[MUD-Dev] Re: Online vs Offline (was CoH and others)

Matt Mihaly matt at ironrealms.com
Fri Jul 16 19:56:09 CEST 2004


From: Erik Bethke
> On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 09:47:40 +0930, Mike Rozak <mike at mxac.com.au>
> wrote:

>> If the technology in a MMORPG were sold as a stand-alone game,
>> would it sell more or fewer copies?

> In regards to Asia, you do not even have to think about it -
> offline games are completely, completely dead.  Movies are dying
> too, Koreans and Chinese will never pay for product bits, you have
> to sell service bits to gethe their money.

Yeah, dead. That would explain why 2.9 million PS2s were sold in
Japan last year, even though everyone and his brother already has
one.

--matt
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