ASeven wrote on Mar 6, 2013, 18:10:

Dev wrote on Mar 6, 2013, 17:57:

ASeven wrote on Mar 6, 2013, 17:33:
And Chris Taylor (and numerous idiots) announced the death of Kickstarter when his project failed.

HAH! Crowdfunding is here to stay.

I don't get the hatred and vitriol towards crowdfunding from people who aren't even in publishing business. Its like they can't WAIT for this stuff to fail horribly and are gleefully standing around with a gas can to pour onto the fire when a project goes south.

There WILL be projects that fail. It doesn't mean the rest will, or that crowdfunding is stupid and should die and go away in a year. Its like investing in a startup. Protip, they sometimes fail.
KS's model of only funding if it reaches the goal reduces a lot of crap from getting funded. People are also expected to use a modicum of common sense, if something doesn't sound legit... guess what? It might not be!

The main reason for this hatred directed at crowdfunding from certain sectors of the entertainment industry is, I believe, simple to explain.

Crowdfunding threatens the status quo of publishers, gaming and otherwise. The dinosaurs don't want anything to threaten their ancient business model and crowdfunding is the biggest threat to classic publishing yet. It threatens the whole status quo of the publishing world and hence a lot of corporate people and their cronies can't wait to see this new model fail and fail hard. Bad news for them though, due to the nature of this model this can never, ever fail.

Dev wrote on Mar 6, 2013, 17:06:
polygon interview
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/01/09/planescape-torment-sequel/

A couple good interviews. Here's some tidbits:

InXile believes it has learned a critical lesson from its crowdfunding success. The creative leads at InXile believe that the traditional publisher/developer model of funding video games is broken, and the developer is staking its future on that claim.

and

RPS – Can you talk about why Wizards of the Coast were resistant to licensing Planescape again?

Fargo: We asked and were rebuffed. In reality we didn’t push very hard on licensing it as the team was excited to work with Monte on Numenera and they felt that there would be less creative restriction. And WotC has been pretty silent on this space for some time. Neither Feargus nor I was able to get a Baldur’s Gate 3 project going.

RPS – Did you meet any resistance when seeking the Torment name?

Fargo: I patiently waited for someone to do something with a Torment concept but nothing happened. After many years the rights expired and allowed me to step in and put together a great team to make another title of its kind. We will improve on the mechanics and deliver a deep narrative story that is deserving of the name Torment.

So apparently the torment trademark was expired which is how they can use that, but they don't have IP from wizards.
And they've tried to do BG3.

Verno wrote on Mar 6, 2013, 14:48:

sauron wrote on Mar 6, 2013, 12:38:
My old FFXI guildies are trying to get me to go back and play FFXIV with them, but I'm not buying it - looks too static and old-fashioned. Nice folks but I think I'm over the old-school MMO thing.

Don't do it, it's just not fun. Some friends did the same with me and I uninstalled shortly after.

Bill Borre wrote on Mar 6, 2013, 12:53:
The story doesn't sound plausible. For one thing, prior to 9/11, getting through that door probably would not have posed much challenge. For another, systematically murdering the crew would likely incense the passengers.

The most rational thing for the terrorists to have done would have been to simply lie to everyone that they were hijacking the plane. "Everyone stay calm and no one will get hurt." The passengers literally would not know what hit them until they slammed into the concrete and steel of the tower.

Creston wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 16:35:

Ratty wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 15:17:
I know everyone loves Dishonored

I don't. I thought the first level (the prison break one) sucked, then the next one in the city was fantastic, and I had a great time. And then they sent me right back to the EXACT SAME LEVEL for the next mission. I slogged through it, got annoyed, quit, and haven't played it again since.

I keep looking at it and think "I really need to finish Dishonored." Then I go play something else.

Creston

Burrito of Peace wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 13:55:

DX:HR was a good game but it was far from "awesome". It's predecessor was awesome.

Beamer wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 10:17:

Sempai wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 10:10:
The games business is a giant cluster fuck.
This news makes me want to cry because i enjoyed the hell out of this series, even three.

Something needs to change in this industry, these giant publishers need to go away and the model needs to find a way to be reborn.
The sheer amount of abuse and burnout in the industry is telling.
I respect these teams so much, and yet publishers like EA treat them like disposable dogshit.

This business needs a union of some sort that will protect these people from this constant and never ending abuse. I don't know..i don't have the answers..

A union isn't the answer. A union will get you what Hollywood has - contract workers rather than employees. That's even worse than what we have now.

EA isn't as much of a problem as they were, anyway. They do far less buying and razing awesome studios these days. They don't have the buying power, but I think they've learned that lesson. A bit.
The issue now is more just a function of no one understanding what to do about how much it costs to make a game with cutting edge graphics. Most studios decided the way to handle that is by reducing single player to 6-7 hours.

