Question Of The Week: World Of Warcraft Vs. Habbo? DateTime:5/23/2012 10:37:34 AM
The "Question Of The Week" feature, an industry-related question to be answered by professional game developers reading this site, is following up last week's Austin GDC event by asking what high-end MMO World Of Warcraft can learn from Web-based social world Habbo, and vice versa."Following the Austin Game Developers Conference last week, how important do you think online worlds such as Habbo and web-based social gaming in general is to the future of online games, compared to existing game biz successes like World Of Warcraft? What can WoW learn from Habbo, and vice versa?" Buy cheap wow gold here !
"Morhaime said Blizzard uses a model of the market of a donut, with core gamers in the middle -- the opinion makers, and casual players as the ring around. 'In order to be real successful we want to hit both of those markets,' he said, achievable by trying to build games 'deep and replayable while being accessible to wide market,' through low system requirements, and the separate mantra, 'easy to learn, difficult to master.'" "Is Habbo Hotel a casual game? Haro isn't entirely sure that's the case. 'If you want to do well you have to invest a heck of a lot of time, and in that way you can't say it's casual.' He also rejects the Web 2.0 and Game 3.0 labels -- if for no other reason than Habbo Hotel has been around since 2000. 'My personal favorite is 'gameless game',' he remarked, and 'I'm very proud that we have this core gameplay without going out and killing monsters.'" You can buy cheap wow gold here ,we have cheap wow gold for sale !
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