Popular Historical MMO Hologame breaks sale records!
March 05, 29483 - Steve Colbert [Rimor]
IRRK Freelance - 140 Millions copies sold of a Corporate Wars holo game
Released only a few weeks ago, "Corporate Wars: Fight for Notum" has sold over 140 million copies across 100 systems in the galaxy. It's the first time in the galactic gaming industry that a historical holo game has outsold the more mainstream games such as "World of Lootcraft", "Asterisk Wars Galaxies", "Warpencil Online" and "Imperfect World".
There has been such a demand to download the game across the gridnet that Phuncom, the developer of the game, had to lease additional gridservers from the large scale computersystem manufacturer Hamster Inc. in several systems to meet the demand.
The launch was a bit rocky when a bug in the game would not allow users to log in into the game, but a patch was released a week later and the issue was officially resolved.
Based on the historical war between Omni-Tek Corporation and Sol Banking Corporation between the years 29204-29212 the game allows users to interact with each other in-game through their home holosystem with millions of other users across a starsystem.
Players can choose to be an employee of either corporation or a freelance mercenary doing jobs for either side at any given time. With a simple hierarchy system, players can "climb the corporate ladder" to be successful employees and even become a member of the Board of Directors of each faction.
There are already some auctions on the gridnet with illegal sales of game accounts, in-game money and items which is against the EULA (End User License Agreement). Phuncom has stated "We're aware of these illegal auctions and we have contacted the auction gridsites making them aware that they're breaking corporate law by selling virtual holo items which are our property".
Phuncom is a branch company of Sol Banking Corporation, which would explain why players who choose to become Sol Banking employees in-game get an additional 25% money rewards and better weapons and armour.
When asked if Omni-Tek approved of the game since some content bears that company's name, the answer was surprising.
"This is a game based on public historical records, which nobody has the rights to. It's public property. We're a small branch with limited resources. We never thought that it would become so popular. Now we have a copyright to the game, so if Omni-Tek would try to develop a similar game, we would sue them. There are other wars which they can base a war game on, this one, is ours."
Phuncom is behind other hologame successes such as 'Age of Collins', 'Anarchy Connection', 'Dreamrise' and 'The Eternal Journey'. They are currently developing a new MMO game titled "The Secret Planet" which caused a buzz at a recent holo gaming convention on Centauris IV last month.
Currently the game is not available on Rubi-Ka due to a lack of Hamster Inc. gridservers in the system.