Marylin said:
I don't think the suggestions are exactly pouring in for you. Mind you a lot of kids here do not have access to any video games and probably never will. Some might not even have a clue what you are talking about. As I said before, without trying to sound discouraging, I really don't feel the market is there for this stuff but let's hope I am wrong.
LOL, video games are coming on so strong and so fast you'll probably wake up next spring and be asking yourself where all the books have gone.
WORLD OF WARCRAFT® REACHES 1.5 MILLION
PAYING CUSTOMERS IN CHINA
Worldwide customer base for Blizzard Entertainment®’s
Popular MMORPG now more than 3.5 million players
France, Paris – 20 July, 2005 - Blizzard Entertainment®, Inc. today announced that World of Warcraft®, its subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), has surpassed 1.5 million paying customers in China – just a month following the game’s commercial launch on June 7, 2005. The critically acclaimed World of Warcraft has now achieved another significant milestone as the largest MMORPG in the world, with more than 3.5 million global customers.
OK, that’s 1.5 million Chinese in 1 month who were willing to pay 100 bucks or so for the game and then 25 bucks a month to play it.
Starcraft is the NATIONAL pastime in Korea, the professional players are sports heroes on a scale comparable to Movie Stars.
For example, one highly successful player, [Red]Nada, signed a 3 year, $500,000 contract in 2004. Another example is SlayerS_`BoxeR who can, if all goes well, make $780,000 in the next 3 years, making him the highest paid Starcraft player ever.
That’s right, Gamers are making 39 times what ESL teachers are.
I recommend you embrace it and learn all can about them. If you want some tips on a good game to try we can talk.
East Asia has embraced the internet , I think it would be helpful to anyone going there to have a thorough understanding of it.
BEIJING (Reuters) - The number of Web users in China, the world's second largest Internet market, grew by 9 million people in the first half of this year to hit 103 million, the China Daily said on Friday. The growth represented an increase of 18.4 percent over the same period last year in a market that still has vast potential for further growth, the report said, citing a survey released by the "quasi-governmental" China Internet Network Information Center on Thursday."
Bill Gates is donating computers to Africa, and I heard that someone was designing a really inexpensive computer just for poorer communities.