IBM's First Ever Live Web Broadcast Conference on Massively Multiplayer Online Games

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-131756032012-01-08T11:03:03.188+01:00IBM's First Ever Live Web Broadcast Conference on Massively Multiplayer Online GamesMMOG MMORPG Multiplayer Online Games Web Broadcast Webcast Interactive Live Conference by IBM On Demand Game Digital Media for developers publishers gamers - advergaming, network, NC Soft, SOE, Guild Wars, Community, Brandwith, creation, future, video on demandMarcel Baronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16334693029002817813noreply@blogger.comBlogger281100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13175603.post-1124356375756211042005-08-18T11:12:00.000+02:002005-08-18T12:06:16.283+02:00Discuss the games of tomorrow

I'd like to recommend a brand new blog discussing the future of games.The URL is http://www.gametomorrow.com/blog/.What are the next generation games going to look like? You probably pretty much know, don't you? What about the generation after that? This blog really provides a good understanding of the game market today, and try define the future of gaming and game-related technologies, focusing

Marcel Baronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16334693029002817813noreply@blogger.com107tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13175603.post-1119455237693508582005-06-22T17:47:00.000+02:002005-06-22T17:56:09.436+02:00Is Roland Garros becoming an MMOG ?

You probably saw it. Over 1,500,000 surfers opened it and 28,000 online players joined this new MMOG!To celebrate its 20 years of partnership with Roland Garros, IBM offered surfers a free MMOG, allowing them to enter a clay court and challenge each other. During the game, players could keep an eye on the real tournament scoreboard. After about 6 minutes of playing, lots of players eventually

Marcel Baronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16334693029002817813noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13175603.post-1119454218327275102005-06-22T17:30:00.000+02:002005-06-22T18:21:09.923+02:00CBS Interview on Online Game Industry

The increasing popularity of "massively multiplayer" online games involving tens of thousands of players provides a business opportunity for IBM, as Steve Canepa, IBM V.P. of Global Media & Entertainment Industry, invited by CBS MarketWatch, explains.Watch his interview at http://www.marketwatch.com/tvradio/default.asp?siteid=mktw&dist=ltvrtab ! Steve Canepa, IBM

Marcel Baronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16334693029002817813noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13175603.post-1118753308961577002005-06-14T14:47:00.000+02:002005-06-14T15:09:07.210+02:00All the questions from the conference...

As I promised you, every question asked during the web broadcast has been posted here. Below you will find the questions answered by the speakers and then the other questions. Patty, Geoff, Stephen, Chris and Raph will soon come to answer them!

Marcel Baronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16334693029002817813noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13175603.post-1118751597730632932005-06-14T14:19:00.000+02:002005-06-14T14:19:57.733+02:00Questions answered by Patty Fry, Global Executive, Online games & DCC, IBM

What's the future of the RETAIL market for games, given the trends towards games download, wider bandwidth, piracy ... What are the key strategic priorities for games retailers? (From François)Do you foresee that commerce should be integrated into games? WATCH HER ANSWERS ON THE VIDEO ON DEMAND SERVICE at http://www.westcast.fr/ibm/event/ !!!

Philippe Crancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881916193793574051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13175603.post-1118751443600197982005-06-14T14:16:00.000+02:002005-06-14T17:05:49.246+02:00Questions answered by Geoff Heath, CEO, NC Soft Europe

With all the next generation consoles including the online capabilities, do you think your MMOGs will end up on them and will they reach a bigger audience?What are the most important pieces of advice you can give to company working in community management?What is the next big thing in MMOG for NC soft?Is Guild Wars, with its no fee model, going to change the MMOG market for better or worse?WATCH

Philippe Crancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881916193793574051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13175603.post-1118751330578091052005-06-14T14:12:00.000+02:002005-06-14T14:15:30.583+02:00Questions answered by Chris Chung, VP Game Publishing, NC Soft

Guild War changed MMOG dramatically, is something like that likely to happen again?Can online advertising and MMOGs mix be a good thing?How many concurrent players are there at peak hours in GuildWars today? (From Nathan)Could you clarify the relationship between NC Soft and Arenanet? (from Desiree)What are the other projects you have in preparation? We heard a lot about Tabula Rasa, the new game

Philippe Crancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881916193793574051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13175603.post-1118751053130629902005-06-14T14:08:00.000+02:002005-06-14T14:27:02.276+02:00Questions answered by Raph Koster, Chief Creative Officer, SOE

Raph, you tell about the development costs constantly growing up. Please tell, does your company use external game development, do you outsource to decrease the development budget? How a development company, say, from Ukraine, which has low development costs but high talent and potential, haw can such a company become your potential external developer? Are you considering the possibility of

Philippe Crancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881916193793574051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13175603.post-1118750891726880132005-06-14T14:06:00.000+02:002005-06-15T11:24:20.383+02:00Video On Demand

I received questions asking if you could have a copy of the presentations. I’m glad to inform you that the whole conference is now available for viewing on the Video On Demand Service at http://www.westcast.fr/ibm/event/ !

Philippe Crancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881916193793574051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13175603.post-1118750730351761222005-06-14T14:05:00.001+02:002005-06-14T18:11:15.456+02:00From eric to IBM

Mobile games are a real opportunity for creative studios - How IBM can support and help designers in optizing game design and dev (i.e. screen size, memory usage, bandwith etc...) ?

