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When it comes down to it, it's all about money (as everything else in this world 100% is)... these ppl are not dumb. (the purchasers are..... they have ur money. In exchange for a product/service..)
much like the guns'n'roses release bet that dr pepper made. not everyone in the whole world will bombard the dr pepper site for a $1 can of dr pepper :P [thirsty anyone?]
this makes great sense, as they'll sell a bunch of copies that they wouldn't already sell, but there's pretty much no way that they'll sell enough to beat madden. outselling madden the month it comes out is also very very hard to do: especially for something like wolfenstein, which used to be a great franchise 15 years ago, but has since degraded into nonsense.
As for Wolfenstein having degraded into nonsense over the past 15 years: nope. Return to Castle Wolfenstein still stands as the best teambased multiplayer game ever and offered a solid singleplayer experience to boot, that was 8 years ago. Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory (6 years ago) was a good game too, albeit not on the level of RtCW multiplayer.
That being said, the Wolfenstein trailers - and those leaked beta videos - do not inspire great confidence into this new product. The singleplayer campaign will likely be enjoyable and decent enough, but multiplayer with shroud powers and the resistance vs axis setup (rather than allies vs axis, which would allow for more varied weaponry and scenarios) don't seem like the best of ideas.
Hopefully those shroud powers can be turned off and some modders will develop another pro mod (like ETPro). At least then it'll be a playable - and possibly enjoyable - multiplayer game.
Unless you just don't answer any of the questions. This works slightly different. Sadly, the premise is that they know they won't outsell Madden, but that if making this statement sells them even 1 more copy, they benefit in the end, as it costs them nothing to post on Twitter.
Learn to spell. You write like you have the intelligence of a 9 year old. Most blogging tools have free spell checking tools.
The correct spellings of "bussiness", "stand point", "then" (in the comparative sense like "more than" as opposed to the sequential sense of "then"), "recieve" are business, standpoint, than, and receive. For the last one just remember "I before E except after C". I won't even get into your grammar.
Though I will say it makes plenty of business sense as it will definitely drive up sales, a twitter post isn't a legally binding contract, and a large fraction of the people even if they could get a refund wouldn't take advantage of it. Large enough that the profit from the people who do buy it outweighs the costs.
and your blog is posted...where exactly?
Also, try to be less of a jerk. No one is impressed by the grammar Nazi.
They know they aren't going to sell more then Madden. Meaning this is a marketing ploy.
Giving consumers the idea that they could potentially benefit in the end, will actually boost sales of the game.
But he's set a very unrealistic standard of outselling madden in it's first month, which means in the end Wolfenstein will sell a shit load more (still not enough to beat madden), he profits, doesn't pay for anyone's game, and Madden sales will be...unaffected most likely.
It does outsell and a few people send in receipt and they pay them money back.
It does outsell and 90% of people send in receipts, company realises how royally #$@ it is and trys to play the whole thing down as a casual comment/joke.
*sarcasm*
Assuming I'm wrong on all of the above, he could be planning his retirement from the gaming industry, and just won't back up his promise as he runs into hiding with his gobs and gobs of cash. ;)
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