Cutter wrote on Dec 8, 2010, 17:14:
Even a 100k subs for 10 years won't earn you your money back and that just isn't going to happen. SWTOR will be the last major failure for a long time (Rift Planes of Telara only marginally less so as a 50 million dollar failure).

Cutter wrote on Dec 8, 2010, 17:14:
So far it looks like GW2 is the only thing on track to really innovate the genre, if not it'll fail too. The whole genre needs a reboot. It's gone way too far off track. It was us old school PnP/MUDders who created this damn genre so I know what I speak.

space captain wrote on Dec 8, 2010, 15:49:

justice7 wrote on Dec 8, 2010, 14:48:
I say enough with the elitist (and completely false) attitude that WoW isn't a fantastic product; like it or not it is. It's genuinely one of the greatest games ever created, even if you don't bother with it.

here we go with the dumbshits that think their personal opinions are objective facts

wouldnt that be nice

Drezden wrote on Dec 8, 2010, 13:58:
For all of you who think you need millions of subscribers to be successful...

Just remember.
Everquest at it's peak only had 900,000 subscribers, and it was considered successful, and UO didn't even come close to that. No MMO will ever duplicate what WoW has done, and I don't expect any to.

If an MMO reaches a couple hundred thousand subscribers and they do better than break even it's considered a success.

Jdrez wrote on Dec 8, 2010, 13:58:

MxxCon wrote on Dec 8, 2010, 13:44:
WoW got to 10million users not because of marketing but because of the quality of the product.

Hardly. WoW got big because it was accessible to non-gamers, was Mac/PC out of the box, would run on any hardware due to crap graphics, and became extremely trendy.

There's nothing special about WoW beyond it's adoption by the drooling masses who don't actually play games.

And no, I don't work for Turbine and don't usually gush over MMOs, lol.

Other forms of journals kept online also existed. A notable example was game programmer John Carmack's widely read journal, published via the finger protocol. Some of the very earliest bloggers, like Steve Gibson of sCary's Quakeholio (now Shacknews) and Stephen Heaslip of Blue's News (still running since 1995 with online archives back to July 1996), evolved from the Quake scene and Carmack's .plan updates.

kxmode wrote on Aug 27, 2010, 13:55:

sir wrote on Aug 27, 2010, 13:45:
No blame game from acclaim? Shame.

That's the name of the game.

Genesys wrote on Aug 26, 2010, 20:29:
We had lunch with our 3PAR reps early this week, and neither of them were driving Ferraris yet. Maybe they're waiting to see how high the bids go :)

I'd prefer that Dell won, since HP already has storage solutions and there's a lot of overlap with 3PAR, while Dell doesn't have anything of their own in 3PAR's range.

Ant wrote on Aug 18, 2010, 10:32:
Meh. why is this cartoonish?

Also, what's evil about GFW? Bloated? Slow? Buggy? DRM?

However there is only one civilization to try in the beginning.