Trotskygrad wrote:
Uzique wrote:
i think completely ignoring personal quibbles with game-content / genre / game-style
calling a game that has been the biggest commercial gaming success of all time
and the most widely-played and widely-popular (as in, penetrating popular culture as well as gaming culture) title
cannot by ANY definition be deemed a 'failure': not financially, not developmentally, not critically
love it or hate it, im afraid warcraft is one of the milestones in the (online) PC gaming industry, and won't go away any time soon- despite your puerile whines and silly little baby cries.
tbh, there are two industries
MMORPG PC gaming
and
PC Gaming (non-MMORPG)
Although some companies (Blizzard) span both.
there aren't two fucking industries any way you cut it
inserting your own arbitrary, gay fucking distinctions doesn't somehow 'make them so' according to your whimsical taste
blizzard, even ignoring their past catalogue (RTS, RPG) are part of a conglomerate with dev-studios, publishers and gaming companies that release a DIVERSE range of games in multiple genres. you can't bullshit some 'MMORPG gaming is different from PC gaming'. in industry analysis, financial stats etc. it's all the goddamn same. computer games, money, popularity. same. shit.
also i cannot think of any company that only-exclusively releases MMORPG games and does not contribute or develop for other areas. for a start it would be an extremely weak business model, because the MMO market is pretty much entirely cornered by world of warcraft. in other words, YOU ARE COMPLETELY TALKING OUT OF YOUR ASS.
@seymore: cry more dude. i worked to top-rank in the pre-TBC pvp rank system. the burning crusade felt like the same kick in the teeth to the 'hardcore elite' as wrath of the lich king felt to you welfare-state TBC players. TBC made the game FAR easier and FAR more accessible than pre-TBC. wotlk continued in that direction... but i don't think TBC players are entitled to whine. at all. besides, use it as a chance: WoW now casually fits in with perfectly active lifestyles. im not sure i'd want to be grinding pvp-ranks again, at this age and at this point in my life.
Last edited by Uzique (2010-06-04 09:13:52)