europeans getting fucked once again...

USA!...USA!...USA!

The industry thinks Europeans like it up the ass. Might as well get used to it. Drop your pants...

This comment was edited on Oct 3, 06:29.

vivendi has always been very bad when it comes to release dates.
especially with blizzard products, even when theyve claimed a "world wide release date"

VU is about to fucking cash in...

they have WoW, HL2 and Tribes:V all coming out within the next few months

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Early 2005 in Europe. Fuck that I'm importing

When game publishers around the world start releasing unfinished games to the masses in order to get them out before Christmas.

Usually followed by January Patch Month, for those games lucky enough to sell.

The industry thinks Europeans like it up the ass. Might as well get used to it. Drop your pants...

Or it could be that the industry knows fat, tasteless Americans will consume anything, so it subjects them to an extended beta-testing period before releasing a polished product to a more discerning customer base.

Well, the game is rubbish. It used to be good, but now it's just an EQ clone, and it's becoming more and more like EQ with every successive patch. Working as intended, hah. Take that, weak, useless warriors!

Or it could be that the industry knows fat, tasteless Americans will consume anything, so it subjects them to an extended beta-testing period before releasing a polished product to a more discerning customer base.

No, that can't be it, I know a lot of fat, tasteless Europeans who'd love to play an extended beta-version even for money.

I guess it's understandable that the German, French and Italian versions take longer than the English versions, but I wouldn't want to play the German version anyway and I'd love to see the English versions be released in time with the American release. Plus there's no reasons why the Brits have to pay for out countries insistence to stick with their own individual languages. Plus importing from the UK is supposedly quite painless.

since ive never actually played everquest, how does it compare? is it fun? hows the level treadmill like?

DOOM3, i got my copy. what about you?

The game features rather typical level grind and mundane questing ("collect x of this from y mob"), but the thing with WoW is, it doesn't feel like typical level grind and mundane questing. I have no idea why. The world has a very cool look and feel to it, and the tradeskills are pretty fun.

The downtime is much less than EQ. I doubt most people who played WoW for any length of time could stand going back to EQ.

This was first posted f13.net by Trippy On September 14th.

http://forums.f13.net/viewtopic.php?t=1044&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=210

Then I posted it on Vnboards.ign.com same day and referencing Trippy as the original investigator

http://vnboards.ign.com/message.asp?topic=75503854&start=75503890&search=vivendi+report

IGN did't find this other than looking at their own boards and the users posting it

Going to be interesting seeing them both released in the same month.

People still talk about Blizzard like it is Blizzard. It is not.

Money guys bought Blizzard. They told the top guys "No you don't get no bonuses". Then they gave themselves bonuses. The top Blizzard guys left.

Then they had a mass firing in which they dumped the guys who made Diable and Starcraft. They cost too much. Then they replaced them with college graduates at 15,000 or so a year. Slave labor.

Then they spent the next year or so hiring more and more people to try to make up for the effects of firing all the old Blizzard people. Look here on Blues. There are about 10 or so Blizzard job postings over the past year.

Blizzard is gone. A bunch of money vultures took over a profitable company. They will make money off of it as long as people are still fooled it is the old Blizzard company. When they are finished milking the money, and all Blizzard fans leave because they see Blizzard is no longer Blizzard, they will sell of the company or close it as a tax writeoff.

Won't happen for maybe 5 years. It will take that long for people to accept that Blizzard is gone and money vultures are behind Blizzard games now.

Sort of like the 5 years where Valve fanbois went from adulation to "D&&& Valve for lying to us about release dates". Or the 5 years for people to go from saying "Id is the best" to "Doom 3 sucks donkey testicles".

Sad as it is that the original developers at Blizzard are gone, if World of Warcraft is any indication, Blizzard will be around for a long time to come. WoW is going to make them a ton of money.

and that´s why we will all play guildwars. (developed by a few of those top ex-blizzard guys)

hype the company to heaven, then they´re getting bought too, top guys leaving etc.

repeat.

This comment was edited on Oct 3, 12:23.

I don't really care who is financing the games. If it is a good game... it's a good game.

Having said that, I thought I would never buy another MMORPG. After being bored by the others within months or weeks after purchase.

I hope WoW will be different. It sure seems to feel different while playing the stress-test-beta. Not sure what it is because it has everything the other have yet it just seemed much more fun.

While playing by myself, with a friend or while grouped the game just had me hooked. I was playing for roughly six hours straight when they pulled the plug at the end of the stress-test.

I plan on getting back in the game as soon as possible... this Holiday Season is going to be a great one. Even though all you Nay Sayers are predicting the end of the world as we know it....

Or it could be that the industry knows fat, tasteless Americans will consume anything, so it subjects them to an extended beta-testing period before releasing a polished product to a more discerning customer base.

Ahhh jealousy at its finest. If the shoe was on the other foot, I am certain that the fat, tasteless europeans would gladly consume this game even if it were released 3 months ago.