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| News Comments > Activision and Square Enix Job Losses |
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Re: Activision and Square Enix Job Losses |
Apr 3, 2013, 07:00 |
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| Hope you guys find new jobs soon before the wives start to cheat. |
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| If you don't like where gaming is heading, stop giving your money to the people who are taking it in that direction. |
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| News Comments > Thief 4 Trailer |
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Re: Thief 4 Trailer |
Apr 2, 2013, 15:33 |
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SpectralMeat wrote on Apr 2, 2013, 14:03:
Why are companies still spending money and resources on CGI trailers?
Noone cares about these anymore, everyone wants to see the real gameplay.
Real gameplay videos are much cheaper to make and carry a much bigger impact then some useless CGI video.
These videos exist to drive hype by invoking emotion in the general populous, not to showcase the game to educated consumers. In short, they are there to say "This game exists." not to say "This game is good."
And it works. |
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| If you don't like where gaming is heading, stop giving your money to the people who are taking it in that direction. |
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| News Comments > Deus Ex: Human Defiance Reveal Tomorrow |
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Re: Deus Ex: Human Defiance Reveal Tomorrow |
Mar 31, 2013, 19:58 |
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Jerykk wrote on Mar 31, 2013, 19:40:
Mobile game!
Mr. Sarif will be receiving a report about violence in the workplace if that's true. |
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| If you don't like where gaming is heading, stop giving your money to the people who are taking it in that direction. |
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| News Comments > Deus Ex: Human Defiance Reveal Tomorrow |
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Re: Deus Ex: Human Defiance Reveal Tomorrow |
Mar 31, 2013, 17:52 |
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| They said on Facebook that this title runs on a new engine. So that seems to rule out DLC. |
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| If you don't like where gaming is heading, stop giving your money to the people who are taking it in that direction. |
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| News Comments > Deus Ex: Human Defiance Reveal Tomorrow |
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Re: Deus Ex: Human Defiance Reveal Tomorrow |
Mar 31, 2013, 15:56 |
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| Something seems off. Like there wasn't enough forewarning on this. They say it's a game, but I feel like it can't be a full sequel to DXHR. |
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| If you don't like where gaming is heading, stop giving your money to the people who are taking it in that direction. |
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| News Comments > Gatherings & Competitions |
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Re: Gatherings & Competitions |
Mar 31, 2013, 02:55 |
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eRe4s3r wrote on Mar 30, 2013, 22:38:
And who the f**k even cares, paid escorts are not unusual on VIP parties in business where there are 99% all dudes. They are 100% legal as long as all they do is talk and make you feel welcome. Which is the ENTIRE POINT of a VIP room.
Seems to me like this party was a blast ^^ Ignore the usual fembot trashtalk. It starts to get really annoying to have this nonsense every single god damn time there is any kind of party gathering for a 99% male demographic. Bah! 
I really don't get what the boohoo is with this. Did they offer sex? No? Then topic over and closed. If some dudes can't handle women that talk to them that is not Notches fault, as much as I hate defending him.
The real funny thing is, if memory serves, the person at Mojang who organizes all their event shit, and would be in charge of hiring hookers if that was indeed done, is a woman. |
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| If you don't like where gaming is heading, stop giving your money to the people who are taking it in that direction. |
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| News Comments > Saturday Interviews |
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Re: Saturday Interviews |
Mar 31, 2013, 02:10 |
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Cutter wrote on Mar 30, 2013, 23:12:
If he can afford a castle, outrageous parties all the time and go to space he could fund his own fucking work.
But why should he if other people want to? It's about distributing risk, genius. Some guy invests all his money into a project and it fails, he ends up ruined. Some guy invests $15 from a bunch of other people into a project and it fails, no one person is overly burdened.
It's just like more traditional business investments. People give money knowing they may lose out in the end, but since the risk is shouldered by a large number of people, an unacceptable risk becomes an acceptable one.
The whole point of crowdfunding for games is to allow people to take on risky projects they wouldn't otherwise undertake.
It just makes no sense to tell a potential game developer "Sorry, but YOU aren't allowed to take this less risky path to make your risky game. You have to clean out your kids' college fund." That doesn't get us the games made that we want. He'll say 'Fuck it' to the crowd funding concept and just go back to shilling for EA or something, and whatever awesome idea he had for a game probably gets turned into the next EA abomination. |
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| If you don't like where gaming is heading, stop giving your money to the people who are taking it in that direction. |
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| News Comments > Saturday Interviews |
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Re: Saturday Interviews |
Mar 30, 2013, 18:44 |
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All games should be crowd-funded. I don't want the traditional publisher business model to exist at all. It stifles creativity.
