WOW subs hit 10M, Activision profits rise

 @GamerMani Nice try, but I don't belong to any group as defined by your point of view.  If anything, I "belong" to an older group of gamers originating in the 90s, but that's just my background.  I'm 25 and have been playing computer games since 1994.  So I think I know a thing or two about games and their evolution.  And for the record, I actually like half of the games you've listed.  What is very amusing to me (but ironic and sad for you) is that you're the one actually belonging to a "frustrated" group -- the one that hates Valve with the same blind stupidity of the group that hates your own favorite developer.  I personally don't have a favorite developer.  I stopped choosing sides and picking favorites when I finally realized that all developers change over time.  For me, a good game is a good game and a bad game is a bad game, regardless of who develops and publishes it.  I praise a developer when it deserves praise and criticize it when it deserves criticism.

You sound paranoid and moronic when you place me in your detested "valve group".  For the record, I don't play Left 4 Dead, Portal, or TF2 at all because I personally don't like them.  I did like Half-Life 2 as a single-player and used to play Counter Strike a lot in multiplayer when I was younger.  (I am looking forward to Dota 2, although I don't really like Valve's art direction and would have rather had Blizzard acquire the rights to it).  In any case, when you learn to be unbiased in your assessment of games and state your opinion followed by actual reasons for that opinion, then you should post on the forums.  Until then, gtfo.

 @MemphisMinny   I would have bought Diablo 3 if it weren't for the following reasons: 1) Always-online feature (leading to lag spikes which are especially detrimental for your character if you're playing on hardcore), 2) Real Money Auction house (downright exploitative motive on Acti-Blizzard's part to reap more cash off its players), 3) Mediocre story with shallow characters and mediocre voice acting, 4) Disappointing art direction / visuals (I am probably biased here, but I personally prefer the old, gritty look of Diablo 1, which could have been accomplished with realistic textures, not hand-painted textures from the artists working on WoW), 4) No customizable skill tree and character attributes (dumbed down, with every class automatically assigned the same skill points), 5) Steep price for a game that endures such flaws (I spent $20 on Torchlight 2 which, with the exception of its cartoony style, I find no flaws in.  D3 still costs $60 today).

Starcraft 2 is a great game, no doubt.  Unfortunately for me, it's not my type of RTS.  I was decent at Warcraft 3 but I suck at SC2 because I can't get used to its macromanagement.  I really enjoyed playing the campaign though.  I found the story and character development in Starcraft 2 a bit poor at times, but decent overall.  I like Starcraft 2.  My only criticism is that Acti-Blizzard had dollar signs in their eyes when they decided to split the game into 3 separate parts.

You mention Blizzard All Stars, but there's nothing to judge and talk about there since the game isn't out yet.  Nobody is being "served" this title yet, and given Blizzard's recent track record I think it's impossible to predict if the game will be good or not.  Who needs other games?  I do.  Me and countless other gamers that were big fans of Blizzard for being an excellent developer back in the 90s and early 2000s.  In the 90s Blizzard released only excellent games, and excellent from the point of view of the gamer, not just the reviewer, like today when there is an incentive to rate it high because of relations with the game's publishing company.  The last excellent game I remember from Blizzard is Warcraft 3.  In any case, it was good talking to you MemphisMnny (Blizzard marketing rep?)

 @FreedomPrime  @buccomatic  @northArrow

 WOW has the BEST art of all MMORPG's. there is a difference between pixels and "visuals". As such it is consistent in its art department and even timeless, just like the Flintstones, the Simpsons or other series. As such WOW ages very well. other games that were published in 2003/2004 and wanted to look "realistic" are aweful ugly by today standards. WOW is not, tx to its visuals and consistent design.

 @ag_04  @DeViLzzz  @northArrow

 PvP is awesome.

 @DeViLzzz  @northArrow Actually, levelling and questing are important parts of wow. I don't find it fun to level a character doing the same streamlined quests with this 8 year old combat system, or grouping for pugs in which you only smash the same rotation forever.

I agree, raiding is fun, but everything else is not, and many people don't raid. You can't always raid and it is in those moments when you solo that you realise how retarded is the combat system and how silly is enemy AI.

 @DeViLzzz

 LMAO, what are you talking about? Are you really using the community as your research focus group?

I like you, you're hilarious

 @northArrow There is hardly more to WoW than raiding.  I have asked the community to quest more for years and they won't.  I asked Blizzard to make questing more difficult and they won't.  I also asked for them to put in more meaningful world pvp and they don't care to.  I clearly know more about WoW and what it has and doesn't have and you sir are just a fan boy.

 @DeViLzzz

 Oh, you're getting your info from the 'community' and not from an official Blizzard post - which means it's completely bogus and made up.

You also do realize that theres more to WoW than raiding right? Most people don't raid at all, which is why the completion percentage of heriocs is a pretty poor yard stick of determining "difficulty." But even with this the case, 1% is low - must have been made up by those leets who are trying to make themselves seem even more leet

 @northArrow It is common knowledge that clearing heroic content unnerfed is done by a small percentage of the community and it is not much more than 1 % if it is more.  I also think you would be surprised at the numbers that cleared regular content unnerfed.  You know what unnerfed means right ?

 @DeViLzzz

 I wrote in my previous post that there's more to the game than heroic content and nowhere did I claim I was leet. Have you ever played any other MMO? You can't honestly claim WoW is more difficult than GW or even TOR.

and where are you getting this 1% number?

 @northArrow Uh see I don't agree with all you are saying.  People said WOTLK was easy and yet only a small % cleared it non nerfed.  Sorry but there are so many fake leets that think they are so good and just are not.  I think a game where 1% or less clear the heroic unnerfed content is a tough game.

 @jon2435  @MemphisMinny wow has grown so massive, that it created a rift in the fabric of space time and created an alternate reality bubble that encased its creator and its players. they have no clue anymore

 @jon2435  @MemphisMinny  i actually dont think they care, and im not even sure they are capable of making it better even if they did care

next time or not, im not buying blizzard

 @blackothh  @MemphisMinny 'This' That's just it.  Diablo isn't a MMO yet it plays and feels very close to WOW.  I'd rather play WOW, instead of the watered down version.  Blizzard's Starcraft still feels like Starcraft.

Randy (Borderlands creator) said it best.  When you get a new skill in Diablo 3; players try it, if it's better, then use it in place of the weakest skill, if not, they switch back.

Very simple, but wreaks the game.  I know Blizzard can do better next time.

 @MemphisMinny  @jon2435 and thats also the problem, diablo is not supposed to be an mmo, yet the new fail team blizzard decided to destroy diablo

 @MemphisMinny  @jon2435 im sorry that your standards are so low

 @MemphisMinny except that EVE did that many years ago from the start

 @DeViLzzz  you are one narrow minded buffoon if i ever saw one. Simple and easy are 2 totally different concepts, the complexity of wow has gone so far down the toilet its not funny, i stopped before cataclysim because i could feel they were trying to get retards to play the game. you can make anything HARD to accomplish within the constraints of the mechanics in the game, which has no connection to the simplicity of your bubble.

If i asked you to fit a square peg through a round hole, its incredibly SIMPLE but very HARD

 @northArrow  @GamerOuTLaWz  @tingkagol northArrow If you think WoW is simple then why haven't most cleared all heroic content without it being nerfed ?  I get tired of people saying WoW is simple when the stats say it isn't.