Weblog on the Internet and public policy, journalism, virtual community, and more from David Brake, a Canadian academic, consultant and journalist
8 November 2001
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Plastic has done an interesting roundup of links and commentary on the economics of the online gaming business. It suggests that subscription services for “conventional” gaming are struggling and that several online gaming “worlds” like Majestic (which sounded very interesting) and Anarchy Online have not been successful. As others commented subsequently, however, Everquest has done very well and The Sims Online will doubtless be a hit (assuming the technology works) so it would be a mistake to write the online gaming industry off too soon…

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