Oh well, this doesn’t make sense. Why these games are always, constantly published in the worst way possible? What’s the reason of this masochistic attitude aimed to damage the sales as much as possible?

The first of the recent examples is DAoC with the last expansion, Catacombs. I’ve covered this along my raving review. Mythic already expressed the will to offer the expansion as downloadable content to buy directly online but it seems that there are agreements with the distributor preventing this possibility. So okay, they did what they could. But, maybe, it should be the time to consider those agreements and make them FOR the game and not AGAINST it. Does it make sense? Maybe it makes even more sense if these retarded distributors start TO DO SOMETHING INSTEAD OF SITTING ON THEIR ASSES. I know that if a game is sold online the revenues of a “solid” distributor go down. This is why they should start doing something concretely instead of staring and whining (like the RIAA). I’m sure that they could have a HUGE market if they would offer directly the service. So why a standard distributor like Vivendi doesn’t come forward and offers *directly* an online store with streamed content? Hear this… *bling, bling* – It’s the sound of the money, you should like it. So please stop being a burden and start again to be a resource.

This is only a part of the problem with Mythic’s last expansion. I’ve already explained that they should have launched it later in order to polish it and maximize its impact on the market. But they are masochists and they preferred a launch just behind the behemoths with the result of being completely overshadowed and nerfed out of relevance. And this goes along with the questions I asked at the beginning.

The second example is SWG. I stated openly in October that I would have bought the space expansion only if it would have been available as digital download. After all they have the technology, EverQuest’s expansion are always sold that way. But no. Just boxes. So good riddance… at least till two weeks ago. I’ve read that the Rage of the furries can be preordered and bought through the online store as digital download. What? So I go to check, maybe they rediscovered some common sense and they put the space expansion as well as downloadable content. Hey, maybe there’s even a bundle package with both, wow. So I go check and… nothing. There’s only this Rage of furries and no space exp. Okay, go to hell.

Well, at least that happened after SOE’s latest announce. For sure now I won’t touch any of their products. Is there anything left worth something aside lost kids and Lums?

The third example is Guild Wars. The game with the awesome technology. The game where you downloaded (since the first open beta in May of the last year) just the exe and everything got streamed directly from the internet. A masterpiece. Guess what? Just a box. No digital download. You need a fucking CD (if it’s a DVD I’ll die of laughter) for an .exe of a couple of Mb. What the fuck is the sense of this. No, really.

It becomes even funnier if you go check the NCSoft store. Yeah. You can buy both Lineage 2 and City of Heroes as digital download, those two games that do not have streamed technology and require to download 2Gb or more. But not Guild Wars. With 3Mb of client.

Now, if you really want to score an homerun, just apply this even to the upcoming expansion and you already won.

Btw, Guild Wars still misses a quit button …