Also, I am saying that as this market starts to become crowded with more products, each game will need to come close to achieving most of the goals on this list to grab a decent share. I am not saying these products are not successful, merely that they could be even more successful. Obviously when you start to read my list, you will see that many of the "successful" online games out there do not meet all these criteria (including, of course, products I helped create). There are many factors that make an online game successful. Starr Long Associate Producer and Director, Ultima Online and Producer, Destination Games We're also posting reader letters from last week's question, "Which strategy game are you most looking forward to this year?" If you have a burning question about games or the game industry, send in your question today! Your question could be selected as our next Question of the Week!įirst: Starr Long ranks the crucial features Your letter could appear in next week's feature. If you'd like to tell us how wrong we are or add your opinion, please send us an e-mail. If you have an opinion, please vote in our Instant Poll. Lineage is to date the most successful online game. So what makes an online game successful? This week we tackle the question along with special guest writer and Ultima Online designer Starr Long. But is there a place for all these "me too" games? Some strong contenders like Funcom's Anarchy Online will soon be ready to test the market, while developers closely watch the incumbents. An incredible number of massively multiplayer games or online persistent-world games have been announced in the last two years-not a month seems to pass without another announcement. The success of these and similar games has been a very sweet temptation for developers wanting a slice of the pie. Other extremely popular online games include Sony's 3D online RPG EverQuest Counter-Strike, which is undoubtedly the most popular online shooter today Tribes 2 and Diablo II. Lineage: The Blood Pledge, a Korean online role-playing game developed by NCsoft, boasts 2 million active accounts and as many as 180,000 simultaneous users, which ostensibly makes it the most successful online game in history. Although much of online gaming communication is conducted in English, some of the most successful games aren't even English-language games. Across the world, players log on to their favorite games or services to seek out others for a battle of wits and strategy or to cooperatively defeat other teams of players or dangerous monsters.
As with other Internet-based activities, online gaming spans international boundaries, age, class, and gender. Online gaming has definitely caught on, and it's become synonymous with multiplayer gaming. Take me to the Question of the Week ArchiveĪccording to an IDC press release published in February, 40 million households will play online games by 2004, up 25 million from 2000.
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