It isn't just games dealing with this, either. Look at Hollywood now. The most expensive movies of all time are the ones heaviest with CGI - movies like Oz Great and Powerful which is 100% greenscreened cost over $200MM. Nuts. And then the artists doing those effects get laid off and the studios get closed weeks after winning awards.
Don't know the answer. Industry leading computer visuals are just extremely expensive...

nin wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 12:33:

Holy Dishonored, Batman!

Yakubs wrote on Mar 5, 2013, 12:55:
Yay, another crap game with a classic game's name incoming. Gee, I really wish I could be a part of THAT proud development team.

theyarecomingforyou wrote on Mar 4, 2013, 20:53:
They must have offered him a decent chunk of money, as not many developers would want to work for a prick like Brad Wardell.

ShakyJake wrote on Mar 4, 2013, 17:34:
Dawn of the 18th century? Call me a pedant, but that would put it in the early 1700s. If the game is supposed to take place around the era of the Napoleonic wars, then it should have been called "Dawn of the 19th century".

Creston wrote on Mar 4, 2013, 15:47:

Flatline wrote on Mar 4, 2013, 15:36:

Creston wrote on Mar 4, 2013, 13:38:
The last sentence was never in the game, but is apparently revealed in a cgi short movie about the end of Ezio. Anyone have a link to that, by any chance? I never was able to get it from Ubi, even though I was supposed to.

Creston

Assassin's Creed: Embers. It was included in the ipad/iphone card game.

It actually was pretty cool, and a bittersweet ending for Ezio. Definitely had echoes of The Godfather for me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL30864YID4

Awesome, thanks man!

Creston

Creston wrote on Mar 4, 2013, 13:38:
The last sentence was never in the game, but is apparently revealed in a cgi short movie about the end of Ezio. Anyone have a link to that, by any chance? I never was able to get it from Ubi, even though I was supposed to.

Creston

Dev wrote on Mar 1, 2013, 23:48:
Whenever we talk about what the fantasy of Diablo is and what we want the core gameplay to be, never do we say “we want players to farm gold and go buy items off the auction house”.

BULLLLCRAP. Because that's sure as heck how you've designed the game!

Flatline wrote on Mar 1, 2013, 23:21:
What's going on is that Blizzard probably never intended for the RMAH to be a dominant, permanent fixture. As D3 wanes, they'll back away from monetizing it so hard. Yeah sure it'll still be there, but they made their millions and can ease back on all roads leading to the RMAH, figuring that in doing so they can claim they listen to their fans and come out like the good guys.

Thats a good point. I never thought about them backing off from that a bit as sales declined. But I doubt its quite near the time for them to do that. They are still selling the game for $50-$60.

ViRGE wrote on Mar 1, 2013, 03:55:

jdreyer wrote on Feb 28, 2013, 21:44:
There's a huge audience waiting to buy updated versions of X-Wing and Tie Fighter.

No. There's a small, vocal audience wanting to buy updated versions of X-Wing. Meanwhile there's a large audience waiting to buy Star Wars CoD, Star Wars Halo, or Star Wars The Force Unleashed 3.

Star Wars doesn't get to skip the fact that any kind of successful game needs to include consoles, and only certain genres are currently selling on consoles. Space sims are not among those.

Alamar wrote on Mar 1, 2013, 20:54:

Trevellian wrote on Mar 1, 2013, 19:37:
Heres a fucking idea, get rid of the Auction House that no one asked for and make better item drops.

Bam, fixed your fucking game Blizzard. Send my check in the mail.

Dipshits.

Are you new here, or to gaming in general?

As much as the AH is arguably a failure, it is somethings hundreds of thousands (I counted and verified identities) of gamers asked, begged, and pleaded for...

Personally, I vend everything I don't need, because I don't want to waste time 'playing the AH', so you can imagine how much less likely it would have been for me to use the old, much-more-effort-required system of spamming 'trade chat' or the like.

-Alamar

RollinThundr wrote on Mar 1, 2013, 13:56:

I have no issue with improving background checks or putting additional screens/background checks in place that better screen potential buyers. That actually is logical and makes sense.

I am not for outright bans because we're protected under the 2nd amendment with the right to bare arms and that right is not to be infringed upon. And realistically? Clip size bans will do zero to curb anything. But hey have a field day banning things, and believing the government that they have your "best interests" in mind.

The worst crimes in the history of man have been after governments disarm the populace, and with Obama making this statement today, "I am not a dictator" I shudder at the thought of stripping even more rights and freedoms from American Citizens.

Nixon said something similar that he was not a crook, and we all know how that turned out.