I am at the first Virtual Goods Summit taking place on Stanford Campus. Virtual worlds and good are really getting hot and here are some amazing facts:
- Tencent with the QQ IM brand in China has more than 254 unique million users & 28MM simultaneous users
- Neopets: 40 MM registered users and 750, 000 daily transactions
- Nexon: 3.5 MM registered users, virtual goods cost between $0.60-$1.00. People by functional & decorative items like a rainbow colored balloon to use in a game rather than that standard balloon because people don't want to be like all the others.
- Nexon users spend more money on virtual haircuts than on normal haircuts!
- Habbo Hotel sells more furniture than IKEA!
I am really happy that I decided to go here and skip the second day at Supernova. Virtual goods and worlds are going to be so huge - the fun has only got started.
Technorati Tags: Habbo Hotel, Neopets, Nexon, Virtual economy, Virtual worlds, puppy, puppy, QQ, Tencent, Vgsummit2007
sounds cool!
Don't forget to bring some virtual goodies to your friends in the holy-land ;-)
Posted by: lagon | June 24, 2007 at 02:34 PM
one of the most interesting digital-lifestyle domains that emerge in front of us.
Any chance for presentations from the event?
Posted by: Uri L. | June 25, 2007 at 08:38 PM
Lagon: got loads of them. Problem is the are stuck in my virtual world..
Uri L: they will soon put up an archive will all the videos shot at the event.
Posted by: Netanel Jacobsson | June 29, 2007 at 05:23 AM