Sony sees promise in broadband PC games. (Broadband Week).(Sony Online Entertainment's free and subscription versions of broadband-based Star Wars game)(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Brief Article)
Multichannel News, March, 2002 by Stump, Matt
Hoping to build on the online success of Ever Quest, Sony Online Entertainment will launch free and subscription versions of a broadband-based Star Wars game this spring. It also plans to launch Planet Side, a first-person online action game. As broadband proliferates, gaming companies are starting to look at developing more broadband content.
About one-third of EverQuest's 400,000 subscribers have broadband connections, said Sony Online vice president of marketing Scott McDaniel. That means roughly 100,000 of the country's 7 million cable-modem subscribers pay $9.89 a month to play Ever Quest. "Games are a medium for a community," McDaniel said. Like EverQuest, he added, the online Star Wars games "will be a persistent universe." ...
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