Do you think it's time for Malaysia to attract international game publishers such as Rockstar Games to publish their games in Malaysia? Not trying to promote patriotism here, but I am sick of seeing almost every games released in Asia is published by Hong Kong, with the recent case being EA Singapore closing down and moved all their operations in Asia to Hong Kong department.

Also, I think we should promote PC games more often than consoles games, since the price range of most PC games are between RM110 - RM 140 unlike console games especially next-gen games.

This post has been edited by leonhang: Apr 23 2014, 10:15 AM

We see a lot with this, but that alone won't really help.

Last GCA was from 2009 and things might have changed with Sony actively promoting PS4 in Malaysia. However, if like what you said about GDC was true, then maybe we're still struggling to gain recognition of the world at least in game industry. Did you by any chance ask them why ?

If anything, I actually noticed while Taiwan and Hong Kong especially Hong Kong published a lot of games, they actually have less game development studios than Malaysia or Singapore. So I think if we can't publish the games here, we should at least have more game development studios in Malaysia outside Klang Valley such as Sabah, Sarawak, Penang etc.

This post has been edited by leonhang: Apr 23 2014, 04:21 PM

That's not necessarily the case, at least not in Hong Kong or Singapore. While the games are published there, no additional game ratings are introduced there.

Well that's because very little people over here know about purchasing games, and the importance of it. For me, it seems to change now with the help of Heavy-arm and especially IMPULSE actively promoting buying original games. Being an Islamic country is not the point, countries like Iran and the Arabic world are doing quite well with games. If anything, it has more to do with purchasing power. The fuss with Devil May Cry has nothing to do with western world but Japanese. Western games have very little games that deal with religion or sensitive issues, if there's any but more on violence.

Also, I think



This post has been edited by leonhang: Apr 23 2014, 04:30 PM

They used to say this to the eastern bloc such as Poland, but look where they are now ? In terms of publishing, they're still not as good other than cdp.pl but developing wise, they have greatly improved and have thus gained international recognition. Which charts, do you have them now ? While that's true, one thing that is undeniable is that Taiwan and Hong Kong combined have less game development studios than us.

Which GDC were you in? Well, the thing is it's probably too far away from us so maybe instead of actually going there, internet forums should be utilized.

I just noticed them, what exactly did they do ?

That's interesting, thanks for sharing

Basically it's the price factor. But I also think lack of promotion regarding video games are also the cause of this. They probably think it's very easy to make a video game thus they don't see the reason to pay a high price for it.

as in GDC and GCA ?

Well, the reason for the cancellation of GCA is due to lack of audiences. Codemaster alone won't be enough so maybe Singapore companies should join to promote as well. Could I know what do you mean by Proposal? I think PIKOM should be able to help organizing event.