[MUD-Dev] BIZ: Europe & Distrubution

[Tamzen Cannoy]

At 2:35 PM +0000 11/5/04, Johan wrote:
> Vincent Archer <archer at frmug.org> wrote:

>>  No large-scale MMORPG, you mean.

>>  A Tale in the Desert was released exclusively over the net. As
>>  was the ill-fated Rubies of Eventide, if my memory is right. One
>>  is alive and well after over a year, but the other went down
>>  promptly.

> Yes sorry about that, I meant that no large-scale game has been
> available online from day 1. Say Blizzard offering to buy the game
> over the Internet now, download the client end purchase a
> cd-key. This way Europeans could buy the game without having to
> pay double the price on ebay or a US retailer.

Having experienced the horror multiple times of downloading the
entire WoW client and various patches I think a company would be
slitting their throat if they did it for free other than using
BitTorrent which Blizzard does. It's that or get your players to
play you $5-10 each time they need to download something in a more
timely manner. The 2.5G client took a full 24 hrs on a speedy
business DSL line. My friends cable took nearly twice as much. I
wouldn't become a paying customer for a game that completely tied up
my internet link, pretty much not even allowing email to get through
let alone any browsing. And while I might pay the extra $$ for a
faster way, I would not subscribe to another service, which is what
Blizzard is telling us to do (Fileplanet), when said other service
offers no other services of which I can make any use.

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Tamzen

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