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News Comments > Morning Consolidation
1. Re: Morning Consolidation Jun 14, 2013, 09:48 Verno
 
Xbox One sharing groups not restricted to family.

Haha yeah right. There is no way this won't be restricted out the wazoo and totally useless. I do not believe for a minute they want to restrict copies artificially but are going to let people just share their library with whoever they want at any time. Even assuming they did this to help garner some goodwill after this epic clusterfuck, they will likely just get rid of it as soon as they can like they did with Xbox Live Family subs and stuff like that. Microsoft is staunchly anti-value, they've shown it time and time again.

Also the cloud means nothing, I am not buying a gaming console based on a server cluster somewhere.

 
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News Comments > Evening Safety Dance
9. Re: Evening Safety Dance Jun 14, 2013, 09:36 Verno
 
robdot wrote on Jun 14, 2013, 01:13:
The patriot act and the nsa were formed under bush. The idea that the nsa has been collecting this data has been known for many years.

While Bush has been responsible for many ill conceived efforts, he did not invent the NSA.

edit: invest != invent

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News Comments > On Sale
18. Re: On Sale Jun 14, 2013, 09:13 Verno
 
Yeah that's a good way of putting it MattyC, Valve had a vision. I remember when friends basically did not function for a year and they were just throwing their hands up. Of course friends still seems to go down almost nightly for brief periods of time but that's a different story  
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News Comments > No BF4 Mod Support
30. Re: No BF4 Mod Support Jun 14, 2013, 09:07 Verno
 
NKD wrote on Jun 14, 2013, 08:17:
I agree with you there. But those games were released several years apart, which gave them a lot of time to build up a healthy community. Mod support in BF4 would do the same thing, but only if EA changed their whole business model to one which would make them less money. Odds of that are... slim. The annual release cycle makes them a lot of money and they've essentially indoctrinated a generation of gamers to expect a new game every year.

Valve isn't really a good example anyway because between being privately held and the Steam infinite money generator, they can basically take any risk they want, or have any type of business model they want without worrying about heads rolling and shareholders declaring war.

I disagree with you, Valve basically lets the community monetize the game for them and in return gives them a cut and value. There is no reason EA couldn't do the same thing, in fact it would be significantly less risky than the big game model they're currently doing. There is really no predicting the fickleness of gamers, one year a franchise will be the hottest thing and the next year something else comes along and your old hot shit is toast. Ongoing community support and content helps minimize that though and helps build loyalty and good will which can translate directly into money as Valve has shown.

When games rotate year to year it makes it a lot more difficult to build communities around the products. My BF3 clan is dust largely due to EA not taking the community and spectator aspects seriously but also because everyone knows they will push out the next game soon. It's actually kind of depressing, all you can do in these games now is pub stomp with RL friends, that's all they're really good for.
 
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News Comments > Op Ed
92. Re: Op Ed Jun 14, 2013, 09:00 Verno
 
Prez wrote on Jun 14, 2013, 07:01:
Who makes these rules exactly? Sounds like BS to me.

There is a rowdy group of female climbers at the indoor climbing gym I go to in the winter and they do shit like that all the time. Amazingly us guys do not burst into tears or start lecturing them about being polite.
 
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News Comments > It came from E3 2013, Part One
5. Re: It came from E3 2013, Part One Jun 13, 2013, 12:49 Verno
 
Yeah I'm pretty pumped about Watch_Dogs. Some parts of it look a bit too one-button Assassin's Creed territory but overall it seems like an interesting game.  
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News Comments > Op Ed
76. Re: Op Ed Jun 13, 2013, 12:35 Verno
 
eRe4s3r wrote on Jun 13, 2013, 12:21:
But the basic premise is not about the .. I hate calling it a joke... ~.+ but rather about the behavior when you interact with a female. Didn't your parents teach you decency and common behavior when interacting with women? Of course they did. But what kind of fucked up parenting brings someone up doing the wolf whistle on a MICROSOFT PR EVENT (it's bad enough there are still cretins around doing it in public in bars and clubs (Although I have seen clubs that threw people out for doing it))

First of all the trash talking was not a rape comment, it didn't involve the word or act of rape and people are just choosing to interpret it that way. I'm done with that portion of this, it was some nervous moron with a poor choice of words, whoop de doo. Second why should I take responsibility for some idiot wolf whistling in a crowd? I didn't do it, neither did you. It's a fucking crowd of thousands of people, chances are some idiot there (male or female) wasn't raised well and is going to do something stupid. So what? I'm sure Bonnie Ross has heard worse in her day and she can speak for herself. The idea that women need men to champion and defend them is pretty hilarious and ironically misogynistic, it's more about the man's ego than it is protection of women's rights.

BTW I'm not sure when the last time you were at a bar was but men aren't the only ones being loud, crass and rude there.

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News Comments > Morning Consolidation
15. Re: Morning Consolidation Jun 13, 2013, 12:28 Verno
 
"You cannot have game and marketing budgets this high while also having used and rental games existing," he said via Twitter. "The numbers do NOT work people."

CliffyB's latest troll rant against used games is up and he predictably backs Microsoft, claiming that modern game development and marketing is too expensive to support a used game market. Of course one might wonder why the marketing and game budgets need to be this high in the first place when people will spend millions on something like Terraria and Minecraft, surely there is a middle ground to be found there.

