Saturday, June 03, 2006
50 percent market share for World of Warcraft
MMOGCHART.com says WoW is now sitting at 50 percent market share and rising. The market? Massively multiplayer games.
Already in 2004 it was pretty clear that WoW would become the most successful MMORPG ever. "Genre gurus" didn't see the game matching its hype and predicted the WoW hype to fade out soon enough. Now, 2 years later, the number of subscriptions is still rising.
Where are these self-proclaimed gurus now? Most likely in Azeroth.
Along these lines, LineAge and LineageII is falling hard. The old design seems to be worn out by now. One of the few "non-fantasy world" MMOs, Eve Online, is doing really well thanks to massive advertising campaigns on Fileplanet and other gaming related websites.
Dungeons & Dragons Online, one of the latest MMORPGs based on the famous Dungeons and Dragons concept, seems to attract gamers really fast and will have 100,000+ subscriptions and more once the next update arrives.
Already in 2004 it was pretty clear that WoW would become the most successful MMORPG ever. "Genre gurus" didn't see the game matching its hype and predicted the WoW hype to fade out soon enough. Now, 2 years later, the number of subscriptions is still rising.
Where are these self-proclaimed gurus now? Most likely in Azeroth.
Along these lines, LineAge and LineageII is falling hard. The old design seems to be worn out by now. One of the few "non-fantasy world" MMOs, Eve Online, is doing really well thanks to massive advertising campaigns on Fileplanet and other gaming related websites.
Dungeons & Dragons Online, one of the latest MMORPGs based on the famous Dungeons and Dragons concept, seems to attract gamers really fast and will have 100,000+ subscriptions and more once the next update arrives.
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1. Bloggers can promote their posts so they can enjoy more comments, links and page views
2. Bloggers make more money by streaming fresh content from other gaming-blogs to their websites by way of the widget
3. Bloggers save time because they can read hundreds of similar blogs from one page using the SuperGamesArcade RSS feed
One of the best things about our site is we track all the blogs in our directory and whenever there is a new blog-post it appears on our site for our users to read. Or if you have the toolbar installed you can get the new posts fed to you that way.
So basically we are just trying to get some feedback on the site and all your comments are welcome. The last thing I would like to say is that our site is still currently in its beta stage, so there are still a few sections that need polishing off. Also there a number of improvements in the pipeline.
Thank you for your time.
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SuperGamesArcade.com
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