I think that if Blizz wanted to announce its game using a European site, mag, and whatnot, it would use an English one. For the simple reason that most Europeans know at least elementary English, while languages like German or French are still behind in terms of the number of speakers.
It's not as much the European market as the UK market. In terms of games sold the rest of the European countries is lacking.
Well Europe is not just UK! The biggest gaming market in Europe is the german speaking market with germany, switzerland, austria and lichtenstein.!! and speaking of games being sold outside UK --> think about sweden, norway, finnland!! or russia (though they rather download cracked games^^) and yep the european gaming market is bigger than the USA market.
I agree with you that most of european people are able to speak english. This is not an argument against a special coverage by a german magazine, though. Anyway I guess that pcaction is just a bit a "attention whore" as the mag itself is more or less a not so serious one.
Though I hate to say it, I don't think they would buy that many servers for Diablo 3, yet... that seems a bit overkill for a game that won't see open beta for probably a long peroid of time.
1,500 opteron servers is overkill for ANYTHING. As a network admin and server admin, I know how well opterons work, and how they are suppost to be deployed. It's really hard knowing what blizzard wants to really use them for... I could only imagine... 100 MAX being used for WoW.. Unless they are replacing all of their servers, in which case I guess 400 could be used... 1,500 is just way too many for any company to buy.
Although, they could also just be getting a very good bulk deal on them... but buying servers then waiting to use them is just plan stupid, as you're better off buying somthing current.
The team behind Diablo I and II is looking for a talented, motivated, and experienced Art Director to help lead our art team in developing beautiful, cohesive game worlds for an unannounced PC Project and future projects. The ideal candidate will have shipped multiple AAA titles as an Art Director, at least 5 years game industry experience and a strong illustration and concept background. Check out the Art Director posting for more information.
but that's not really news.. there have been several job announcements for the diablo I and diablo II team including 3D artists and Game Designer for over a year.
but yeh it's new that they write "for an unannounced project" .. we're gettin' closer!
I voted yes, although it's only a tiny hope that made me vote that! It's likely to be another game announced in the pcgamer.
to Aequitas: I have to desagree. I think it would be a nice marketing strategy. You are right about the time of release.. it has not yet come, but it's time to announce the project!! Blizzard always announced their project a way before release. why not give pc gamer exclusive rights to do it? they have given exclusive rights to magazines before! After the magazine had it's exclusivity they start up a page for Diablo III... instead of an announcement on E3 which is really big and Diablo III would not get all the attention, an exclusive discovery on Pcgamer would draw the attention world wide! While on E3 the eyes of the reporter would not only be focused on Diablo but on several other nice and exciting announcements!
It's not a cookie problem, as far as I know. Even if you accept cookies it sometimes happens that you get rejected.
A click on a thread will most likely solve the issue and you are logged in.. that's how it works on my computer with no antivirus and firewall activated
still I think it's a problem either from the host servers or a programming issue.
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Well Europe is not just UK! The biggest gaming market in Europe is the german speaking market with germany, switzerland, austria and lichtenstein.!! and speaking of games being sold outside UK --> think about sweden, norway, finnland!! or russia (though they rather download cracked games^^) and yep the european gaming market is bigger than the USA market.
I agree with you that most of european people are able to speak english. This is not an argument against a special coverage by a german magazine, though. Anyway I guess that pcaction is just a bit a "attention whore" as the mag itself is more or less a not so serious one.
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mehh..
guess i've even been registered on the old forum... before 2006
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check it out. it might be for World of Warcraft only.. though I don't think so.
servers for D3 beta? the unannounced beta from Blizzcon!!
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Though I hate to say it, I don't think they would buy that many servers for Diablo 3, yet... that seems a bit overkill for a game that won't see open beta for probably a long peroid of time.
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1,500 opteron servers is overkill for ANYTHING. As a network admin and server admin, I know how well opterons work, and how they are suppost to be deployed. It's really hard knowing what blizzard wants to really use them for... I could only imagine... 100 MAX being used for WoW.. Unless they are replacing all of their servers, in which case I guess 400 could be used... 1,500 is just way too many for any company to buy.
Although, they could also just be getting a very good bulk deal on them... but buying servers then waiting to use them is just plan stupid, as you're better off buying somthing current.
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... for an unannounced PC Project...
nuff said!
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but that's not really news.. there have been several job announcements for the diablo I and diablo II team including 3D artists and Game Designer for over a year.
but yeh it's new that they write "for an unannounced project" .. we're gettin' closer!
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www.TOTALWAR.COM
look somewhere on the news! it tells something about totalwar in new pcgamer!
So Pcgamer is really a dieing magazine!.. shame on them!
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http://users.dls.net/~mikhail/pcgamer.jpg
lol, I dunno what to say.. but that is extremly shit!! Whilst I change my pants
no need to say more..
let us hope for a nice announcement from the www.blizzard.com site itself. And let us hope it will be soon...
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to Aequitas: I have to desagree. I think it would be a nice marketing strategy. You are right about the time of release.. it has not yet come, but it's time to announce the project!! Blizzard always announced their project a way before release. why not give pc gamer exclusive rights to do it? they have given exclusive rights to magazines before! After the magazine had it's exclusivity they start up a page for Diablo III... instead of an announcement on E3 which is really big and Diablo III would not get all the attention, an exclusive discovery on Pcgamer would draw the attention world wide! While on E3 the eyes of the reporter would not only be focused on Diablo but on several other nice and exciting announcements!
have a nice day folks!
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A click on a thread will most likely solve the issue and you are logged in.. that's how it works on my computer with no antivirus and firewall activated
still I think it's a problem either from the host servers or a programming issue.
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Then I restart IE and it works.. this might be a programming issue..?!?
so you are'nt doin' something wrong!
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This is not really news to pcgamer! It must be a game that has not been announced yet. and remember its a world exclusive announcement!!!
I just hope PCgamer is not making such a hype for nothing!
Still hopes that it's Diablo III ..hrr
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questions? ^^
btw. does anybody know WHEN the March Issue is out?