Ciekawy artykuł się pojawił na gamespy na temat przyszłości MMO* -> pełna wersja - niestety po angielsku:
http://www.gamespy.com/amdmmog/week8/
parę wybranych ciekawostek:
1. Pojawiają się zapowiedzi, że użytkownicy będą mieli oficjalnie prawa do stworzonych (posiadanych?) przez siebie wirtualnych obiektów i będą mogli nimi handlować. Do tej pory w większości (wszystkich?) MMORPG było to zabronione. Od razu pojawia się nowa nieśmiertelna kwestia
PODATKI - prawo nie przewiduje osiągania dochodu z handlowania wirtualnymi dobrami, a taki dochód może być całkiem duży...
cytat:
Linden Labs, creator of an enormous shared user-built world known as Second Life, announced that it's allowing users to retain the intellectual property rights for anything they create within the game. If users build a house, create a character, program a cool script, or write an adventure, those graphics/concepts/programs will belong to the user and not the service provider -- even if they are used for personal profit later on.
2. Mobilne platformy mają szturmem wejść do świata MMO* - pytanie czy to realne w Polsce i kiedy ?
cytat:
Imagine this: you're taking the bus in to class, or to work, when you get a message on your cellphone. It's from your guild leader online: he warns of an attack on your stronghold that night. Over the next few minutes you punch some buttons to order your online minions to pack up and move within the castle walls. At lunch that day, you log into the web to check on the status of the game-world, read a few messages from your fellow players, and verify on a live interactive map that the enemy is indeed closing in. The city's governor has requested permission to dip into the emergency magical weapons, and as a citizen you vote 'yes' from the web browser. You set your cellphone to notify you when the attack starts, and all through dinner you're planning strategy in your head in anticipation of the evening's play
3. Nowe formy opłat za gry komercyjne - a nawet ich brak (!) Mnie zaciekawiło w szczególności możliwości zastosowania technik marketingowych "product placement" - czyli reklamowania realnych produktów w grach hehe
cytat:
"One potential business model would be 'product placement,' where advertisers pay to have their brand attached to items in the world, There (Nike, Levi's) and The Sims (McDonalds) have already taken the first steps in this direction. If that business model takes off, it will have profound consequences on the kinds of games that are available. One of the reasons you see very few Westerns on TV anymore is that it's almost impossible to use them as vehicles for product placement. Something similar could happen to these games, where any setting that was incompatible with putting Coke machines in the background was unusable on any significant scale."
<font size=-1>[ Ta wiadomość została zmieniona przez: Brutallus dnia 2004-01-06 16:48 ]</font>
