O_oOriginally posted by IMAD!man
I am curious, did more people buy Anarchy-Online at retailers or did more people download it? Well over half of the people I know and play with in the game downloaded it. The fact that Notum Wars is not available to me and lots and lots of other people is not to be excused with any kind of market jargon. And the idea that they were not aware that this would be the case only serves to undermine your entire "theory".
OK, if you want to treat trade publications like Bigfoot, go ahead... but you probably had to explain what Anarchy Online was, or spell "Notum", as most other people had to. Most of the people runnign those shops have absolutely no f*ing clue what AO or NW are.