Destructoid absolutely decimates his argument, thought people might want to take a gander.
 
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News Comments > Evening Consolidation
12. Re: Evening Consolidation Jun 13, 2013, 10:36 Verno
 
I totally forgot the Ouya even existed and it seems so did most other people.  
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News Comments > Morning Consolidation
9. Re: Morning Consolidation Jun 13, 2013, 10:35 Verno
 
I really want a Wii U, I just don't want that controller and its too damned expensive with it.  
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News Comments > It came from E3 2013, Part One
2. Re: It came from E3 2013, Part One Jun 13, 2013, 09:24 Verno
 
I thought it looked alright but I'm not picking up a Adbox for it.  
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News Comments > Morning Consolidation
3. Re: Morning Consolidation Jun 13, 2013, 09:23 Verno
 
Dream killer  
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News Comments > Op Ed
74. Re: Op Ed Jun 13, 2013, 09:12 Verno
 
Prez wrote on Jun 13, 2013, 09:08:
I dunno, I was kind of turned on. Krovven is so sexy when he's raging like a loon... which is always.

I thought he had really turned a corner recently, I didn't see any of the usual antisocial behavior and silliness from the past. Then I read this thread and just facepalm'd

Anyways this whole thing is silly, the guy had a very unfortunate choice of words but its pretty obvious they happened in the moment and he clearly wasn't making a damned rape joke at a massive public event.
 
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News Comments > Morning Tech Bits
1. Re: Morning Tech Bits Jun 13, 2013, 09:01 Verno
 
Dev moves back in a few weeks after rabbit snares fail and he realizes that winter might be unpleasant.  
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News Comments > etc.
1. Re: etc. Jun 13, 2013, 08:58 Verno
 
Gibeau on EA criticism: "We're not tone deaf"

We just don't care!
 
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News Comments > Morning Consolidation
1. Re: Morning Consolidation Jun 13, 2013, 08:56 Verno
 
Tretton said The Last Guardian was on hiatus but then Shuhei Yoshida said it wasn't so who knows what the heck is going on.  
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News Comments > Op Ed
72. Re: Op Ed Jun 13, 2013, 08:45 Verno
 
Krovven wrote on Jun 12, 2013, 17:16:
So yes, I will rage post and continue to do so when insensitive small minded morons like you, think jokes about violent crimes is funny. Trust me, rage posting is far better than what I'd do if you were standing in front of me stating that jokes about raping women is funny.

There's some amusing hypocrisy there, intimating physical violence as a response to other physical and sexual violence. Rape victims need counseling and a support system, they don't need faux tough guy defenders posturing on the internet in some silly display of machismo that impresses no one. In the real world where you can't just beat up everyone you dislike, you tend to go to jail for committing assault because you didn't like someone elses joke, then you lose your job and your life goes to shit.

The worst part is that you were raging about nothing since no one was saying that they want to run around spamming rape jokes to victims. Who cares what someone else finds funny? The thing that spawned this whole topic wasn't even a rape joke, it was some idiots misinterpreted trash talking during a video game conference.

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News Comments > Out of the Blue
9. Re: Out of the Blue Jun 12, 2013, 15:24 Verno
 
jdreyer wrote on Jun 12, 2013, 15:11:
I can't imagine that Division wouldn't be available on PC at some point. That's serious money on the table if not. And Clancy games have always been available for PC, AFAIK.

Yeah seems weird. That said I'm not opposed to playing a third person shooter on the console, FPS games are a no-no though.
 
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News Comments > Morning Consolidation
21. Re: Morning Consolidation Jun 12, 2013, 15:08 Verno
 
Instead of listening to what people want, you're telling them what they want.

The thing that's really dumb is their flawed justification that doing all of this will somehow lead to increased digital sales like Steam and we'll all hold hands treading towards the rainbows blah blah.

Why do we need to destroy the used games market to enable huge digital sales? Surely it's in the publisher's interest to do them anyways, because the costs to produce and move those copies are so low, and because the money goes straight to them. It's beneficial to the consumer, because they can buy from the comfort of their couch and if the discounts are Steam-level, they'd beat Gamestop's used prices even accounting for an eventual resell. The logic behind steam sales is that it's more money than you would have made by NOT doing it, why doesn't that apply to current-gen console digital downloads? Because there's a competing market? Bullshit. There is on PC too (Amazon, GoG, etc.) and Steam still does their thing - they don't rely on those markets not existing.

This whole "we just need to get rid of used games and then everyone will embrace our digital future" is a retarded straw man. The industry was heading that way naturally, none of us this heavy handed shit was necessary, Microsoft just wants control as usual. If anything great digital sales are probably the best way to combat used game sales, DRMing this was fucking stupid.

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News Comments > Evening Consolidation
36. Re: Evening Consolidation Jun 12, 2013, 14:22 Verno
 
Why is there any difference between them doing it in a game or on the OS? There is no reason for either

I think there's a big difference, one is forced on you in every game without any choice on your part. The other is a choice you get to make in purchasing individual games. Huge difference.

They aren't interested in getting respect from you. They are interested in DRM, an annual $60 subscription fee, and micro transactions.

Well in my case they can't get one without the other
 
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