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Along with the fast boom in economy, womens life has been changing a lot. A woman is no longer known as a housewife, who is unemployed and spends the whole life to serve her husband and children. Especially in China, which is partly known by its strong feudal system and where male chauvinism more or less still exits, one third of game players are women.
According to the General Administration of Press and Publication of China, Game industry revenue of 2005 hit 3.77 billion yuan, up 53 percent compared with the statistic in 2004. Of course, the number is not made up by men only. Female game player market is really potential, estimated at 4 billion yuan 500 million and this is the reason why there are more and more games designed for women. Game firms also promptly jump into this lucrative area.
Most women love to play casual and puzzle games while mens favorite categories are online and role playing games. Lovely images, romantic backgrounds, animals, and one round in a short time are the main features of games for women. Daily activities related to a womans life is also a popular topic for many game firms to develop. Pretty Woman is a good example for such games. In the game, players can make their virtual female characters more beautiful and attractive by choosing various make up tools eyeliner, eyeshadow, lipstick and gloss, etc. Those seem very simple but actually appeal to many women.
But women do play online games as well.
Unlike the common principles of online games for men which usually easily go to sex and violence, favorite online games for women are very feminine. Many white collar women play chess and some other games with friends on MSN, Yahoo, etc. in spare time or in the break between morning and afternoon shifts. However, that is not all for the whole picture. World of Warcraft, MU, or Counter Strike also have a great number of female users.
Liu Bing, one of few female players who has progressed to the highest level, 60, in World of Warcraft said I have been playing World of War Craft for one year and a half. Playing games has become my strong desire that pushes me in front of the computer screen every time I am free.
Internet is so popular in China now. Café internet, internet service, internet cyber, and game online can be seen at every single corner of Shanghai or Beijing, and the fact that China becomes one of the biggest online game markets is totally understandable.
Online games are not only mans entertainment, said Zi Wei, another female player who spends at least 3 hours per day for online games. Wei plays with a group of 9 other friends, both male and female, and her talent is considered the best in this group.
Zi Wei shared that voice communication is highly important in online role playing games. Every player usually uses chat applications such as Yahoo Messenger, MSN or some chat clients such as Ventrilo, Teamspeak, Roger Wilco to play a role in the team andrecognize the voice of each member. Players can type but it takes a long time whenonline role playing games speed is really high, so voice chat seems to be the sole best solution
It was so funny that the first time when I started to play online game, I looked around in the Internet shop and imitated a small boy sitting next to me to take a microphone and talk to my partners, all are men. They shouted to me Go home, babe Liu Bing laughed, It was because I am female I was a bit angry with those guys and immediately search a voice changer online. Luckily I found one. My God, my voice totally became male voice. And I was able to play World of Warcraft with those guys until I came to level 35. Then I decided to talk to them that I was a girl. Wow, they were shocked and we are close friends in the group now
Maybe Liu Bings story is a special case. Women play games as they love to, not really because they try to show that they are as good as men in anything. Playing online games is just one more choice for womens entertainment.
I can spend 3 hours per day for online games, but my major interest is very traditional: shopping, clothes, and books, Zi Wei explained.
About the author:
Chris Martin, Avnex’s copywriter, who is conducting a project on online role playing games and their affects on society.
Article taken from Wow Gold Tips Blog
As many of you have figured out by now I’m not a typical blogger. In fact I wouldn’t even call myself a blogger, but rather an internet marketer who runs blogs for profit. Some people consider this unpure and unethical, but I think of it as providing quality content that is so good that the information can be sold. That being said, having the mindset of an internet marketer has helped me greatly in world of warcraft for several reasons. It has also provided you with a unique look at world of warcraft which you won’t get from any other wow blog on the net.
1. Diversification – I will never ever try to make all my money from one source. Whether it is daily quests for professions, flipping items, crafting for resale, etc. I always diversify my selling options sometimes to the point of hundreds of markets at once.
