Comments on: China Sees Big Local Boost In Gaming Revenue http://gigaom.com/2007/01/19/china-sees-big-local-boost-in-gaming-revenue/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:06:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: GigaGamez » Archive Gaming for China Gold: An Expert’s Advice on Breaking Into the World’s Biggest Game Market « http://gigaom.com/2007/01/19/china-sees-big-local-boost-in-gaming-revenue/#comment-132717 Mon, 12 Feb 2007 23:44:37 +0000 http://gigagamez.com/?p=147#comment-132717 [...] ago, South Korea dominated online gaming in Asia, but that’s been rapidly changing. From its growing local revenue, to the astounding popularity of Warcraft there, to reports that a virtual world currency is [...]

]]> By: Jon R. http://gigaom.com/2007/01/19/china-sees-big-local-boost-in-gaming-revenue/#comment-132716 Sat, 20 Jan 2007 16:24:43 +0000 http://gigagamez.com/?p=147#comment-132716 What? Piracy indicates a relative scale of untapped consumer desire in a country of blooming capitalism? Quick, someone tell the Western world.

Plus, this is totally cool. We’ll probably see most of those Chinese companies poorly copy Korean devs, who poorly copy the Japanese. It’s a whole new market of missing the point of interactive experiences whereby they make really pretty anime-style/FF Prettyboy games that require very little human input.

Actually, most of those games are probably just stylized screenshots of individual Chinese characters. The game is to remember just whether a 20-stroke monstrosity means “poultry” or “Under these circumstances, i would very much enjoy a handjob”. It’ll be called “Context: Desperate Plea for Literacy”.

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