...development of CanGo, an online gaming website. This analysis focused on three competitors: Big Fish Games, iWin.com, and Pogo.com. The existence of these competitors indicates that there is indeed a market for online gaming. All of these competitors offer free online game play, game downloads, chat rooms, club memberships, and some type of prizes. This suggests that CanGo may be benefit from extending the online gaming website to include these services. Certain content functionality appears to be standard in this industry and should be included in the CanGo website: * Free Games/Chat rooms/Prizes/Club membership Competitor 1: Big Dish Games (www.bigfishgames.com) Content/Functionality Big Fish Games offers a vast array of downloadable games online, PC games, and games for Mac users. Special interest should be paid to the game community, forums and the way Big Fish Games encourages game developers to be a partnership with Big Fish Games by submitting their new downloadable game. Products offered: The genres of games offered whether downloadable or online include: * Puzzle/Hidden Object/Strategy/Word/Arcade/Action/Card/Board There are approximately over 150 free online games, hundreds of pay per downloads and a new title released every day. Technology used: * Secure shopping cart * Audio (Flash player, Active X, and Java Script) * Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Mac OSX are the operating systems supported by Big Fish Games Search Functionality: ...
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...Discussion on the Problem of Online Game Addiction After 30 years of development, the internet has become one of the most influential technical achievements of 20th century, which has had an crucial impact on all walks of life. Nowadays, internet technology and its application has become an important indicator of measuring comprehensive national power. As we know, Internet offers many conveniences. As a result ,it has made many people depend on it. What is worse, a large number of people have become addicted，especially to online game addiction.By2007,the population of online gamers worldwide was about 217 million, approximately 28 percent of the total online population(comScore,2007).In addition, online game addiction is prevalent in many countries, including China, Korea, Vietnam, Japan, U.S., and Canada. In South Korea,2.4 percent of the population, ages nine to thirty-nine, were believed to be addicted to online games, and over 10 percent could be classified as obsessive gamers(Faiola,2006). In this essay, firstly I will talk about how the internet applies to daily life and alters modern life. Then list the problems which occurred with the development of internet. After that ,I will analysis the reasons why they are addicted to online games. Finally, I put forward the impact and suggestions for solving the problem. The internet influences every part of our daily life, it includes the patterns of doing business activities, and the uses for recreation such as sending...
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...Online gaming in the Philippines Background of the study Is the new generation of children will still be the hope of our country? This is the question that bother the minds of most researchers. In our generation children don’t care anymore on anybody. They are getting into addicting habits that they know that it’s wrong but they don’t care anymore. Alcohol , cigarettes, online addiction, drugs, premarital sex and other bad habits that can harm them. Not only their health are being affected and also there studies. Being addicted or playing “online games” on some internet café is one of the most bad habit of the youth and mostly guys but girl are also into it. This online game don’t pick any genders or age. You just need money to play this online games. They don’t care even if they spend all of their money on those games they only care about themselves what makes them happy. This games are so addicting that’s why the youth are getting addicted to it. As a researcher, were are thinking of ways on how to prove that “online gaming” are in the way of high school students in the Philippines. The ways that we are doing are research is through the library and using the internet to gather information. In that way we will know the answers to problems. Our desire is not only to know on how online gaming are affecting the studies of the high school student but our purpose is to let them all know that how important education is. We want inspire the youth to give time on their...
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...self online. When utilizing the world wide web many persons choose to use an avatar instead of presenting their authentic selves. They are often used in online video games and on various sites that require some sort of user representation. There are many reasons for using avatars, these range from security and privacy to insecurity and a medium of escape. Avatars are a means of expression for some people, They allow for users to portray themselves the way they view or in some cases would like to view themselves. Avatars are often given a bad name and in some cases are frowned upon. Some argue that they are a misrepresentation of self and are a dangerous deception to others who assume the avatar to be a true representation of its user. Avatars act as front line security especially in the online gaming world. They make it safe for people to interact with each other with minimal risk of security breeches. It can be argued that the use avatars are not a full proof protection plan from online predators but they help is masking true identity. This, however, can be a double edged sword since the identities of other users are masked as well. When it comes the privacy avatars play a vital role, especially for younger internet users. As Sherry Turkle pointed out younger internet users are willing to share personal information online with no safeguards. With the use of avatars there is a lesser chance for invasion of privacy, these users are able to participate in online games and...
