Beren
08-01-2005, 02:48 AM
If America's army was an anomaly in Government funded online games, it isn't any longer. China is now gonna dump a <a href="http://english.peopledaily.com.c n/200507/31/eng20050731_199405.html"> motherload of cash</a> (1.8 Billion) into the development of online games.
<blockquote>China plans invest 15 billion yuan (about 1.8 billion US dollars) to develop 100 kinds of online games with independent property rights in the next five years, the Shanghai Youth reported.
"This will give impetus to the growth of game industry across the country, " Yu was cited as saying.
The number of Internet users in China, the world's second-largest Internet market, grew by nine million in the first half of this year to reach 103 million.
The development represented an increase of 18.4 percent over the same period last year in a market that still has a vast potential for further growth, the China Daily reported on July 22. </blockquote>
The question that remains is whether or not it becames 1.8 billion dollars worth of warezed games, with software piracy at <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=5373">96% in China</a>. If it does, perhaps china would be better off investing that cash in dim sims. At 3 in the dollar that is 5.4 billion dim sims to go.
<blockquote>China plans invest 15 billion yuan (about 1.8 billion US dollars) to develop 100 kinds of online games with independent property rights in the next five years, the Shanghai Youth reported.
"This will give impetus to the growth of game industry across the country, " Yu was cited as saying.
The number of Internet users in China, the world's second-largest Internet market, grew by nine million in the first half of this year to reach 103 million.
The development represented an increase of 18.4 percent over the same period last year in a market that still has a vast potential for further growth, the China Daily reported on July 22. </blockquote>
The question that remains is whether or not it becames 1.8 billion dollars worth of warezed games, with software piracy at <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=5373">96% in China</a>. If it does, perhaps china would be better off investing that cash in dim sims. At 3 in the dollar that is 5.4 billion dim sims to go.