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| News Comments > Gabe Newell on Valve Hardware and Owning Steam Games |
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Re: Gabe Newell on Valve Hardware and Owning Steam Games |
Feb 20, 2012, 18:38 |
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You're joking right? Have you seen the shit they have on TV these days? Or even at the movies? The story in HL is damn near high-art in modern society.
Some of the stupidest stuff on TV is magnitudes better than the story in HL. HL is a step up from "go get the red keycard", but that's about it. |
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| News Comments > PC Alan Wake Breaks Even |
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Re: PC Alan Wake Breaks Even |
Feb 20, 2012, 17:41 |
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Better to mail them three twenty dollar bills, then as soon as they try to reach for them, the bills go up in flames along with a message that says "You didn't want this money, otherwise you'd have put the game on PC!"
THAT would get their attention! I need to call Mythbusters...
LOL
If you can figure out how to pull it off, I'm in!  |
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| News Comments > Gabe Newell on Valve Hardware and Owning Steam Games |
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Re: Gabe Newell on Valve Hardware and Owning Steam Games |
Feb 20, 2012, 17:40 |
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Newell and his PR masters don't want to admit that the HL story hinges on one person
You have to be joking. I've seen 6 year olds come up with a better story than HL has.
Yes, ok, slight exaggeration, but not that large a one. The HL story is very rudimentary, and anyone who's even half-competent would be able to come up with something plausible. |
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| News Comments > PC Alan Wake Breaks Even |
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Re: PC Alan Wake Breaks Even |
Feb 20, 2012, 15:37 |
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The only thing they understand is money.
So mail them a picture of $60, and say "This is the money you would have got if you'd released the game simultaneously on PC"? |
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| News Comments > PC Alan Wake Breaks Even |
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Re: PC Alan Wake Breaks Even |
Feb 20, 2012, 12:42 |
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| This is a bit disappointing. While in general I'm all for people buying and playing the games they want to, it's discouraging to see a developer being rewarded for giving us sloppy seconds. |
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| News Comments > Gabe Newell on Valve Hardware and Owning Steam Games |
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Re: Gabe Newell on Valve Hardware and Owning Steam Games |
Feb 20, 2012, 12:17 |
Bhruic |
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I like this answer about the legality of people not-owning games.
Now imagine if an EA peon had answered the same question: "Our EULA says we own your stuff, not you. So go fuck yourself."
So you'd rather have someone completely duck the question, rather than give you a straight-up, honest answer? |
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| News Comments > Steam Top 10 |
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Re: Steam Top 10 |
Feb 19, 2012, 17:54 |
Bhruic |
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| I'm surprised to see Alan Wake that high, considering how long it's been since the console release, I didn't think that many people would have been waiting for, and interested in, a port (or a port back). |
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| News Comments > On Mass Effect 3 DRM |
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Re: On Mass Effect 3 DRM |
Feb 19, 2012, 17:29 |
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My primary point was that EA prices are way above the industry average. Most games are launched at £30 and EA is launching between £35-45, despite taking a larger percentage of the profit. Meanwhile, Valve has offered much better prices with their first-party titles, as well as many third-party titles.
See, again, you are trying to apples and orange it. Quite a few publishers have moved to the $59.99 price point for their AAA games, it's not something only EA have done. But even if they did, again, the price is generally consistent with the other digital distributors - including Steam.
So no, Valve hasn't offered any better prices. In fact, if you want a fun experiment, go find a game on Steam that is less than the corresponding game on Origin that isn't on sale. I did a random search of over a dozen titles, all the prices were identical.
And you've done nothing to prove that Origin has sales that compare to Steam.
Well, that's probably because I've never claimed that they do have sales that compare to Steam. It'd be a stupid claim to make - EA doesn't have the library to do it. Again, randomly selecting a genre, Steam has 523 games under "strategy". EA has 10. And that includes DLC. EA just doesn't have enough games on Origin to be able to have as many games on sale at onces as Valve does with Steam. That doesn't mean they don't have good sales on the games they do have, but if they duplicate by percentage (the only real way they could do it), Valve could easily have 50 games on sale where EA only had 1. Is it any surprise that Valve would get all the publicity over it?
As I've said, if EA wants to win people over it has to offer better deals and larger promotions to attract attention.
