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blowfish
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LubeNLuv
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I'm a lifelong video gamer, dating back to Pong. My wife, who has merely "tolerated" my gaming for years, picked up Facebook about a year ago. Since then, she's actually PAID money (not much) for Farmville stuff. That game, and others like it, has been amazing at how easily it has lured in a whole segment of the former non-gamer community.
Really an incredible phenomenon.
My portfolio has remained tied into a handful of video game-related stocks. This is good stuff for me. Thanks for sharing.
NewRomancer
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Posted - Mar 21 2010 : 12:16PM
I think at least part of his point is, it's probably unstoppable
blowfish
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Posted - Mar 21 2010 : 12:38PM
I'm not a Facebooker but I do play the German game Bumrise which I believe is on Facebook. Before that I played Evony for months. I was planning my whole life around that stupid browser game. Probably the best thing that happened to me was having my cities plundered to nothing. I like Bumrise because I am relatively early in the US version which only has 6000 players. They expect to have 100,000 in the coming months. There are already millions of European players.
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I think I'm the ONLY person on Facebook that doesn't play ANY games, or have ANY apps...
Lego Batman for the PS2 was the last new game I bought... and when it comes to the next gen systems, I don't feel like I'm missing anything at all, not having one, and not playing those games....
I'd like to try Fallout 3, but my vid card won't push it... and I don't want to try it so bad that I wanna throw money at an upgrade for a few dozen hours of gameplay.....
I keep meaning to find some time to get DosBox running and get my favorite old games up and running...
I was aware of the trends the presentation above is about.... but I feel like they're happening in a whole different world from the one I live in.
Maybe I've become a Luddite? Me, who's been on-line since before there was really much of a line to be on.... Even William Gibson has talked about how much he things the internet has missed the point of what it could have been (And indeed might still be someday)
 
LubeNLuv
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Posted - Mar 21 2010 : 1:59PM
I played Travian for 2+ years....I was so compulsive that I actually bought an iPhone _JUST_ so I could check on my villages two-three times per HOUR as we neared end-game. And games lasted 10-12 months each. I did Evony for about 4-5 months and then realized how addictive these "casual" games were becoming to me (I'm VERY OCD) so I stopped cold turkey. I actually liked Evony more as the battles made better use of mixed troops, although archers were so damn overpowering that most people just created those by the metric shit-ton....I know I did. I also played an MMO for 2-3 years and saw that was just as bad.
I do believe that the future of gaming is something very similar to what is depicted in the movie "Gamer." Pretty lame movie overall, but the premise was that there will come a time when you can opt to be injected with nanobots (for a fee paid to YOU) and become an avatar for someone else to control (fee charged to them). Maybe not in my lifetime...but given how easily people will give up all their free time on these pursuits already, I can see it happening.
blowfish
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