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05.28.08MMO Population Woes: Metaplace, Culture and the End of the Big Game?The Guardian is at it again - covering virtual worlds, games, MMOs as if this stuff is a real business. While other media either have a sort of "gosh, we'd better explain what an MMO is, and isn't it cute how dwarves run around with giant axes" kind of pie-eyed sensibility (and usually get it all wrong), and others are either deeply cynical or cynically shallow, the Guardian has been a source of good MMO coverage. Now, they've picked up the Raph Koster "metaMeme" about how the era of the mega-MMO is coming to a close. It's too expensive to compete ...
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