Top 20 Most Influential People in MMO Space

Tue, May 18, 2010

Business, Game

  • Chinese

Massive Online Gamer evaluated the top 20 most influential people in MMO space, Chinese top 3 operators all in the list.

Owing to the nation’s explosive growth in the MMO sector, five of the top 20 slots went to Chinese executives. According to article writer Richard Aihoshi, China “became the world’s largest online game market in dollar value last year after taking the lead in number of Internet users in 2008.”

The complete list is:

  1. John Smedley and Laralyn McWilliams (Sony Online Entertainment)
  2. Huateng Ma (Tencent)
  3. Mike Morhaime (Blizzard)
  4. John Riccitiello (Electronic Arts)
  5. Jack Emmert and John Needham (Cryptic Studios)
  6. Tianqaio Chen (Shanda Entertainment)
  7. Taek Jin Kim and Yongchan Jee (NCSoft)
  8. Jim Crowley (Turbine)
  9. Andreas Weidenhaupt (Frogster Online Gaming)
  10. James Ohlen (BioWare)
  11. Gordon Walton and Rich Vogel (BioWare)
  12. Yoichi Wada (Square Enix)
  13. Hilmar Petursson and Noah Ward (CCP Games)
  14. Min Kim (Nexon America)
  15. J. Todd Coleman (KingsIsle Entertainment)
  16. William Lei Ding (NetEase)
  17. Steve Wadsworth (Disney Interactive Media Group)
  18. Sergey Orlovskiy (Nival)
  19. Klaas Kersting (Gameforge)
  20. Mark Pincus (Zynga)
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