Five trends of future online games

From the competition between them, we can see five major trends of the future development of the gaming industry:
First: the charging mode
Almost all online games have props charging mode, such as World of Warcraft and RIFI pets and mounts, PLEX system of EVE and a free game named Lord of the Rings OL offer the rewards of online upgrade and experience. People concered Believe that the present charging mode does more harm to the development of the online gaming industry , for it destroys the balance of the game world. However, the considerable economic income is a necessary condition for the survival and development of game developers, so the innovation of charging model will become one of thefuture trend of development of the online gaming industry.
Second: the story
The players are now not satisfied with the crazy click on the mouse and simple and brutal murder Daguai game. They prefer World of Warcraft, with a grand view of the world and the story missions. These basic settings may still be the same, but the innovative and bold storyline and interesting task will definitely have more potential. Therefore, finding and creating an epic story structure will be a trend for the future online gaming industry.

Third, Abundant undates .

RIFT setup a complete power in just one year. RIFT is not necessarily better than other similar games, but it is good in one aspect: a stable, frequent content updates. Since the release of "RIFT", we have seen eight major updates. The World of Warcraft version and the update rate of expansion is fast than ever before.
Fourth:brothers' game

One way to make online games more interesting is to play it with your friends. Online game developers are looking for ways to encourage players to bring their friend of real life friends into the game. The system of the recruitment for resurrection of World of Warcraft provide double experience rewards and exclusive horse. EVE offers bonus for faithful fans. The upcoming Guild Wars 2 and TERA of 2012 will propably adopt the similiar function, though there is no possibility of the release of such systems.

Fifth: free games
Developers are increasingly turning to the free game mode, especially when the game industry go into the downhill. This way can be adopted to attract new players. Free Games seems to make more money from the players , but its effect, as we have seen Sony's EverQuest, since March, sales have increased by 125%.