Millions more are playing Simcity today, than Diablo
EA is supporting and patching Simcity a million times over, compared to what Blizzard has done to Diablo 3, that is so shameful and funny at the same time, I am smiling ear to ear at that one.
Tens of Millions will be buying the Sims4, a year from now.
Hundreds of Millions will be made, from BattleField 4 this year
EA will be the first videogame empire to have grossed a trillion dollars.
Apparently, shit is perfectly edible!
Optional nickname wrote on May 29, 2013, 10:58:
The pigs at Blizzard and Activision looked at the current state of Titan, and said, this isn't profitable. Now that Microsoft paved the way for Kinect Spy services 2.0 into hundreds of millions of homes, the Bobby's at Blizzard started a new page, popped the marker, and drew a large rectangle on their Flowchart, that now says RMAH 2.0 , tied in with exploiting new possibilities, and will design the new engine around this. Once that engine is in place, and the team of 200 lawyers sign it, and pass it, and Google lends a building block of cluster servers operating off of quantum computing, they will then skin some art around it, and release it to the masses, where they will be divided, and brainwashed, and oblivious, and naive, just as they are today, with Diablo 3.
Enjoy your Blizzcons, you SPINELESS rejects.
so long Blizzard, it's been emotional.
Verno wrote on May 29, 2013, 09:15:
Blizzard waffles on products all the time, this isn't really anything new and speaks more to them actually giving a shit. Would people prefer they just shit things out like EA? Sheesh.
InBlack wrote on May 29, 2013, 06:54:
They scrapped it beacuse it sucked, or because they thought it wouldnt bring in money or gamers or whatever, not because WoW is still alive and well....
Sempai wrote on May 29, 2013, 05:17:
Christ almighty, the self entitlement in here is thick..
Mr. Tact wrote on May 29, 2013, 08:31:I wouldn't hold my breath. They lost their best people years ago... which is exactly why D3 turned out how it did, and exactly how I expected it would. Blizzard's best days are done.
It is only disappointing because I have hope that Blizzard with right themselves after the debacle that is D3. I guess I'll have to wait longer than I thought to see if they can...
NegaDeath wrote on May 29, 2013, 01:08:
Auction House: The Game
Sempai wrote on May 29, 2013, 05:17:
Christ almighty
Frags4Fun wrote on May 29, 2013, 05:38:Gymper wrote on May 28, 2013, 22:09:
I see it differently. Aside from gamer's wanting the next Blizzard MMO to come out, why would Blizzard release it now? WoW still has ~ 9 million subscriptions world wide. It's one of the few MMOs that is still profitable as a subscription model. Everyone else is doing microtransactions.
It was said when EQ2 came out - one of the biggest deterrents for EQ2 was EQ1 was still wildly popular and was still releasing content updates. So, EQ2 suffered. Ok, so EQ2 had some launch issues, but dig back through some old reviews for it and this comes up quite a few times. It was also said when D&D Online released that it came out a few years prior ala EQ, which at the time was a much better game.
Another example? UO2 - why this was never released amazes me. Even more so considering UO is still around. But, at the time UO2 was shelved partially because UO was still popular. I'm not sure the concept for UO2 fit the UO world, but there was helluva good marketing in the concept pitch. Still gets me stoked seeing it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XyRcFvvKFs
It will never happen, but if we want to help Blizzard put more emphasis on Titan - stop playing WoW and I'll bet Titan fires fast.
You've got some very good points in there.
Gymper wrote on May 28, 2013, 22:09:
I see it differently. Aside from gamer's wanting the next Blizzard MMO to come out, why would Blizzard release it now? WoW still has ~ 9 million subscriptions world wide. It's one of the few MMOs that is still profitable as a subscription model. Everyone else is doing microtransactions.
It was said when EQ2 came out - one of the biggest deterrents for EQ2 was EQ1 was still wildly popular and was still releasing content updates. So, EQ2 suffered. Ok, so EQ2 had some launch issues, but dig back through some old reviews for it and this comes up quite a few times. It was also said when D&D Online released that it came out a few years prior ala EQ, which at the time was a much better game.
Another example? UO2 - why this was never released amazes me. Even more so considering UO is still around. But, at the time UO2 was shelved partially because UO was still popular. I'm not sure the concept for UO2 fit the UO world, but there was helluva good marketing in the concept pitch. Still gets me stoked seeing it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XyRcFvvKFs
It will never happen, but if we want to help Blizzard put more emphasis on Titan - stop playing WoW and I'll bet Titan fires fast.
Quinn wrote on May 29, 2013, 03:02:
Is my thinking completely off when I suspect these kinda rumors are often completely made up just so that the developer is goaded to update on a game?