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How many of them on PC? ME has sold in total 2.2 million on the 360, I don't think it even made 500,000 on PC. While there is a chance to sell on the PC(Just look at the Sims 3 already sold 3.7 million) it's not as consistant as it is on consoles. DA will be the best test, there are no excuses for it not to sell better on PC. Out of the 8 million FO3 sales, I believe 1.3M was on the PC. Console games sell more units than PC games, that has been the case for a while now. The only exceptions are Blizzard games, the Sims and some Valve games.

Selling a million units is VERY good, especially on the PC. Mass Effect is Bioware's best selling game and sold pretty well, which is why they are cranking out Mass Effect 2 and eventually Mass Effect 3. Mass Effect sold one million units within the first three weeks.

It's a shame, everyone loves Startopia.

I'm not seeing a scene, I'm seeing a screenshot filled with jaggies. It's not like it's going to hinder the performance with that old games, just go to Ati Catalyst or the Nvidia control panel and set the anti-aliasing manually.

The jaggies, they burrrn my eyes! Why can't you just force fullscreen anti-aliasing?

Having someone from the former Yugoslavia defend a clearly totalitarian country is pretty weird as well. Just take a look at their censorship politics. Don't bring the US/EU into this, they might not be "innocence incarnate", but neither are they comparable to China.

Hello, totalitarian communist China? They pretty much do whatever they want. You watch too much CNN. So they don't have game addiction treating camps? It's all lies to make us hate the happy Chinese people?

Hello, totalitarian communist China? They pretty much do whatever they want. There's supposed to be one "real" game addiction clinic in the Netherlands as well.

As long as they do that to every MMO I'll be singing them praises. That stupid genre will be the ruin of the PC. They're not and censorship isn't good.

Ign says: The PC and 360 versions are still coming out together only 2 weeks later. Only the PS3 version is getting the shaft. It's not like anyone will actually play it on the PS3, so I don't see how that would make them lose anything.

That's rather harsh. You seem a bit cranky today. I'm just not a big fan of MMOs and I'm cranky about the whole KotOR 3 is an MMO business. Also, Bioware is being pretty ****y about their revolutionary "story-based MMO" thing, which I'll believe when I see it.

The question is, can Aion keep the players' interest. That's WoW's real trick, most MMOs get a large amount of subscriptions when they are released but drop down to a few 100k a month or two after that. If there's anything that is going to dethrone WoW, it's going to be Blizzard's next MMO. It would be nice to see it go head to head with TOR, but who know's when they'll release it. I'm sure TOR is going to do really well in the beginning, but the drop off should be even worse once everyone experiences the story and all that is left is (potentially bad) PvP and grinding. I seriously doubt that Bioware can create enough quality story to keep players on it for as long as WoW has. Fun side note: The Matrix Online was shut down just a week ago and they had some cool stuff happening(that you can see on youtube). EDIT: While Warcraft was a popular franchise before WoW, it is in no way comparable to Star Wars. It might have got them some extra numbers in the beginning, but the Warcraft franchise is not the reason for their success.

Nah, they'll do ok with ~100k subscribers, but yeah they won't be getting any WoW-like success. WoW exceeded some kind of critical mass that drew in all the crazy people who only play WoW and nothing else, all the other MMOs are mostly drawing from the same limited pool of players who jump from one game to another. EVE is one of the only MMOs that is always steadily gaining new players. The one server policy they have is pretty cool. It'll be fun to see The Old Republic try to take over the western market(and hopefully fall flat on it's face).

That's what you get when you deprive the Chinese of their WoW. If it wasn't for Aion maybe China would be democratic by now

It's some new pretty Korean-ish MMO using the Cryengine. I'm checking out someone's " " as I'm writing this, but it's more of a love letter.

It's always a pain in the ass to find some comprehensive statistics about MMO subscriptions. That is no longer the case, thanks to www.mmodata.net Here are some fun graphs: If anyone is wondering about the huge drop in WoW numbers, it's mostly because they are having problems in China and it's unavailable there at the moment.

It's Braid.

I totally agree, art direction is about making the game look appealing, having powerful graphics doesn't help if your game looks like ass.(Case in point: Fallout 3, Gears of War) There are beautiful games that require very little graphical power: The difference is really between having functional graphics(like AoD) that just depict what is going on and having the graphics bring the world to life.

What are you arguing about anyway? There's nothing wrong with 2D graphics, especially when they are well done, like in Phoenix Wright. Having bad art direction means stuff being generic(using some lame repeating clipart texture for walls) or just plain ugly.

Doom did lighting effects with some crazy pixel brightening technique, I believe it was called the "Carmack's Reverse". I don't see why you're bringing up Hearts of Iron, obviously it doesn't need lighting because it's a damn spreadsheet with a map clipped to in. Not that it's a bad thing, but it has no graphics, thus no lighting.

And he will counter sue and by "counter sue" I mean breath fire on them until they die.

I believe you are not familiar with Bio had something to do with this crap? I didn't notice the "they" part. No, it's just one of the worst recentish games made by anyone. Mako joke

I believe you are not familiar with

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Oh, I thought it was already out. I'm not really keeping up with the books after the Legacy of the Force travesty. I'm sure it has murder, though...