Online Gaming is Huge in China (This guy made 1.2 Billion)
 

Timothy Chen & family

Age: 31
Company: Shanda Interactive Entertainment
Head Office: Shanghai
Industry: Online games

From 490 Million USD in 2003 to 1.2 Billion USD in 2004 :eek7 This dude trippled his money in 1 year

Age 31 1.2 Billion USD From Online gaming

I plan on moving into that field next. I have been working on games for quite sometime now.

The future is HUGE in online gaming, just think about it... People used to get sick of video games once they would beat the game. That cannot happen anymore with online gaming, someone else out there is always going to be better than you. I have been playing Halflife and its network of mods for 5 years now, never got sick of it even though the graphics are a little outdated. Just goes to show you the shelflife of gaming, given the online aspect.

I remember getting a new game, beating in in 8 hours and never playing it again. Not anymore.

LOL will be interesting to see how much the dude has at the end of 2005 I wish I could get in to gaming too. Maybe in China since you can hire a bunch of programmers and graphics animators for pretty cheap. :glugglug

wow I want in on that. Having such huge population helps though

yeah, i know. korea even take it as a national sport.

its bigger in the states... but of course you can't run a gaming site from the states... there in lies the problem

National Sport? How can online gaming be a national sport? :helpme

too bad, i stopped playing games 3 years ago. good for him

:eek7 This is video games, not gambling.............

They hold tournaments with prizes you idiot. They even hire people to compete in Korea

ABIT Awards US$125,000 to China's Best Gamer

Winner of the ACON Fatal1ty Great Wall Shootout takes home RMB $1,000,000

http://www.abit-usa.com/news/2004/20041018a.php