2. Automation – Getting as much automation into the equation as possible gives you more time which makes you more gold which opens up more oppurtunities to make more gold. Time = gold and automation = tons of saved time. The difference between someone who uses snatch scans and QA3 in combination and someone who doesn’t is the same as the differences between night and day. An example of how automation can work for you is my 22 Steps to Using Auctioneer post.
3. Perception vs Reality – Perception always has to be present to make a sale. Then, when the person has made the purchase then the reality has to atleast live up to the perception. When selling items to buyers scamming them is never the right call because you lose that buyer forever.
4. Never Stop Learning – The world of warcraft is just that, a living breathing world of information. You can never stop learning when attempting to improve on your own performance. New patches, new ideas, and new methods are constantly appearing and it’s the job of a successful businessman to do his reasearch and go find this information.
5. Passive Income > Work – Having farmers send me their goods, especially having farmers mill, prospect, or craft for me before sending the items, has done wonders for improving my income in world of warcraft. After getting enough farmers to send their goods to me on a daily or weekly basis, there is never a reason to go farming ever again in wow. That’s as close to passive income as it can get in this game.
6. Community – Participating in and setting up the JMTC Wow Gold Forums has provided not only myself, but my readers with a place to congregate and freely share ideas about making gold in world of warcraft. It was the JMTC forums that I learned about several great post worthy topics which I have blogged about in the past and put to use in world of warcraft. There’s always someone out there smarter than you or bigger than you, why not learn from them instead of being jealous?
7. You have no control over the market – Yes you can influence the market and perhaps do it more than the average player depending on your gold levels, but you never ever truly control it. This is a hard fact about economics that many players and real world traders have trouble grasping. I can’t stop 300 people from posting ink of the seas 5 gold less than me. Whether you react or don’t react to a market situation is the only quasi-control you have over the market. You have influence, but no control.
8. Credibility is Everything – I could not sell carrying packages for 1800 rating in 2’s (and sometimes 2000 rating) without my gladiator title or youtube videos. Credibility really does follow you everywhere and it is always the difference between making a sale and getting the same old, familiar cold shoulder.
9. No Idea isn’t Worth Trying – Regardless of what you decided to try, it’s never stupid to try it out and take a risk. When I first started selling essences of undeath I had no idea whether the lifestealing enchant would be enough of a market to sell them. Boy was I happily underestimating how many I would sell and for how much. Soon I was selling them for 400-800% of the cost to initially buy them for reflipping purposes. Never say never.
10. Grouping Up has its Benefits – Just like in online marketing, grouping up with a team of people has tremendous advantages for making additional income. By focusing on group strengths and dividing up tasks based on those strengths, in this case professions, you can greatly increase the gold generated by the group. Setting up professions for specific characters and dividing up the work between multiple players/characters has worked out surprisingly well for me. Currently I have loose agreements with three other high profile sellers on my server which allows us to avoid stepping on each other’s toes and focus on our own areas of making gold. We have eached picked a set group of items for each profession as well as times of posting and we try to avoid undercutting wars between the four of us. It’s mostly an informal and unorganized thing regarding the time of our postings, as we simply look at who’s on and decide based on that for ourselves but it’s still a loose grouping of people with the aim of achieving a similiar goal: more gold for everyone.
Do you have a unique perspective on wow that you’d like to share in the comments section?
