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Posted: Jan 1st 2009 6:26PM (Unverified) said

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If anything, you should care Jack. In fact you should care a great deal.

To put it bluntly, ANY company that does direct work on a MMO (I,e, distributing it, creating it, etc.) not only has the possibility of being sued for a LOT of money because of this, but also if they can't pay up, they could be forced to shut down.

Worse, if Worlds.com is successful, it doesn't matter who they go up against if they've built up enough steam first. Sure it means they probably will go after WoW last, but by the time they do they may very well have enough leverage to seriously hurt Blizzard, the game itself, and possibly (all though indirectly) the players.

And yes, this has the possibility to get even worse. MMOs are just the tip of the iceberg. This actually does have the real possibility of giving them leverage to non MMO games, and possibly even mobile phones, just to name a few (after all, some guy found a way to play City of heroes on his iPhone a while back, meaning they could sue Apple for helping provide access to 'their' technology).

So by saying you don't want to hear about this stuff, you're basically saying you don't want to know why your MMO of choice may very well take a big hit money wise, or even shut down because of this. Nor do you want to know why other things that might not even be directly involved with this are taking hits that could hurt you in other ways.
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