Whoever said that online games are only for kids is either a grumpy oldie or a pathological liar. In this digital age wherein people do most things on the internet, it is no wonder that online gaming is turning into a massive market that is changing and growing at breakneck speed. Almost anywhere in the world, even in the third world countries, people have access to the internet, and an easy one at that. This makes online gaming all the more available to millions of people coming from different countries, races, sexes ? and yes, even age groups.
According to Andreas Neus, an expert on online gaming and a consultant in IBM Germany, online gaming is not exactly a new phenomenon. In the older PCs about 15 years ago, there was already an early kind of online gaming in the form of MUDs, or multi-user dungeons. MUDs were all text-based, meaning a user was normally staring at a screen and then he had to enter in text all interactions made with the environment, whether he was moving left or right or north or south.
The next major milestone did not come into fruition until about 1997 with the release of Ultima Online, a graphics-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game. Then in 2004 entered World of Warcraft, universally praised by critics since then, and which has more than 12 million subscribers as of October 2010.
So who are these more than 12 million online gamers? A recent study sponsored by PopCap, maker of popular games such as Bejeweled and Insaniquarium, reveals that most people who play online games (including Facebook favorites like Farmville and the likes) are 42-year-old women. Contradicting the time-old belief that only small children are drawn to the online game craze, the study confirms that this form of entertainment caters to a huge portion of the worlds population, including adults.
Then again, it should be noted that online games are not exclusively about hunting down the antagonist, slaying Nazis or wielding Tommy guns, all the while keeping your virtual self alive. Many online games are, in fact, more complicated than that and would require not only hasty fingers but also logic. Thus, as the online games grow in numbers and mature in themes, so do its avid fanatics of diverse demographics. And unless you are a hermit trapped in a cave for the last twenty years, this fact should not come out as a surprise anymore.
For more online games, visit http://www.gamehouse.com/online-games. The site contains hundreds of online games appealing to any age group.
Source: http://www.gyflfootballleague.com/2012/03/29/online-gaming-today/
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