Resistance 2
Score: 5.7
Genre: First-person shooter
Single-player length: 10 hours
Difficulty: 6
Developer: Insomniac Games
Publisher: SCEA
Release Date: 11/4/08
Pros
- Large number of enemies on screen without slowdown
- 8-player co-op with addictive experience system and classes that rely on each other
- Skirmish mode constantly changes the game’s objectives
Cons
- The majority of the campaign sets you against 2-3 very generic types of enemies
- Only one boss requires you to approach the game differently
- Co-op’s extremely large enemy forces noticeably slows down the pace of combat
- Very little multi-player objective or mode variety
by Rabid Rabbit
There are so many first-person shooter games made every year that many times it’s hard to differentiate among them. Some games, such as Call of Duty: World at War, offered varied gameplay that requires you to react to different attacks in varying environments with a wide range of weapons, vehicles and powers, but Resistance 2 is not one of these games. Both the campaign and multi-player game modes are extremely repetitive by simply marching out the same generic enemies thousands of times and supplying you with very few interesting weapons to deal with them. Co-op offers the best gameplay because you can earn powers through an addictive experience system, but even its gameplay slows to a crawl as you face an endless stream of the same boring enemies. It’s best to avoid this game and spend your time with other far better shooters on the market that offer a much more complete package.
Resistance 2 follows up where the original game left off. You play as Nathan Hale, an American soldier that is partially immune to an infection threatening to transform the human race into monstrosities called the Chimera. You’ve managed to slow the infection in England and now must bring the fight to America’s shores. Throughout the campaign, you’ll be shipped to various parts of the world to find the problem’s source and stop the threat once and for all.
While there are an adequate variety of enemies in Resistance 2, the problem is that a great majority of the game’s campaign is spent fighting the basic Hybrid soldiers over and over again. While you are sent to various locales, including swamplands, enemy bases, inside capital ships, and large cities, none of the levels are unique from anything you’ve seen in other shooters. While there are many weapons, only a couple of them actually differ from other shooter’s arsenals.
Gears of War 2 is an example of a game that ensures you don’t see the same enemies repeatedly. Every level varies its pacing by including squads comprised of different enemy types. It also makes sure to let you fight them in various ways, such as in vehicles, with melee attacks and letting you use enemies as human shields. Many enemies also require different ways to defeat them as well, which also helps keep you from getting bored. Resistance 2 never strays from running and gunning down enemies on foot.
The few enemies that differ from the regular Chimera troops appear far too infrequently in the game. You’ll fight some Chimera a couple of stories tall, some large spider robots, and robot drones that attack in packs, but none of the enemies have really unique weaknesses or attack patterns to set themselves apart from the rest of the game. You just need to shoot the bigger enemies more to lay them down. The only unique enemies are the Chameleons that are invisible until the moment they lunge to attack you, which leaves them vulnerable to your shotgun blast.
There are also some large shielded robots that require all of your squad to focus their firepower on to stand a chance at overloading their shields. You’ll also encounter some creatures that try to sneak up on you and blow themselves up to cause massive damage. It’s best to shoot these guys while they are still in the midst of your enemy to use the explosive attack against them. These explosive Chimera were fun to fight, but they literally appeared only twice in the entire game.
An example of a game that actually makes combat interesting is Dead Space, which creates glaring weaknesses that can be exploited such as shooting enemy limbs to extol a greater amount of damage. This gameplay mechanic actually makes you think about combat differently and approach combat by targeting specific body parts to improve your efficiency rather than just blindly shooting enemies.
There are a few efforts to break up the repetitive run and gun gameplay, but none of it is novel or interesting. There are a few turrets that cannot be destroyed by shooting them. You must sneak behind cover to manually shut them down from their rear controls. There are also some deadly Chimera fish that will instantly kill you, so you’ll need to time your jumps between platforms to ensure you don’t fall into the water they swim in. The Goliaths are gigantic robots that you destroy by shooting the engines on their backs. They look really cool, but the mechanics of killing them involves only one shot. These unique creatures are pretty cool but you’ll only encounter them one or two times in the entire game.
The first Resistance game introduced a couple of new weapons, and this sequel introduces a few new weapons as well. In the first game, you could carry several weapons, but now you can only carry 2 weapons at once. This game design introduces a layer of strategy because you have to decide which weapons will serve you best in various parts of levels. The Bullseye returns with its erratic fire that can be focused on a single creature with its secondary fire option. The Augur is still the most interesting weapon. It lets you see enemies through walls and it causes more damage if you fire through walls to dispatch your foes. It also has a secondary fire which erects a temporary shield. The Far Eye is a sniper gun that shoots 5 rounds to dole out damage from a distance on the Chimera.
