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im planning to put up (as a school prj on java) a litte gaming zone featuring (initially) multi-player chess game. i may or may not (depending if time will permit me) create the game engine. (or ill just get an open source chess angine). my question is what is the importance or "business solution" (if there are any) that is being brought to Yahoo (or Excite) companies by putting up a game zone like chess? yes i know there are a thousands of gamers that login to yahoo games to play. i know that they can also earn by just putting banner ads from sponsors. what other reasons or importance are/is there? the prob is i have to justify "networking proj" that ive proposed to make as a net proj. what are the benefits that these big companies gain? "business solution"? :/ need ur opinions.
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Other than that, there are of course other motivations which have got to be more personal motivations than company ones. For example, whoever coded the game may be looking at it and saying "Wow, check it out, my program can support thousands of users at once with no errors!" Or, someone is enjoying being able to bring a bunch of people together to play chess with each other and have a good time. These motivations are certainly valid but are minor compared to the monetary motivation. These, by themselves, would not necessarily facilitate someone getting and maintaining a server online with such a huge user base.