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Given it's a list of games since the year 2000, is that really that surprising? Besides, I wouldn't be surprised if Fallout didn't make the list either.

I shoot the melee creatures before they can get close to me. In fact, I'm quite certain that people thought the idea of ranged weapons was useful because you could hurt your opponent while they couldn't hurt you. This going back to slings and whatnot.

Surely it can't top the robot sex bots that come in here!

Wait a minute. You two totally stole Epiphany's thunder!

I think they might get some of their feedback via focus groups now (even as far as bringing people to Bioware offices), as IMO the Bioware boards became pretty dominated by either the fanboy (whom typically has nothing of substance to contribute) or the hater (whom typically has nothing of substance to contribute). I left the Bioware boards mostly (outside of the fact that they currently aren't making a game I'm interested in) because the threads were either all fanboy nonsense, or some guy would come in, post something critical, and the fanboys would jump all over him with the thread being utter chaos. After seeing this thread alone (and the numerous other JE units sold threads), it's not surprising that Bioware would instantly shut down any thread regarding the topic. Not much use seems to come out of them. You'll get the fanboys arguing that it sold well, and the haters saying it was a disappointment. Bioware knows what the sales mean to Bioware, and if the game wasn't up to expectations sales wise, I would be surprised if they didn't stop to analyze why. They may have grown complacent because of previous success, but the only way I could see Bioware getting stuck in believing their own lies is if they actually did feel that Jade Empire sold well (paradox alert!). There may have been some rationalizations and whatnot, but given how big the company is now, the law of averages suggests that there's at least some people in positions of influence/power that recognized that they were making rationalizations. Yeah, it may have been good for a new IP, but that doesn't mean it's good enough for them. Perhaps they seek to rectify the situation with Mass Effect.

I could see that, as I'm sure people would like the decisions made in Gothic II to reflect on their character in Gothic III.

I think they have mentioned that if you can play RTW, you shouldn't have too much difficulty in playing M2TW. It just won't looks as nice as the screenshots. Of course, if you are having trouble playing RTW...

I don't think even that would change his mind. Why do you have the impression that Bioware is unwilling to accept criticism? I haven't really frequented the BioBoards for quite some time, so I'm a bit curious about that.

Fixed :D

If I was to pick someone that would be less biased compared to Sawyer and Microsoft, I'd pick Sawyer.

Please don't, you're just going to get Volourn started again.

Yeah. The ocean is probably bad! You can get your gasoline pure from the glaciers taks!

I think it might be a bit early to start comparing DA to DNF. At least DA wasn't started in 1997!

But water prices will skyrocket :D

Fair enough. Not saying it's impossible. Just rather strange. I don't understand the science of it, so I'll write it off as magic.

Hmm, it seems as though the "franchise sales" includes predecessors and whatnot. Which means that Half-Life (which sold over 8 million units worldwide) only sold a million of them in the US!

Actually, I'm quite confused at the numbers. I thought they were rather small. Now Valve has stated that Half-Life 2 has sold over 4 million copies. Yet that link has Half-Life 2 selling a mere 680,000 copies, with an obscure 1.5 million in "franchise sales." And it seems EA was Celebrating the success of Sims 2, when it sold 4.5 million units in 5 months. Yet I don't even think it made this list. In that list, only 7 games have sold more than a million copies on the PC in the last 6 years. Doesn't World of Warcraft have over 4 million subscriptions? Yet it's only sold 1.4 million units? EDIT: Seems as though that link indicates the Sims selling 16 million copies.

DOn't forget that it neglects the XBOX sales as well.

I could see that as an April Fools joke. Something that is fine for us to touch, but gets as hot as the surface of the sun if it touches anything else? Hmmmm.

What's the "Estimated Sales" compared to "Franchise Sales."

I wouldn't count on any DirectX 10 AGP cards being made.

Interesting.

I don't think so. I haven't seen any.

Something for the Christmas list!

I have heard that if you get "negative" Chivalry, it switches to dread. And yes, Princesses get their own stats IIRC. From the M2 wiki: Sounds like someone with high dread can scare other units!!! :D :D :D