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Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:27:04 +0900

지금 오전 10시에 벌써 1366원이야.

이런식이라면 이제는 정부 환율 통제력은 상실되고 파괴적인 핵폭풍이 밀려 온다.

난 상관 없는 애기가 아니란 거지.

니들 다니는 직장이 걸린 문제야.. 물가와 실물 자산 디플레이션 폭락과도 연결된 문제고.

디플레이션이 얼마나 가공할 만한 블랙홀인지 일반인들은 죽어도 모를 것이다.

그 때가 되면 암흑의 30년이라는 말이 뭔 말인지 알게 될 것이야..

무조건 막아라..

1340원대로 안 틀어 막으면 다 죽는다..

이건 농담이 아냐.

이젠 고구마를 파는게 아니라 집에서 비상 식량으로 써야 하겠네.. 이이그..

-늙은이가-

이제 1차 충격을 각오할 시점이다.. 11월 물가 폭탄만은 안 벌어지기를 바랬는데..

이 상태라면 11월에 1차로 물가는...........

오~ 주여... 젠장..

다시 한번 말하지만 나가서는 절대로 떠들면서 공포감 조장 하지 말고..

가급적 최대한 물가 영향력을 받지 않도록 아파트 부녀회 같은데 가서 현지 직송으로 농산물 조달해 먹는 방법 아니면 주변에 시
골 농가 하시는 분들한테 옆집 같은데서 돈 모아서 일괄 구매 ..그런식으로 안 살면 이젠 방법이 없는 시절까지 온 것 같다.

독립 가구로 이 모든 물가와 경제적 압박을 감당 하기에는 이젠 한계 상황이다..

이젠 정부에서 일반 기업체들 보고 달러 내 놓으라고 협박질을 할 정도까지 왔다.. 지금 신용장 개설도 안 될 정도의 개막장인
데..

그럼 사업 접으라는 소리지..

빨리.........................시골에 연락해..아니면 옆집에 가서 연락해서 현지 가격에 조달해 먹든가..

이제 한국은 내일 나라가 어떻게 될지 아무도 모르는 상황까지 온 거야..

그리고 거듭 말하지만 나가서는 공포감 조성은 지금 상황에서는 극도로 위험한 거라는걸 반드시 명심하고..

쥐 죽은듯이 살아야지.

이미 자산 디플레이션은 기정 사실이고.... 나 같은 고구마나 파는 늙은이들은 물가 영향력을 거의 안 받는 식으로 라이프 스타일
을 뜯어 고치는 것부터 이제 시작하는게 핵심이라는거지.

이미 감당 할 만한 수준을 능가했다......

여기서 물가 영향력을 안 받게 어떻게 더 뜯어 고치냐고 하는 사람도 있는데.. 줄이는게 문제가 아니라 아예 구매 방식이나 패
턴을 바꿔 버리면 그 상위 개념이 가능하다는거지..

줄이지 말고......... 물가 영향력이 거의 0 가 되도록 구매 패턴을 바꿔라......이젠...........그게 마지
막 생존 전략 같다..

북마크

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:59:13 +0900

게임업계 관련 참고 자료 사이트

일본 미디어 예술제 (엔터테인먼트 분야 2006년 수상작 - 리듬천국) - 리듬을 소재로 한 대단히 신선한 미니게임 모음이다.

미국 캐주얼 게임 협회 - 캐주얼 게임 시장 및 협회 등록사들 목록을 볼 수 있다.

인터넷 서점

알라딘 - 책은 무조건 무료배송이라 좋다. YES24가 더 좋다고 하기도 하는데 알라딘에 적립금이 계속 쌓여서 바꾸기 힘들다.

중고책 검색 - 검색 되는 중고 서점이 많기는 하지만 찾는 책이 있는 경우가 별로 없다. (안습)

일상에 필요한 사이트

모임이 있을 때 온라인으로 전달하는 사이트 - 링크만 전달하면 모임 내용이나 참가자 목록을 보이기 쉽다.

