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crobato

Colonel
VIP Professional
Here is another aspect of China rising---in video games.

I have never heard of this game before, but this, and another game called the Journey to the West, have managed a feat only World of Warcraft had previously done---to have over one million playing members.

Obviously its an MMO, which means hour grinding, real life sucking massive multiplayer RPG.

I never found the site for this yet, but Asian MMOs can be assuringly a few things.

- Highly steeped in Asian and Chinese mythology.

- Well steeped into highly competitive PvP and PK.

I also found out an interesting financial model. Unlike the traditional pay system, which is a monthly subscription, the game itself is free, but downloads to add new weapons, items and armor, are not. This means that items have a real life currency value in addition to a cyber monetary value, quite a difference from Western MMOs, which try to discourage out of game, RL trading of cyberitems (Ebay has now cancelled all trade related to MMO items).

The next thing I heard now is that this game, since last month, is now moving into other Asian markets like Malaysia and Taiwan.
 

RedMercury

Junior Member
Should add some educational elements (which give bonuses/objects) for all those youth who will spend that much time on them.. :p
 
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