Thursday, May 01, 2008

Always read the footnotes

The following is currently footnote 73 of the draft of my seminar paper:

The video game at issue in Davidson was StarCraft, one of the most popular PC games ever produced, with total sales to date exceeding 9.5 million units. Vivendi, Introduction to Vivendi Games 4 (2006), http://www.vivendi.com/ir/download/pdf/VIVGames_EuropeRoadshow_June2006.pdf. Widely recognized as one of the best real-time strategy games ever produced, StarCraft has enjoyed enduring popularity in North America and Asia, and helped launch Blizzard Entertainment to the top of the video gaming world. One of the keys to the game's success was the successful implementation of the Battle.net gaming site, which enabled users to play the game online or on a local area network. The Battle.net servers have expanded to also host World of Warcraft, the most popular massive multiplayer online role playing game, with over ten million subscribing users. Nearly ten years after its first release, there are still nightly StarCraft tournaments in South Korea, where the game has a large and faithful fan base. Press Release, Blizzard Entertainment, Starcraft® II Released (May 19, 2007) (http://blizzard.com/us/press/070519.html).

I'm not kidding; that's really in the footnotes. I've always wanted to put something like that in a boring legal paper, and I finally got a chance. It's actually somewhat relevant. We'll see if my professor notices it.

1 comments:

bawb said...

Footnotes are usually better than the material they reference, I think.

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