Market research: Chinese Ashes players are getting tired of traditional online games

Is the game too saturated, or is the atmosphere changed, or is the traditional game habits caused by subversion?　　China's hardcore (Ashes) players are losing interest in traditional online games that flood the market, Niko, a market-research agency, has published a report.　　China, the hardcore player in the world's largest online gaming market, has become increasingly weary of thousands of gamesindustry.biz traditional online games and has begun to shift attention elsewhere, the report said. "China has introduced (developed and operated) social networking games from the west, and those hardcore have shifted their interest to social-networking games," Niko's Lisa Cosmas Hanson described.　　They are losing interest in traditional online games that are seriously homogeneous, and want to expand their relationships by relying on more user-type social networking games. The report also pointed out that by 2014, China's online gaming market will have 141 million players, the income growth rate of about 23% to 30%, equivalent to about 3 billion dollars. (Digging the shell net)