Archive: september 21, 2008

Evolving MMOs: Changing Business Models [Business]

Among everything else going on at the Austin GDC, an interesting panel took place on the issue of changing business models in MMOs — Free To Play has an easy to read, to the point summation of the panel, which included Robert Ferrari of Turbine (LOTRO), Hilmar Veigar Petursson of CCP (EVE Online), Nicolay Nickelsen of Funcom (Age of Conan), and Min Kim of Nexon (MapleStory). Unsurprisingly, it included discussion of the revenue models — subscription versus free to play — as well as potential audiences:
Robert: F2P has a huge influence. But we have been based on subscription...

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Tags: Business, Funcom, Industry, Korea, MMORPGs, Mmos, Turbine, free to play, nexon

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