Horizons: A Look Behind the Screen - Managing an Online Game

Keeping in step with the world of MMO gaming, here is an interesting little article I ran across:

Ever wondered what do poeple do behind the scenes to keep one of these MMO game running? Jessica Mulligan wrote down a long, but worthwhile read over at Gamasutra (free registration required) about the work of keeping an online game running after launch. Elaborating on various problems a developer will encounter sooner or later she lists some of the standard issues, describes and classifies the types of gamers you will usually find in this kind of games and points out some aspects developers often fail to realize.