Instead of forcing players to take on combat roles with professions as secondary roles in the game, the upcoming game will focus on each character’s individuality and player strengths.
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Into the Echo is one such MMORPG that’s being developed by Canadian web and mobile software provider, ETLOK Studios. “What we’re trying to do is to build a computer in the cloud that’s completely controlled by your voice.Over the years, MMORPG’s have moved from traditional class tropes to open-class systems that give players the freedom to come up with their own skillsets and playstyles, with some being more flexible than others. “At Amazon, we believe the next big platform is the voice,” Limp said at a recent press event for Echo.
Rather, he’s more focused on making the product better and smarter.
Limp says the sales numbers aren’t a priority at this point. It’s why some people are convinced that Echo will end up creating Amazon’s next billion-dollar business. Perhaps the biggest signal that Amazon is banking on Echo's future potential showed up earlier this year when the voice-controlled device was prominently featured in the online store’s first-ever Super Bowl ad. Echo was also the top-selling device priced over $100 on Black Friday, and was one of the top five items ordered on Christmas Eve through Prime Now, Amazon said. It’s been on the market for less than a year, yet it's been met with high demand, consistently ranking in Amazon's best-sellers list. But all signs point to Echo being one of the biggest hits in Amazon’s hardware history. One of the early employees said Echo hit a million pre-orders in less than two weeks, a far better pace than the iPhone, which took about 70 days to reach the same milestone.Īmazon declined to confirm any of Echo's sales numbers. Amazon's Limp said the team realized within minutes of taking pre-orders that it picked way too low a number for initial estimates. It’s also compatible with internet-connected appliances made by companies Nest and IFTTT, making it a central hub for controlling other connected-home devices.Įcho’s resounding success seems to have surprised even people internally. In recent months, it’s added new functionalities like checking bank accounts, ordering pizza, or calling an Uber taxi by just talking to it. It's also been successful at not positioning itself as just a music player. Regardless, Echo ended up improving its speaker quality and song selection, and it now accounts for roughly 25% of the wireless-speaker market, according to research firm 1010 data.
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When asked to play music on Echo for the first time, Bezos ordered a song from the soundtrack of the movie “Battlestar Galactica,” referring it as one of his favorite songs, the person recounted. Part of that attitude might have to do with Bezos’s lack of music passion, the early employee theorized. He understood the importance of using music as an entry point to consumers, but sometimes questioned why the team spent so much time on improving music features. Bezos was particularly wary of the Echo being perceived as just a music player, according to the early employee. The story of the Echo's origins, recounted by several insiders, reflects the ambitions and challenges within Amazon as it quietly set its sights on the tech industry's next big battleground.īut music was a double-edged sword in a sense because it could also give the false impression that Echo was simply a music player, and cause people to overlook some of its unique features. And in the wake of the high-profile failure of Amazon's smartphone, the industry rumors that circulated for years about a speaker product languishing within Amazon's labs seemed like more confirmation that the ecommerce giant lacked the chops to create a game-changing hardware device. The gadget was stuck in Amazon's in-house labs for years, subject to the perfectionist demands of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and lengthy internal debates about its market appeal.
Since that time, the Echo has emerged as Amazon's sleeper hit, a hot-selling gadget that's being hailed as the standard-bearer for an entirely new computing paradigm in which Amazon suddenly has an edge on rivals such as Apple and Google.īut the Echo's path into consumers' homes was hardly a sure thing. The reaction was understandable given the lofty goals outlined in the Echo's original plan: It envisioned an intelligent, voice-controlled household appliance that could play music, read the news aloud and order groceries - all by simply letting users talk to it from anywhere in the house.
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