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Are you kidding me? My wife loves those games. This is the same woman who has over 44k lifetime HKs on her mage, so... yeah.

Touche.

Agreed. However, the article closes with the idea that Blizz is a pillar of support for the PC gaming market, rather than expounding on how this sales list means that Blizz makes the best damn product in the world.

Explain, please, how this article equated sales with quality, in any way, shape, or form.

Show your work.

"and of those five, four are World of Warcraft related."

I don't think they claimed that they are all the same game, at least in the body of this article. The title though...

Well, technically speaking, World of Warcraft is Warcraft related, not the other way around. Seeing as the Warcraft series existed first, I think it sets the precedence.

World of Warcraft is a Warcraft related title.
Warcraft III is NOT a World of Warcraft related title.

As they say, a square is a rectangle, but a rectangle is not necessarily a square.

So the argument here is that Warcraft III is not related to World of Warcraft? I just want to make sure I'm reading you right.

(Relationship is a commutative property, unfortunately for your hypothesis. It goes both ways.)

@ Chris

Basically, the assertion I am making is this: The franchise itself is the Warcraft franchise. It existed as such for three titles prior to WoW being released. World of Warcraft and its expansions are only a subsection of the Warcraft franchise, although admittedly the most popular/successful subsection. Much in the same way one could say that Dark Alliance is a Baldur's Gate game, while you can not say that Baldur's Gate is a Dark Alliance game. it would be far more accurate to claim WoW to be Warcraft related then vice versa. While using the term "related" does make the statement viable (commutative properties, as you mentioned) there is an established hierarchy and I was just taking a moment to point it out.

At any rate, it is a nit-picky and unimportant detail in the overall scheme of things, but I still stand by my supposition, and feel the square/rectangle analogy still holds.

Yeah but the title here is to grab attention....not to be factual. Because it isn't.

Two Sims packs (one a tie-in with a furniture maker), FIVE Blizzard entries (a good chunk many years old), and assorted leftover stuff including one which isn't a game at all.

While PC gaming is not dead, that list* is no sign of a healthy platform. Anything but. Let's reframe the list:

One MMO, a casual game, two expansions for another casual game, one not-a-game, a few old games bundled, and Call of Duty (which sold far better on consoles).

Does beat Mac native gaming at least. They just got...Jade Empire.

*It's important to keep in mind the list doesn't track online purchases and subscriptions, last I knew. No Steam, no Impulse, etc etc.

Actually I read in a copy of Forbes that those Bejeweled games and such from Bottlecap Games sell like mad for PC. PC novies tend to buy novice type games, the more experiences pirate like mad it seems.