oh here we go, the everlasting private parts measuring competition and head
inflation...

if ya want one of these threads just go to any server board, and go read any
guildflame thread. They get old fast, and you end up with people saying
they like cookies or make stupid remarks because well, frankly they want the
thread to die...

So pretty please, dont spam my mailbox with this kind of bullshit...

Kaz, your head is far too inflated...

Minkin
A Ro

-----Original Message-----
From: KAZ [mailto:kazvorpal@...]
Sent: February 8, 2002 1:19 PM
To: eqbards@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [eqbards] OT: *sigh* Stereotyping...

--- Daniel Sniderman <fuzzbone@...> wrote:

> Pardon me - but I was born in Chicago, IL in 1962. I'm an American and
> have
> lived here all my life. I'm not "stereotyping Americans". I'm stating my
> OPINION of what is wrong with my country. If you are unable to deal with
> any sort of criticism - I apologize.

The day any other country, or all of them combined, comes anywhere close to
the innovation and global economic benefits the US provides, there'll be
something /arguably/ wrong with Americans' sense of self-importance.

Remember, without us there'd be no Internet.

> I DO believe that we are arrogant and never consider markets outside our
> own.

That's because it takes ten times the population to make the same money in
any other market.

> Almost every article I've read talks about EQ being the "Largest"
> MMORPG Game. It's not. There's a Korean game that's larger. It's much

Who gives a rat's ass? Imagine the world of computing if they'd been left to
themselves in Korea...<snort>

"When are they going to port EverQuest to the Abacus?"

> larger. Whether their number is 2.7 million as they claim - or something
> close to 800K (not sure - as Tallies show they use some voodoo accounting
> to
> get that number) - only looking at the American market when talking about
> "The Largest" or "Best" is a failing that we'd be better off if we

expanded

I'll take American customers over Korean ones 2:1 any day. It's no
coincidence that our income and standard of living are more than double
theirs.

=====
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