Comments on: Eh, What The Hell, It’s All Men In Tights

By: Muckbeast

Muckbeast — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:20:01 +0000

Epic, it does mean there are a lot of people who will.

Comic book sales are up 110% over the last 7 years. Super hero games do great on the console. Super hero movies do great. There’s no excuse for CoX having total control of the genre and sputtering by with 120,000 subs.

I’m not saying 120,000 subs doesn’t make for a successful business. Its just pretty disappointing when you have full ownership of a popular genre.

By: octopaganini

octopaganini — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:26:53 +0000

Unsub gets validation: http://blog.wired.com/games/2009/03/cryptic-using-n.html

Good scoop, dude.

By: EpicSquirt

EpicSquirt — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:50:58 +0000

@Muckbeast Only because I saw Dark Knight and all the other movies you've mentioned doesn't mean I want to play games based on the IP.

By: geldonyetich

geldonyetich — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:31:56 +0000

Man, what makes him so special? Where’s my CoH private message offering me Champions Online beta access? I’ve had a beta app open with them for ages.

By: Muckbeast

Muckbeast — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:09:49 +0000

I definitely think this crosses the line because they are using CoX’s resources (message boards) to distribute the messages. They are knowingly and deliberately violating the terms of service to steal customers. That’s beyond the pale.

All they have to do is make a post somehwere that allows people to sign up for an instant beta invite if they can verify having an active, current CoX account. Not so hard.

It amazes me that such a bumbling, incompetent group of fools (CoX *and* CO) have total control of such a hugely popular genre – superheroes.

Dark Knight just passed $1 billion worldwide, and is 1 of only 4 movies to ever do so (the other 3 are Titanic, LOTR: Return of the King, and one of the Pirates of the Carribean Movies – I think the lastone). Iron Man, Hulk (the new one!), Spiderman, etc. are all blockbuster hits.

And here we have only one active games, sputtering incomptently with ~120,000 subs, and one other developer engaging in pretty disgusting tactics to try and sandbag them.

Amazing.

-Michael

By: Zuzax

Zuzax — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:26:49 +0000

I will be incredibly surprised if Champions Online launches. Most of the player base was incredibly happy to see Jack leave, and the game has been better for it.

By: Angelworks

Angelworks — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:29:30 +0000

From what I understand Blizzard contacted raiding guilds in EQ – outside of EQ which I think is perfectly fine.

By: DoubleD

DoubleD — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:50:59 +0000

I’m confused, is this Viral marketing, Gorilla Marketing, or Lynch Pin marketing. All these hip new age thinking.

By: JuJutsu

JuJutsu — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:34:06 +0000

“There are a lot of breakthroughs that were attained via non-profit public funding research. Care for an example? The Interwebz”

Yup. Compared to the bad ole days the availability of porn has really improved. The production of snark has gone up exponentially as well
I’d go on but an amazing financial opportunity in Nigeria just showed up in my interwebz based email box.

By: numtini

numtini — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:37:38 +0000

I could care less about the poaching aspect, it’s the company allegedly using in game spamming to do it that I find really unacceptable.