(keitai-l) Re: location based gaming

From: Benjamin Joffe <benjamin_at_newtgames.com>
Date: 04/09/04
Message-ID: <40768F5E.6010305@newtgames.com>
Hi Ken,

If your question is "Do people want multiplayer or any netowork- based 
games",
I believe part of the answer is that people play standalone games mainly 
because there is nothing else.
Come to a Korean PC Room and you will see that once offered other other 
choices,
people are quite flexible... Especially multiplayer games have 
dimensions that no
single player can match : communication, competition and socialization.
I believe PC users in Korea play very little single-player games.

The major liimitations to multiplayer gaming on mobiles are
- find funny games
- communication cost

Some of our players on Mogi connect more than 20 times a day to play and 
send
more than 500 messages in one week to other players thanks to WIN flat 
rate plan.
(some used to do it without, though...)

Cheers,
-- Benjamin

Ken Chang wrote:

>I think in Japan-Korea, mobile users play mostly stand-alone games. 
>anyone would please tell me the justification (survey whatever) 
>of multi-player games or any that require frequent communication? 
>  
>
Received on Fri Apr 9 14:57:50 2004