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• • Anything close to SB ?

  • We have two games to wait on

    • Darkfall
    • Stray Bullet Games game in development

    Not much else out there.

  • Posted: 9/23/08 12:47 AM
    Shadowbane
• • BOYCOTT THE SERVERS THIS WEEKEND

  • They shipped the game boxes early to retailers, and most retailers let them out early.  I got my pre-order copy yesterday at Gamestop, around 10 AM.

    The retailer you are using, are they using UPS or some other stone age shipping company???

  • Posted: 9/19/08 10:20 AM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)
• • Was Warhammer first, or Warcraft? Facts inside

  • Warhammer facts

    • Founding company: Games Workshop - 1975
    • Official distribution rights to Dungeons and Dragons in UK - 1976
    • White Dwarf - 1977
    • Warhammer Fantasy Battle and Warhammer 40,000 - December 1991
    • Management buyout - 1991
    • 1994 - company went public on London Stock exchange

    Word of Warcraft facts

    • Founding company:  Silicon & Synapse in February 1991
    • Changed name to Chaos Studio's then to Blizzard Entertainment - 1994
    • Company purchased by Davidson & Associates - 1994
    • Warcraft: Orcs and Humans released - December 1994
    • Since the Warcraft release, the company has changed financial hands many times.
    • Diablo - 1997

    So Warhammer was released 3 years earlier than Warcraft.  Games Workshop has never changed their name, and has been in operation for 33 years.  Blizzard; 14 years with its current name.

    As we have seen with many games, and many mmorpg's, people borrow ideas from each other all the time.  There is no way that the "Warhammer" series borrowed from "Warcraft" because they were first.  It is highly possibly that the opposite happened, Blizzard borrowed ideas from Games Workshop and ran with it.

  • Posted: 9/19/08 9:56 AM
    General Discussion
• • No WoW-killer for another 10 years

  • WoW killers:

    Darkfall

    Warhammer

    Stray Bullet Game's MMO in development

    Shadowbane 2 (if it ever happens)

  • Posted: 9/19/08 9:26 AM
    General Discussion
• • Say goodbye to your 10m players WoW!

  • Warhammer is about WAR.  Not everyones cup of tea.

    Warcraft was about WAR,  until WoW came out, they got rid of the WAR concept for the QUEST hell concept.  Some people are carebears and only care about grinding days and days for armor that sparkles.

    Warhammer was here first, before Warcraft.  In fact, Blizzard took ideas from Games Workshop when they created Warcraft 1.

  • Posted: 9/19/08 9:22 AM
    General Discussion