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Ambergris_sTarTer
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Philippines166 Posts
April 30 2010 18:38 GMT
#21
On May 01 2010 03:28 Belegorm wrote:
Well... I can't really get new friends, considering I'm on a tiny college and these are the guys I get to play games with. We do play BW as well (and intend to play SC2 next fall) but a number of them prefer BFME2. I can't play online too much either, since it's a 15 minute walk to a place with slow internet that doesn't block SC (as to them opening port 6112, probably won't happen).

If anyone can roll out actual game statistics, that would be awesome.


check out the Liquipedia, you'll find out... everything about BW
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.gypsy
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
Canada689 Posts
April 30 2010 18:39 GMT
#22
Show them this thread LOL
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Belegorm
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States330 Posts
April 30 2010 18:40 GMT
#23
I looked up the wikipedia articles first, lol. I can't seem to find the number of sales for BFME2 though, is there any way to figure that out?

And please stop with the "ur friends are retards" posts, that not only doesn't help the argument but there is a possibility of them seeing this thread and then it'll hurt your credibility.
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blue_arrow
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
1971 Posts
April 30 2010 18:41 GMT
#24
"93% of Russia's population plays the game"

ROFL oh man that is just hilarious on so many levels
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condoriano
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States826 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-30 18:50:33
April 30 2010 18:50 GMT
#25
On May 01 2010 03:40 Belegorm wrote:
I looked up the wikipedia articles first, lol. I can't seem to find the number of sales for BFME2 though, is there any way to figure that out?

And please stop with the "ur friends are retards" posts, that not only doesn't help the argument but there is a possibility of them seeing this thread and then it'll hurt your credibility.


It says BFME2 was 10th best selling game that year or something like that, which means it was nowhere close to real big sellers lol.
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Ambergris_sTarTer
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Philippines166 Posts
April 30 2010 18:50 GMT
#26
On May 01 2010 03:40 Belegorm wrote:
I looked up the wikipedia articles first, lol. I can't seem to find the number of sales for BFME2 though, is there any way to figure that out?



That answers your question sir
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Zhou
Profile Joined February 2009
United States832 Posts
April 30 2010 18:51 GMT
#27
Why not just show them Team Liquid? The site literally tells almost every secret of StarCraft. South Korea should be an obvious answer to how popular StarCraft is. WCG is too...

Nameable players around the world. No strategy in StarCraft? I don't ever remember BME2 being very strategic at all with the limited choices of units. Let alone the game itself is practically dead in my opinion...

I think you're friends are morons and may living under an electronic rock. That or they are hardcore LOTR fans that don't like sci-fi.
Ginko
Profile Joined April 2010
Bangladesh69 Posts
April 30 2010 18:59 GMT
#28
On May 01 2010 03:08 Belegorm wrote:

They claim that Starcraft was never really that big for a long time, both to the general population and to the gaming population; that Starcraft and the RTS genre in general didn't really get big until BFME2 came out. They claimed that over 70 million people play BFME2 rise of the witch king currently, with multimillion dollar tournaments, and that 93% of Russia's population plays the game.




Edit: Actual facts would be very helpful.


okay if that isnt obvious BS i dont know wut is
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fly.stat
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States449 Posts
April 30 2010 19:00 GMT
#29
"93% of Russia's population plays the game"

That's interesting. Over 10 million people, in Russia alone, play BFME2. Guys, I think we are playing the wrong RTS. Let's all switch over immediately, considering how factual this data is.

They also have million dollar tournaments! God, what did Flash make in the OSL last season? 40k? Wow, starcraft is such a chump RTS.

Installing now.
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Jakalo
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Latvia2350 Posts
April 30 2010 19:05 GMT
#30
I actually played it with my friends, it is.. nice, but certainly not competitive.
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rethos
Profile Joined April 2010
Romania103 Posts
April 30 2010 19:08 GMT
#31
one argument about popularity: google both. sc gets about 21 mil, bfme2 around 3 mil... even asuming that sc2 has around 30% of those sites (i think this is a over estimation) that would still leave starcraft very much in the lead... i hope this might help in your argument
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The6357
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
United States1268 Posts
April 30 2010 19:12 GMT
#32
sounds like ur friends are right about everything except SC is not better than w/e the other game is...
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Radfield
Profile Joined September 2009
Canada2720 Posts
April 30 2010 19:13 GMT
#33
Russia has a population of 142 million people. According to wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runet#Mass_usage) apprx 37.5 million people used the internet in the 6 months leading up to June 2009. So only about 1/4 of the population even uses the internet.


So it would be very difficult for 93% of the Russian population to play any online game. However, it's possible that they mean 93% of the internet population, but either way get a source or call them bullshitters.
SilentCrono
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States1420 Posts
April 30 2010 19:14 GMT
#34
never even heard of this game lol.
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Kyuukyuu
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada6263 Posts
April 30 2010 19:16 GMT
#35
Your friends are awesome and you are easily trolled.
TwilightStar
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States649 Posts
April 30 2010 19:19 GMT
#36
I used to play BFME2, It takes so much more skill than SC.

... NOT

Are your friends KIDDING!? My God! Just play them in it and beat them xD
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Ambergris_sTarTer
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Philippines166 Posts
April 30 2010 19:22 GMT
#37
BFME2, that's just a game intended for people who can't think more about how to defeat a good opponent
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rredtooth
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
5464 Posts
April 30 2010 19:22 GMT
#38
i couldnt even recognize the acronym haha.
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condoriano
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States826 Posts
April 30 2010 19:22 GMT
#39
On May 01 2010 04:13 Radfield wrote:
Russia has a population of 142 million people. According to wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runet#Mass_usage) apprx 37.5 million people used the internet in the 6 months leading up to June 2009. So only about 1/4 of the population even uses the internet.


So it would be very difficult for 93% of the Russian population to play any online game. However, it's possible that they mean 93% of the internet population, but either way get a source or call them bullshitters.


Most people are still using either dial-up or "internet cards" with really slow connection speed, most of them won't even be able to play this (sup Latham).
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muta_micro
Profile Joined February 2010
United States183 Posts
April 30 2010 19:22 GMT
#40
Lol ive been to Russia many times, people there don't like bfme2 its not even in their internet cafes. Russia is all CS players. Maybe your friends need a swift kick to their jugular's.
You know when you see a planet and you see that light, that planet isn't even there thats just a light, that's just your neighbor shining a flashlight into your backyard looking for coons.
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