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4e off for a second printing already

Started by That Guy, May 30, 2008, 05:59:44 AM

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James J Skach

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June 02, 2008, 05:37:59 PM
Quote from: jormungand1Although its only very indirectly related to whatever measure of success you want to come up with, its still fun to look at Google trends on D&D, which show declining numbers of searches over the past several years:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=D%26D%2C+dungeons+and+dragons&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

Here's the same, but with "Gygax" as a search term which dwarfs the searches for D&D right around his death:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=D%26D%2C+dungeons+and+dragons%2C+gygax&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

And finally, showing WoW:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=D%26D%2C+dungeons+and+dragons%2C+gygax%2C+world+of+warcraft&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

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walkerp

#46
June 02, 2008, 05:38:55 PM
That's why they are searching google all the time for "Age of Conan" because they are trying to figure out how to get the friggin' game to work on their underpowered machines!  :p
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Bradford C. Walker

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June 02, 2008, 05:44:09 PM
Quote from: walkerpThat's why they are searching google all the time for "Age of Conan" because they are trying to figure out how to get the friggin' game to work on their underpowered machines!  :p
Heh.

What will come of Age of Conan will be the same was befell every other would-be competitor to WOW that doesn't die off: they will stabilize at some population that is well below that of WOW, likely through featuring one strong element of gameplay that they do better than WOW.  WOW will respond to this by copying and assimilating it, in a half-assed version, into a future patch or expansion, and that will be enough- despite all the wailing, moaning, bitching and gnashing of teeth expressed in that shithole of the Internet that is the official WOW Forums.  What we have here is the MMO version of the Fantasy Heartbreaker problem.
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