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If there’s anything more interesting than the actual Habbo Hotel talk, it’s who didn’t really attend it: the game industry. GDC is the preeminent conference for both the creative and business sides of it, but according to several attendees, Haro’s presentation attracted but a tiny audience, especially compared to a re-tread presentation on WoW, which was packed. “It was downright shameful how few people were at this keynote,” veteran game designer Raph Koster moans on his blog. Koster has been the industry’s biggest advocate of merging 2.0 principles to games, but he’s still a largely solitary figure. “This was stuff that the crowd here needed to hear.”The reason this has worked so well, he speculates, is because it serves a deep need for adolescents. “If you look, little kids will play for hours… but teenagers are reaching the age where that’s not socially allowed anymore. We’re providing an environment where that’s OK.”   Buy cheap wow gold here !