If you're curious about the game, you can still sign up for the beta, and pre-orders will also get a headstart period. The next beta event will be a six day open test called "Telara the Merciless", starting on February 15 at 10AM PST and running through to February 21. This test features two playable factions, the first 42 levels of the game, three PvP warfronts and more. Looks like they're really ramping things up for the March 1st release.

Some time ago Trion Worlds' promised a smooth launch void of bugs. They may actually be able to back that up as well.

But the backlash, honestly, was staggering. And I think it was, to me, the level and the depth of the backlash. It wasn't just like, "Hey, I played this game, and I didn't like it. It sucked. I hate this game. This game is the worst thing ever." Okay, you didn't like the game and all that. But it got to the point where there were personal attacks on developers.

It seems like the layers, one is like, "Did you like the game or not?" You could say, "I think this game is horrible." Perfectly fine. "Hey, I think your company is crap because it makes bad games." Okay, you know, whatever.

But then I started to get... It got to this level where at one point, on our forums, at the same time... Kind of the backend of this all happening is I was actually going through a divorce at the same time, and somebody found that out and posted on the forums, you know, "Well, I'm sure that his wife is leaving him because he lied about the size of his penis like he lied to us." I'm like, "Oh my... Really? Really? This is where we've come."

And I don't know if it's just because we happened to strike a chord where people had such high expectations for the game... I mean, we had high expectations for the game. We didn't deliver on what people wanted.

And maybe, also at that time, that's just to where the internet -- I hate to use that broad-based term in quotes -- had gotten. Like, people love flaming. The whole thing is all -- they want controversy. They're going to say things. It's like, "Hey, you don't know who I really am. I can say whatever I want." You see it in the press now.

According to them, although DCUO did attract some players from the other superhero MMOs, City of Heroes and Champions Online, the top ten games that DCUO stole playtime from did not include these two. This was deduced from the games that DCUO players played before its release, and which games dropped in playtime the most after DCUO's launch.

Here's the list:

1. World of Warcraft
2. StarCraft 2
3. Aion
4. Battlefield Bad Company 2
5. Mass Effect 2
6. Call of Duty: Black Ops
7. Mafia 2
8. Team Fortress 2
9. Eve Online
10. Warhammer Online

But they are quick to add that "while WoW was affected most, overall the dent is pretty minimal as the overall gameplay hours tracked for WoW week in/week out keeps it at the top of the charts."

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Fergie sounded like the song was one octave too high for her. There were no garment malfunctions. Everyone's raving about the VW Darth Vader commercial but in my book, it's a tie between Coca-Cola Siege (what was Deathwing doing in a Coke commercial?) and any of the Doritos ones. Ok except for the cringe-worthy one below.

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