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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>It was a best seller on Console. It was a bomb on PC.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Of the 10 billion dollars worth they sold, only 3% of that was
PC. A lousy 3 million dollars is the reason they will exclude PC on the next
version altogether. They knew this would happen that’s why they did what
they did. Now they can cut us out of the COD franchise and focus on the locked
in time hardware of consoles that are easier to program for because they are
all the same hardware. And increase the cost of DLC for them at the same time. PC
will in my opinion not see another COD game. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>EA/Dice will continue the route of charging GSP a license fee
for every sold slot on all new games driving the price higher for Ranked and Unranked
servers. They started it with BF2142 and are continuing it with BFBC2. That’s
why there are only 20+/- GSP’s worldwide for BFBC2. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>And the little Guys that frequent this list the most are locked
out because they are small potatoes compared to those GSP’s with Beta
servers up right now.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Tyson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> John Kennington
[mailto:jwkennington@gmail.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 08, 2010 7:23 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Call of Duty server admin list.<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [cod] Call of Duty 7<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>I seriously doubt that IW/ATVI
will shift back to dedicated servers. What do they care? They can
charge what they want and force PC users to purchase content. Although
CoDMW2 is a best seller, it has rapidly become very boring. They really
don't care about "modding" or "supporting the
community." Why should they? It costs them money. Yeah,
we can all weep and cry about it, but they know that the console crowd will
support them.<br>
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John<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Midnight <<a
href="mailto:midowns@gmail.com">midowns@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Actually MS is starting to dominate the enterprise with the
SharePoint platform, google docs so far is a non-starter.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Caleb Stephens wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'> microsoft is already
dying a slow death from the google docs transformation, xbox is next.<br>
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