Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Mantech Proj 05 - My I.T. Issue: Evolution of PLaying - Online Gaming

I remember back when I was in Grade School, when you have a gameboy -- you are cool! Your classmates will try and borrow your gameboy. After a few years, Nintendo released the gameboy slim, then the gameboy color™, gameboy advanced and finally the nintendo ds. Other companies also released their game consoles such as the psp, playstations, gamecube, xbox etc.

It's like the companies release the same game consoles over and over again, plus, most of the game play is still the same. You kill the boss, and finish the game. These companies earn money by selling their game consoles. After a few years, there were these interactive pc games such as Counterstrike, Starcraft etc. A few months came by, I remember, I was in high school then, Level Up games™ introduced the concept of "Level up".

Level Up! is the first online game publisher for the Philippines. Their mission is to bring online computer gaming and its communities to greater heights, through the introduction of Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs).

These games will allow individuals from all over the country, and different walks of life, to interact in dynamic, virtual communities.

Level Up! is proud to be the distributor of the country's first ever localized MMOGs: Oz World from Oz Intermedia, Ragnarok Online by Gravity Corp, Freestyle from JCEntertainment, RF Online from CCR of Korea, Pangya from HanbitSoft, Flyff from Aeonsoft, Khan from Mirinae and Perfect World, created by Beijing Perfect World Technology, China. The Philippine versions of these games hope to give users a uniquely Filipino experience.

These are some of the offers of Level up games. The first few months of "Ragnarok" (the first mmorpg of Level-up) was free. It was for promotional reasons and to attract gamers. The concept of Level up is a great strategy, it simply means to kill monsters, level up, collect awesome items, dominate other players etc. Ragnarok seems to represent human nature which is endless desire for power, fame and domination. So after people became familiar with ragnarok, Level Up™ release game cards in which gamers can purchase if they want to play ragnarok.

Mmorpg then became so famous that other games and online communities started to emerge. Many people became hooked up and are still attracting new gamers. These gamers spend money and take time just to improve their characters. Online gaming is a big I.T. Issue taking the world by storm. The success of MMORPG is not just because of a good game play, awesome graphics but I think it is because the interaction of gamers with other gamers, tt revolutionized the way people play.

References: http://levelupgames.ph/games.php

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