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World of Warcraft Expansions Will Continue Being Made "For the Forseeable Future"

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2008-11-17 16:54:39 by Chris in Gaming Today
...expansions. In an interview with MTV Multiplayer, Morhaime admitted that Blizzard is already thinking about what to include in the massively popular MMOs next expansion although for now they remain completely focused on Wrath of the Lich King . Obviously its far too early to go into any specifics as to what the contents might be. He did,...
 
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MMOG Expansions and Trading Card Games

2008-07-30 22:48:19 by Cameron Sorden in Random Battle
 
...expansions, and I think he makes some excellent points about the nature of MMOG expansions. I wanted to see if I could elaborate a little more on the same concept using an example from trading card games. Many of you are probably familiar with the popular trading card game, Magic: The Gathering. Like many trading card games, M:TG has a core...
 
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Expansions - are they a good idea?

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2008-09-25 12:46:00 by Hektor in MMOdus Operandi
...expansions, almost without exception. The lure is perfectly understandable for developers - after all, it's not like you're already paying for the entire damn game every three months, is it? So the idea that you should splash out another thirty quid to continue playing the game is perfectly justifiable, isn't it Releasing an expansion has...
 
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Sins Of A Solar Empire's 'Micro-Expansions' Explained

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2008-10-20 14:18:20 by Nate Ralph in Wired: Game|Life
...expansions priced at $10 each, which will expand upon the Sins experience. But ten bucks here, and there and then over there... pretty soon, it all adds up to real money To figure out whether or not Entrenchment would be some sort of unholy union between micro-transactions and expansion packs, I sat down with Craig and Blair Fraser --...
 
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Three new Final Fantasy XI expansions announced for 2009

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2008-11-22 11:51:54 by Nick Chester in Destructoid - Hardcore video game blog
...expansions were created by series veteran Masato Kato No pricing has been announced, but Square says the first of the three expansions, the curiously-named "A Crystalline Prophecy - Ode of the Life Bestowing," will be available in Spring of 2009. The following two expansions, "A Moogle Kupo d'Etat - Evil in Small Doses" and "A Shantotto...
 
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Three new Final Fantasy XI expansions announced for 2009

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2008-11-22 11:51:54 by Nick Chester in Destructoid - Hardcore video game blog
...expansions were created by series veteran Masato Kato No pricing has been announced, but Square says the first of the three expansions, the curiously-named "A Crystalline Prophecy - Ode of the Life Bestowing," will be available in Spring of 2009. The following two expansions, "A Moogle Kupo d'Etat - Evil in Small Doses" and "A Shantotto...
 
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Three new Final Fantasy XI expansions announced for 2009

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2008-11-22 11:51:00 by Nick Chester in Destructoid - Hardcore video game blog
...expansions were created by series veteran Masato Kato No pricing has been announced, but Square says the first of the three expansions, the curiously-named "A Crystalline Prophecy - Ode of the Life Bestowing," will be available in Spring of 2009. The following two expansions, "A Moogle Kupo d'Etat - Evil in Small Doses" and "A Shantotto...
 
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Horizontal expansions to vertical games

2008-08-01 06:14:42 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
...expansions , the idea that you can add to a game by adding more stuff of the same level, as opposed to adding more levels. That inspired Cameron from Random Battle to compare WoW to Magic the Gathering , because in MtG all expansions are horizontal. Well observed. But then Magic the Gathering is a horizontal game, and World of Warcraft is a...
 
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FFXI announces three new expansions coming next year

2008-11-24 12:15:00 by Shawn Schuster in Massively
 
...Expansions Square Enix, the publisher of Final Fantasy XI, has just announced the development of three new downloadable expansions for the fantasy MMO. Each of these new expansions are said to come out next year, and will be led by Masato Kato, who worked on the original Final Fantasy XI storyline as well as its first expansion pack, Rise of...
 
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Square Enix announces three downloadable expansions for Final Fantasy XI

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2008-11-22 19:30:00 by Griffin McElroy in Joystiq
...expansions" for Square Enix's MMO were recently announced at VanaFest, a FFXI fan event in Japan. The three add-ons will be downloadable from the PlayOnline Viewer over the course of 2009, each going for "around $10.00 The expansions won't be adding any new locales to Vana'diel's geography, but will attempt to "deepen the storylines running...
 
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