Comments on: "Year of the Online Game" – O Rly? http://gigaom.com/2007/01/22/year-of-the-online-game-o-rly/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:44:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mexxpz http://gigaom.com/2007/01/22/year-of-the-online-game-o-rly/#comment-132851 Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:15:02 +0000 http://gigagamez.com/2007/01/22/year-of-the-online-game-o-rly/#comment-132851 test

]]> By: Mark http://gigaom.com/2007/01/22/year-of-the-online-game-o-rly/#comment-132852 Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:34:48 +0000 http://gigagamez.com/2007/01/22/year-of-the-online-game-o-rly/#comment-132852 Thank You

]]> By: ing http://gigaom.com/2007/01/22/year-of-the-online-game-o-rly/#comment-132850 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:23:46 +0000 http://gigagamez.com/2007/01/22/year-of-the-online-game-o-rly/#comment-132850 And maybe also the year when we see Casual Online Web-Only Game comes to mobile devices. One company is doing it – http://www.gamoku.com They offer free ad-supported casual web-only online Flash games for PCs and mobile devices such as Pocket PC phones and PDAs and Nokia 7710/770/N800.

]]> By: Allen Sligar http://gigaom.com/2007/01/22/year-of-the-online-game-o-rly/#comment-132849 Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:49:39 +0000 http://gigagamez.com/2007/01/22/year-of-the-online-game-o-rly/#comment-132849 I’m going to go out on a limb and agree with you, I think that 2007 is definately the year of the “contributory social networking site” for gamers :)

If I was taking bets on when this would happen I would say Feb 07…..

]]> By: Wagner James Au http://gigaom.com/2007/01/22/year-of-the-online-game-o-rly/#comment-132848 Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:13:36 +0000 http://gigagamez.com/2007/01/22/year-of-the-online-game-o-rly/#comment-132848 Thanks, Daniel. Runescape does run an ad feed on their front page, which is what I was referring to, but I’ll update when I can. Would love to see a link to that subscriber figure, that’s fascinating.

]]> By: Daniel James http://gigaom.com/2007/01/22/year-of-the-online-game-o-rly/#comment-132847 Wed, 24 Jan 2007 07:53:49 +0000 http://gigagamez.com/2007/01/22/year-of-the-online-game-o-rly/#comment-132847 For the record, Runescape is not accurately described as free and ad-driven. Runescape was a pioneer of the ‘free to play, pay extra for upgraded features’ model now used by many games, including ours. The vast majority of their revenue comes from over 800,000 (iirc) subscribers paying $5 per month. That’s out of an active userbase of many millions of free players.

]]> By: GigaOM » Will 2007 be the year of the online games? http://gigaom.com/2007/01/22/year-of-the-online-game-o-rly/#comment-132846 Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:35:09 +0000 http://gigagamez.com/2007/01/22/year-of-the-online-game-o-rly/#comment-132846 [...] cause of acquisition hysteria. Will 2007 be the year of the online gaming site?” Find out at GigaGamez! No comments Share/Send Sphere Topic: Reporter’s Log Tags: Online [...]

]]> By: Jon R. http://gigaom.com/2007/01/22/year-of-the-online-game-o-rly/#comment-132845 Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:41:07 +0000 http://gigagamez.com/2007/01/22/year-of-the-online-game-o-rly/#comment-132845 Companies really don’t need to go the route of advertising in MMORPGs for the simple fact that its sister business model, shitball grindfest with built-in RMT, already works just as well. The clincher there is that they both depend on the exact same sort of no-life, mouthbreathing stupidity.

Mark my words: this is the year of everyone figuring out just how fucked the free market concept gets when you have the internet as the bridge between worthless products and worthless people. This is when companies figure out that, like with Counter-Strike or Korean MMORPGs, you can make a shitload of money for no effort off of a community that, by its nature, causes the lowest common denominator to actually DECREASE over time.

A fool and his money are soon parted. So the new business model will be to cultivate more fools.

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