🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:23:50 -0700, "goPostal"
<agutgopostal@hotmail.com> wrote:

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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.
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>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. 

Neither does anyone else I've talked to.  Either Epic's data is
flawed, or they have some other reason to make up this story.