ASeven wrote on Feb 3, 2012, 18:37:

netnerd85 wrote on Feb 3, 2012, 16:51:

ASeven wrote on Feb 3, 2012, 13:40:
And indie are quickly reaching AAA production standards, like Renegade X.

Think you will find the reason for that is a lot of "indie" developers are previous employees of BIG named companies. So they aren't your teenage/young pup developers, they are seasoned professionals turned "freelance" in a sense...

Wave goodbye to the publishers, they are no longer needed.

Which is what I've always said, devs are finding out that going indie is far better than being tied to a publisher. Hell, Notch refused to be hired by EA and that's a prime example of indie's attitudes today, they do not want to work in one of the most brutal work environments on present day.

Developers are slowly finding out that it's far more profitable, in work environment terms, in family terms, in available time terms and in financial terms if they make it good, to ditch the middle man that are publishers and go for it by themselves. And that's a bloody good thing.

Julio wrote on Feb 2, 2012, 19:00:
I like how devs of games that suck blame piracy for their game being garbage. 38 Studios can go console exclusive for all it matters.

Dev wrote on Feb 2, 2012, 17:33:
Also, as soon as next gen consoles hit, ports to PC will take a MAJOR step forward in graphics and shiny features. This silly stuff about many games still being released using DX 9 is because thats closer to what consoles use, and consoles are holding back game development on PC.

Bhruic wrote on Feb 2, 2012, 15:10:

So they likely can get more money making a new game for PC than for console.

The question isn't so much about what platform has the highest profit margin, it's whether the amount they "lose" to piracy is equal to or greater than the amount they make from consoles. Now, if there truly was a 1:1 piracy:lost sale ratio, then yes, that could be the case, but I think even publishers are well aware that's not the case.

Bhruic wrote on Feb 2, 2012, 14:36:
Now, ask publishers if they would rather have a PC-exlusive title that had no piracy, or as PC/XBox360/PS3 release that had piracy. Financially speaking, the latter is going to earn them substantially more money than the former (all other factors being equal).

Ray Marden wrote on Jan 31, 2012, 18:54:
But...you get performance equivalent to much older cards at a current day premium price. Where are the significant updates in performance? It's bad enough that the consoles are holding back the entire PC market, but the industry isn't even trying to improve the technology that much - they just want you to get a second, third, or even fourth card.

DeadFire87 wrote on Jan 31, 2012, 11:09:
SOLD!!!!! haha. Someone BUY IT.

Bhruic wrote on Jan 30, 2012, 17:18:

Furthermore, what laws do you think corporations are breaking right now? What law did the banks break leading up to 2008? Point me to one.

Exactly. Lots of people were complaining that no one on Wall Street has been prosecuted over the financial crisis, and how unfair that is when compared to case X. But the reality is that they (for the most part) didn't break any laws - there weren't any laws in this area for them to have to break. If you remove regulations, and just let the corporations do what they want, claiming you are "enforcing the law" is pretty pointless.

eunichron wrote on Jan 30, 2012, 15:43:

Beamer wrote on Jan 30, 2012, 15:32:
Do you honestly think that just taking away the government's ability to do ANYTHING will solve the problem more?

You completely missed the point. That's not what any Libertarian is advocating, that would be anarchism. What government should be doing, and already has the capability to do, is enforcing the law.

Cutter wrote on Jan 30, 2012, 11:11:
Well I pretty much nailed the spread, just the wrong way, lol! So odd as the NFC dominates it most of the time.

deqer wrote on Jan 29, 2012, 15:13:
The screenshot posted does the game no justice. I have no idea what this game is about, but I can tell you this--that screenshot shows me nothing; it makes no sense, and looks boring.

Perhaps next time these bloggers can get with the times--it's 2012 now--and start posting a video instead of a screenshot that shows practically nothing.

Kitkoan wrote on Jan 26, 2012, 23:34:

Elf Shot The Food wrote on Jan 26, 2012, 22:27:
Prince of Persia got released DRM free at retail and was pirated like crazy. This probably will be too.

Spore was released with what was considered the worst DRM at its time... and was the most pirated game...

wtf_man wrote on Jan 26, 2012, 15:50:

Parallax Abstraction wrote on Jan 26, 2012, 11:20:
No way they'd launch the iPhone 5 that early.

Actually some folks at Verizon were telling our employees that take care of the phones that the iPhone 5's may come out in Spring... LTE support and all (along with the iPad 3's).

/shrug

We'll see... but LTE (and a person being in an area with LTE) would be about the only reason to upgrade.

panbient wrote on Jan 26, 2012, 12:02:
Anachronox please.

Prez wrote on Jan 25, 2012, 19:38:

Don't forget the previous administrations as well, which lead up to the 2008 collapse.

Absolutely. The collapse was actually in the making from the Clinton/Reno era. Some might even say from the FDR era. The worst thing is that we as a country, from the everyday common consumer to the largest corporation, have apparently learned absolutely nothing from it.

eRe4s3r wrote on Jan 24, 2012, 12:26:
Hmhhh.mhmhmhm.. i view Origin as a take all you can eat buffet with prices attached to each item where you can bring "codes" from outside to get the items just 50% cheaper than if you buy right there at the buffet.

Meaning i would never buy there either, but i would buy Origin games for 50% less elsewhere when i can register them on Origin anyway...

nin wrote on Jan 23, 2012, 11:35:

How can you still be on track to release soon when you're rewiring so many core systems?

I wondered that also. I thought it was about good to go, until that post last week about reworking things...

Cutter wrote on Jan 22, 2012, 16:33:
Apple and all those companies are proof that we need to eliminate free trade and get back to fair trade - i.e. tariffs. Reading articles like that just makes me angry on so many levels. And the saddest part is when you get these right-wing dingbats chiming in about how the problem is working people actually asking for a living wage and not their corporate masters raking in obscene amounts of profits at the expense of them and the environment. This exactly the sort of shit that makes me see the world as moving to the cold, dark, dystopian future instead of a bright and sunny one. And why is that? Because the pigs who support these companies are more concerned with the latest toy than doing what's right. Well, they're all going to work up broke, hungry, and cold sooner than later.

Razumen wrote on Jan 22, 2012, 03:46:

WyldKat wrote on Jan 21, 2012, 23:26:

Elim wrote on Jan 21, 2012, 18:27:
A more commercial and user friendly Dwarf Fortress would destroy the game. It is one of the last games for hardcore gamers, just leave us that one. Let them destroy all other games with their dumbed down mechanics.

No one is saying we want them to dumb down the mechanics. Just implement a UI that isn't crap and graphics that aren't headache inducing.

THIS. a more user friendly interface doesn't dumb down anything, and frankly the UI for DF is just downright terrible. Complicated and obtuse layers of menus DOES NOT make for deep game mechanics.
I could maybe forgive it for the ASCII graphics, but how the game controls is not worth it at all, and it doesn't look like the developer will improve on this point any time soon.