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ForAdun
Germany986 Posts
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LosingID8
CA10828 Posts
On July 31 2008 19:37 ForAdun wrote: Woah, finally. GGPlay is gonna regret his decision to leave HanBit too soon! haha, yeah i know what you mean. but at the same time i have a feeling he got a pretty nice contract from CJ since he signed on pretty much right after his OSL win. | ||
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0xDEADBEEF
Germany1235 Posts
On July 31 2008 18:02 roadrunner_sc wrote: What was the issue with Hanbit? Company not doing well and cutting back? Never realized there's market big enough for a company specializing in virtual trade to be viable, amazing how influential all these MMORGs have become. Very influential... especially WoW's 10 million customers have led to this phenomenon. John Romero (or was it someone else) said that such a "service" business model around one particular game would be required in the future when most players simply play a MMORPG all the time. I.e. companies and the developers themselves selling items and other special add-on content. It's reasonable if you think about it... a MMORPG is basically open-end, and there's the social aspect to it, so many players will play it for a LONG time, and most players don't care about role-playing, just about getting better items and improving their character (so-called powergamers). Before, the market could count on games not living that long, so the vast majority of players would move on to another game soon. With MMORPGs that's different, players will stick to one for a long time, but the market still wants/needs to make money from this. | ||
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Showtime!
Canada2938 Posts
They better not give them a lot of free shit for MMORPGs or they'll never train! You're using that word 'Social' very loosely my friend. It isn't formal communication to any extent. | ||
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roadrunner_sc
United States1220 Posts
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3 Lions
United States3705 Posts
idk Mania_Free isn't too bad | ||
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Itachii
Poland12466 Posts
On July 31 2008 20:38 0xDEADBEEF wrote: Very influential... especially WoW's 10 million customers have led to this phenomenon. John Romero (or was it someone else) said that such a "service" business model around one particular game would be required in the future when most players simply play a MMORPG all the time. I.e. companies and the developers themselves selling items and other special add-on content. It's reasonable if you think about it... a MMORPG is basically open-end, and there's the social aspect to it, so many players will play it for a LONG time, and most players don't care about role-playing, just about getting better items and improving their character (so-called powergamers). Before, the market could count on games not living that long, so the vast majority of players would move on to another game soon. With MMORPGs that's different, players will stick to one for a long time, but the market still wants/needs to make money from this. qft, i was lucky enough to quit Lineage 2 and sell my account for money.Game was dominated by chinese companys gathering/trading in-game currency,items and selling it for real money...unbeliveable how much people would pay for most wanted items.Great way to earn money, but you destroy the game at the same time. | ||
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Equinox_kr
United States7395 Posts
ItemMania HAHAHAHA IM_Free would look a little better I think | ||
pachi
Melbourne5338 Posts
On July 31 2008 23:51 Itachii wrote: qft, i was lucky enough to quit Lineage 2 and sell my account for money.Game was dominated by chinese companys gathering/trading in-game currency,items and selling it for real money...unbeliveable how much people would pay for most wanted items.Great way to earn money, but you destroy the game at the same time. I wouldn't think Itemmania specialises in the illegal bot farming and such side of MMO trading. First thing that came to mind for me was the popular korean mmo format where the game is free to play, but there was an item shop for additional/better/prettier items that required real money. | ||
JWD
United States12607 Posts
Much respect. | ||
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number1gog
United States1081 Posts
Imagine if you can, the following scenario: Item-Mania moves in, and mandates that all former Hanbit teams must spend a small amount of time playing a predetermined mmorpg with Item-Mania services. It's a perfectly reasonable request, since as sponsored players the team should at least know something about what their sponsor does (PR and such). Well soon Free gets hooked on WoW, since as a highly skilled gamer he can easily start churning out high level accounts for cash, much like some of the old timers got hooked on poker. Before you know it, half of the team is skipping out on practice time because they're outside LARPing! Hanbit tanks in the proleague, not winning a single set all season, and we never see any of their players in individual leagues again! This is the beginning of the end! | ||
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SpiritAshura
United States1271 Posts
