Since the outbreak of the global epidemic, the scale of the exhibition at the video game show last year has been affected. Many international well-known game companies have canceled their participation. It is also the first video game exhibition where all three major game console manufacturers are absent. About half the space of Hall 1 of Nangang Exhibition Center, the exhibitors are mainly board game, mobile game and independent game developers and distributors.
However, the morning of the first day of the exhibition still attracted a large number of players to visit the exhibition. The most popular in the exhibition area is "Yuan Shen" developed by Mihayou and distributed by Pinwanbang in September 2020. The number of players gathered in the exhibition area is the largest, except for In addition to participating in the live online competition, the crowd of people queuing up to exchange for peripheral products is even more lined up near the entrance.
The brand new cross-platform MMORPG "Odin: Judgment" launched by Kakao Games, a major Korean manufacturer, will occupy the largest space in this exhibition area. However, since the Taiwan version is still in the stage of preparation for launch, and its popularity in China has not yet been opened, the crowd is not as good as that of "Yuan Shen", which has been online for nearly two years.
Square Enix, a major international manufacturer, displayed the mobile game "Resurrection Re; Universe", which was jointly developed with Akatsuki and based on the story of "Resurrection 3" in 1995, restarting the classic series more than 20 years ago, and launched in 2016 and 2018 respectively. The popular games "Girls Frontline" and "PUBG Mobile" also attracted many players to participate in live events in the exhibition hall.
The classic game "Ragnarok", which was launched in 2002 so far, is also celebrating its 20th anniversary through this video game show. In the exhibition area, in addition to displaying the game's history over the years, it also displays its main mobile game "Ragnarok: The Birth of a New Generation". , as well as the card games Ragnarok: Monster Origins and Ragnarok: Lost Memories.
With the support of the "Independent Game Development Award Program" of the Industrial Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs in the past three years, the exhibitors in this year's independent game zone have been very active. ", won the Gold Award in this "Game Star Voting" event.
Looking at the site of this year's video game exhibition, although the scale of the exhibition area and exhibitors has been reduced due to the heating up of the epidemic, the number of visitors is still considerable due to the popular mobile games. Taiwan's mobile game market will still be the locomotive of the domestic market this year.