Thursday, January 18, 2007
Electronic Arts is Giving Away Video Game FIFA 07 for Free
Software companies finally buckle and recognise the universal truth that consumers want to play but don't want to pay. One such company - Electronic Arts - has decided to give South Korean gamers FIFA07 free of charge online. If you think Electronic Arts is dumb, think again. Once gamers got hooked to the game, they started to buy enhancements or add-ons to the game for a small price of about US$1 in order to gain an upper hand over fellow-gamers. The company has managed to sell 700,000 enhancements since May 2006.
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I always wonder how advertising can single handedly finance all the free services provided by Google. Apparently it does. I for one don't recall I ever click on any banner ad let alone bought anything just because it's there. Network TV is another wonder, all financed by advertisements. I sure paid but indirectly.
I subject myself to ads and I don't feel too bad about it as long as it's free. Just think about blogger, we don't pay nothing for all the services. I just can't believe it's so good and it's free.
I surely share the same astonishment. Think about the 3-D Google Earth or its counterpart at Yahoo! Imagine the investment in manpower and technology those company put in to make them happen. A kind of virtual window shopping and online shopping is anticipated, the news report said, but that's in the future.
Network TV is not cable TV, right? They're TV stations you watch on the Internet, I suppose. In HK, cable TV is not cheap at all. At least as far as the programmes offered by "Cable TV Ltd." are concerned.
I really do appreciate Gmail services and Blogger like you do. I've got 2,808 MB of free e-mail storage absolutely for free. I've always proposed storing our digital photos in Gmail accounts because the accounts are so big. We don't need to bother burning the pix on CD's and then find that the CD's are misplaced.
Let me clarify. "Network TV" has nothing to do with the Internet. It's just regular TV broadcast, just like TVB or ATV in Hong Kong. They are free and are supported not by the viewers but rather their advertisers.
Cable TV and Satellite TV are supported mostly by paid subscribers and I think ads as well.
I see. There are so many nets around these days that I got muddled-up. How many free network TV channels have you got in NYC? In HK, there've been four free channels for a long long time.
So it's not something new. In HK, there are several free daily newspapers that are completely supported by ads. Free daily newspapers are new inventions as far as HK is concerned.
I guess network TV is just a term used here. We have ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX and PBS. I pay around $60 for cable TV (with hi-def recording feature) and $42 for cable Internet connection.
There are free newspapers here as well, maybe they are the same companies that do Hongkong's free papers as well. Mostly they are handed out near the subway entrances. They are AM New York and Metro news or something. But I look down upon free newspaper. I am self important so I read the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. The MTA likes to blame all the subway woes on those free newspapers like subway fire.
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