Warcraft 3 Sells Like Mad

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  I agree , and look at the money the Spiderman movie has made even though it got released on the net in go... : goatsecxy
  • and you think this will keep the studios and software piracy crusaders from bitching? : dafragsta
  • I wasn't even aware of that! I think most people went to see that movie reguardless if it was available o... : MarksmanX
  • I would guess that more people are into pirated games than movies. Especially geeks. Not all movie goer... : Freon
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  their argument is "we could have made MORE", nothing is ever enough in capitalism, its always about MORE ... : derean
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    Capitalism is the worst economic-political system, except for all the others. : joejoe55
    • who are you quoting? I'm drawing a blank : Bali
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    So, I guess the US, which is founded on the ideas and principles of Capitalism, is the work of the Devil?... : wolfnipplechips
    • I think he was being a smart ass. And the US was founded on a lot of different principles including Capi... : Vorlonesque
    • The founding fathers also knew the value of a balance between copyright and the common man. But I don't ... : sinistarfith
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  Oh hell they would made a lot more if it wasn't for pirates. I guess they jacked up the price to compensa... : MarksmanX
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    the problem is that they equate that every pirated game turns into a non-sale, but what they dont underst... : derean
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      So let me get your thinking straight here. What you're saying is that when you pirated a game which you p... : MarksmanX
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        They charge more for the next game because they're a greedy company and they know that people will pay it... : insta
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          Hahaha oh man you gotta love this type of thinking. It's a business you fool. If you want a good quality ... : MarksmanX
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            What's MS have to do with it? Blizzard isn't protecting their investment, they are overcharging because ... : insta
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              Well MS is a company that makes software like Blizzard. So you might see a connection there. Well I ... : MarksmanX
              • See, you aren't even making sense now. First, you try and equate product activation with overpricing, and... : insta
            • Then dont buy it if its so bad. It was in development for 4+ years. Lots of money/resources went into... : ratman
            • "Blizzard didn't spend millions on R&D to create WarCraft++, ..." What? How would you know how much t... : wolfnipplechips
      • you just completely twisted his words around. : ratman
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        thing is that they think that if someone didnt have access to a pirated copy he wouldve bought one, which... : derean
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          Yeah, the 100% loss idea is a myth. Not all pirated copies are a lost sale. If I had to guess I'd say m : Freon
          • dude we're totally on the same page here :) : derean
  • Making non-commercial copies of software is not against the law. : parker
• So? What if it would have sold 2million copies if piracty didn't exist? Just because a game is successful... : SERIOUSly the SAMe

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  I will bend over, grab the table, grin and force a smile. Just like I did with with Warcraft 3. : johnny rotten
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    Hahaha I think most of us will too. Just like most of do with the Ti 4600 :) : MarksmanX
    • I was smart enough to buy a 4400 for 220 bucks...and I'll upgrade again for about that next year. But I ... : Vorlonesque
• hell i dont care, ill be spending thousands of dollars on a new computer to run doom3, might as well spen... : -=ZooL=-

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  Well you can't play on BNET. But there are pirated servers like work like BNET that the pirated people pl... : MarksmanX
  • not to mention the warez mofos cant watch replays either : sshock
  • Let's clarify the statement "there are pirated servers like work like BNET". For the record, the servers : sinistarfith
• i suck online with rts games anyway :) a pirated copy will work over lans from what i hear. : -=ZooL=-

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• That is some funny crap.. probably true ;) : Erit

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• NWN is soo last three weeks man! Get with the times man! : MarksmanX
• Yea but NWN only kept me hooked for a week : Nighteyes

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• riiiiight. SC = Rape resources, build millions of zergs and rush. If anything, Warcraft 3 takes quite a b... : fluze
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  is you only know how to do zerg rushes thenyour not really playing the game, zerg rushes are so old style... : Rageaholic
  • Your probably right on the highest levels of play. The skill that like Boxer has in bw just isnt there in... : ratman
  • I agree totally! I would have hoped that after five years I could safely take someone on online and NOT ... : Omaha

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  At least most of Asia... which is what, over a billion people? : Maddog_Delphi97
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    Try 2.5 to 3 billion. China alone has 1 billion, India has about another 1 billion. The rest of them, Jap... : futtbucker
    • Yes, that's all true (I didn't think of India and some of the pacific islands as being part of Asia, such... : Maddog_Delphi97

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• its a good game, but its true i uninstalled it once when i finished it, it does not really push me to go ... : Rageaholic
• its worth hanging on to if you like multiplayer... the new bnet is great. : foof
• I'll give you $20 for your copy. : Omaha

