Desire for Wealth

I recently found a news article about online gaming from the BBC News website. This article was dated 26 December 2007. The point I wanted to make here is that online games are no longer restricted to just kids and teenagers. Nowadays, adults consider online games as a source of entertainment. In fact, they spend quite a substantial amount of time and money on online games. Let take a look at some snippets from the article.

Online games battle for top spot

Challenges to the dominance of World of Warcraft over online games and gamers look set to emerge in 2008.

So say industry watchers looking back on a year in which the field as a whole matured and signs emerged which show how the industry sector is developing.

During the year Blizzard’s flagship title consolidated its hold on gamers as its subscriber base kept growing.

But debuts by Age of Conan, Warhammer Online and many others may mean that hold begins to weaken.

Numbers game

“We expected, like all the analysts, to see a dip in subscriptions in 2007,” said Paul Younger, an editor at the Inc Gamers network. “As it turns out we’ve seen the rise and rise of WoW.”

At the start of 2007, the number of active subscribers playing World of Warcraft was eight million but by the end of summer the number had passed 9.3 million.

According to statistics gathered by Nielsen the average WoW player racks up 17 hours of play per week - 12 hours more than its nearest competitor The Sims. As such it was the most played PC game between April and November 2007…….

………. Mr Younger said online games such as Lord of the Rings Online, Tabula Rasa and Hellgate: London were widely tipped to poach significant numbers of players from Blizzard but, he said, it was not clear that had happened.

“There seems to be an inability by other massively multi-player game makers to capture what Blizzard managed to capture,” said Mr Younger.

Rob Fahey, industry veteran and columnist for Gameindustry.biz, said the new launches and continued success of WoW showed how strong the industry had become.

“There’s plenty of choice out there for players now,” he said “You can even play massively multiplayer dancing games, if killing monsters isn’t your thing.”…………

Fantasy figures

The importance of the final polish is also thought to be behind the delayed arrival of Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures and Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. Both were originally due in 2007 but now are expected before next summer.

Many see these as serious contenders to WoW because like that game they trade on a long history of earlier works………..

Article by: By Mark Ward
Technology Correspondent, BBC News website

If you are interested to read the whole article, you can follow the link below.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7156078.stm

In summary, World of Warcraft has over 9 millions players and competitors are trying to gain a slice of the potential online gaming industry. From this information, we can see that online gaming is a huge market. Thus, it is only right that we should capitalize on the situation by joining uVme.

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