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Originally Posted by 2ndgenz28
Like all those companies that charge ya $5.99 a month to put a pic of a girl in a bikini on your cell phone. People wise up after a while and the new hype fad that you gotta be cool and have that plus the new daily ring tones, fades away when folks realize its a self destructive cycle to milk you dry by playing on your need to fit in.
The southpark episode on WOW was so accurate.
Only way to get anywhere in the game is to sit there 24/7 365 turning into a fat lump that has no purpose outside the game.
StarCraft was always a 3rd rate game on the Blizz scale, WOW and Diablo swapped 1-2nd all the time, but StarCraft was ubar lame, I don't know anyone who played it back then, cept girls.
The real successful model to copy is GTA, they survived and will prosper for years to come. 1 price to pay, with common sense moves forward in technology, sticking to their core fans needs. All other games have gone the wrong way. Quake is dead, Doom is dead, they ruined Duke Nukem with a sidescroller, Unreal turned into UT and still died, AOE dead....................
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Even though it won't last forever, I don't think anything with 11.5 million subscribers can be compared to a "$5.99 bikini app"... Yes, some of those subscribers from the US can be stereo-typed as "fat lumps playing 24/7 365", but thats because many WoW players are carry overs from previous popular MMORPG games that did require excessive amounts of time to play. But what WoW has done is made it a semi-casual game that you can play for a little if you want and still feel like you did something. Its easier than ever to get right in and experience the core features of the game, and spend less than an hour on your computer. It can be considered a family friendly game (General Chat topics aside) where parents and kids play together. My wife and I play, yet we have a 14 month old son and still find plenty of time to spend with him and participate in the world outside of the computer room. Its not different than paying $15 extra a month on your cable bill so you can watch movies from time to time. It's just personal preference
Kind of like picking a Camaro color! They're all great, it's just which one you like best.
Now, back to StarCraft. I don't know any girls that played it. My friends and I used to play a lot back in the day. We would have 8 of us at someones house for a LAN party and play Quake 3 and StarCraft for hours. Yes we were nerds, but we had fun! And we were the ones these games were geared for. Now they are making them more open to the masses.
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Originally Posted by SleepWarz
12 year old game with shinny new graphics? No thanks.
However it is better than the pile of junk known as Supreme Commander 2.
Damn multiplatform ruins everything.
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Its not just shinny new graphics. While the overall gameplay may feel similar (as with most RTS games), its a completely new experience. The majority of the units are new, maps have much more depth and interaction, and they have completely overhauled Battle.net to be much more user-friendly.