Comments on: Chinese MMO company raises $138 million in NASDAQ listing http://www.gamesbrief.com/2009/03/chinese-mmo-company-raises-138-million-in-nasdaq-listing/ The Business of Games Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:58:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: http://localtraders.pnn.com/ http://www.gamesbrief.com/2009/03/chinese-mmo-company-raises-138-million-in-nasdaq-listing/comment-page-1/#comment-10221 http://localtraders.pnn.com/ Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:14:00 +0000 http://www.gamesbrief.com/2009/03/chinese-mmo-company-raises-138-million-in-nasdaq-listing/#comment-10221 Nothing will ever topple WoW but there are some really great alternatives out there! Nothing will ever topple WoW but there are some really great alternatives out there!

]]> By: Dan Taylor http://www.gamesbrief.com/2009/03/chinese-mmo-company-raises-138-million-in-nasdaq-listing/comment-page-1/#comment-471 Dan Taylor Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:29:43 +0000 http://www.gamesbrief.com/2009/03/chinese-mmo-company-raises-138-million-in-nasdaq-listing/#comment-471 Granted, these numbers ARE strong, but given the general consensus coming out of last week's GDC, Western free-to-play studios and devs are now starting to take the genre serious, and three major studios (I'm not at liberty to say who) have indicated that they are well past preliminary planning stages. Obviously, investments are up to the public, but there's a great movement afoot in the western markets now, and I wouldn't be surprised to see many of them post as good, if not better numbers in the coming years. Granted, these numbers ARE strong, but given the general consensus coming out of last week’s GDC, Western free-to-play studios and devs are now starting to take the genre serious, and three major studios (I’m not at liberty to say who) have indicated that they are well past preliminary planning stages.

Obviously, investments are up to the public, but there’s a great movement afoot in the western markets now, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see many of them post as good, if not better numbers in the coming years.

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