Each player also recieved their own room that they could then decorate with furniture and prizes purchased with their game winnings. VMK was designed to imitate actual Disney parks and had lands that players could visit with games that centered around park attractions and rides like Pirates of the Carribean, The Haunted Mansion, and the nightly fireworks show. When it finally did close in 2008, Disney made it clear to fans and members that the intial intent of the world was promotional and thus would be closed indefinitely. The virtual world was free to join and was only promised by Disney to be available for the duration of the anniversary, around 18 months, but ending up being massively popular and thus surviving for several years. And 'World of Warcraft' has pushed them to bigger budgets, so there will be more (visually) appealing games on the way.Virtual Magic Kingdom, or VMK, was a virtual world full of online games designed and promoted by the Disney company as part of the 50th Anniversary in 2005 to celebrate the opening of the first Disney park, Disneyland. "The market is coming back from what was a slow 2004," said Bruce Sterling Woodcock, an independent games consultant who keeps a running monitor of the massively multiplayer game business. Microsoft has said that "Final Fantasy XI," one of the only massively multiplayer games to cross between the PC and the PlayStation 2, will be available for the Xbox 360. Garriott's new science fiction action world, dubbed "Tabula Rasa," unveiled after a redesign at the same E3 show, is also expected early next year. The eagerly anticipated "Lord of the Rings: Shadows of Angmar" game, shown off at the recent Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), is slated for early 2006. Can Mickey succeed where The Sims failed?Įxpanding the virtual world populations beyond a core audience of fantasy and science fiction gamers remains a struggle, however, and most of the new titles coming out over the next year or two remain in these genres.
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