Inside the gaming industry
So the other day I was browsing the regular game sites looking for something new and I was astonished to find out popular Dutch index website startpagina.nl removed a link to our company website from their gameserver related subsite http://gameserver.startpagina.nl. We received…
Competition is very heavy in the online services market, especially for B2C targeting customers. Many service providers follow a price competition marketing strategy: they try to distinguish their service on the basis of low price. There is very little product differentiation possible as most…
Yes, gaming season 2007/2008 is coming closer every day. In the next few months 6 huge multiplayer games will hit the stores:
I…
One of the issues a lot of game publishers have to deal with is the distribution of their games, patches and demos. Large publishers work with a load balanced geographical dispersed solution (ex. largedownloads.ea.com). Others use a single download location or…
In yesterdays post I discussed the biggest problem in the online game industry. Today I will discuss a solution that has already been put into practice by two publishers.
Licensing: new developments
EA (Electronic Arts) started in the summer of 2005 with ‘ranking’-software. EA handpicked a few companies…
Given the current market, a market filled with lots of small gamehosters and a few bigger professional ones, the question is not ‘if the market will change’ but ‘when does the market change’.
The situation nowadays
Nowadays the quality of service gamehosting…
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