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I'll start with "the moral of the story" for me... I need to stop taking articles so seriously and taking all of the fun out of an otherwise highly nostalgic b
by chrisacky 14y ago
I'll start with "the moral of the story" for me...
I need to stop taking articles so seriously and taking all of the fun out of an otherwise highly nostalgic blast from the past.
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This is an old article (2009).
Even so, I can't imagine that this is true:
"Click-for-click, nothing has wasted more time than Minesweeper...."
It's probably just hyperbole to get the point across, but to then come out and say that "The most successful game ever made isn't World of Warcraft"... really can't be said without saying by what qualifications you are saying a game is successful.
- If it's pure mouse clicks, I'm sure a gazillion percent sure that WoW has had more clicks.
- If it is $$$ than that's an easy one too.
- If it's time wasted... then I'm sure it's not Minesweeper either.
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- kds 14y agohttp://www.claymath.org/Popular_Lectures/Minesweeper/ http://www.claymath.org/Popular_Lectures/Minesweeper/ "It's not often you can win a million dollars by analysing a computer game, but by a curious conjunction of fate, there's a chance that you might." -- prof. Ian Stuart, in a lecture on Minesweeper and P-vs-NP
- yread 14y ago- If it's time wasted... then I'm sure it's not Minesweeper either. Do you have any data for it or should we just trust you because you are also gazillion percent sure? Lot more people play minesweeper and solitaire than WoW..
- debacle 14y agoHave you read Drew Curtis's book? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Not_News,_It%27s_FARK:_How_Mass_Media_Tries_to_Pass_off_Crap_as_News http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Not_News,_It%27s_FARK:_H... This is a filler piece, and nothing more.
- bookwormAT 14y agoAnother metric for success is reach. For an artist, how many people actually saw your work and judged it is very important.