Sony sells SOE

[carolkoh]

Sony sells their Online Game publisher/development house, Sony Online Entertainment. It has been rebranded as DayBreak.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/02/sony-sells-sony-online-entertainment/

Yup! The division that created EverQuest (EverCrack) and basically the modern MMO genre.

 

[JackD201]

Hi Carol

You are our inhouse gaming expert. Was EverCrack the game that unleashed the In App Purchase plague on the world? I am playing Sim City Build it on the iPad. I call it Diet SimCity and was thinking about that Global Exchange building where you can buy other gamer's surplus production. Then I remembered how some guys I knew would trade virtual stuff for REAL money waaaaay back when!

 

[carolkoh]

Hey Jack, No. EverCrack was monthly subscription. The game that unleashed the In App (Game) Purchase or "micro-transaction" on us was Nexon's Maple Story.

 

[JackD201]

You're awesome