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flamedance58:
Actually what I'm saying is correct in a sense...if a MMO has 2m subscribers and then dies a week later because it releases updates that fucks with the system and everyone hates it...it ain't successful.
It's the same way that doing your homework is good but when schools gives you so much homework it's overwhelming and takes over your social life and everything else it's not successful for a proper learning experience.
Just cause a ton of people play it at the moment doesn't make it successful; the game has to be able to hold good numbers that gives the company enough money to pay for all costs and extra for payments and even more to prove that the game is doing so well over a time that it doesn't have any issues.
It's not so much a popularity issue cause if it was then WoW should be the best thing since sliced bread and all MMO companies other than Blizzard should admit failure cause their not WoW and just give up :P (aka Fast Food Wars of Judge Dredd).
Borror0:
--- Quote from: flamedance58 on September 17, 2009, 06:18:04 AM ---Actually what I'm saying is correct in a sense...if a MMO has 2m subscribers and then dies a week later because it releases updates that fucks with the system and everyone hates it...it ain't successful.
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By your logic, were Blizzard were to make such a huge mistake that they would lose such a large percentage of their playerbase and be forced to close all servers, the only logical position that one could hold would be that World of Warcraft never was a successful game.
That's well beyond preposterous.
If a game had two million subscribers, it was successful. If it suddenly loses so many subscribers that it is forced to stop all services, then it stopped being successful. However, the position that it never was a successful game is simply nonsensical.
More importantly, when deciding if a game is currently successful, looking at the number of active players is a very good metric; second only to net profits.
Slysoft:
This video may have already been posted, but here is a preview at some of the dungeons that were added in patch 1.5 (the build NA and EU will be launching in)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8Po_tSfrEM
Make sure to watch in HD!
Drew:
--- Quote from: Slysoft on September 17, 2009, 06:56:58 AM ---This video may have already been posted, but here is a preview at some of the dungeons that were added in patch 1.5 (the build NA and EU will be launching in)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8Po_tSfrEM
Make sure to watch in HD!
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Awesome. Glad to see strong PvE and PvP at endgame.
Also, for those thinking about Israphel: stop. Ebonlore and BR zergs are invading. Stay the FUCK away. I think Zikel is a better option at this point (plus, they've got an awesome community site Zikel.net).
Slysoft:
Or you can come to Azphel and hang out with yours truely and my legion of amazing.
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