Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Monetizing Opportunities for Free to Play Games on Cloud Computing

The current gaming market is growing at a rapid. People are playing casual game to hard-core games online; the growth in genre of gaming is itself in a very wide spectrum. The technological improvements  like that of shifting to the cloud service which eliminate the hardware need and enable authentic game play and buying options will make out to be a great revenue generation opportunities for gaming studios present all over the globe . The shareware game model brings the players to buy virtual goods and services instead of the total game. This shareware model can provide a wide view to the game where the limited free to play conditions encourages the users to join and play the game.
The Cloud computing is changing the way through which todays software’s and other applications work. The gaming industry will move on to the cloud computing service to avoid the constant change and upgrade in gaming hardware’s for the benefit of the users and to increase in the sales of its games and to reduce piracy. The shareware games which currently are only on the social game platform with a very low level of computer graphics will have a boost with the switch to the cloud technology.
 High end games which require the latest hardware to play the games will soon be played using various interfaces and websites on the Cloud Computing. Providing the monetizing opportunities for shareware games will encourage players to play the games for free with limitation of various add-ons and personalisation of the game

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