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Warcraft III Gone Gold
0x00 writes "Shacknews seems to be the first to report that Warcraft III has gone gold. The press release is here. Blizzard have announced that the game will be available July 3rd around the world - just in time for my mid-year University break (great timing!)." Update: 06/13 15:16 GMT by M : Please consider the fact that Blizzard is suing people who write software to interoperate with theirs when deciding whether you want to purchase this game.
I've been waiting a long while for this one to come out. Now I'll start waiting for the expansion set to be released... :P
Like my productivity didn't suck enough already...
"Jesus saves sinners...and redeems them for valuable coupons"
"Please consider the fact that Blizzard is suing people who write software to interoperate with theirs when deciding whether you want to purchase this game."
How about:
Don't support Blizzard's dirty tactics, download the game on your local p2p network !
Better idea.
Don't send the money to the EFF, but mail Blizzard saying you did.
Then treat yourself to a dozen Krispy Kreme donuts for being crafty (War Crafty!)
I have been pwned because my
i just lost $50 to a guy. I told him Duke Nukem 4Eva would come out before this...
>Say what you like about Blizzard, they make some pretty damn good games.
.. ;)
This is from the 'i-know-ponies-kill-but-I-want-one-anyways' department
And my boycott is serious. No WCIII for me. It looks awesome, but somehow I imagine I will manage to scrape by.
"Old man yells at systemd"
Sadly, you're right. One could say, for example, "the sun is yellow", and:
54% would agree with you.
27% will say the sun may be yellow in America, but the rest of the world things it's more orangish
10% will flame the above 27% by saying "America != USA"
35% will ask about whether the sun shines on Linux
88% will complain that these numbers don't add up to 100%.
Lets see here ..
.. and will appeal to many people out there. But the style of game has been so badly abused over the past 10 years that it turns out to be the Same #$^@ Different Day.
Warcraft, Warcraft II, Command and Conquer, Red Alert, Age of Empires, Age of Empires II, Start Craft, Galatic Battlegrounds, etc, etc, etc.
Its to the point that you have played so many of these that they all seem to be same game.
Build a base
build units
enhance units
smash enemy
Wash
rinse
repeat
I played a friend of mines SWGB. After about 3 or 4 games, I removed it from my box, packaged it back up again, and gave it back to him.
Warcraft III is prob a great game
Just a ramble.
-- Knowing too much can get you killed, but knowing who knows too much can make you rich.
M: Please consider the fact that Blizzard is suing people who write software to interoperate with theirs when deciding whether you want to purchase this game.
Ok, I thought about it.
I don't care.
You forgot to mention that at least 7% will say that CowboyNeal is yellow.
Can I bum a sig?
Great idea! But If Blizzard gives you a counter-offer of Warcraft III Collector's Edition for just $49.99, should you accept it?
Well, if your relationship with Blizzard is good and you really feel like part of the team, I'd say go for it! If you think they're just stringing you along, I'd reject the counter-offer.
It really boils down to how much you think you can trust them.
I have been pwned because my
Let me see
:(
World Cup Soccer (so far i've only missed 3 matches)
Neverwinter nights.
Warcraft III.
Where does work fit in?
still reading?
It's $64.95 list and $79.99 for the collector's edition.
why not give the money to the EFF instead
I didn't know that the EFF was also a software retailer. How much do I save by buying from them?
--Jeremy
Jesus was a liberal
- 23% would say it's refering to the MPAA (before protesting that the MPAA is bad because "they sued Napster and they suck.", probably finishing with a joke about wanting to copyright the idea of singing and something about GNU/Rosen")
- 27% would claim that Nazis are bad because they had the word socialist in their name and therefore are socialists and everyone knows how bad socialists are like, er, free health care and public transport and free education and, er, no wait, no like China where they have a free market economy, no that's not right, hang on I mean...
- 32% have watched a film with Claude Van Damne in it where he and Stallone fought Nazis in Vietnam, or was it Chile, and, right there was this really cool scene where CVD argues with this border guard and the guard wont do what he wants so he kicks him in the nuts and it was AWESOME and Nazis suck!
- 17% would agree with the sentiment, though they're concerned that the only reason the Nazis are singled out as a prime example of evil are because of the overwhemling Liberal conspiracy in the press and on TV where GIANT LIBERAL OUTRAGES like Gary Condit can only get coverage on CNN 90% of the day for three months, and are taken off at the briefest hint of massive massacre of Americans. Anyway Nazis suck, just like communists. In fact, Orwell was right, Nazis are commies, freedom is slavery, war is peace, and ignorance is strength.
- 1% feel that Nazis are bad because they were a repressive regime that used racial hatred as a means to gain power, because they murdered millions of people who did not fit their idea of "perfection", and because they started one of the largest and most bloody wars in the history of humanity.
Depressing isn't it?It's $64.95 list and $79.99 for the collector's edition
Damn, I guess I'm joining the boycott by default. At least until ebay has it for $30.
"Only one thing, is impossible for god: to find any sense in any copyright law on the planet." Mark Twain
If the Sun was yellow then clouds and snow would look yellow, because they are very close to being perfect neutral light scatterers.
I don't know how, but somehow you've managed to fit a "yellow snow" joke into this conversation.
Do not eat.
~Will
sig?
And the 17% who will try to make a beowulf cluster out of several suns.