One of the new weapons is a huge gattling gun with a secondary fire mode that deploys a shield with a longer deployment time than the Auger. The Splicer is a new weapon that sends saw blades at enemies and works best in close quarters. You also have your standard issue grenades and grenades that spit out spikes at nearby enemies.
The bosses at the end of levels offer the only meaningful change of pace to the game, but even these monstrosities aren’t very memorable. A couple of these big nasties require unique methods to kill them. Unfortunately, most of them don’t have any glaring weaknesses, so you’ll just need to mindlessly shoot any area of them to eventually dispatch of them. It would’ve been nice if these monstrosities required you to exploit a weakness or at least learn their attack pattern to further differentiate them from the countless other Chimera that you face in the game.
One level ends with a massive squid attacking you from the water as it tries to tip you off a platform into its massive maw. He looks different than other Chimera, but all you need to do is unload on him until he eventually dies. There’s a huge spider-like Chimera that spits out smaller hatchlings, but all you have to do is keep moving and firing at him until he succumbs to your attacks.
One of the few unique enemies is the Leviathan, which is a Chimera who is the size of King Kong. As you fight him, you’ll have to defend yourself as he picks you up and tries to eat you, run from some of his attacks, and finally use the environment to finish him off. Even the game’s final boss isn’t very interesting. It isn’t completely obvious how to deal with him, but the game actually tells you what to do, which removes any novelty the fight could have offered.
While a couple of multi-player modes are initially fun, they also follow the repetitive nature of the campaign. The main weakness of the competitive modes is that there are very few modes to play. The game modes include deathmatch, team deathmatch and capture the flag (called “Core Control”), which are so generic that they are barely worth even mentioning. Only the Skirmish mode is worth your time.
In Skirmish up to 60 players are split up into twelve 5-man teams. Each team competes to complete varying random objectives that change as the match progresses while opposing teams vie to stop their progress. Objectives change as you play through the match, which creates a frantic game where players are constantly trying to gain and regain the upper hand as tasks are changed. You may start out fighting to control a key location, later may have to defend it and could finish the match by needing to eliminate a high priority target. As a match reaches it finale, all of the teams are funneled into one central area where a large war erupts to finish the match.
Initially the mode is quite fun, but there aren’t that many objective types to complete, so many matches feel very similar. Online matches would have been much better if more weapon, vehicle and power variety was included. It also would have helped if players could choose among more unique player types with different strengths and weaknesses to reduce the redundancy of repeatedly shooting the same enemies. More imaginative modes, such as the numerous modes in Call of Duty: World at War, also would have made it a better game.
The co-op mode requires up to 8 players to work as a cohesive team of interdependent classes to complete varying objectives in levels modeled after the campaign’s stages. Each player chooses among three different classes that are similar to those used in other class-based co-op games, such as Counter-Strike. In order for a team to succeed, each class needs to be represented and perform their unique abilities well to better the team.
The medics can drain enemy health and use it to heal teammates. Soldiers can soak up tons of damage, erect a shield to protect the team and fire large gattling guns to deal large amounts of damage. The Special Ops player is the only source of ammo refills for the team and can deal damage from a distance with their Fareye rifles. No team can survive without having a balanced group of each class. The resulting teamwork with varying classes and abilities really helps push the mode beyond what other co-op games provide, such as Left 4 Dead where every character is identical.
The game balances matches by increasing the difficulty as teams grow in size by increasing the number of enemies you face. A side effect is that you will repeatedly face hundreds of the same generic enemies, which is the same problem the single-player campaign suffers from. Your progress also moves at a snail’s pace as your team frequently must stop for several minutes to gun down large enemy squads. Similar to the Skirmish mode, there are also a limited number of objectives available. The game may choose them randomly to make each match unique, but you’ll quickly notice the monotony.
