If your kid isn’t into ballet lessons or learning to play the piano, there’s now an alternative type of tutoring that may be just what they’re after….

Can’t Survive The World Of Warcraft? Get A Private Game Tutor…

The service is aimed at 30-45 year old who never got to play any kind of games and want to try out this form of entertainment. 30$/h is by far cheaper than eating out or watching some damn opera and if you make >$100k, you don’t spend even a second thinking if its worth spending $30 or not on something you got excited or at least interested about.

When it comes to WoW, even players with extensive cRPG experience may get discouraged and lose interest because of it’s character (no one tells you what to do, you just get thrown into world). So this game is especially worth supporting.

As for other games/genres, I’m suprised they don’t provide help for racing and sport games – these are very easy to learn for a casual gamer, yet still are going to be troublesome for newbies and quite probably are most appealing to those 40-year-olds

PS: “CoD4: Modern Combat”? It’s “Modern Warfare”

I think it’s still too early.

This could however have been successfully launched in South Korea.

First, as some here already said, game hotlines by SEGA or Nintendo go all the way back to the late 80s, and were a failure.

Why? simple: if there’s something great about gaming is having to find your way in the game. Tips are spoilers, and ruin the experience.

But the silver bullet for this service is older than the company itself: the internet. Back in the days before the ‘net the only way to find tips and cheats was buying a mag or a guide. But after 1995 there was a HUGE influx of sites dedicted to user-created tips, guides, cheats and even hacks.

The amount of such sites is so huge thats pretty much overkill. I’m making a new type of gaming site and I won’t include a guide section because 90% of all gaming sites already have one and nobody uses them.

I’m not suggesting that it won’t work, but the most dedicated gamers tend to be people who have played games for years. I remember reading that the average gamer and consumer for that market is between 25 and 33 years of age. They already know how to play because they grew up playing games.

I remember the NES tip lines and I recall that Nintendo dropped that program because people simply were not using it. They also had a series of videos with tips from top players that did not market well. Maybe this will do better. We shall see.