Filed under:提起下： Analysis / Opinion分析/见解 , ， Odds and ends赔率和完 , ， News items新闻项目 , ， Making money赚钱

Social networking around MMOs just hit the big moment.社交网络周围的mmos只需点击大的时刻。 Shawn Fanning, creator of Napster way back when, created a site called肖恩范宁，创作者的Napster的方式回时，创造了所谓的网站 Rupture破裂 a while back that purported to be而这回的本意是要 a social networking site based around World of Warcraft 1社交网站为基础的魔兽世界 . 。 Since soon after, the site seemingly hasn’t done anything all that interesting — they’ve added a few games and自后不久，该网站似乎已没有这样做，所有有趣的-他们已经增加了几场比赛中和 a few new features几个新特点 , but they haven’t yet made it out of beta, and it wasn’t obvious that anyone was real interested in Rupture. ，但他们尚未作出它的测试版，这不是很明显，任何人是真正有兴趣的破裂。

Until now — EA (yes, that EA) has ponied up a whopping $30 million to buy Rupture and all of its potential up.直至目前为止-环境评估（没错，就是那个e a）条已p onied了一个高达3 000万美元购买破裂和其所有的潜力。 A move to put some social networking into play on their upcoming Warhammer Online title?此举把一些社会网络，发挥其对即将到来的战锤在线标题？ Taking competition away from an upcoming official site covering all their games?采取竞争远离即将到来的官方网站，涵盖其所有的游戏呢？ Whatever EA is planning to do with Rupture, they’re paying through the nose for it — that无论是环境规划不破裂，他们付出通过鼻子为它- makes the $1 million Wowhead buyout使一百万元买断wowhead look like chump change.样子chump改变。

Then again, whether Rupture turns out to be the “Facebook for gamer”s that they hope to be, $30 million will look like a bargain.再说，是否破裂，原来以“脸谱为玩家的” S表示，他们希望得到， 3000万美元看起来会像讨价还价。 Either way, EA just put their money where their mouth is in the social networking MMO game.无论采用哪种方式，环境评估只是把他们的钱那里是他们的嘴在社会网络mmo游戏。

Thanks, 谢谢， Brooke 布鲁克 ! ！

Read阅读 | Permalink永久 | Email this通过电子邮件发送 | Comments评论

Original post by原职由 Mike Schramm 麦克施拉姆