If you're looking for a new MMORPG to play chances are you've read up on Age of Conan. If not then maybe you should. I'll be honest I don't play and MMOs, but I've been reading up on age of conan and I'm tempted to start. So I'm surfing the net, looking for some info on AGE OF CONAN (only) and find this little gem in the telegraph (UK newpaper) - "Computer gamers have staged a revolt after the gravity-defying breasts of characters in a popular game were suddenly reduced." Turns out that the maximum breast size had been reduced in error during a programming alteration carried out to fix other bugs.

Check out the difference for youself:

"If this isn't fixed in a reasonable amount of time, ie a day or two, I will be un-subscribing," one player, calling himself Dusk, wrote on the game's official forum. Wow.

Developers Funcom have announced a statement confirming that "some of the female models in the game have had the size of their breasts changed. This is due to an unintended change in data that was introduced in an earlier patch, data which controls the so-called morph values associated with character models and the size of their respective body parts."

"We are working on a fix for this and your breasts should be back to normal soon." - Funcom

For anyone wanting to play the game who is now 'put-off' don't worry; Funcom have since fixed the problem. Can I just make it clear that when i found this story I was surfing for AGE OF CONAN and that was it. Think I may have to get Age of Conan for its big... quests.

How important is the spec of a games console? How about the games released on it? Pretty important right? Are they the most important things? Yeah? Well maybe not. I believe that Sega ended up exiting the games console market mainly through bad BUSINESS decisions. Let's go old school and remember the days when Sega had it all..

Can you remember the days of SNES vs Mega-drive/Genesis? Nintendo and Sega were in such a powerful position in the games industry it was hard for competitors to enter the market. Sega's next-gen console, the Saturn, was deemed the future and had no immediate competition from Nintendo. How could anyone screw this up? How about these 3 key mistakes:

1) Delays

The Saturn was delayed well over a year. What many people don't realise is that this delay was business influenced. Sega were doing so well in the market with the Mega-drive/Genesis and its add-on hardware that the release of the Saturn 'so soon' was not a profit maximising option.

2) Loud and Proud

Sega had announced almost everything about the Saturn 3 years before the release. They were beaten by PlayStation hands down due to Sony keeping extremely quiet about their games console until nearer it's release date. This also helped build hype near the release date, not 2-3 years before like for the Saturn (very early marketing). By the time the Saturn was released it already seemed old news. Sony were also able to find out way too many details about the competition so early in their own development of the PlayStation.

3) Underestimate the competition

Hearing of Sony entering the market should have worried Sega much more than it did. They may had found out later than they had liked about the PlayStation, but should have responded by releasing the Saturn AT LEAST 6 months before, ideally a year, such as Xbox 360 has done to the technologically superior PS3 enabling the 360 to dominate through an early start and being able to get it's "later wave" of games for the console out that normally annihilate the launch games. This could have countered Sony's 'keep quiet' marketing.

In UK the Saturn's launch was a disaster compared to the Playstation. This hopefully shows how important the right business decisions are to even a dominant player in the games industry. I've read so many games console comparisions of success revolving around specs and games that I thought I'd try something different. Thanks for reading, please add your thoughts and comments.