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Age of Conan's "Kinda" Launch and Massive Pre-Orders
While some are already enjoying the joys of Age of Conan via the early launch, many more will soon be enjoying the fruits of Funcom's labor. An amazing 700,000 copies of the game are being shipped to retailers for day one sales and in some locations pre-orders will not be filled due to server limitations. Between this and the new Warhammer game on the way, should Blizzard be worried, or will Wrath of the Lich King continue to hold their competitive edge?
Don't forget people, Blizzard is evil.
They were one of the early abusers of the DMCA hammer, and they used it to shut down reverse engineering of the server protocol that would have allowed widespread modifications of the Diablo 2 engine.
Blizzard does not allow mods like Valve does.
They ARE out to get you simply because They are in it for themselves and they don't care about you.
Indeed, I really hate this "Windows owns 95% of the marketshare" myth.
It really is a myth, as far as games are concerned:
- the marketshare numbers we keep hearing about are not about installed base, but sales
- even if we go with these numbers, it's still wrong because it counts Windows servers and corporate desktops and laptops
- it counts all users as being a possible market for games, which it isn't
As you say, if 40% of college students are buying Macs, why the hell are game companies so stuck up on the "Windows has 95% of the market" mantra? Are they all stupid, or what?
That's like all these game developers who keep saying that the Wii is inferior hardware and isn't really a next-gen system (but they still continue to make PS2 games anyway). So what, that's the best-selling gaming system right now, apart from the Nintendo DS, which is not only another Nintendo system, but even more "inferior" specs-wise.
If the gamers have Macs and Wiis, then make games for these systems!