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Originally Posted by Thunderbolt56
I've never purchased or played WoW nor any of its iterations. Also comparing this sim to THE MOST SUCCESSFUL online game ever is kinda like apples and oranges.
There's no denying this genre represents a very small fraction of the comparable game sales of more demographically diverse genres, but you can expect me to be more protective and argue with more fervor on behalf of my hobby than the vast majority of those WoW players ever would for theirs. I might have less chance of being heard than a Who in Whoville, but I still shout as there is always a chance there might be a figurative Horton somewhere out there.
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Not really. The point in bringing it up is to offer perspective. Publishers and Developers are in this to make money. This is their business. Just because our genre is near and dear doesn't always agree with where the money is and where it will be spent.
In terms of being protective and arguing with more ferver you couldn't be more incorrect. They are just as freakish as any of us. They have all their calculations for all the zillions of items and classes just as much if not more than us given all the different variables with the game. There are entire business surrounding the information about Wow. The UI is open to be modded and it's frequently modded I might ad. So much so you need a client on your machine just to manage the software.
There is far more depth and breath to their software than with ours. We have so many flyables and so many things that can be done within our software.
They have an entire economy setup with full blown auction houses resembling ebay in the real world with tons of tools to search and sell items. In the game you actually make a living either by finding and selling things or actually making things.
Its such a deep game I can't even begin to scratch the surface.
Just because you and I are into the WWII Flying stuff and it has incredible history and Breadth doesn't mean they don't. You have no idea.
We have virtual squads with say 20-30 guys in it. They have entire Guilds with 100s of people. Remember some of their content can only be played with 40 guys at the same time working together to bring down the big guys. These are called raid guilds and one instance can take a few days to complete. Those aren't 1 hour sessions either. They last 3-6 hours at a time.
I will stop talking about it because it will go on and on.
The thing to remember is even though this game is so different from ours the backing and the idea is to sell software in the end.
Thinking that we are anything but tiny is fantacy. The fact that someone is willing to take a risks and spend time and money to build my favorite type of game is pretty incredible. Notice how many US based companies are releasing flight sims. I can think of one.. Microsoft. The rest of the big boyz are building console games and attempting to sap WOW.
Recent release of Age of Conan is the first real attemp to give wow a run for its money. 3 weeks old and it's already sold 1M copies.
06-12-2008, 06:37 PM
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