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Legend of the Syndicate
In the world of Massively Multiplayer Online Games, guilds live and die like generations of fruit flies. In the time it takes you to read this review, another group of friends will probably have decided to go their separate ways. Due to what is commonly referred to as 'drama', and the nature of the currently most popular online game, the modern MMOG guild tends to be a short-lived affair. A book published about a single guild, then, has to be discussing a singular organization. And indeed, The Syndicate has lasted for over a decade. Well known in both Ultima Online and EverQuest, and going strong into the days of World of Warcraft, they've had numerous public successes and some notorious failures. Their tale is a strange, and utterly personal view of the history of Massive games. It's also highly self-aggrandizing and probably contentious, but that's to be expected. Legend of the Syndicate is a publication worth reading by anyone interested in the history of the Massive genre, or the future of social networks online.

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Author: Zonk
Category: rpg
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Source: Slashdot: Games
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Damn, I was hoping for something about Syndicate.

Shame Bullfrog arn't in existance anymore.

No, but Peter Molyneaux is still kicking about at Lionhead (as far as I know) so maybe he'll resurrect it one day.

Oddly enought, I looked at the title and thought it was an eve news story

Hehulk wrote:Oddly enought, I looked at the title and thought it was an eve news story

In fairness, I half-suspect that you read BBC News and think it's an Eve news story.

eion wrote: In fairness, I half-suspect that you read BBC News and think it's an Eve news story.

Hehulk wrote:Oddly enought, I looked at the title and thought it was an eve news story

Hulky, if it was an eve one about the Syndicate region, it'll just be "Yarr, here be pirates and pissing matches! Arr".