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Warcraft III: The Single Player Experience
Disoriented writes "Cool interview about the Warcraft 3 single-player campaigns. Has me drooling for a June release." Hopefully Blizzard will drop their attack against Bnetd before the release.
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I wonder if I can choose to control a priest in the single player game?
I could go around clicking on people until they say "Why do you keep touching me?"
*Ducks the barrage of Troll moderations*
Who wants a storyline? I want gameplay. I skipped over the stupid cut sequences in WCII and got down to playing the actual game. Who wants tighter integration of cinematic sequences? I thought those sequences were just for screenshots for sales purposes. I don't want to have to watch them. Gameplay is what made WCII great! Not storyline, not cut sequences. Strategy and action!
-- SIGFPE
People are talking about sending in letters say, "I will not buy your products". That's nice, that's good even, but we all know Blizzard won't pay a huge amount of attention to a few of these. They would pay much more attention to Slashdot editors forwarding this post to them and saying they would have posted it, except that Blizzard is violating basic standards of conduct in the treatment of bnetd. Bad corporations don't deserve free advertising, and putting in a small note about bnetd does not make this any less of an advertisement.
How many though will say they were wrong to shut down bnetd as they hand them $50?
Not me; I'll simply be handing them 50$.
I'm not generally apathetic, but over this particular issue, I couldn't care less. If it turned out that Blizzard executives needed to drink the blood of open source programmers daily to ensure the continued high quality of their excellent titles, I would consider it blood well drank.
~jeff
Bnetd won't matter when Warcraft3 comes out because then people can buy it to play instead, of pirating the beta--which is like 99% of the interesting in bnetd at the moment.
4. Give Blizzard an instant online community and pave way for larger acceptence of their game by the number of servers (which they don't have to run or maintain!) available.
This is what Valve has done with Half Life. Why is this such a hard concept? Sell the game, but make the server freely available.
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
Hopefully Blizzard will drop their attack against Bnetd before the release.
They won't, but let's face it: it doesn't matter. Has the MPAA stopped shoving css & other protection down our throats? Nope. Is everybody still buying DVDs and going to see movies? Yep. Has RIAA stopped acting like complete strongarm jerks? Nope. Is everybody still buying music? Yep. Is Microsoft still bullying the crap out of small corps & OEMs? Yep. Is everybody still booting to Windows to play games? (I'm looking at you Taco) Yep.
We all get angry around here whenever some article is posted about evil corporation X, destroying small guy Y and screwing over populace Z. We're all up in arms about how we are boycotting them, and everyone should do the same. But we don't. We're just talk. Most of us anyway.
So don't hold any pretentions. We're all buying Warcraft 3 when it comes out, bnetd or no bnetd. We're gonna buy it, play it on our windows partition while listening a cd and playing a dvd in the background.
I'm getting modded down to flamebait aren't I? Crap.
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