You know, they might increase sales-potential this early on in the development cycle if they stopped calling it an expansion.
They really should stop it, before the term "Expansion" gets spread around too much. They need to spin this as an entirely new game, even if it isn't. If they don't people are going to look at it and say "Expansion for crap game is crap", before it even gets released people will say that. Hell, people already ARE saying that! Just look at some of rat bag's posts, and there are many other posts on BU from whom we lovingly call the whiners that hint at this.
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Major expansion" is probably the most accurate description of what epic is doing with UT3, but that still isn't good enough. No matter how big epic makes this expansion sound people will ignore the adjectives and look at the noun; "expansion", which indicates a continuation of something crap. (I don't believe UT3 to be crap, i'm just stereotyping the rest of you
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Even if this is an expansion, epic should start referring to it as "The sequel to UT3", Or better yet, "The sequal to UT2004".
UT2004 was infinitely more praised by the community then UT3 has been and putting this expansion out as the sequal to ut2k4 would have a positive effect, while putting it out as the sequal to ut3 will have a slightly negative effect due to how we recieved that game.
And i know how much you guys hate this, but..... I reckon they need to milk out the GoW crowd too. So expect to see "From the creators of Gears of war and Gears of War 2" In every single ut3.5/4/2009 advert that you come across. Believe me, it'll be worth it in the end. I'm an offliner, but i can feel the effect of the online communities failure spreading to the offline sector. So you onliners need new players? Beggers can't be choosers so just put up with some GoW fanboi's for a while huh?
(And no, I wasn't hinting at the release date up there when i said ut3.
5/4/2009, what would I know anyway? Don't be PMing me
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