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one of their comercials are advertising......11 million subscribers......

in the time since Vanguard launched, and lost 200,000 accounts, Blizzards ADDED "2 million" subcribers. thats just staggering, if its true.

also herd a rumor that Blizzard was bought by some company, SOE mabe. just what i herd. not verified.

He's busy herding rumors. You know how it is.

I'd call them ruppies in honor of scooby doo.

Pumors has a nice ring to it, though.

Edited, Jan 8th 2008 2:52pm by tarubstchef

Activision won't bring anything to WoW, just like Blizzard won't bring anything to any Activision titles. It's a very blunt merger...combine financial juggernauts to head off EA and ensure there's a company larger than them. Activision & Blizzard remain seperate entities in how they function and go about their day to day business. That, and their wallet is fatter.

As long as Sony continues with EQ and EQII, I don't care.

And no, those numbers don't mean that the games are no good. Just that one is more appealling to the larger crowd.

I hope not, because imo a game like EQII is good as it is. Sure, changing it might improve it, from my point of view, but I'm not really convinced it will.

Let Sony develop a new one, granted that will take years and it is unlikely that if Sony wants to change their ways that they'll do it in a couple of years.

That's alledgedly not true, sure it's a possibility ofcourse but I do wonder how much that would alter the game if it were true.

He never said there was no reason why. I don't know EQ2 that well but there's big differences between EQ and WoW which would make WoW more casual friendly and EQ appealing to a smaller group of "die hard" types.

Sony's Blu-ray technology just landed 70% of the movie market, my guess is that's where their resources will be going.
Doubt it.

yea, they did a fair job refocusing EQ2 toward the casual crowd. they get a little closer too with every expansion, the latest closer still than all the rest. they have reaped benifits from it too.

but not enough. adding another 50 to 60k subscribers is too little too late when your competitor lands another 2 million accounts in the same time frame.its like hiring another car sales man who increases your sales by 6 cars a month while you watch bob across the street selling so many cars he buys the other 5 dealerships surrounding yours in the same time frame.

time for new management. time for a new plan. time to either spinn off the entire department developers and all or fire them for underperforming and find some who can get you there as opposed to twinking things here and there so its "working as intended".

and what do you do with all the fantastic content you have already created? scrap it? or use it as a foundation to "get you there" a whole lot faster?

they would be absolute fools to try remaking Vanguard in the immage of either EQ1 or EQ2. bigger fools if they let all that content from their current titles, most of which has not been seen by the majority of their subscribers, fade away.

its pretty sure a given they are going to chase Blizzards market. its just a matter of if they start from scratch and waste a whole lot of time developing the foundation, or they hit the fast track and revamp and rerelease one of their current titles targeting that market. my money is on the later.

either way, i would expect something drastic to happen before this year is out. in this market, you have to hit it when its hot. you wait too long you end up with another Vanguard. a great game for a market that left for greener pastures 5 years ago.

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