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games are crazed and became very popular in Indonesian gaming society. From a
quoted text from “Suyudi Koeswanto” a Managing Director of an online FPS
company called “PT Asiasoft”, “It started when the first launch of an online FPS
game called “Point Blank” the market for online FPS game keep on expanding”
leading the emergent of online FPS games such as “A.V.A” from “PT. Asiasoft”,
“Cross Fire” from “PT. LYTO” competing in the online FPS market in Indonesia,
(Kompas, 2012). From the data gathered there are several popular online FPS games
in Indonesia firstly are “Point Blank”, secondly “Cross Fire” and last but not least is
the “Counter Strike Online” (Mulyadi, 2010), (Indogamers, 2011), (Soe, 2012),
(Kompas, 2012), (Hajirama1, 2012), (Adam, 2013), (Kotakgame, 2013), (Game8,
2013).
2.1.3.1 Point Blank
Point Blank was first developed by a Korean game developer called “Zipetto” and by
2009 was introduced to Indonesia by “PT. Kreon” and trough “Gemscool” gaming
portal which also serves several types of games with different genres (Gemscool,
2014).
Point Blank is an Online FPS game where first develops mimicking a previously
famous multiplayer FPS game “Counter Strike” which lose its popularity in
Indonesia. Point Blank did not mimic 100% of “Counter Strike” but also gives
additional features where firstly it gives users the capability to use female character
and also give an additional interesting concept which is avatars where users could
modif y their character in the game. As Point Blank is an Online FPS genre gives
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