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Title: Gamasutra: WOW gets Phwned in China, Board Players Cull Impoverished Populace Post by: DataGod on April 03, 2007, 08:33:55 AM Check this out:
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=13369 Ive never heard of: Zhengtu Online or Fantasy Westward Journey, but look at those concurrent numbers... Zhengtu Online is free to play/microtransaction model, looks like no particular caps to the purchased mudflation items either and open PVP....again this really highlights the cultural differences in how gamers think PVP "should" work. Fantasy Westward Journey, um looked bad, and the website was worse. And the link off to the "Chinese game developer Red Mushroom's CEO Bill Bishop posted an April Fools joke on WoW hunting" http://bbb.typepad.com/billsdue/2007/04/chinese_players.html Kind of funny but somewhat tasteless Title: Re: Gamasutra: WOW gets Phwned in China, Board Players Cull Impoverished Populac Post by: Furiously on April 03, 2007, 12:22:10 PM Rutger Hauer's finest work ever!!!!!!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111323/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111323/) Title: Re: Gamasutra: WOW gets Phwned in China, Board Players Cull Impoverished Populac Post by: Yegolev on April 03, 2007, 12:26:19 PM Are those spelling errors or can I not read good?
Title: Re: Gamasutra: WOW gets Phwned in China, Board Players Cull Impoverished Populac Post by: Falconeer on April 03, 2007, 01:43:39 PM This thread provides entertaining exotic googling and youtubing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-_xLOfPe7o)
Title: Re: Gamasutra: WOW gets Phwned in China, Board Players Cull Impoverished Populac Post by: Venkman on April 03, 2007, 07:27:02 PM This really shouldn't surprise anyone. While these sorts of games don't necessarily translate well into the states, there's a reason developers and luminaries have been saying "look to the East" for so long. The sheer amount of people interested in these games and capable of playing them make WoW look like VG. It's not because they're more or less advanced. It's just cultural differences and, in some cases, them having leapfrogged past some incremental steps we took in the West that also, as a by-product, created some traditions that slow the pace of new introductions (like how the villification of RMTing has slowed down the perceived challenges of widespread microtransaction acceptance).
Title: Re: Gamasutra: WOW gets Phwned in China, Board Players Cull Impoverished Populace Post by: Trippy on April 03, 2007, 07:43:33 PM This is not news. Fantasy Westward Journey has had higher PCU numbers than WoW, thanks to the fact it's free-to-play, since early 2006.
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