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Just to give you guys fair warning, I wrote most of this as a blog/stream of consciousness rather than a series of real articles in an effort to get it out there as soon as possible (sometimes its good to be the editor and be able to be lazy). Now because I know some other people are lazy and just want Q&A sessions I did pull out and summarize a bunch of Q&As that I thought people would be interested in, which is found at the end. But if you just read that you miss out on all the cool panels, how they relate to Lineage II and the meaning behind some of the answers the NCStaff gave, which I go into throughout this series.

As some background, the Austin Game Conference is primarily for developers so these panels really give you insight into what the developers and companies are actually thinking and the direction they're going to be taking MMORPGing. Since I'm a Lineage II junkie, I of course tied everything back to Lineage II, which I hope most of you enjoy. Just wanted to give you guys a heads up on all of that. Here's the marvelous table of contents: