Sevin
02-01-2006, 08:34 AM
was just browsing the web and game across this... figured some of you guys might be interested.
Source: ps3portal.com
Insights into SOE with Chris Kramer
Chris Kramer, Director of Corporate Communications for Sony Online Entertainment, sat down and gave some insights into the future online gaming as well as some changes into how SOE does business.
To start Chris says that the key factor for online gaming is continued growth:
"Over the years, Sony Online Entertainment has gone from 100+ people in San Diego creating history with the original EverQuest to nearly 700 people in San Diego, Austin, TX, Seattle, WA and Taiwan working on online PC games such as EQ, EverQuest II, Star Wars Galaxies, The Matrix Online and PlanetSide, as well as PS2 and PSP titles. For our company to continue to grow and be successful, we are breaking out of our North American-centric development focus and embracing genres and design ideas that appeal to players on a global perspective."
Chris then goes onto say that SOE is now looking towards new ways of content distribution through Digital Sales and Distribution. "We have seen digital sales and distribution become more and more popular over the last few years, with a large percentage of our subscribers choosing to purchase and receive expansions and content additions like our Adventure Packs digitally."
Then Mr.Kramer adds a small surprise, "We are working on a new title that is tentatively scheduled for this coming fiscal year that embraces an emerging online business model that is just now beginning to become more prevalent in Asia . This title will be digitally distributed only – there are no plans at present for a retail SKU – and will be free to play."
Could this possibly translate later into a downloadable MMORPG for the PS3? Obviously a HDD would be needed to store and play the game, but there doesn't seem to be any other reason why the PS3 could not possibly play this game. Being that the game is free to play online, this would also fit Sony's Online business model right now.
The coming year will certainly be interesting to watch for SOE and Sony.
sounds pretty sweet to me.. im all for free mmorpgs. im not gettin my hopes up tho.. for some reason i feel it will likely just be for pc.
Source: ps3portal.com
Insights into SOE with Chris Kramer
Chris Kramer, Director of Corporate Communications for Sony Online Entertainment, sat down and gave some insights into the future online gaming as well as some changes into how SOE does business.
To start Chris says that the key factor for online gaming is continued growth:
"Over the years, Sony Online Entertainment has gone from 100+ people in San Diego creating history with the original EverQuest to nearly 700 people in San Diego, Austin, TX, Seattle, WA and Taiwan working on online PC games such as EQ, EverQuest II, Star Wars Galaxies, The Matrix Online and PlanetSide, as well as PS2 and PSP titles. For our company to continue to grow and be successful, we are breaking out of our North American-centric development focus and embracing genres and design ideas that appeal to players on a global perspective."
Chris then goes onto say that SOE is now looking towards new ways of content distribution through Digital Sales and Distribution. "We have seen digital sales and distribution become more and more popular over the last few years, with a large percentage of our subscribers choosing to purchase and receive expansions and content additions like our Adventure Packs digitally."
Then Mr.Kramer adds a small surprise, "We are working on a new title that is tentatively scheduled for this coming fiscal year that embraces an emerging online business model that is just now beginning to become more prevalent in Asia . This title will be digitally distributed only – there are no plans at present for a retail SKU – and will be free to play."
Could this possibly translate later into a downloadable MMORPG for the PS3? Obviously a HDD would be needed to store and play the game, but there doesn't seem to be any other reason why the PS3 could not possibly play this game. Being that the game is free to play online, this would also fit Sony's Online business model right now.
The coming year will certainly be interesting to watch for SOE and Sony.
sounds pretty sweet to me.. im all for free mmorpgs. im not gettin my hopes up tho.. for some reason i feel it will likely just be for pc.