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Originally Posted by Kaiser
*stabs Perfecttear in the spleen and fills the wound with bacon*Quote:
Originally Posted by Perfecttear
Thnx for the link :3
Haha, 25 days after this topic was made BR is released. Oh the delicious irony!
It hasn't even been made official yet, but instead surfaced as a leak likely due to an exclusive arrangement. For all we know it might not be for another day or two that they release the report officially on their website.Quote:
Originally Posted by TychusFindlay
Maybe Blizzard let news of it slip early, and then intentionally let it wane under the hope some media outlet would bribe them to get exclusive release first while the localization has long since been completed.
It's sad that thoughts like this enter my mind. This is how much trust I have for Blizzard these days. I think the Activision merger tarnished my outlook on them...
If blizzard wanted to have an exclusive slip like this then they wouldn't give it to a small scale German website that is not widely known amongst the internet, especially when germans account for like less then 5% of starcraft players.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blazur
blizzard is a company, nothing has changed. Look at these campaigns blizzard licensed for development for a quick buck.
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/...sfs/index.html
not only that, but after seeing its pathetic piece of crap failure, they subsequently licensed another spin-off
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/...result;title;2.
Still don't believe me? Go pirate (and I think when games are that bad, not pirating the product should be a criminal offense) and play them.
Blizzard has always been about making money. Every single company is. The difference is the way they go about doing this. Every major company screws up, and makes unpopular decisions. Blizzard is exceptional to gaming because, they have never produced a in-studio game that could be considered "bad". As long as they maintain this record, I'll have faith in them. Because they do what I pay them to do. Make awesome games.
I couldn't care less with blizzard merger with activision, I don't know why you do.
People need to realize that the game industry is not an artform, but a service. Artists can sell-out when they cheapen the quality of their work. Games cannot. If you believe their service no longer caters to you, then you can stop buying it, and if you believe a exec level decision will affect your continued consumer ship, you can bitch and moan about it. But ever since blizzard joined sierra and made wc1, they've been obligated by law to appease their share-holders. In other words, make money.
Sad that this thought enters your mind? I thought it was obvious? Nothing wrong with it really either. It's just a BR.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blazur
True that. In fact, isn't it a law that a company's first priority is to make a profit?Quote:
Blizzard has always been about making money. Every single company is.
No. You're confusing "company" with "corporation".Quote:
In fact, isn't it a law that a company's first priority is to make a profit?
The CEO and other high executives of a corporation are legally required to take actions that maximize profits for the company. This is generally to prevent things like ENRON and so forth, where corporate executives secretly gut a company for their own gain. Such things hurt the owners of the corporation (ie: the public. A corporation is a publicly-held company).
Privately owned companies like most small businesses do not have this requirement. Since investors in a private company generally know the people and have contracts with them for money invested and so forth, there simply isn't a need to have such laws.
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Originally Posted by Artanis186
You're mean. *hugs Perfect Tear*
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Originally Posted by newcomplex
This QQ is utterly glorious.
*prints and frames*
This'll be great for a laugh with da boyz while heavily drinking. Who knows. It might actually make sense when we're drunk enough.
And it seems that they don't even do THAT that well. Remember when they said SC2 would be significantly delayed into 2010? That in tandem with the considerable economic stress in this period of history (SHRUBBERY!!!) caused all of their investors to freak out. I think Blizzard is attempting to walk a fine line between two different kinds of customer satisfaction. One wrong move and they screw it all up.Quote:
Originally Posted by newcomplex
*makes a nice tasty cake for Perfecttear......Quote:
Originally Posted by Kaiser
......and then eats it all right in front of her*
You had me up to this point.Quote:
Originally Posted by newcomplex
Is the film industry a service, too? What is the tangible difference between the entertainment I receive from watching a film and the one I get from playing a game? If film is a service as well, what's the game equivalent of the art-house film? What of the blockbuster that also has integrity?
I think this black-and-white view is seriously outdated. Thankfully, the rest of your point did not rest on this premise... nor did it have anything to do with it, really. :)