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Re: WoW Pay to Play

#88801
From: Simond
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 17:10
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"Steven Ung" <127.0.0.1@gtekmy.po.my> wrote in message
news:biecom$8ffts$1@ID-121643.news.uni-berlin.de...
> "Gismo" <stivnisse@[XXXX]hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:3f4a6721$0$97192$edfadb0f@dread12.news.tele.dk...
> >
> > "Bizoune Bizoune" <No__SPAM____tremorchrist@hotmail.com____No___SPAM>
> skrev
> > i en meddelelse news:gur2b.8700$qA3.740639@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...
> > >
> > > > Gismo will pay
> > > > (but it will be hard for him to find opponents)     :)
> > >
> > > Are you nutzz??  this game will be a success!!!
> >
> > Lots of ppl will pay .. just see how many there are paying for UO, Daoc,
> Ao
> > and all the other mmorpg games
>
> Okay now, compare those figures with the number of players playing
StarCraft
> / WarCraft on Blizzard servers. What do you see?
>
> An Ant hill vs the sky difference, innit? :P

X million people playing BNet times no monthly payment = Zero income
(X/10) million people playing WoW times $10/month = X million dollars income
a month.

Get it yet? =)

-- 
Simond
"I ask for so little. Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your
slave." - Jarerth the Goblin King, Labyrinth
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From: "Simond" <simond@.boredofspamnow.apocalypsecow.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: alt.games.warcraft
Subject: Re: WoW Pay to Play
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 18:10:23 +0100
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