool Documentary on Virtual World

Fixed.

People view WoW as if it's the only fucking MMORPG.

[Ikith]

I wish I could find a new MMO that was like WoW but actually fun !

[Exoduso]

I wish I could find a new MMO that was like WoW but actually fun !

Does not compute.

[Correction]

Cool Documentary on Virtual Worlds

[quote:1fa0r8g9]Cool Documentary on Virtual World

Fixed.

People view WoW as if it's the only fucking MMORPG.[/quote:1fa0r8g9]

Put all the subscription numbers for MMOs played in North America/Europe on the same pie graph. Other MMOs than WoW appear to cease to exist at that scale. There's nothing special about other MMOs that makes the interaction terribly different, and the filmmakers chose WoW because by now every potential audience member has at least heard about it.

Final Fantasy what?

[sunb1ind]

WoW gamers are alot more interesting than other MMO's because of that. I saw some other MMO's briefly in the trailer, but they will probably be targeted with the hardcore gamer population topics. I personally don't care for WoW, but it got a lot of things right that FFXI and alike are so far behind on.

[Kaelan]

Cool Documentary on Virtual Worlds

[quote:3f91dw3a]Cool Documentary on Virtual World

Fixed.

People view WoW as if it's the only fucking MMORPG.

Put all the subscription numbers for MMOs played in North America/Europe on the same pie graph. Other MMOs than WoW appear to cease to exist at that scale. There's nothing special about other MMOs that makes the interaction terribly different, and the filmmakers chose WoW because by now every potential audience member has at least heard about it.

Final Fantasy what?[/quote:3f91dw3a]

That doesn't matter, they should have shown more than a single game if for nothing else than to point the variety of what's out there. Introducing your common non-gamer person to the fact that there's millions of people playing MMOs and that's not even counting WoW would have made an even bigger impact I think. They already at least have some idea WoW is popular due to the marketing - if they knew several other games are popular as well, they might get the idea of how big games have actually been getting in general, instead of seeing WoW as some kind of isolated phenomenon or something.

[Saga]

Cool Documentary on Virtual Worlds

[quote:2cbxwerb]Cool Documentary on Virtual World

Fixed.

People view WoW as if it's the only fucking MMORPG.

Put all the subscription numbers for MMOs played in North America/Europe on the same pie graph. Other MMOs than WoW appear to cease to exist at that scale. There's nothing special about other MMOs that makes the interaction terribly different, and the filmmakers chose WoW because by now every potential audience member has at least heard about it.

Final Fantasy what?

That doesn't matter, they should have shown more than a single game if for nothing else than to point the variety of what's out there. Introducing your common non-gamer person to the fact that there's millions of people playing MMOs and that's not even counting WoW would have made an even bigger impact I think. They already at least have some idea WoW is popular due to the marketing - if they knew several other games are popular as well, they might get the idea of how big games have actually been getting in general, instead of seeing WoW as some kind of isolated phenomenon or something.[/quote:2cbxwerb]

not really worth putting other games with 500k subscribers in when your focus is on a game with 10 million plus. subscriber count does matter, it doesn't need to include 4 other MMOs all with a combined total of a million subs in order to prove a point when 10 mil is such a shattering number on that scale, as someone pointed out earlier in the thread. besides that fact, how much different would the documentary be interviewing people from other MMOs like FFXI, L2, EQ2, hellgate and so on. anyone they might pick to interview from FFXI, i guarantee you'll find the same type of person playing WoW. 10 year olds aside, WoW's subscriber base covers such a wide gamete of different kinds of players such that for someone playing FFXI, there's bound to be someone very similar to them found in wow's subscribers. why explore several other less popular, less marketable MMOs when there's very little, if any versatility to be had as a result?

[levish]

there were at least a few snippets of eq2 in there o_ O

[Saga]

there were at least a few snippets of eq2 in there o_ O

i didnt even watch it, was just responding to kaelan's post

[Blarg]

I love documentaries but this one looks fake cause there were girls in it and they knew how to use the internet which is just laughable.

[Kaelan]

That 10million is only one fifth of the total amount of people that play MMOs though, even if it's the largest share a single game has of the market. When the whole point of the documentary seems to be to show people the scale and nature of the thing, it would be a good idea to show more than just one game. Obviously 50 million people aren't all doing the same thing, and that's a major part of why the whole business is so successful.

Anyway I'm looking forward to watching it too, it looks like it could be good. There's probably more in it they haven't showed in the trailer, maybe the WoW heavy intro was just to hook people in to it

I love documentaries but this one looks fake cause there were girls in it and they knew how to use the internet which is just laughable.

photoshopped, obviously, look at the pixels

edit: http://cdn.libsyn.com/worldofwarcast/Wo ... sode37.m4a

[Norelco]

The show is subtitled "Seven idiots who could probably achieve great things if they spent a 10th of their time applying themselves as they did playing MMORPGs."

[Mizango]

"Seven idiots who could probably achieve great things if they spent a 10th of their time applying themselves as they did playing MMORPGs."

I made that point to people in my LS a long time ago and they didn't get it. I always laugh when I see someone else point out this fact.

[levish]

The show is subtitled "Seven idiots who could probably achieve great things if they spent a 10th of their time applying themselves as they did playing MMORPGs."

being far from the person with the most time invested, I have 200days worth of time invested into ffxi

I'm positive I'd be making six digits right now if I had been furthering my career instead

/wrists

but Mithra's <3 and </3 that arse Mee Degi