While games can easily get monotonous, the game’s experience and abilities system does provide some variety. For each kill and objective you accomplish, you gain experience to unlock some advanced abilities, weapons and stat boosting gear. For instance, the soldier can gain the Ironheart ability to reduce the amount of damage he takes. Experienced medics can use the Ring of Life ability to create an area that regenerates health for the troops in the area. The experience and skills system is similar to Call of Duty: World at War, but lacks the same level of depth.
It’s quickly evident that the developers were focusing on ensuring the game has a very high presentation quality. Many levels show massive capital ships flying in the background as you fight on the ground, towns are filled with Chimera sacs waiting to erupt with newly converted humans, or landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Many of the game’s level settings are truly epic and make you really feel like you are part of a massive war. Frequently there are 20-30 enemies on screen at once and the game never suffers any framerate slowdown issues. As you’d expect, the innumerable enemies and gunfire all sound excellent and lend that extra layer of realism to the battles you are fighting amongst.
Resistance 2’s campaign adeptly creates a grand setting for its campaign. While the grand setting may inspire you, the actual gameplay will bore you as you constantly face the same enemies that fail to differentiate themselves far too often. Overall the game’s focus on simply throwing thousands of generic troops at you gets very repetitive in all of its modes and falls short of other shooters, such as Call of Duty: World at War and Gears of War 2, that provide a better array of weapons, enemies, gadgets and varied multiplayer modes to ensure the experience rarely gets stale.
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The Farmville game is an gripping new game that everyone is talking about on Facebook, the giant social networking site. If you have signed up with Facebook, odds are you have seen Farmville but may have not known what it is. You may know people who are already familiar with Farmville and who have sent you an invite to sign up for the game. If you take up their invitation to play this ever popular game, it is important to know everything there is to know about the rules of the game so as to get a better chance at earning the most Farmville cash.
How To Find Farmville Cheats
As is the case with most of these kinds of online games, there are several cheats that you can find that will help in keeping you one step ahead in this competitive game. These Farmville cheats consist of using several different kinds of codes with the ultimate aim of helping you earn higher scores in the Farmville game. Despite the name, this is not really cheating at the game; they simply give you a lead over other Farmville members.
Every player’s aim in this game is to complete the highest level. If you in search of the lead in this game, you should utilize the cheats that you will easily find when you get a Farmville guide. A Farmville guide can be a great resource if you want to learn how to take advantage of certain codes to get everything that is essential so that you can better work your farm.
Finding Farmville Tips
You can find Farmville tips at numerous sites on the internet. Some Farmville players get onto forums so that they can reveal these tips with other players. Nonetheless, the best thing to do is to get yourself a Farmville guide that features all the useful cheats and tips that you can use in one convenient place. This can help you expand your Farmville strategy and give you the advantage over your competition in the game.
Learning to use a Farmville Bot
Another easy way to get the lead with playing the Farmville game is to use a Farmville bot. This Farmville bot will automatically seek out the items that are necessary in order to build your farm. Most players have a difficult time trying to track down those things that are needed to develop the farm. They go through the unnecessary trouble of asking everybody in their Farmville commune for assistance. However, you can get the help you need if you decide on getting a bot that will seek out these items for you. When you make use of a Farmville guide, you would learn everything you need about employing the Farmville bot in the best manner so that you can increase your earnings when playing the Farmville game.
If you are thinking about becoming a Farmville player or you have already registered for Farmville on Facebook, then you can read about a lot of tips and cheats with a Farmville guide. It teaches you a lot about different aspects of the game, and helps you get the leverage you need. You will pick up secret strategies when you make use of this guide and also learn how to utilize the right tools to help you win,
If you have signed up to play the Farmville game on Facebook, you can employ several Farmville cheats to get ahead of the rest. You will be able to find Farmville tips in a number of places, but you can find the best advices when you get a guide over the internet.