Wow. Just wow. You did not just say WoW isn't that big yet. Can you name one game that has made more profit or revenue than WoW?
8 Mil sales is impressive for a video game, but average in more established media industries. Don't forget the first feature-length film was made in 1906, that's 102 years of development. Games have been 3d for like 15-20 years now? The gaming industry is young and small.
That's why I'm having this discussion with you on some obscure swedish piracy site and not reading reviews in my local newspaper. Thus my doubt of such a documentary existing.
Wow. Just wow. You did not just say WoW isn't that big yet. Can you name one game that has made more profit or revenue than WoW?
8 Mil sales is impressive for a video game, but average in more established media industries. Don't forget the first feature-length film was made in 1906, that's 102 years of development. Games have been 3d for like 15-20 years now? The gaming industry is young and small.
That's why I'm having this discussion with you on some obscure swedish piracy site and not reading reviews in my local newspaper. Thus my doubt of such a documentary existing.
Whoops my mistake dazz, I'll go open that newspaper firm now & create a section on my local tv breakfast news show for the latest upcoming videogame & celebrity developer goss. I'll start putting wow avatars on cereal boxes and generate some magazines to share & photograph celebrity devs & game goss. I'll start that Saturday Night Live spinoff I've been wanting to for so long, but instead of having actors and musicians, I'll go for a more "popular" video game approach, with hardcore gamers and lan parties.
I say "popular" because as well all know, that fateful day when WoW popped to 10mil subscribers, America gave up one of it's best export industries in favour of a new young & unrefined video game based industry. Thus not only had video games been massive before, their closest simile just vanished.
I'm so glad they got those extra 2 million subscribers, it totally changed the world.
Whoops my mistake dazz, I'll go open that newspaper firm now & create a section on my local tv breakfast news show for the latest upcoming videogame & celebrity developer goss. I'll start putting wow avatars on cereal boxes and generate some magazines to share & photograph celebrity devs & game goss. I'll start that Saturday Night Live spinoff I've been wanting to for so long, but instead of having actors and musicians, I'll go for a more "popular" video game approach, with hardcore gamers and lan parties.
I say "popular" because as well all know, that fateful day when WoW popped to 10mil subscribers, America gave up one of it's best export industries in favour of a new young & unrefined video game based industry. Thus not only had video games been massive before, their closest simile just vanished.
I'm so glad they got those extra 2 million subscribers, it totally changed the world.
oh so that's why it was bold, too bad the point still doesn't make sense?! care to elaborate?
you're saying that since they're subscribers, games are more likely to have a bigger cultural impact and thus be more likely to have a documentary on one of it's aspects? cause my point was that imo games don't have a large enough cultural base to be explored through documentary as such.
Actually, ive seen several documentaries about mmorpg players.
so I have I.
I have seen documentaries about World of Warcraft, chinese gold farmers, lots and lots of stuff about starcraft progamers and progaming in general. was nothing like that 5 years ago but nowadays I see those things pretty often on tv.
Submiqent, maybe in whatever country you live in, they don't show stuff like that.
That doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Stop beeing ignorant.
Yeah okay I'm wrong. Good game, nice played, just flat out wrong. The only thing I can say was I posted my honest opinion to a question some guy asked.
oh so that's why it was bold, too bad the point still doesn't make sense?! care to elaborate?
you're saying that since they're subscribers, games are more likely to have a bigger cultural impact and thus be more likely to have a documentary on one of it's aspects? cause my point was that imo games don't have a large enough cultural base to be explored through documentary as such.
i mean really, wtf.
sorry dutch/Netherlands piracy site, my bad! :/
He means you're a retard (and i tend to agree). You said it has only made 8 million sales, while it has 10 million subscribers. A subscription costs like $20 a month, which means it makes over 1 billion per year.
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He means you're a retard (and i tend to agree). You said it has only made 8 million sales, while it has 10 million subscribers. A subscription costs like $20 a month, which means it makes over 1 billion per year.
Point was that I didn't think gaming had enough cultural significance to warrant documentaries. I was wrong, there are documantaries. Money had nothing to do with it.
Actually, it's more than that tiedie. In Europe, they pay €15, not $15. And since 1 euro is almost twice as much as a dollar, and since i assume that at at least 20-40% of all players come from Europe, that means a total yearly income of well over 2 billion U.S. dollars. That's just way too fucking much. That's probably enough to pay the yearly salaries of every single blizzard employee for 20 years, so i don't see how they justify such a fee. But hey, if retarded wow fags are addicted enough to swallow shit like that, why not bleed 'em for everything they're worth?
The day i pay €19.99 for a game, and then another €15 every month, for a total of €180 per year for a game with Playstation 1 graphics, no single player campaign, no storyline, hardly any A.I., just mindless hordes of 1337-speaking shit-for-brains, is the day i run my nuts through a meat grinder and eat them.
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That's because i fucking hate MMORPG's. And anyone who throws money at them, thus perpetuating the evil cycle and stealing money from games that are actually worth a shit should be burned alive. Seriously, watch zero punctuation for every good reason why MMORPG's blow huge fucking chunks.
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It's all a matter of personal taste - and I don't just mean in this thread. Have you honestly ever done a reply without cursing? It's not as if the cursing makes what you say more interesting or true
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It's all a matter of personal taste - and I don't just mean in this thread. Have you honestly ever done a reply without cursing? It's not as if the cursing makes what you say more interesting or true
I don't do it to add validity to my arguments. I do it because i want to. And yes, i have made plenty of replies without cursing. But this isn't one of them.
Fuck.
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