MMO Blog

Apparently, according to Yahoo and reported here last weekend, more and more video game developers are getting into MMOs. Whether they’re newly trained – fresh faced and looking for an outlet on their newly proven skills – or industry veterans, people with the right skills are deciding to get into massively multiplayer online gaming and that can only have a positive knock-on effect on us. Will we get more games or games polished by larger teams? It’s hard to say, but somehow the industry is finding somewhere to put all those interested and it can only be a good thing.

One of the strangest things to me is getting married online. I understand online dating – long distance relationships are hard, but workable – and to a certain extent I understand getting close enough to somebody in an MMO that I would want to deepen that relationship somehow. Marriage doesn’t seem the most obvious way of expressing that: perhaps it’s just that it’s such a strange thing to do over such a long distance, perhaps I’m missing the point entirely, but when I read that a game is adding a marriage service and that its users are actually quite excited about the fact, it makes me truly ask why. God knows what the internet-inept think from their Facebook-free domain.