September 06, 2005
World of Warcraft - Michael Pachter is an Idiot
Michael Patcher is the most annoying videogame analyst of all time. This is the same guy who said 64 bit games take twice as long to develop for because they are double the bits of 32 bit games. Total clueless idiot. Yet he finds himself quoted 100Xs more than any other reputable videogame analyst. I just don't get it.
Now in this NYTimes article he says the U.S. and Europe gamers don't need an imaginary outlet to feel a sense of accomplishment, therefore World of Warcraft will eventually come back down to 1 million subscribers. Gee, what a genius.
"I don't think there are four million people in the world who really want to play online games every month," said Michael Pachter, a research analyst for Wedbush Morgan, a securities firm. "World of Warcraft is such an exception. I frankly think it's the buzz factor, and eventually it will come back to the mean, maybe a million subscribers." "It may continue to grow in China," Mr. Pachter added, "but not in Europe or the U.S. We don't need the imaginary outlet to feel a sense of accomplishment here. It just doesn't work in the U.S. It just doesn't make any sense." [Discussion]
