News World First Algalon 10 man

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So my 10 man group just downed Algalon the Observer. It's a pretty intense fight but not quite as hard as Blizzard made it out to be. The 1 hour timer is the real challenge since you must do a perfect attempt within it ;)

Anyway, still a great achievement and a really good job by everyone involved. We got some previously unseen loots which are in the screenshot below.


He drops a quest item which is how you get all the different rewards from him. We'll be uploading screenshots and fraps of the RP event and quest stages probably tomorrow.

As a side note Mackzter and Kungen's group killed Yogg-Saron with 0 watchers in 10 man. I believe this was also a World First.

25man versions to go!

*update*

Added 3 screenshots of the quest line: Screen 1 Screen 2 Screen 3 //mek

$1.4bn spent on MMO subscriptions in 2008

Around 1.4 billion US dollars have been spent for massively multiplayer online game subscriptions across Europe and North America together.

One of the latest Screen Digest reports (via mcvuk) shows that last year, Europeans and North Americans have spent around $1.4bn for MMO subscriptions in total.

That is a 22% market growth difference from year 2007 and experts at Screen diggest say that despite the increased growth of the Asian online games market model where players instead of paying monthly fees buy items for money, the sector still has five more years to grow.

A comment from Screen digest’s senior analyst and head of games Piers Harding-Rolls: “Industry commentators have for some time been using the example of the Asian online games market to proclaim the death of subscription business models in the West, praising the accessibility and flexibility of free-to-access games that generate revenue by encouraging players to make micro-transactions as part of the gaming experience."