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...anGo Market Analysis The goal of this market analysis is to determine the attractiveness of an online gaming market and to understand its evolving opportunities and threats as they relate to the strengths and weaknesses of CanGo. CanGo is a business that has developed in the last few years. Currently CanGo is facing two major challenges: 1) Getting a stable online gaming system up and running as soon as possible 2) Preparing for an anticipated record holiday season. Strengths: The base of CanGo is the difference between being successful, or failing with the new on-line gaming; some of their strengths are: 1) On-line gaming System project is likely to be quickest and easiest to implement. 2) An established online multimedia deliverable system. Opportunities: Globally online gaming is on the upswing and is seeing growth in many geographic regions throughout the world. In social, Where risk is low we must ignore these issues, and not be distracted by them because the return on the investment is consider high in this type of projects (on-line gaming system). One of the opportunities is that the Geographical market can cover many countries, therefore more users, for the on-line gaming project. Weaknesses: Lack of time to organize the project CanGo is trying to be ready for the near holiday season, and money/resources are in short supply. The management team appears to be unprepared and not very good leading their teams to success. To handle all of these...
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...Consulting Services Prepared for: Professor David Mozinski Prepared by: Tonya Blevins Sydney Coleman Brent Currie Glen Ferry Tina Foster DeVry University BUSN 460 Senior Project October 23, 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 2. SWOT ANALYSIS 4 3. MARKET ANALYSIS 6 4. COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS 7 5. FINANCIAL ANALYSIS 10 6. STRATEGIC PLANNING 11 7. CONCLUSION 17 8. REFERENCES 19 CANGO FINAL REPORT ADVANTAGE PLUS CONSULTING SERVICES 1.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Elizabeth Bennett, who sought to break into the lucrative and booming world of ecommerce, founded CanGo in 2006. Over the proceeding years CanGo would establish itself as a regional online success story, providing customers with the opportunity to purchase books, music, videos and games in an online environment. As the country became consumed by an economic crisis, CanGo somehow managed to sustain its success by providing customers with affordable options for entertainment. In this way, CanGo was able to capture a mass market of a variety of segmented consumers. Despite CanGo’s initial success, however, the organization is not without its fair share of concerns. The primary issue with CanGo is that it lacks a formal strategic business plan. The company has also failed to clearly define what its short-term goals and long-term goals are and how it plans to go about realizing those goals. The company also has problems with its current organizational structure. Although roles are...
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...OF FUTURE TECHNOLOGY is an e-learning center. They basically deal with i) Online prospectors ii) Online registrations iii) Online training iv) E-Certificate v) Online tutorials They have requested you to create a web site that will enable them to achieve their goal. Market the College to attract more students. Allow new entries to first years through on-line application and admission forms. Allow existing students in the college to register for the courses provided online Should be graphically inviting and easily navigable. Requirements : - Your website should: - ← Have a logo for the College. ← Create an on-line prospectus ← Create an on-line application form for new students. ← Create an on-line registration form and or admission form. ← Have tables for the courses offered and their fees ← Include relevant background colors or images. ← Make use of frames where applicable. ← Should have well organized links. Expectations: - i. Use all the elements you know to help you achieve your goals ii. Use any relevant graphics and animations which may be applicable to any particular solution you are providing to make your website attracting. iii. Be original and creative; remember the path least followed always leads to greater gains. iv. The student should be able to apply, register online. v. It should be easily navigable. Presentations will be held ONLY on 1st...
