The article says October 17th, 2001, right at the start, and throughout the first page they speak of the development period informed by data accurate as of December 2000. The "ten seconds exclusive access to the CD" speaks for itself though.
Yes, and once again, I vow to pay better attention to dates and context. I already sincerely apologized. I was reading an article on anti-cracking, so that was the part I was concentrating on. And usually, I filter dates out when I read because the difference between a technical article published in 2012 and 2013 is fairly minimal (while the difference between 2014 and 2001 is pretty massive, which is why HN requires old articles to include the year). But clearly, this filter has caused both me and all the commenters unneeded grief, so I'll turn my date filter off.
And given the state of the game market (as described in the article) the difference in terms of revenue between a couple months and forever is minimal.
Fair enough. I'm not a gamer and don't claim to know much about gaming.
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Yes, and once again, I vow to pay better attention to dates and context. I already sincerely apologized. I was reading an article on anti-cracking, so that was the part I was concentrating on. And usually, I filter dates out when I read because the difference between a technical article published in 2012 and 2013 is fairly minimal (while the difference between 2014 and 2001 is pretty massive, which is why HN requires old articles to include the year). But clearly, this filter has caused both me and all the commenters unneeded grief, so I'll turn my date filter off.
Fair enough. I'm not a gamer and don't claim to know much about gaming.