January 2016
Beginner
528 pages
12h 29m
English
book
MMOs from the Outside In: The Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games of Psychology, Law, Government, and Real Life
by Richard A. Bartle
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Acknowledgments
Because this book was prepared at the same time as MMOs from the Inside Out, its acknowledgments ought to be the same as those of its older sibling.
They are.
Taking my cue from Universal movies of the 1920s, which insisted “a good cast is worth repeating,” here you go!
This book would not have been written were it not for:
Ben Renow Clarke at Apress, who decided to take on a project so unlike other Apress projects that I can only guess at what blackmail material he holds on key members of Apress management.
The army of editors who swarmed over my text to convert it from British English to American English in time to meet the publication deadline. The Z key on your Macs must be worn thin by now.
My wife, Gail Bartle, who isn’t ...
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