Friday, April 30, 2010

Playing game for money?



The most globally famous game is MMORPG style. Among the several reasons, it allows the game users to continuously develop their characters by completing various types of missions or killing other monsters.

Putting much effort and spending more time to develop their characters, the game users become eager to make their characters stronger than others’ as they are very attached to their characters.

As a result, people have started to trade items and cash to make profits. In order to make more profits, a number of people run man computers for 24 hours as longer playing times enable them to obtain more items and game cash. There are even websites which help sellers and buyers make deals.

This problem may not be fully understood by many people; however, there are too many people involved in this serious situation. Using the games for profits must be stopped, but the number of people looking forward to make profits in games is too big

Thursday, April 29, 2010

U.S. game market trend

There are different ways to enjoy games in these days. One of the most popular methods is to use console; however, the developed technology has enabled various types of games such as PC games, portable devices, and cell phone games.

10 years ago, console games in U.S. game market had the biggest profits because of their much better graphics and game qualities comparing to other games. However, the high technology has allowed cell phones or Nintendo DS run good games; as a result, console market revenue has been significantly decreasing while cell phones and portable device market revenue has been increasing.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Can Apple make much more profit again by iPad with Apple Store?



iPhone Apple store sells the games the most among various types of applications. The main reason is the cheap price, which help many people easily purchase the games.

Since then, the new released iPad seems to use Apple Store more often as it allows people to play games on bigger screens. Therefore, it can make this new item be more profitable.

However, I do not think ipad will be as profitable as iphone just because of games. iPhone is easy to carry around for people who want to spend only few moments to play games. However, I highly doubt that there will be many people who want to carry the big iPad to play games. It will be the game developers who will figure out how they will make more profits with many advantages of iPad.

Monday, April 26, 2010

Final Fantasy XIII released



People do not wait on lines till midnight only for movies anymore. In these days, a number of people desperately wait till the moment when new games come out. For example, on the day when Final Fantasy 13 came out, most local game stores were open at midnight for those who wanted the games so bad.

There were not that many people who were eager to purchase games as soon as possible before; however, in these days, people were waiting in front of the stores hours before the game was released. In addition, they had continuous conversations regarding the new games although they just met there. Regardless of the age and sex, the excited people showed me how a game could contribute to happiness among new people.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Game piracy




In these days, game developers are more focused on protecting their games from many hackers than making perfect games.

Most people might not be aware of the fact that games are actually being hacked just like songs and movies. For example of video games, consoles are reorganized to read illegally copied CDs. In addition, USB flash drives are sometimes used as copied CDs for PC.

According to Australians News Story, 24 years-old James Burt sold illegally copied games online. As a result, the Federal Court sentenced him to pay 1.5 million dollars. In reality, it must be very difficult to perfectly prevent illegally copying games. Therefore, game developers cannot make much profit although they put more effort into making better games. Since then, there are less number of creative games now.