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I'd be much more worried about it getting the Overstrike treatment rather than it being a console exclusive.

@thehbk: Just put the same amount in a small pot first and reheat it on the stove. Probably only takes you a few more minutes, but you're left with a dirty small pot.

@toowalrus: I didn't say it's not useful for anyone else.

Not saying they don't, but if you mainly eat TV dinners and leftovers you're probably eating alone most of the time.

@mx: There's quite a major difference in traffic between games that run gameplay through servers (especially in the case of MMOs where hundreds or more participants can be interacting) and games that doesn't. Comparing this to an MMO is just ludicrous. Comparing it to stuff like Diablo and Sim City (as already done) makes more sense, but even then those games were still heavily monitoring and saving to the cloud as you went along. A more apt comparison is something like CoD, and even though they also have some launch days woes, it's usually not close to this.

Games like Sim City and Diablo had gameplay run through dedicated servers. The open world is not online, it's hosted by one of the participants.

How is this an MMO like thing ?

It's multiplayer, it has cloud saves. If that is all it takes to be defined as an MMO these days then pretty much every game out there is an "MMO like thing". There is absolutely nothing about the gameplay that is run on dedicated servers, it's just matchmaking.

in a pot or a pan ?

Microwaves are basically designed for single people. Vinny is not single.

You don't just choose between a certain amount of pre-sets (as you can change how much or little their appearance is inherited over 2 generations), but ye it's pretty terrible. Fun concept, but absolutely no control so it could've just as well been a forced random button until you found something you liked.

Has noone mentioned Battle.net streaming yet ?

WoW is a 25Gb download, you can start playing it after 5-10 minutes of downloading.