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http://www.tomshardware.com/picturestory/587-best-selling-game-list.html
#15 was the only surprise. Never even heard of that game.
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NoScript doesn't like that site. There's like 15 different scripts running there.
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Tom's hardware is safe. It's one of the most reputable sites on the interweb.
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Eternal_Midnight posted:
NoScript doesn't like that site. There's like 15 different scripts running there.
Don't you hate that? Why do they have to have so goddamn many scripts running for just one webpage?
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Yup, Tom's Hardware is one of the best sites on the Web. Cossacks? Same, never heard of that one. Blizzard makes up a third of that list. They're a monster!
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GSC made STALKER. You can pick up the whole Cossacks collection on GOG for six bucks.
http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/cossacks_anthology
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How come WOW is not on list with its 10m+ subscribers?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_PC_video_games
That one gets you WoW
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Eager_Igraine posted:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_PC_video_games
That one gets you WoW
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (1.2 million;[62] 1.5 million shipped)[63]
Then in 60 days it was down to like 20,00 
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That is sad, so many people had high hopes for Mythic's effort there and so many were disappointed.
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Half-Life 2 sold so well?
It was neat I suppose but not outstanding in anyway, and not as groundbreaking as the original.
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I remember a few of my wargaming guildies really liked Cossacks. It always struck me as a niche product, though, and, for that niche I would have thought one of the Rome Total War entries would have done better.
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I agree Groucho.
Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (4 million) ??
Sold better than any Total war game? Any Sid Meier game?
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It cost 10 bucks. People will spend 10 bucks in a heart beat to shut their kids up for 3 minutes. At least I would back when my kid was a kid.
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Sims? Seriously? Wow
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Thinking about it, didn't Deer Hunter sell a gazillion copies?
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Like others said, the omissions stand out more than anything else.
No Call of Duty anything?
No Diablo 1?
No WoW product besides Cataclysm? Or Warcraft RTS titles?
Sims 3? Other SimCity versions?
Civilization?
No Battlefield besides BF3, which was only released last October?
No Elder Scrolls?
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All that stuff shows up on the pc list.
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I've owned 3 games off that list. I guess I'm not as awesome of a geek as I had once thought. 
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65 million copies sold and it's not even on the list?
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Oregon Trail was the first computer game I ever played. Next was the Lemmings and Silent Service. Oregon Trail will always have a special place in my heart!
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Eternal_Midnight posted:
NoScript doesn't like that site. There's like 15 different scripts running there.
unblock toms and bestofmedia.com to see the pics. when i saw the list i was like ah fk. best media.. this feels like a trap.. then it wasn't!
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Caoilin posted:
unblock toms and bestofmedia.com to see the pics. when i saw the list i was like ah fk. best media.. this feels like a trap.. then it wasn't!
That's what gets me. It's not that Tom's might be unsafe, it's that I have to unblock ten things to get the one thing I want to work. In doing so, I'm probably unblocking the things I don't want to, like the ads, which could put trackers or whatnot on my browser.
It's not that Tom's is unsafe, but you can't guarentee that the rest of the sites running scripts are safe.
The one that really get's me is google analytics. Its on EVERY website out there.
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Eternal_Midnight posted:
Caoilin posted:
unblock toms and bestofmedia.com to see the pics. when i saw the list i was like ah fk. best media.. this feels like a trap.. then it wasn't!
That's what gets me. It's not that Tom's might be unsafe, it's that I have to unblock ten things to get the one thing I want to work. In doing so, I'm probably unblocking the things I don't want to, like the ads, which could put trackers or whatnot on my browser.
It's not that Tom's is unsafe, but you can't guarentee that the rest of the sites running scripts are safe.
The one that really get's me is google analytics. Its on EVERY website out there.
I think you get better at knowing which scripts to allow as you go... I allowed 2 of 17 on there to see the content I wanted. Google analytics can diaf every time though.
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Eithne_Boadicea posted:
65 million copies sold and it's not even on the list?
It doesn't count if 64.9 million were purchased by elementary schools.
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I was surprised to see Riven on that list. Not saying it wasn't a good game but I did not anticipate it having that high of sells
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Wasn't that the sequel to Myst? It might have sold based on expectations.
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