어반딕셔너리 - 영어 신조어 사전. 뭔가 이상한 단어가 튀어나오면 한 번 검색해볼 필요가 있을 때 좋다.

인터넷 지도 콩나물 - 처음 가는 길에 대중교통 경로를 찾아보면 좋다. (물론 시간 계산은 정확하지 않다.)

저가 항공사 목록 - 비행기 값이 싼 곳들을 모아놓음

18th Sep. 2008 GamesIndustry News letter

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:45:07 +0900

What's it going to take to take on World of Warcraft? Six months ago, Gaute Godager looked like he might be the man with the answer. At launch, Funcom's Age of Conan had the most successful opening week we've seen for an MMOG in years. Huge figures were bandied about - 800,000 copies shifted, by one somewhat tall estimate.

This week, Gaute Godager left Funcom. He says he was "dissatisfied" with some aspects of the game. With vast swathes of those boxed copy sales failing to translate into ongoing subscriptions, server populations falling and enormous negativity surrounding online discussions about the game, it's probably fair to characterise Godager's departure as a head being rolled.

Godager, it seemed, didn't have the answer after all - or at least, not the full answer. While there's some hope that Funcom's new game director, Craig Morrison, will improve the game's fortunes (he's widely credited with turning around a disastrous launch for Anarchy Online, which eventually built a niche but dedicated fan following), the heady days when we all wondered if WoW's reign finally had a pretender are over.

Next up to bat, however, is a real heavyweight. Warhammer Online (or WAR to its friends) is developed by Mythic, a studio with a solid MMOG track record, and is based on a fantasy world whose depth (and fanbase) rivals Blizzard's Warcraft. Moreover, it's supported by all of EA's muscle, which certainly guarantees great marketing and retail presence. It looks a bit like WoW. It even plays rather a lot like WoW, albeit with its own unique features to bring to the table.

So is this, at last, the game to take on World of Warcraft? Has the answer, all along, been to emulate World of Warcraft, building in your own unique systems along the way (Mythic's real focus here, it's obvious, is on pitting players against one another in massive battles, which WoW doesn't really do)?

Time will tell, but I'll pin my colours to the mast here and say that while Warhammer Online is going to enjoy some success, it isn't going to signal any kind of mass-exodus from Blizzard's fantasy world. In fact, unless Blizzard seriously mess up their forthcoming expansion pack, Wrath of the Lich King - and there's nothing to suggest that they will - it seems eminently likely that WoW will continue to grow, largely unaffected by Mythic's newcomer to the market.

Why? Because, simply, this game remains Blizzard's to lose - and until they set a foot wrong, it's going to be extremely hard for anyone else to challenge them. Given the terrible post-launch problems experienced by games like Tabula Rasa and Age of Conan, WoW hasn't exactly seen much in the way of serious challenge so far, but even if Warhammer continues to live up to expectations, it's hard to see many players dropping out of WoW to engage with the newcomer.

WoW players, after all, have made an investment. They've invested countless hours into the game, accrued significant knowledge of its mechanisms, built up an armoury of impressive in-game items and a network of friends and rivals on their game server. Playing Warhammer would involve starting from scratch - an experience they're likely to try out for a few weeks, but unless their entire network of friends and guild-mates agrees to move to the new game en masse, they're most likely to return to the comfortable bosom of WoW in short order.

In other words, WoW has inertia. All Blizzard needs to do in order to maintain that inertia is pump out content and game changes regularly enough to keep things interesting. Major changes come once every year or so, in the form of expansion packs which wipe the slate clean and introduce a vast swathe of new content and new game mechanics. Every couple of months in the interim, Blizzard shakes up the status quo a little by introducing smaller patches - a new area here, a few new sets of armour there, some changes to the class balance along the way.

It doesn't seem like much, but for the vast majority of players, it's enough to keep them interested. As long as they're interested, and all their friends are there, inertia alone will keep them part of Blizzard's world. It doesn't seem like much, but when you consider how many hours players invest into these worlds, and how many hours of entertainment each of those changes must provide, the sheer talent of Blizzard's development team becomes more and more astonishing.

