A few days ago, me and my friends come across a once famous internet café (IC).  Sad to see they have to closed their business.  Along the way, we discuss about this trend where many ICs in my country are starting to close their business.  Yes, there are also new ICs coming to the business.  However, a statement come out from my friend’s mouth:

“I think Internet Cafés will eventually dead.”

And I asked why.  He reply with a logical reason.  He said:

“It’s simple.  Because internet price is getting lower and lower.  People start to be able to afford 24/7 internet in their home.  So why would they need to go to the internet café?”

Good point.

BUT, I have my own opinion.

What we have in my country, is not a real internet café.  In Korean terms, they are just Internet PC Banks.  An internet café should emphasize more in their café, not just the PC.  Well, if we refer to an Internet PC Banks only, yes it would be dead.  Only some of them will survive because they’ve already had base customers.

IC picture taken from MMOSite photo

If gamers are transformed to NPC, and game publisher are transformed to Game Player, I think gamers are currently giving the holy quest to game publisher:  Kill WoW!  Kill the ruler of current MMORPG market world, and you will be well rewarded with… gold.

Well some people getting disturbed by this terms: WoW killer.  And they getting sick of how people always comparing new game with the king of its genre.  I have a bad news for them: people will continue using it until a real challenger of WoW is coming!

The terms WoW killer, doesn’t mean that a game will come and make WoW loose all their players and die!  Please don’t get it wrong.  But yes this term can be used as a reference that a game should succeed WoW’s throne!  So I am not really agree with any opinions saying that  we should stop using this term “WoW killer”!  When you said to your friend something like, “Come on let me know, you’re killing me here.”  Does this mean that your friend is actually killing you???  No, he / she’s not.  So, it’s just a term.  What do you expect us to