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"Folk" <Folk@folk.com> wrote in message 
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> On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:55:29 -0700, "goPostal"
> <agutgopostal@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
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>>"Folk" <Folk@folk.com> wrote in message
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>>> I was lucky enough to read that article as well.  The nodes stuff is
>>> just a carry-over from ONS.  The orb is new and sounds like it might
>>> help with the end-of-game stalemates often seen in ONS.
>>>
>>> The "defenders" and "attackers" stuff has more to do with the single
>>> player campaign than with online multiplayer.
>>
>>Thanks for clarifying. I had to read it (the original article) rather
>>quickly. I guess the single player is going to get a good treatment this
>>time too.
>
> According to Epic, half of the people that bought UT2004 didn't go
> online.  They base this on the fact that they know how many ID's are
> out there and they can tell when they go online since a player has to
> go through the master server first.  (I guess they didn't consider the
> number of people who installed it, hated it, uninstalled it and didn't
> bother to go online).  Anyway, due to this "fact", they've decided to
> really beef up the single player campaign.  So instead of a ladder
> like in the previous versions, there is more of a storyline... kind of
> like with Gears of War.

Does 50% really sound right to you? Most anyone who plays FPS knows that the 
single player ladder in UT2004 is nothing more than an extended training 
session for online play. I would think there would be a percentage of 
"impulse buys" of people who don't know the game, but half? I dunno. Just 
seems wrong.
Maybe it's one guy putting multiple copies on a college LAN or the pirate 
servers, though I tend to think if someone knows how to pirate a server 
without a key check, downloading a copy is almost a given. I just don't see 
half the copies not getting online.