Hooked On Fantasy
This isn’t China’s first encounter with massively multiplayer online games–so called because thousands of people can interact in the same game at the same time. Firms from South Korea, Japan, Taiwan and China have been marketing them for several years to China’s youth. The arrival of EverQuest, though, promises to kick the phenomenon into high gear. Since its introduction abroad four years ago, EverQuest has become one of the hottest-selling online games, with 430,000 fee-paying players....