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...Questionnaire ……………………………….……………………. 10 E. Review of Related Literature …………………………………..…….……….. 11 II. Body ……………………………………………..…………...……………..…….. 17 III. Conclusion ………………………………………………………………………… 36 IV. Recommendations …………………………………………………………………. 37 V. Bibliography …………………….…………………………………………………. 38 VI. Acknowledgement …………………………………………………………………. 39 VII. Appendices …………………………………………………………………………. 43 Page | 2 I. Introduction: DOTA or Defense of the Ancients is a game that rose in the age of the modern technology. It is a LAN game or Local Area Network Mode. DOTA started in early 2000’s in the program Warcraft; it was revised in around 2006 in the program Warcraft III and later on they launched an online based application of DOTA which can be played not only by the LAN Users but also the WWAN Users, it was named as DOTA 2. DOTA has been a great impact to some group of people in the society. It affects the students, the creator of the game, the sponsors and LAN Owners, the National Telecommunications Subscriber and Distributor, the Players and gamers and most of all are the developers. That entire group of people in the society that has/is concerned in DOTA has both the positive and negative affections. One of the greatest...
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...VIRTUAL PIGGY, INC. FORM 10-K ANNUAL REPORT Year Ended December 31, 2014 | | | | | Page | PART I | | | | | | Item 1. | Business | 1 | Item 1A. | Risk Factors | 8 | Item 1B. | Unresolved Staff Comments | 17 | Item 2. | Properties | 17 | Item 3. | Legal Proceedings | 17 | Item 4. | Mine Safety Disclosures | 17 | | | | PART II | | | | | | Item 5. | Market For Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities | 18 | Item 6. | Selected Financial Data | 20 | Item 7 | Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations | 20 | Item 7A. | Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk | 26 | Item 8. | Financial Statements and Supplementary Data | 26 | Item 9. | Changes in and Disagreements With Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure | 26 | Item 9A | Controls and Procedures | 26 | Item 9B. | Other Information | 27 | | | | PART III | | | | | | Item 10. | Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance | 28 | Item 11. | Executive Compensation | 28 | Item 12. | Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters | 28 | Item 13. | Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence | 28 | Item 14. | Principal Accountant Fees and Services | 28 | | | | PART IV | | | | | | Item 15...
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...audience about my research topic which is “VIDEO GAME AND CAFFIENE ADDICTION” There is a whole realm of articles concerning my research topic that is why I stuck to areas where I knew my way around untrusted material sources that only lead me to dead ends or material that was not trusted due to certain dates not matching. I have to say that before I commenced my outline setting for this research I thought I had lived through similar setting and had exclusive access since I had experienced a family member dealing with this sort of problem at hand, and let me tell you it is a rough to see your family go through this type of particular situation, I‘m keeping my thoughts and opinions at rest In order to give an audience an opinion that is not bias. Ever since gaming has become a viral for by becoming viral all over the internet there has been a monumental boom in the gaming industry. Imagine when you first got your hands on gaming materials that you are new to, a gaming system such as xbox or Playstation 4,that provide you with scenery and graphics you would never though would even be a possibility of being a part of in your lifetime. Now picture that and add the possibility of you playing a strategic and integrated game online, with a voice as clear as can be to follow commands specified by a the game process. Ok now add the formula of one self being able to take part in playing a game such at this not only integrated, but also...
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...The Influences of Online Gaming to the Academic Performance of the Grade 10 Business High School Students of Pasig Catholic College School Year 2015-2016 By Mesfin Bram. Diosina Jarazea Ron Bugnot Alyza Clariss Anne Lazaro Erica Mae Balogbog Enzo Rafael Raymundo Milleamor Joy Gulde Chapter 1: THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND: Introduction: Many students this time likes to play online games such as Defense of the Ancients, League of Legends, and other online games that sometimes students forget their academic responsibilities and they end up either having low grades or failing tests and their subjects. Most of them goes to internet shops/cafes after school and play games for a minimum amount of money but they often stay there for a long period of time, most of them plays for an hour or two but some can play longer than the latter. We as students, also play and enjoy online games because playing online games is part of our leisure time as a teenager or student. We may spend a lot of time and money on it, but some students like us maintain our grades but mostly fail our grades due to ‘gaming overdose’ and that can’t be avoided due to adrenaline rushes that the games’ thrill gives us, but it can be stopped. We can stop it by limiting our gaming habits so that we can...