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• They kind of hinted in the artwork book that a movie was not a big priority at the moment. Way too much o... : Ben Barker
• StarCraft must come first. : Omaha

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• I got mine for 45$. : crazywigga
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  Amazing too that Blizz brings in the cash in wheelbarrows but still charges a fist. US: Give something... : Reignman
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    Give something back? Like what? You can make your own custom maps, they even have ladders for the people ... : MarksmanX
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      Battle net is a lot of giving back too. : Ben Barker
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        BNET is an UNBELIEVABLE amount of giving back. : proclone1
        • I don't really think of Bnet as giving back.... without bnet, a ton of the appeal of the games would b... : halfwaybastard
        • Heh. I remember once hearing some a-hole who worked at EA saying that Blizzard was stupid for giving batt... : hangingChad
• i picked up my special edition for $54 ;) but i had store credit : jedi_27

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• No. KEKEKEKEKEKEKE! : laidback

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  i wonder what % of sales are mac. 10%? Couldn't be 50%, could it? Could a mac release really boost sales ... : sucko
  • typically mac sales are about 8-12% of what a hit pc title makes. : johnny rotten
  • It was 6 sold for mac. : ---D1cKy-Mo3---
• thats right! the reason is the MAC!!! good call and i sure it has nothing to do with the following: 1)... : jedi_27
• hum yeah, im sure people use macs outside of san fransisco, NOT : derean
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  I thought D2 was the same way? : artillery
  • it was, but not on a hybrid disc. : slax0r

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  Yeah!! Or else... or else I'll buy it anyways!! I'll show them fuckers!! : johnny rotten
  • me 2 :( i was just trying to be optimistic :P : hohoh0
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  It'll probably be around $40-50, I bet. : insta
  • hahaha I'd think they'd they keep it to $35, unless it's OMG SUPER EXTRA POWER EXPANSION WITH NAKED JAINA... : artillery

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• agreed. That elf chick was a real biatch... though the Orc dude wasn't too bad. : SgtFritz
• I hate how much the interface takes up so much real estate : ---D1cKy-Mo3---
• omg spoiler : ratman
• I'm sure Arthas will get his in the expansion pack. The story said he's probably going to be the host bo : sevogajre
• This is what I thought was *great* about the game. No longer is it just "every race except human is evil" : Entity

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• http://www.gogamer.com/cgi-bin/GoGamer.storefront/3d3c50600155a0a6273fd0fedee206b0/Product/View/001WARC3 : halfwaybastard

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  I might do it. : Caboose
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    I just can't play that damn game, the human missions in SP are so damn tedious... it gets better does it? : KinetiK
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      The Human missions are cake. It gets a lot better anyway. MP is where it's at, though. : Zillax0rz
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        I've had it with MP, I want SP goodness and thusfar this game is lacking. I hope things improve after th... : KinetiK
        • i didnt think any of SP was particularly good. all decent, but not great. : foof
    • Yeah it get much better :) The game is pretty enjoyable once you get what combination of units work good ... : MarksmanX
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  I played through the whole game, its basically the same thing over and over again, build a mixture of ene... : Rageaholic
  • or find a key to open a door and shoot more people.. whats your point : Hathcock2500
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    what were you expecting from a rts game then? : skankyhoe
    • I expect it to give an excellent head. And you? =) : Grigory
    • What about non-Starcraft missions in Warcraft?! : ---D1cKy-Mo3---

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• haha that happens to me so much, i see an aweful lot of profane words in signs that are like ordinary... ... : esky

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  Bnet = priceless : [7]kami
  • not to me : goatsecxy
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  Ummm, the Human campaign is only part of the game...so 6 hrs for that doesnt equal whole game from what y... : pimpium
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    Yes, I know. I will play the other campaigns too, of course. But I always thought of the human campains a... : Grigory
    • Drop the idea WC3 has race-campaigns. I had to. It's more of a story you're playing. You'll see. The pl... : [7]kami
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  The human campaign is just a small portion of the total SP experience. : [7]kami
  • Yes, I know. Please see post #11. : Grigory
• Yup they come close to final fantasy's cut scenes, the only thing I hated about the in game cutscenes wer... : Rageaholic
• Human campaign is only part of the game. There are many other campaigns to play counting the...yeah yeah... : handofthrawn
• There are a ton of more missions to play after the human campaign. : rndm
• ZUG ZUG... : *metal*

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  That was meant to be a replay to #3. : spl
  • Reply! I meant reply! : spl