On August 01 2008 01:11 number1gog wrote: This is HORRIBLE news! Imagine if you can, the following scenario: Item-Mania moves in, and mandates that all former Hanbit teams must spend a small amount of time playing a predetermined mmorpg with Item-Mania services. It's a perfectly reasonable request, since as sponsored players the team should at least know something about what their sponsor does (PR and such). Well soon Free gets hooked on WoW, since as a highly skilled gamer he can easily start churning out high level accounts for cash, much like some of the old timers got hooked on poker. Before you know it, half of the team is skipping out on practice time because they're outside LARPing! Hanbit tanks in the proleague, not winning a single set all season, and we never see any of their players in individual leagues again! This is the beginning of the end! ........... | ||
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Puosu
6992 Posts
and soon the LARPers will take over the world. nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...! | ||
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RamenStyle
United States1929 Posts
On August 01 2008 01:11 number1gog wrote: This is HORRIBLE news! Imagine if you can, the following scenario: Item-Mania moves in, and mandates that all former Hanbit teams must spend a small amount of time playing a predetermined mmorpg with Item-Mania services. It's a perfectly reasonable request, since as sponsored players the team should at least know something about what their sponsor does (PR and such). Well soon Free gets hooked on WoW, since as a highly skilled gamer he can easily start churning out high level accounts for cash, much like some of the old timers got hooked on poker. Before you know it, half of the team is skipping out on practice time because they're outside LARPing! Hanbit tanks in the proleague, not winning a single set all season, and we never see any of their players in individual leagues again! This is the beginning of the end! I know. The same thing happened to other proteams. Look at Samsung. Stork has to stand in front of a Samsung store wearing the dino suit promoting Samsung products. Same for Jangbi and the others. At first the coaches complained about it saying it drained away their attention, but what could they do? Its a perfectly reasonable request, since players should know about what their sponsor does. | ||
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Woyn
United Kingdom1628 Posts
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Goosey
United States695 Posts
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HanN00b
Germany1441 Posts
I have never heard of Item Mania before but after researching about I see that it is operating in a gray area of legality. Further it is only gaming related (all the other companys have non gaming products like Handys (KTF, SKT) food CJ, sportswear (Lecaf) and getting ****** (ACE). | ||
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Woyn
United Kingdom1628 Posts
On August 01 2008 02:38 HanN00b wrote: Honestly I think this is bad news a step backward for korean SC. Look at all the companys that have a pro team. They are big international (Samsung, Fox) or big serious Korean Companys (basicially all the others. I have never heard of Item Mania before but after researching about I see that it is operating in a gray area of legality. Further it is only gaming related (all the other companys have non gaming products like Handys (KTF, SKT) food CJ, sportswear (Lecaf) and getting ****** (ACE). On August 01 2008 02:04 Woyn wrote: You all are aware that WeMade fox does alot of MMORPGS aren't you? Plus Hanbitsoft was a gaming company, distributor of SC in korea? | ||
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Pwntrucci[sR]
Canada1519 Posts
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RamenStyle
United States1929 Posts
On August 01 2008 02:38 HanN00b wrote: Honestly I think this is bad news a step backward for korean SC. Look at all the companys that have a pro team. They are big international (Samsung, Fox) or big serious Korean Companys (basicially all the others. I have never heard of Item Mania before but after researching about I see that it is operating in a gray area of legality. Further it is only gaming related (all the other companys have non gaming products like Handys (KTF, SKT) food CJ, sportswear (Lecaf) and getting ****** (ACE). How can it be a step backward? A team getting a sponsor? A team NOT getting a sponsor would be a step backwards. And Fox, of Wemade Fox has nothing to do with Fox, the conservative right wing network. Actually, Wemade is a company related to the gaming world, just like Hanbit or ItemMania. In fact, they develop games, MMORPGs included. MBC Hero are sponsored by MBC Game, the gaming channel of MBC channel. Same could be said about OGN. eStro.... well, they only do progaming teams so.... no comment. And all the other sponsor have interest in the young audience of progaming, be it SKT of KTF(what do korean youngsters love more than cellphones?), CJ(they make food, movies, buildings, you name it), Lecaf(a nice way to try to make it into the top of mind of sportswear buyers, among Nike and Adidas). The only one I cant really figure out is STX with their ships and steel industry, but Im sure they have their marketing reasons. So, no, its not a step backwards. | ||
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