Business look at MMOs

May 24th, 2012, 20:43

Hello everyone,

just found these 2 articles via another forum :

http://seekingalpha.com/article/6117…ndscape-part-1
http://seekingalpha.com/article/6117…ndscape-part-2

I don't understand everything from there (yet), but there you go.

Alrik

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Alrik Fassbauer

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May 24th, 2012, 21:24

The article is mostly about F2P cash shop items that drop loot using random generation. Basically you have 0.0001% chance to get something awesome for your $2. These items were ruled illegal in Japan after complaints by customers to Customer Protection Office (and a visit to court).

It's mostly meant to show that these type of items aren't needed to have a successful F2P model. It also have lots of speculation about different MMOs and their direction.

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May 24th, 2012, 22:13

good to see

I was shocked to see this happening when the CEO of Bioware Sacramento came to our University to recruit students

http://www.rpgwatch.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15571

I had heard rumours that Star Trek Online started doing this, now I see its true.

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