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Rhuma · 08-26-2003, 02:16 PM

I'm sure most if not all of you have heard, Vivendi is 14 billion dollars in debt, and at this moment is auctioning off parts of their company.

Now, Vivendi Universal is their "game" part of the company and with a click here. You can see, some Blizzard games are listed.

With that said, I'll get to the point of this post. Blizzard WILL be sold. Who ends up with the rights to their games... Does matter in some cases, but what bothers me as of late, is it seems they are crunching lately... What I mean by that is, their not taking as much time as they used to, with Trolls, Gnomes and The Forsaken announced, with only 1 town hall updated, with no screens or even a hint of what these races look like in the game.

Could it be that they announced the races, before they were even done? I know in the past they have stated, very clearly, they would not jump the gun on anything they might not be able to accomplish. It seems they have been pushed in the past few weeks by the suits, to get this game out.

Now, I understand that this might not have actually happened, and Blizzard has these races in, working perfectly, and that they just didn't have the time to get the screens, pictures and the html onto the townhall page. One of the Blizzard employee's that troll the Battle.net forums said, I dont have an exact quote... But this was, what actually happened... Not enough time, and they should be up shortly.

Hopefully, WoW, can make the MMORPG genre market into a genre worth looking into.

08-26-2003, 02:16 PM	#1 (permalink)
Rhuma Just say no to mangina. Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 72 -1 Internets	WoW's future I'm sure most if not all of you have heard, Vivendi is 14 billion dollars in debt, and at this moment is auctioning off parts of their company. Now, Vivendi Universal is their "game" part of the company and with a click here. You can see, some Blizzard games are listed. With that said, I'll get to the point of this post. Blizzard WILL be sold. Who ends up with the rights to their games... Does matter in some cases, but what bothers me as of late, is it seems they are crunching lately... What I mean by that is, their not taking as much time as they used to, with Trolls, Gnomes and The Forsaken announced, with only 1 town hall updated, with no screens or even a hint of what these races look like in the game. Could it be that they announced the races, before they were even done? I know in the past they have stated, very clearly, they would not jump the gun on anything they might not be able to accomplish. It seems they have been pushed in the past few weeks by the suits, to get this game out. Now, I understand that this might not have actually happened, and Blizzard has these races in, working perfectly, and that they just didn't have the time to get the screens, pictures and the html onto the townhall page. One of the Blizzard employee's that troll the Battle.net forums said, I dont have an exact quote... But this was, what actually happened... Not enough time, and they should be up shortly. Hopefully, WoW, can make the MMORPG genre market into a genre worth looking into.