21-07-2002 22:50									#61
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yes

	21-07-2002 23:04									#62
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quote: Originally posted by Scouse Gits (today my vote is Morrowind) SG[1]

i wish mine could be too.

	22-07-2002 09:01									#63
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I always wondered why Leisure Suit Larry was such a popular game.

	22-07-2002 19:59									#64
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Probably the same reason that Deer hunting games are popular- the world is full of dumb people (who are breeding like rabbits, no less).

Anyway, chalk me up for SMAC

Dave

	24-07-2002 20:36									#65
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LSL was popular when a lot of the current genres practically did not exist (FPS,RTS) and graphics were pretty crude. Given that adventure games were one of the most popular game types going and most blokes spend puberty onward trying to work out how to impress or seduce the opposite sex, why wouldn't games that make fun of someone trying to get laid be popular?

	25-07-2002 07:36									#66
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Grumbold, my thought at the time was that there were lots of great arcade style games and the LSL thing was a mystery. Each to their own, I guess.

	25-07-2002 17:06									#67
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I don't remember PC arcade games of the quality you found in the arcades themselves, but that may just be my selective memory

	25-07-2002 21:08									#68
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WarcraftIII just recently set the record for fastest computer game ever to sell 1 million copies...... this could be a really big one in terms of sales.

	26-07-2002 04:56									#69
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WarCraft III was not only the fastest to reach one million, it also had the largest release in the history of PC games with 4.4 million copies shipped. Of course, makes you wonder when they have only sold 1 million why they had to make so many right away.

	26-07-2002 07:37									#70
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Touche, Grumbold, I was wasting extreme amounts of money and time in Arcades at the time.

	26-07-2002 07:38									#71
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Oh, and also playing Atari and TRS 80.
Maybe the games didn't have to be that flashy to please me.

	26-07-2002 08:02									#72
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tniem: "Had to?" No, more like "was smart." The bigger your order, the less you're charged per item. Of course, if you order too big and half the copies remain unsold, that's bad too.

However, this is Blizzard. WC3 is an assured hit. Those 4.4 million copies will all sell, eventually, as the price drops and the game continues to be popular. Why not do all the printing at once and save some $$$?

For what it's worth, Square does the same thing- they're confident enough in their games that they almost always do one big printing, and then never print again (which can be annoying because some games which are expected to be lesser titles and rule sell completley out, while other games that really are lesser Square titles are still around). At least for their minor games, games like Final Fantasy they probably do 3-4 big printings.

	26-07-2002 08:10									#73
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Interesting thing to note is that warcraft 3 was available on the internet (via pirated copies) before it was for sale in the stores, I guess someone down the line somewhere got bored of waiting for them to print those 4.4 million copies.

	26-07-2002 13:19									#74
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Someone down the line ey

I think Champ Manager 4 will break that record when its released. Judging by the records it broke with the first CM3 over CM9798.

	23-08-2002 13:45									#75
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It's more or less the Settler-series. I've heard there were sold (or copied ) more times than any other game.

	24-08-2002 23:26									#76
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quote: The Sims? Yikes! Can't be the most popular game, though wait, the charts for it are really good... oh my, what a disappointment. And what are the popular strategy games, then?

Rollercoaster tycoon runs a close second... It was on the top 10 ccharts for nearly 2 years

	25-08-2002 03:51									#77
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Er, The Sims is an awful, non-addictive Tamagochi-style breeding game with stupid hidden variables based on blah whereas Pokemon is a crude-but-fun demilinear RPG aimed at children. Where's the similarity?

	25-08-2002 09:58									#78
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quote: Originally posted by Osweld Interesting thing to note is that warcraft 3 was available on the internet (via pirated copies) before it was for sale in the stores, I guess someone down the line somewhere got bored of waiting for them to print those 4.4 million copies.

Most games and movies for that matter are online way before there actual release.

	25-08-2002 11:03									#79
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Thank god for pirates though.
Its due to them that world-wide releases are common these days, instead of releasing in America first, then Europe a month later, then Australia a year after that.

Now we can all get it at the same time!