WoW players are largely made up of Blizzard fan boys. Blizzard as always did their homework and know their core audience well. They studied the existing MMOs and made a version that would fit the tast of their existing customers. While its a bloody good job and all that, the answer is yes. But not by copying. You will have to find a common ground of those that are not impressed by WoW, and build a customer base from that. Will have to be a long term strategy though. Blizzard didnt happen overnight as some seem to think.
As usual americans don't have to brains to distinguish detail. The post was really about monopolies and dominance of business interests over consumer interests. Refering to consumer/citizen interests as socialism is just the usual hawkish bullcrap.
at least the download is quite slow. Who wouldn't want to wait 4 hours for the amazing revelation that you have to train your filter well or you will get false positives.
So the old generation game designer is whining about being pushed to the side??? Uhm, 2d games have looked a bit dull for nearly a decade now, haven't they? Personally I find WoW very unattractive, but AoE, dont make me laugh. It looks likes something for the IBM PC XT. Way way over it's sell by date.
In itself that is a perfectly rational reason for such a service. The problem is that networks/distributors will decide that it is easier to show toned down versions of all "controversial" movies, to avoid controversy and cover as big a market as possible, why have too versions when one version will be acceptable to all. You easily end up with wholesale censorship where everyone are forced to see the same clean version.
Imo, it is much better when it is the studio/original editor that does the editing of a "clean" version. That way the movie has a much better chance of maintaining the original plot/point.
England adopted the US convention many many years ago, as with so many other things. But yes I suppose that in most other European languages it's called millard
Good to see that the government have the welfare of the people they govern foremost on their minds.
P.S. Colapse of civilisation requires that you have a civilisation, and I guess it also has to be the only one.
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WoW players are largely made up of Blizzard fan boys. Blizzard as always did their homework and know their core audience well. They studied the existing MMOs and made a version that would fit the tast of their existing customers. While its a bloody good job and all that, the answer is yes. But not by copying. You will have to find a common ground of those that are not impressed by WoW, and build a customer base from that. Will have to be a long term strategy though. Blizzard didnt happen overnight as some seem to think.
As usual americans don't have to brains to distinguish detail. The post was really about monopolies and dominance of business interests over consumer interests. Refering to consumer/citizen interests as socialism is just the usual hawkish bullcrap.
By the end of the decade global IT trends will not be dictated by US corporate spending.
at least the download is quite slow. Who wouldn't want to wait 4 hours for the amazing revelation that you have to train your filter well or you will get false positives.
So the old generation game designer is whining about being pushed to the side??? Uhm, 2d games have looked a bit dull for nearly a decade now, haven't they? Personally I find WoW very unattractive, but AoE, dont make me laugh. It looks likes something for the IBM PC XT. Way way over it's sell by date.
In itself that is a perfectly rational reason for such a service. The problem is that networks/distributors will decide that it is easier to show toned down versions of all "controversial" movies, to avoid controversy and cover as big a market as possible, why have too versions when one version will be acceptable to all. You easily end up with wholesale censorship where everyone are forced to see the same clean version. Imo, it is much better when it is the studio/original editor that does the editing of a "clean" version. That way the movie has a much better chance of maintaining the original plot/point.
England adopted the US convention many many years ago, as with so many other things. But yes I suppose that in most other European languages it's called millard
Good to see that the government have the welfare of the people they govern foremost on their minds. P.S. Colapse of civilisation requires that you have a civilisation, and I guess it also has to be the only one.