May 25, 2008

The Gold At The End Of The Rainbow (The Bug That Got Away - Part 2)

Since I wrote about Rainbow 6 Las Vegas 2 a few weeks ago, a few things have become apparent: Ubisoft have sold a lot of copies of the title and there are still no bug fixes available for the 360 and PS3 versions. Yesterday, however, my story found a new lease of life :
Activision announced that the Modern Warfare Variety Map Pack for COD4 has set a new record for the number of paid downloads - over one million downloads in the first nine days since release! Wow! - 1 million downloads @ 800 points each (approx $10) equals 10 million dollars in revenue in 9 days! And let's not forget the PS3 version is released next week...
And what has this got to do with Rainbow 6 ? Well, its a pot of gold that Ubisoft wont be able to dip its lazy hand into for the time being! Having rushed the release and gone for the quick profit option at the expense of the game quality, the consumer is feeling let down and disappointed so they wont be rushing to download any future map packs! Obviously, a very costly bug that got away!

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