So any company that wants to take on WoW isn't just taking on that talent - it's also taking on all that inertia. Several years, eleven million players, and billions of hours played - that's the challenge that has to be surmounted, and that's even after you've built a game that's more entertaining, more accessible, more challenging and more polished than World of Warcraft.

Robert Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard, has his own answer to the question of how you take on World of Warcraft. With all apologies to Mr Kotick, it's a somewhat charmless answer that's rather typical of a CEO - his answer is "USD 1 billion". Or rather, as he told a Goldman Sachs conference back in February, "we don't think that even if we made the USD 500 million or USD 1 billion-dollar investment to get a product out [to compete with WoW] that we would be successful in doing it."

Given that his company now owns WoW, he would say that - but that doesn't make it any less true. It wouldn't cost a billion dollars to develop a competitor to WoW, but to overcome all of that inertia? A billion dollars would be a knock-down, bargain basement price.

So what's a company to do, if it wants a slice of that MMOG pie? A bite of those delicious, monthly-revenue-stream cherries, hanging tantalisingly close and yet far out of reach?

Simple - don't compete with WoW. In fact, do everything in your power to avoid competing with WoW. Certainly, by all means, learn lessons from the game - after all, it's the most polished and perfectly balanced MMOG ever created, regardless of what a small but vocal band of snooty naysayers may argue. But any MMOG which actually wants to succeed should be avoiding WoW's market like the plague, and seeking to explore virgin territory instead.

Of course, that's harder than copying WoW. It's riskier, creatively, and it might even be more expensive, depending on how you approach it. But if you're going to copy WoW, you'd better have a strategy for tackling WoW's inertia - and if you've got one of those, you're a better businessperson than anyone else in the videogames industry has proved to be thus far.

Besides, there are already proven successes in this field. Look at CCP Games, whose EVE Online massively multiplayer title continues to enjoy massive success with a niche but utterly dedicated market. Or how about Jagex, a British firm whose simple, accessible title Runescape continues to attract huge audiences? At the fringes of the MMOG market, there's a thriving economy built up of smaller games, developed on smaller budgets, which simply don't cross over with WoW at all - but have created successful, thriving business models and healthy revenue streams all by themselves.

It's natural to be jealous when the farmer next door has acquired a goose that lays golden eggs. However, throwing all your efforts into trying to breed your own golden-egg laying goose is likely to be futile and self-destructive. Forget trying to emulate WoW; the time will come naturally when that throne is vacated, but it won't happen because of a worthy contender. Instead, find the niches yet to be filled, and the niches still waiting to be created. Five years ago, online fantasy role-playing was a niche, so who knows - perhaps one of the ones you uncover could turn out to be an 11-million player niche, too.

Dungeons & Dragon: Tiny Adventures

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:54:50 +0900

Dungeons & Dragon: Tiny Adventures
Yesterday we launched a Facebook Application called Dungeons & Dragons: Tiny Adventures (note: you must be pre-logged in to Facebook). It's basically a free game that we're giving away to Facebook users in an effort to draw more attention to D&D in general and to the D&D Insider free trial in particular. The game lets you choose a character and then send that character off on adventures. You can just check in on your character periodically and read updates (I think of them as postcards from the road) or you can spend lots of time fiddling with potions and inventory. In addition, you and your friends can buff and heal each other so it pays off to get all your friends to play too. We're pretty happy with it. I think it's a fun diversion for hard-core D&D players and it's also a fun introduction for newbies. You should definitely let us know what you think and spread the word that it's out there.

Nairrti's Workplace

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:46:25 +0900

다양한 활용처를 모색하는 중임.

노트북에 사용할 무료/저용량 프로그램 목록

게임사에서 가장 영향력 있는 사람 - 시드 마이어...?

http://www.gamespot.com/features/15most/html/mi_01.html

번역할 글 - http://www.costik.com/weblog/2008_02_01_blogchive.html#3799100843529239525

콜오브듀티 실총 사운드 녹음 동영상

JWL FLI 플레이어 스킨 사용 방법

http://gall.dcinside.com/list.php?id=fps&no=524910