09-10-2003, 10:06 PM
The thing is, Diablo II is probably not the target game for that article. I play Dark Age of Camelot (and work at the IGN site for it, www.camelotvault.com), and you should just peruse some of the boards there to see what TRUE vile and venom is. MMORPG's tend to have the biggest (and boy do i mean biggest) whiners you'll ever see running around there. THEY, in my opinion, are the ones who need to get their act together. Verant died when McQuaid and the people who made EQ left, and SOE/Sony took over. Sony's actually notorious for taking good franchises and murdering them, Twisted Metal, GTA, arguably Final Fantasy after 7 (10 was good, and I've heard good things about 11, but that's all after Square also joined up with Nintendo for some other games), Galaxies (/cries), etc. But I digress. And I do not know why Blizzard is even still doing 1.10, they are being flamed (understatement) pretty harshly for it.
Blizzard is a company that has the rare ability to cater to the mass market as well as hardcore players. That's why they do good in my opinion. If you want to see a purely money making idea, see the Sims and their 4536348957938475 expansions.
Just my 2 cents.
Blizzard is a company that has the rare ability to cater to the mass market as well as hardcore players. That's why they do good in my opinion. If you want to see a purely money making idea, see the Sims and their 4536348957938475 expansions.
Just my 2 cents.