A lesser author would feel guilty at such blatant plagiarism. But Steve Jobs, quoting Picasso, says, “Good artists copy, great artists steal.” That said, I still extend my heartfelt apologies to Chuck Palahniuk.
By the measure of Picasso (and Jobs) I am the Leonardo da Vinci of the blogging world. If you would dare to call blogging art.
But I digress. Only those gamers who played Diablo for the first time in 1996/97, fell in love with it, and were then forced to wait from 2000 to 2005 for Diablo 2 to be released would understand this fully. Remember the excitement when you were invited to the closed beta? What about the horror of the 100MB beta client download? I was on dial-up at the time so let me assure you that it wasn’t fun.
Now imagine that times 4 gajibazillion. Hellgate: London promised even more than Diablo 2 did (aside: and even D2 disappointed the followers of The Great Hype Machineâ„¢ back then).
Then imagine this in your inbox.
Congratulations! You’ve been selected to be part of the very first group to help test Hellgate: London, the highly-anticipated Action-RPG from Flagship Studios!