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...Questionnaire ……………………………….……………………. 10 E. Review of Related Literature …………………………………..…….……….. 11 II. Body ……………………………………………..…………...……………..…….. 17 III. Conclusion ………………………………………………………………………… 36 IV. Recommendations …………………………………………………………………. 37 V. Bibliography …………………….…………………………………………………. 38 VI. Acknowledgement …………………………………………………………………. 39 VII. Appendices …………………………………………………………………………. 43 Page | 2 I. Introduction: DOTA or Defense of the Ancients is a game that rose in the age of the modern technology. It is a LAN game or Local Area Network Mode. DOTA started in early 2000’s in the program Warcraft; it was revised in around 2006 in the program Warcraft III and later on they launched an online based application of DOTA which can be played not only by the LAN Users but also the WWAN Users, it was named as DOTA 2. DOTA has been a great impact to some group of people in the society. It affects the students, the creator of the game, the sponsors and LAN Owners, the National Telecommunications Subscriber and Distributor, the Players and gamers and most of all are the developers. That entire group of people in the society that has/is concerned in DOTA has both the positive and negative affections. One of the greatest...
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...operates in the Internet industry (E-tail) through three major segments: books (e-books), CDs, and videos. They are planning on diversifying themselves by adding a new segment to their company, the online gaming segment. Other companies already operate successfully within the Internet industry (e-tail) or in the book industry. Those companies are CanGo’s competitors. EBAY: eBay Inc. is an American Internet company that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide. In short, the company is a giant marketplace used by more than 100 million people to buy and sell all manner of things to each other. * Revenue 2009: $7.67 billion (second position in the e-tail) * Strength : Strong customer relationships founded on a Consumer-to-Consumer business model, where strong interrelationships occurs, for example where buyers and sellers leave feedback for each other, and whereby awards are given to the most genuine of eBayers. * Weakness: the eBay model does leave itself open to a number of fraudulent activities. AMAZON.COM: Amazon.com, Inc. is an American-based multinational electronic commerce company. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, it is America's largest online retailer. * Revenue 2009: $24.51 billion ( 1st position in the e-tail) * Strength: Its competitive advantage is enhanced by their strategies including cost-leadership, customer differentiation...
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...Prevalence of Social Networking and Online Gaming Addiction among Graduating SJNHS Students Social Networking is a social structure made up of a set of social actors. Social Network is a set of online games and websites. Some of the popular social networking websites are Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google, etc. Almost all the students would definitely have a profile in those sites. Many teens of this day, visiting these sites are a part of their daily routine. Through this social networking site, it can help to express their feelings about a certain topic. It can help to express their ideas and share their knowledge to other people and when boredom strikes some students do play online games to for them to be enthusiastic. Online games changed teenager’s lifestyle. One of the disadvantages of it is they become addicted to it to the point they cut classes just to go to Internet café and play online games like Dota, Lol, Counter strike, Grand chase, etc. by Just wasting their money and time. They used to spend hours in those social networking sites which can obviously degrade the student’s academic performance. Because of too much playing online games, sometimes they forgot to eat on time which can obviously lead to health related problems. Some students have lack of time spending their time with their family members. Students can’t focus on their teacher because they...
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...Online gaming has been increase so quick and much that almost all people have some experience with it. The freedom of playing and the gamers can do whatever they want within the game to not only entertain but release some pressure from the real life as well. However, the majority of the gamers is still male-based and they used to express their feelings by saying women-offended words even with the fast increasing female gamer nowadays. No matter it's by foul-mouthed, or purpose, being called "cunt," "bitch," "slut" and other common misogynist epithets does not make people feel comfortable even for male. Some game developers want to, from their perspective, make things right which is to ban the user whoever make sexual-offended comments either in verbally or literally in order to make the online gaming community clean. Or in gamers' point of view, it's only a game. Game developers such as Bonnie Ross and Kiki Wolfkill are trying to find a way to eliminate online gaming sexual harassment. They offer permanent banning for the user that violates the regulation. Nevertheless, they sometimes do not realize the fact that people tend to do things that regulators do not allow; moreover, they can create more accounts if their accounts had been banned. The method of banning accounts while users made harassed comments is not a proper way to eliminate this type of action since people would still find ways such as symbolized words, icons, images etc.to express what they intended...
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