Free Realms Approaches the Five-Million-Player Mark 77
A few days ago at Comic-Con, Sony Online Entertainment president John Smedley spoke about the success of Free Realms, their free-to-play MMORPG that relies on microtransactions for a business model. The game was released at the end of April, and by mid-June there were upwards of three million registered users. Now that total is approaching five million, with no sign of slowing down. Min Kim, another panelist at the discussion, said, "When people started talking about it back in 2003 or 2004, people said Western games would never want to do this, to play a game for free and then buy items. And now everybody is saying, 'We're going to have microtransactions as part of our business model.'"
So if I were to jump off the cliff... (Score:2, Funny)
It's OK. I'll take one for the team, guys.
This is the (sad) future (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:Great name! (Score:1, Funny)
What would you propose? 'Free Paint'?
Re:Winders Only, of course.... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Great name! (Score:5, Funny)
No silly, Photo Image Manipulation Program... or:
P.I.M.P.
They should also make a "lite edition" to make it much easier for the simple edits people would like to do without all the crazy effects.
P.I.M.P.L.E.