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The staffers at Ten Ton Hammer love the massively multiplayer online game industry because it’s the only business market that could provide their consumers with such extreme emotional highs and lows. Unlike high-end movies or even lengthy novels, massively multiplayer games take an average of four to five years to conceive, develop, and produce, which keeps an agonized fan waiting for the same amount of time to actually play a studios upcoming game. On top of that, fans often get a front row seat and private screening of their anticipated product when the game enters the beta testing phase. If a development studio runs things the wrong way, their fan base can go from sweet to sour in a heart beat.

Age of Conan's Gaute Godager made our top twenty list.

In general, the year of 2007 was a record-breaking example of how things can go very, very right and very, very wrong. The industry saw a sales record broken with Blizzard’s release of The Burning Crusade, yet they also saw the dismal disappointment that was the initial release of Vanguard: Saga of Heroes. NetDevil had its Auto Assault title pulled from store shelves, yet they also announced the biggest intellectual property-based game in years: LEGO Universe. And those are only a couple of examples from a year filled with these types of stories.

With that in mind, I would like to present my own list of top twenty influencers in the MMOG marketplace. Unlike other lists of this type, I opted to include every measure of the influence spectrum – both the good and the bad influencers in the MMOG industry. I won’t tell you which names belong to which group, but you can draw your own conclusions. These names are ordered, but merely the fact that these individuals made the last signifies that they are noteworthy participants in the happenings of the MMOG market.

Without further ado, I present “The Top Twenty Influencers of the MMOG Industry.”

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