I don't understand you people who think crowdfunding should be used to get your company off the ground just so that you can sell out. It needs to be THE business model. You guys need to stop thinking about it like it's charity or welfare to be reserved for the needy.
The whole attitude where "Hey you have X amount of money therefore you should be required to gamble all of it instead of making your case to crowdfunders." makes not one bit of god damn sense.
Plus I think it should be up to ME to decide what I want to fund. Arbitrary restrictions based on some vague estimate of someone's non-crowdfunding resources will just fracture the crowdfunding community and reduce the visibility of any single project. |
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| If you don't like where gaming is heading, stop giving your money to the people who are taking it in that direction. |
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| News Comments > Gatherings & Competitions |
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Re: Gatherings & Competitions |
Mar 30, 2013, 18:30 |
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| Non-Story of the Year |
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| If you don't like where gaming is heading, stop giving your money to the people who are taking it in that direction. |
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| News Comments > Jay Wilson: Auction Houses "Really Hurt" Diablo III |
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Re: Jay Wilson: Auctions Houses |
Mar 29, 2013, 11:59 |
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InBlack wrote on Mar 29, 2013, 11:39:
NKD wrote on Mar 29, 2013, 11:30:
InBlack wrote on Mar 29, 2013, 11:15:
Iteration? Iteration motherfucker? So explain to me how the fuck you iterated from DiabloII to this goddamn mess....
Do you really need an explanation? 12 years in development never makes a good game. It doesn't give you time to perfect an idea, it gives you time to completely forget the reason you started.
Thats not an explanation. Thats an excuse.
It doesn't excuse anything, so how can it be an excuse? It's not like the game being 12 years in development somehow absolves them of blame. On the contrary, that's all their fault.
It's like anything else. Too short a time in the oven, it's undercooked and inedible. Too long in the oven, and it's charcoal barely recognizable as food (Diablo 3).
That's not an excuse, just a truth applicable to just about any creative endeavor. If you can't see how 12 years of iteration can iterate away all that's good in a project, I don't know what to tell you. Look at what's happened to 9 years of iterating on World of Warcraft. All the little tiny changes they made that seemed ok at the time snowballed into making the game a shadow of its former self.
The same thing happened to Diablo 3. Due to their infinite supply of money, hookers, and blow, Blizzard simply wasn't under any pressure to perform, and they got lazy and stupid.
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| News Comments > Jay Wilson: Auction Houses "Really Hurt" Diablo III |
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Re: Jay Wilson: Auctions Houses |
Mar 29, 2013, 11:30 |
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InBlack wrote on Mar 29, 2013, 11:15:
Iteration? Iteration motherfucker? So explain to me how the fuck you iterated from DiabloII to this goddamn mess....
Do you really need an explanation? 12 years in development never makes a good game. It doesn't give you time to perfect an idea, it gives you time to completely forget the reason you started. |
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| News Comments > New Assassin's Creed and New Splinter Cell in Development |
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Re: New Assassin's Creed and New Splinter Cell in Development |
Mar 28, 2013, 12:40 |
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Creston wrote on Mar 28, 2013, 12:11:
The thing that's great to me is that there is still some of my favorite people who, you know, we were in the trenches shipping that first one," she told them. "We lived through all of that stuff together and some of those guys are still on the franchise
Wouldn't that get really boring? That's like the guys at Treyarch and IW who get to make nothing but Call of Duty every year. I think I would go insane.
Creston
I'll take a large existing codebase I've got years of experience with over some new untested stuff that sends me home with a migraine every night. Assuming I even go home.
EDIT: Though I imagine it'd be differetn fro the creative guys.
This comment was edited on Mar 28, 2013, 12:47. |
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| News Comments > Watch Dogs Trailer |
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Re: Watch Dogs Trailer |
Mar 27, 2013, 12:40 |
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Verno wrote on Mar 27, 2013, 11:35:
POI is a great show, good call NKD, this definitely reminds me of that. It's nice to see something that mixes its own overarching story well with weekly premises that aren't horribly formulaic. It takes a bit for the lead to really find and express the character well but he gets there eventually. Hes repressed and generic through the early parts of the first season but even that fits well within the story framework given his background.