Any maybe they'll get to that point. Fuck, at this point in Steam's life cycle, they weren't even close to as good as Origin is now. Steam was an absolute wreck in the first few years of its existence. Do you think that Steam had any "massive sales" at that point in its history? |
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| News Comments > On Mass Effect 3 DRM |
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Re: On Mass Effect 3 DRM |
Feb 18, 2012, 18:18 |
Bhruic |
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I don't know about elsewhere but in the UK the prices are ridiculous
You're comparing apples and oranges. For example, Steam price of Kingdoms of Amalur - $59.99, Amazon - $50.99. Steam price of Crusader Kings II - $39.99, Amazon - $35.99. All you are doing is demonstrating that Amazon is generally cheaper than both Steam and Origin. But that doesn't make any comparison between the two. For the record, the Origin price of both games is identical to the Steam price.
Steam prices are pretty hit-and-miss (dependant upon the publisher) but their sales are exceptional, so it represents dramatically better value overall.
Jerykk's point was that Origin has great sales too, and you haven't done anything to disprove that.
Steam is certainly the better system right now, but Origin is in a position to have to play catch up - it doesn't have the library that Steam has. But compared to the early days of Steam, it's quite decent. |
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| News Comments > On Mass Effect 3 DRM |
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Re: On Mass Effect 3 DRM |
Feb 18, 2012, 12:06 |
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If I have to sign up for Origin it kind of defeats the purpose of avoiding Origin.
If EA gets its head out and puts the game and its DLC on Steam then I'll consider it.
So you'd buy it on Steam if you still had to use Origin to activate it? |
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| News Comments > CD Projekt RED on Their New Engine |
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Re: CD Projekt RED on Their New Engine |
Feb 18, 2012, 11:12 |
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Why not?
Current gen PC's = next gen consoles
Because that's pure speculation? The PS3, for example, had little similarities to the "current PCs" of its era, and required a lot of custom designing for engines. The idea that anyone was able to "take advantage" of it before even knowing the specs of it is laughable.
As was this statement. |
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| News Comments > CD Projekt RED on Their New Engine |
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Re: CD Projekt RED on Their New Engine |
Feb 18, 2012, 09:44 |
Bhruic |
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| It's nice marketing-speak and all, but since they don't know what the specs are for the "next generation of consoles", they really can make any realistic claims about their ability to take advantage of them. |
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| News Comments > On Mass Effect 3 DRM |
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Re: On Mass Effect 3 DRM |
Feb 18, 2012, 09:42 |
Bhruic |
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I cared about ME3 until they made it an Origin exclusive. Now I don't. That will just keep happening.
Well, good to know you still care about ME3 then, because it's not an Origin exclusive. It's not even an Origin digital exclusive. It's being sold through quite a few online vendors, just like BF3 is/was. It's just not being sold through Steam.
How "not being sold through Steam" became "Origin exclusive" still baffles me. |
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| News Comments > Morning Tech Bits |
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Re: Morning Tech Bits |
Feb 17, 2012, 22:21 |
Bhruic |
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Microsoft's mad rush to try and combine the PC and phone/tablet OS is really misguided. I don't know if they think that they can leverage the desktop again, the way they did with IE, but people aren't going to switch to a Windows 8 phone/tablet just because they have Windows on the desktop. And that's assuming people having Windows 8 on the desktop. There's a good reason that Vista uptake was so low, and that's because there was no desire to upgrade. Once you've got a good working system, making fundamental changes to it is the last think you want to do.
I guess from their point of view, they've backed themselves into a corner of coming obsolescence, so they have to gamble to try and break into other markets, but I can't see this paying off for them. |
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| News Comments > On Mass Effect 3 DRM |
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Re: On Mass Effect 3 DRM |
Feb 17, 2012, 22:11 |
Bhruic |
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As for the whole Origin thing, I do not need my games spread across more than one download service. Accounts with this, accounts with that. Oh shit game ABC is with service XYZ not 123.
Fragmentation is nothing but evil. Not to mention the lack of choice for the user because EA wants to be supreme overlord with their products.
There's a bit of a disconnect between complaining that you only ever want games on one service, and then complaining about a lack of choice, but ok.
The thing is, you still have a choice about where you buy the game. It's not "exclusive" to Origin. You have to activate the game on Origin, but that's no different than Steamworks games that require you to activate a game on Steam - even if you bought it elsewhere. With the offline mode, you only have to activate ME3 online once, at which point you don't need to do so anymore. Assuming it works the way it's been described, it's actually fairly unobtrusive. |
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| News Comments > 2012 BAFTA Nominees |
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Re: 2012 BAFTA Nominees |
Feb 16, 2012, 17:29 |
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Hammer wrote on Feb 16, 2012, 15:46:
Bhruic wrote on Feb 16, 2012, 13:54:
Really? Fifa 2012, LA Noire and Modern Warfare 3 for Best Game? They have some odd standards, apparently.
Fixed it for ya...
No you didn't, CoD:MW3 isn't up for Best Game. |
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