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Warcraft III Expansion Goes Gold, Due July 1st
Thanks to several readers for pointing out that the Warcraft III expansion, The Frozen Throne, has gone gold - it's due in stores worldwide on July 1st. The add-on has an extensive official site describing new features, including extra campaigns, units, maps, an enhanced world editor, and new multiplayer clans and tournaments. The press release describes "initial orders of over 2.5 million copies", which is even more impressive considering Warcraft III has 'only' sold "well over 3 million copies".
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The press release describes "initial orders of over 2.5 million copies", which is even more impressive considering Warcraft III has 'only' sold "well over 3 million copies". are there really that many people buying the extension, or are there some people that have a pirated version that decided they like the game and now want to support blizzard?
Between thia and [for me] the long expected Never Winter Nights expansion I just lost several days of my life to the misty vortex of gaming.
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When they say initial orders of 2.5 million copies, they are talking about orders from STORES. Not consumers. Blizzard always does that with their press releases and most take it to mean that millions of copies have been preordered by consumers when that's just not the case.
Then I don't see how retailers are going to sell 2.5million copies of the game......There is a whole lot of piracy going on here.
Why can't Blizzard be cool and release the expansion for free like ID and the new RTCW?
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I had been so looking forward to that game after being addicted to WCII and SC. However, WCIII just didn't work for me, I think it's partly the 3D UI which made battles a bit cumbersome.
Hard to turn a blind eye, or a even a fat wallet, to that.
What, where the strategy is build 100s of units and rush before the first 5 mins of the game, it doesn't even have a strategy anymore.
Anyone know what OS they want, or does it have it's own built in?
The thing I don't get is that the beta is still in progress. Or perhaps I should rephrase that... I get the reasoning, I just don't like it. I feel that it is irresponsible to release a game with the plan of having a patch right on release day. That's what they are going to do, though. :-(
Intelligent responses welcome, flames will be met with marshmallows.
If Blizzard wanted the whole world to be playing their betas, they would make it an open beta.
Sounds to me like you're just ranting cause you didn't get picked.
I believe that Blizzard did manage to add a bit more strategy into the mix, but like a lot of other posters have pointed out, battles don't end up boiling down to strategy they boil don't to how well you can use hotkeys - which you need to be able to do to implement your strategies.
This game sucks.
I was a war3x beta tester.
If you like war3, you will *LOVE* war3x. War3 is an incredible game and war3x expands upon it adding numerous new features that truely enhance game play. It really isn't just some expansion slapped together with a few new units and a new type of map to sell copies. It was well thought out and has quite a few gameplay improvements. Blizzard really deserves a hand for war3x, it was above and beyond what I was expecting in an expansion (after seeing Broodwar that is!)
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I rarely buy a PC game. I typically download it, play it for a day or 2, and dismiss it.... ;)
Warcraft 3 is a different story. I found myself playing the downloaded copy for weeks. So many nights where the hours grew long and my eyelids grew heavy....
So i bought it. It stunned me that a game could hold such quality and replay value.
What i didnt expect, however, was to find that playing on bnet would introduce a whole new world of competition, and a unique modding community (The custom games are outstanding).
If you saw me right now, you would see that i didnt have time to take a shower this morning. Thats because until 3 am, i was playing on bnet, and sleep seemed suddenly less important than owning in footman tourny. And i cant stop. Blizzard has created one of the best games of all time, and ill be waiting in line for FT
By the way, if you havent bought it already, id really recommend the Deluxe Set, i got mine for 60 bucks (10 more than the standard), and i got the soundtrack on CD, a DVD disk with all the cinematics, a book filled with story and concept art, and some beatifull prints.
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Reverse engineering is and always has been legal.
The IBM compatible PC you are using would not exist without reverse engineering (assuming you aren't using an IBM).
Reverse engineering is a key part of the world economy. Anyone who doesn't know that is woefully ignorant.
In every other industry reverse engineering is legal, it is only the DMCA that makes it illegal in this case, which is probably unconstitutional.
And Blizzard used this heinous, evil law against their customers, hence they are evil and YOU are an idiot for supporting them.
"There are laws that enslave men, and laws that set them free. " - Sean Connery as King Arthur
I shouldn't even reply to anonymous cowards, but your premise is idiotic.
So what if a beta improves product quality. That should not give the software industry the right to kill reverse engineering, nor should it excuse Blizzard's attempts to SLAPP BnetD with the DMCA.
Following your logic, it is ok if IBM sues American Megatrends since IBM will give us better quality. Who cares that IBM was closed and opposed to change and clone PCs because that was against their product plans.
This is the whole damn point of reverse engineering! If someone can keep their invention closed for FOREVER, society does NOT benefit. That is why patents expire! It's why copyright SHOULD expire.
And Blizzard was bad, and everyone on here KNOWS they were bad, but because you like their product, you will bend over and take it. Fool. In the end, you can blame yourself for the corporate chains that bind you.
And yeah, Moderator, go ahead and mod this as a troll like you did the other one, even though I have said nothing but the TRUTH!
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