So the company started talks with Blizzard Entertainment, bidding for rights to distribute World of Warcraft in the region. See: Why Blizzard needs a publisher for Hearthstone in Vietnam. Asiasoft eventually ended up distributing boxed Blizzard games. But at this point, the company was ready to scale and expand out of its native Thailand.
In , Asiasoft expanded to Singapore. Asiasoft Online Ptd Ltd started with 20 to 30 staff, and this number quickly jumped to , and then , and finally Today, Asiasoft has six offices with nearly 1, staff, though this number has probably dipped a little.
We were tipped off to a couple of rounds of layoffs this year. Infrastructure and piracy have been two main issues that Asiasoft has long been battling. Back when the company first started out, Singapore was the only country within Southeast Asia to have a fast broadband connection.
In Thailand, cybercafes were limited to the narrow 56kbps band. So what Asiasoft did was to work with potential broadband providers. Asiasoft linked arms with internet service providers and when bandwidth shot up and ADSL services launched, it was able to follow through on that same wave of growth. It also invested heavily in its own infrastructure. This allowed it to build several more verticals within its Asiasoft brand, including cash, cafe, service, and key.
These services — with the exception of cash — are only available in certain countries in the region, where there is more demand for them. It also acquired the company Level Up Inc. See: Philippines: Asiasoft practically owns Level Up now. In the past ten years or so, gamers have been stuck in one screen, be it for PC or console. So the shifts in genre, in taste, in player preferences, have all been only in content. Add that to the involvement of third-parties like iTunes and Google Play, and you get the entire ecosystem evolving.
Yet on a regional level, Asiasoft hardly feels threatened. Each company trying to compete with it is usually very local. Gaining ground in other countries is much more stressful compared to Singapore. And we need to expand because we came from MMO [games]. Expand to different types of MMO, different types of casual, expand to other things. Older singers have a lower success rate, he said, because they keep releasing album after album.
Sudjitporn says what Asiasoft can do now is to try and understand why they made the mistakes they did. However, Pangya proved to be a huge hit, both inside and outside of Thailand. Sudjitporn says that consoles are too inflexible an environment for the company to deal with, not to mention the platform on a whole is still plagued by piracy.
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First revealed a year ago, the Razer Blade was a fascinating machine. The experiment was an overwhelming success. Earlier this year the Blade hit the PC market, garnering mostly favorable reviews. Despite performance that fell short of comparably-priced traditional laptops, the Blade's sleek profile and startling portability drove strong sales — Razer could barely keep up with the demand.
And now that Razer has proven the power of the Blade to customers, critics and suppliers, it's time for an upgrade. Meet the new Razer Blade. August 29, Rakion's September Event. We have an exclusive sneak peek for this September. Dubbed as a unique MMO with dynamic and strategic gameplay, Rakion will have a major update: new armors, cells, rings, necklace, stage, and a rumored game update that brings back the nostalgia of a classic MMO.
Gunbound at 10! Online gaming has been history for years and only a few games are left standing. Time has passed and things have changed on what gamers wanted to play. Most gamers these days would want those which are very much popular in Social Networking Sites and very much advertised. Over the years, Gunbound made his own history in casual online gaming for staying in the spotlight for ten years.
Over , gamers are still attracted with Gunbound's gameplay and for some, built their passion on it. This is just one proof on why Gunbound has been one of the best enjoyable games since its existence. Dragon Nest SEA celebrates their first anniversary with a whopping update that includes an increase in the level cap, a new town map, second job advancements that will definitely pump up every DNSEA fanatic and attract new players to the field! Asiasoft eventually ended up distributing boxed Blizzard games.
But at this point, the company was ready to scale and expand out of its native Thailand. In , Asiasoft expanded to Singapore. Asiasoft Online Ptd Ltd started with 20 to 30 staff, and this number quickly jumped to , and then , and finally Today, Asiasoft has six offices with nearly 1, staff, though this number has probably dipped a little. We were tipped off to a couple of rounds of layoffs this year.
Infrastructure and piracy have been two main issues that Asiasoft has long been battling. Back when the company first started out, Singapore was the only country within Southeast Asia to have a fast broadband connection. In Thailand, cybercafes were limited to the narrow 56kbps band. So what Asiasoft did was to work with potential broadband providers. Asiasoft linked arms with internet service providers and when bandwidth shot up and ADSL services launched, it was able to follow through on that same wave of growth.
It also invested heavily in its own infrastructure. This allowed it to build several more verticals within its Asiasoft brand, including cash, cafe, service, and key. These services — with the exception of cash — are only available in certain countries in the region, where there is more demand for them.
It also acquired the company Level Up Inc. See: Philippines: Asiasoft practically owns Level Up now. In the past ten years or so, gamers have been stuck in one screen, be it for PC or console. So the shifts in genre, in taste, in player preferences, have all been only in content. At the launch of Ragnarok Online 2 in Singapore, Add that to the involvement of third-parties like iTunes and Google Play, and you get the entire ecosystem evolving.
Yet on a regional level, Asiasoft hardly feels threatened. Each company trying to compete with it is usually very local. Gaining ground in other countries is much more stressful compared to Singapore. And we need to expand because we came from MMO [games].
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