Yeah it's a hard character to play, I think. He's not entirely soulless obviously or he wouldn't do what he does, but a lot of his emotions are deadened from the events of his backstory. You can't really play him as emotive and overly expressive, or as a cliche wisecracking badass. So he's quiet, but with a dry and sarcastic sense of humor and some charm when needed.
A lot of people find him utterly boring, but I think he's just a subtle character who is neither emo nor overly eager to flex his badassness. |
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| News Comments > Watch Dogs Trailer |
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Re: Watch Dogs Trailer |
Mar 27, 2013, 11:28 |
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wtf_man wrote on Mar 27, 2013, 09:19:
I hope this plays as good as it looks.. it's like Deus Ex meets Grand Theft Auto.
Seems more like Person of Interest means Grand Theft Auto. Speaking of which, I would play the SHIT out of a Person of Interest game. Though it would probably have a lot of fail frustrating escort missions. |
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| News Comments > Infinite Crisis Announced |
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Re: Infinite Crisis Announced |
Mar 26, 2013, 17:51 |
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jdreyer wrote on Mar 26, 2013, 16:09:
Yeah, more MOBAs! I LOVE MOBAs!
Haha, yeah. MOBAs are the new MMO. Everyone trying to cash in on an already saturated market. Sorry, but everyone is playing the dotas or League of Lesbians. |
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| News Comments > Square Enix Reports "Extraordinary Loss" - President Resigns |
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Re: Square Enix Reports |
Mar 26, 2013, 11:02 |
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Kajetan wrote on Mar 26, 2013, 10:52:
nin wrote on Mar 26, 2013, 09:42:
namely Sleepings Dogs
YEAH! You guys didn't buy enough Sleeping Dogs!!!!!!!! 
No, you didnt buy enough Hitman and Tomb Raider. Both games are considered a commercial dissapointment. Which brings a smile on my face 
The TR reboot is a failure. Nice!
Yeah fuck Square-Enix. Hopefully they'll shit-can those scrubs at Eidos Montreal to cut costs.
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| News Comments > BioShock Infinite Launch Trailer |
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Re: BioShock Infinite Launch Trailer |
Mar 26, 2013, 05:45 |
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| This game is amazingly fun and the setting is weird and original. |
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| News Comments > Saints Row 4 CE Survey |
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Re: Saints Row 4 CE Survey |
Mar 20, 2013, 23:54 |
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Cutter wrote on Mar 20, 2013, 20:54:
Seeing as this is really just a glorified expansion how about a low entry price point. I'm much more all over that than a CE.
What information do you have that suggests this won't be a full game with lots of content? |
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| News Comments > John Riccitiello Leaving EA |
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Re: John Riccitiello Leaving EA |
Mar 18, 2013, 19:56 |
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KilrathiAce wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 19:25:
I hope he doesnt join some other publisher, dont need his stink ruin some good publisher now.
Seems doubtful. He could end up anywhere. CEOs usually work in a lot of industries since CEO is CEO regardless of what industry you're in. John was CEO of Wilson Sporting Goods and after that, Sara Lee pastries. So, CEOs get around.
But honestly I don't understand the pitchforks here. This isn't actually a good thing for us, unless we happen to be EA shareholders.
One thing people need to keep in mind is that John Riccitiello wasn't the problem at EA. EA is the problem at EA. It's a systemic, company-wide problem. At least as far as the stuff we care about goes. John was canned because they weren't making enough money.
But here's the thing: pleasing you and me isn't going to make them anymore money. In fact, if EA did what I want them to do, I can guarantee they'd make a lot less money.
You think when they can a CEO for not making enough money, that the next guy is gonna do anything except pander to the masses to make as much money as possible? Nope. Prepare for even more DLC and over-monetization.
I just think there's a distinct lack of understanding about what a CEO does here. John Riccitiello wasn't sitting there personally pruning content out of games to package as DLC. Some guy 2 or 3 levels down from him has the final say on that shit, and John probably never knew the specifics.
Riccitiello fucked up, but not in a way we should be concerned about. No CEO is going to make a damned bit of difference at EA in terms of what all of us here care about. In fact, the better the CEO, the better they will be at fucking us over.
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