#Mplayer chat series#
Mag3nta, part of eCompany`s games and gaming platform, is a series of products whose aim is to dominate the interactive game platform environment in the Southern Hemisphere. eCompany shares our vision of creating online communities worldwide, and bringing the vast number of online game players together into an integrated social community."ĮCompany is a South African based, integrated, e-commerce incubator, providing proprietary e-commerce platforms and technologies in selected global markets. "eCompany enables us to deliver voice-enabled Internet games and entertainment services to the South African markets. "By teaming with eCompany, a strong e-commerce player, we continue to extend our real-time technologies and brands to the global audience of Internet users," explained Chris Early, vice president of. Mplayer`s online games and entertainment include online game matchmaking communications features such as voice and text chat, pagers, and shared whiteboards a user-interface for online games and advanced technology to support high-speed, low latency game play. brings powerful technology and services for real-time games, entertainment, and communications to South African users. We will enhance the experience by offering gamers e-commerce, competitions and local content in each territory we service." "With Mplayer, eCompany benefits from proven technology, experience in providing quality user experiences, and a strong games brand that has already penetrated Europe, the USA, Asia and America. "The launch of Mplayer is a key step for eCompany in its strategy of dominating the interactive game platform environment in the Southern Hemisphere," explained Sheldon Cohen, eCompany CEO. eCompany will host and operate the platforms on behalf of local portals and ISPs. Mplayer`s technology enables eCompany to offer an online games and entertainment community for South African game fans, allowing users to play popular computer games against multiple opponents on the Internet. The deal, valued at R1.7 million, not only provides multi-player online games to an African audience of about 2 million, but benefits ISPs and Portals by increasing their much sought after "stickiness" (the retention of visitors to a site), as online games enjoy up to 8% of user-minutes on the Internet. Mplayer is the eighth most popular site on the Internet in terms of user minutes, with an excess of 170 million user minutes clocked up and more then 50 000 users visiting the site every day, making Mplayer by far the most popular online game site in the world. eCompany has secured the exclusive Southern African rights to and will offer its multiplayer interactive online games through partnerships with several of the country`s leading ISPs and portals.ĮCompany joins global giants such as Fujitsu, MTV Online Networks, Macromedia, StarMedia Network, LG InterNet and CSK Sega as an Mplayer partner. The service never managed to get out of the red despite high user numbers, however, and it was eventually bought by GameSpy, which combined it with its GameSpy Arcade service.ECompany recently announced the South African launch of Mplayer, the world`s leading Internet games platform. At the height of its popularity, it had well over 10 million members that were registered and was seeing more than 200 million minutes of gameplay every month, on average. Like the MPlayer online gaming model itself, the service was one of the pioneers in the industry. The gaming service’s most popular feature was arguably its voice chat service, branded HearMe.
#Mplayer chat plus#
When subscribed as a Plus user, gamers could access certain games unavailable to the free players and could also resources and special gaming events (such as Web tournaments) exclusive to them. It originally started out as a subscription service from the Mpath Company with the slogan “Wanna Play?” Later on, as the service began to gain steam, free game services were added and the subscription service began offering the premium gaming access privileges to users, with the subscription renamed to Plus. MPlayer was an online multi-player gaming service that used both the subscription and free gaming models.
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