Philippe Crancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881916193793574051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13175603.post-1118750795134123142005-06-14T14:05:00.000+02:002005-06-14T18:04:24.386+02:00From pluban to IBM

Could you give me the name of an IBM contact in France dealing with games over here?

Philippe Crancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881916193793574051noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13175603.post-1118750675309121442005-06-14T14:04:00.000+02:002005-06-14T18:11:40.170+02:00From tanguy to IBM

How IBM will help the community to create brand new games, Marcel?How many people in IBM involve in the GAMES industry?How big is NX PUBLISHING in terms of employees?

Philippe Crancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881916193793574051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13175603.post-1118750650125327902005-06-14T14:03:00.002+02:002005-06-14T18:07:55.343+02:00From ddc to Raph Koster

What do you think the future holds for secondary markets and item exchange in MMOGs?

Philippe Crancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881916193793574051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13175603.post-1118750598247225912005-06-14T14:03:00.001+02:002005-06-14T18:05:27.533+02:00From rademacherme to Raph Koster

What room is there for Indie MMOG developers in the future? --Ricardo Rademacher

Philippe Crancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881916193793574051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13175603.post-1118750624624349452005-06-14T14:03:00.000+02:002005-06-14T18:05:07.496+02:00From jaakko to Raph Koster

How much of the direction of design is really up to the clever designers, as opposed to CEOs and marketing (who have different goals and talents? Could you get millions for AI R ?

Philippe Crancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881916193793574051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13175603.post-1118750571407686002005-06-14T14:02:00.001+02:002005-06-14T18:08:43.636+02:00From ren to Raph Koster

Data = number of objects, not number of bits, right? Ren

Philippe Crancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881916193793574051noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13175603.post-1118750548409116602005-06-14T14:02:00.000+02:002005-06-14T18:08:27.746+02:00From salesgames to Chris Chung

Is NCSOFT interested in using external development to make the games, and how it is possible to become your external developer?

Philippe Crancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881916193793574051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13175603.post-1118750524806726902005-06-14T14:01:00.000+02:002005-06-14T18:12:02.506+02:00From eric to Chris Chung

Do you plan on selling media advertising space (online)?

Philippe Crancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881916193793574051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13175603.post-1118750450713306162005-06-14T13:59:00.000+02:002005-06-16T18:09:22.796+02:00From eric to Geoff Heath & Stephen Reid

Can online advertising and MMOG's mix a good thing ?

Philippe Crancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881916193793574051noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13175603.post-1118750322659882432005-06-14T13:58:00.001+02:002005-06-16T18:10:20.696+02:00From bo to Geoff Heath & Stephen Reid

What have been your most effective marketing channels so far ?

Philippe Crancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881916193793574051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13175603.post-1118750348794838872005-06-14T13:58:00.000+02:002005-06-16T18:10:05.643+02:00From jason to Geoff Heath & Stephen Reid

How do you distinguish between the "vocal minority" and "silent majority" in game feedback? The minority can give you a skewed picture of what is happening and is the most vocal about it....

Philippe Crancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881916193793574051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13175603.post-1118750285409647662005-06-14T13:57:00.000+02:002005-06-16T18:10:34.773+02:00From virginie to Geoff Heath & Stephen Reid

How do you address cultural differences in your content?

Philippe Crancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881916193793574051noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13175603.post-1118750228408587802005-06-14T13:37:00.000+02:002005-06-16T18:10:53.210+02:00From omorgan to Geoff Heath & Stephen Reid

My name is Oliver Morgan from Komodo Entertainment Software. How much support will you give to your players? Just emails or telephones? What can be the size of a support team?

Philippe Crancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881916193793574051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13175603.post-1118149423712256262005-06-07T14:55:00.000+02:002005-06-07T15:03:43.716+02:00What happens next ?

I was really delighted to see the interest in MMOG. There are so many challenges and the people involved are so passionate about the industry that it is going to be great to see the creativity thats happening in the new games.

Sheenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16799691347832853453noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13175603.post-1118144485835227202005-06-07T13:39:00.000+02:002005-06-14T12:08:40.893+02:00Great conference !

The first ever MMOG web broadcast conference with professionnals speaking from Paris, London, and LA, took place on Wednesday June 1st, from 3.30 to 6.30, and I have to say that ... it was quite a nice conference! More than 450 people had registered and 148 of them connected to hear the 5 speakers, Patty Fry, Geoff Heath, Stephen Reid, Chris Chung and Raph Koster, and their two hosts, Sheena and

Marcel Baronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16334693029002817813noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13175603.post-1117100424086810432005-05-26T11:38:00.000+02:002005-05-26T11:40:24.086+02:00Sign up here!!

http://www-931.ibm.com/docs/event/events/eventInfo_games0501_USEN.html

Marcel Baronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16334693029002817813noreply@blogger.com34tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13175603.post-1117099445454848352005-05-26T11:24:00.000+02:002005-06-17T17:47:25.613+02:00POST A NEW TOPIC !!!

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Marcel Baronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16334693029002817813noreply@blogger.com108tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13175603.post-1117056940451110692005-05-25T23:31:00.000+02:002005-06-17T17:19:55.106+02:00Where next for MMOG ?

Where Next For MMOG? IBM has organised on Wednesday June 1st, 2005 a first MMOG web broadcast, don't forget to mark on your calendar. Invite your professional gamefriends & customers to hear insider secrets and pose questions to the game industry’s top specialists, all from the comfort of your own office. This web broadcast targets Game Developers, - IT leaders- CxO business online games, Online

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