Interest Growing For Pre-Paid Game Cards 70
Worlds in Motion is running an interview with GMG Entertainment, a company finding success marketing pre-paid "digital currency cards" used online for games and other entertainment services. Customers and retailers alike are enjoying the simplicity and utility of the cards, and GMG suggests that this segment of the industry will only continue to grow:
"I estimate this year that you'll see EA enter this space for some of their games, and a few other big names are absolutely interested. In fact we're in final negotiations with a couple of recognizable names. We tend to estimate the size of the total pre-paid gaming card business when we do our numbers, and this year we're looking to something between $75-100 million dollars in sales across North America. We see that going to $250-300 million in 2009 and being in the region of a half-billion by 2010. We see this market growing dramatically in the next two to five years."
Re:Take a lesson from EVE (Score:2, Informative)
Maybe because the racist ccp [ccpgames.com] charges Europeans more money (excluding tax) then the US?
Then they pretend it would be impossible for them to charge a similar price, excluding the fact that many MMOs do account [bayimg.com] for the currency difference.
Re:Take a lesson from EVE (Score:4, Informative)
Thorax is a nice ship.
Don't know why you've been modded flamebait (I'd change it if I had points), what you say is correct.
At my peak of Eve I was able to afford anything I wanted, making billions a week from plexing and moon mining. Now I've rolled my time back, I can play every so often, lose a ship or two with the confidence I'll be able to make cash via ETC trading. One or two every so often keeps me in T2 ships, battleships and battlecruisers for weeks.
Re:Take a lesson from EVE (Score:2, Informative)
Are you sure about that last bit?
I feel that WoW's graphics are immature too, so to myself it's not flamebait... LOTRO and Eve (which is older than WoW) are much more sophisticated.
I used to play WoW, gave up after the community turned nasty, the graphics certainly weren't what kept me playing.