[ExI] Followup on population collapse into virtual reality (Slashdot story)

[Keith Henson]

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| US Gamers Spend $3.8 Billion On MMOs Yearly
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|   from the tell-us-about-your-paladin dept.
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|   posted by Soulskill on Tuesday March 09, @21:30 (Businesses)
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|   https://games.slashdot.org/story/10/03/09/2342252/US-Gamers-Spend-38-Billion-On-MMOs-Yearly|
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eldavojohn writes "A new report from Games Industry indicates that [0]MMO
gamers in the United States paid $3.8 billion to play last year, with an
analysis of five European countries bringing the total close to $4.5
billion USD. In America, the report estimated that payments for boxed
content and client downloads amounted to a measly $400 million, while the
subscriptions came to $2.38 billion. Hopefully that will fund some
developer budgets for bigger and better MMOs yet to come. The study also
found that roughly a quarter of the US population [1]plays some form of
MMO. Surely MMOs are shaping up to be a juicy industry, and a market that
can satisfy people of all walks of life."

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   http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/03/09/2342252

Links:
   0. http://www.gamesindustry.com/about-newzoo/todaysgamers_graphs_MMO
   1. http://www.gamesindustry.com/about-newzoo/todaysgamers_graphs_USA
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" . . . .roughly a quarter of the US population [1]plays some form of MMO."

Keith