I remember hearing a "WRYYYYYYY" from a ...stick figure flash cartoon I watched umpteen years ago? What is that soundbyte from? I didn't see it in that special, but everything else was there.

I'm not actually privy to the presales for the game, but I did note it's pretty far up for sales on Amazon and the like (in an admittedly dry summer) but I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say, at least for launch, FF14-2's looking at much more than 500K first-month users. Maybe it'll settle at half a million, but…

Well, I'm sure $250/month went further back then? Not sure how far you're aging yourself with this comment, so not sure. That won't buy Lemonade for a month anymore, that's for sure.

I knew it, backhanded journalism...

Better yet, install some self-service lanes.

Starbucks has free wi-fi. ;o

To his credit, Anthony was back out selling again the next day and, no, he didn't lose everything he'd made. His father told The Tribune-Democrat of Johnston, Pa. that he's still got a couple hundred bucks saved up. The School of Business at nearb y St. Francis University honored Anthony with a "Young Emerging…

The thing I don't get, and you shouldn't get either, is that the pre-launch service is for people who have pre-paid for the game already, correct?

I'm sorry, are they playing Bball with the TESSERACT?

I think you should think again.

IN THE FUTURE

Why are you taking this so personally?

Which will not make sales if people are hearing they can't even log in.

You don't get it, and people who make MMOs/Online Only games don't get it. If 80% of your customers jump ship during a fucked launch, it doesn't matter how good your game is.

Granted, I started in the open beta, because I'm not an idiot

I do love apologists.

So, the takeaway here is an overpriced, non-compelling game that was restricted to a specific band of tablets was downloaded more than it was bought, mostly in countries where copyright laws are not respected or heavily enforced.

Well, that's kinda not fair. Metroid Prime's soundtrack was fucking excellent.

Oh DAMN. That sounds like it ruins everything.

Was there something wrong with the music?

I don't understand why people are buying this.