StingingVelvet wrote on Sep 27, 2010, 13:58:
I'm all about capitalism, but companies like Activision are about rich investors getting richer while indies are about talented young people making money they didn't have before by working their asses off to make interesting stuff.

zirik wrote on Sep 26, 2010, 22:51:

[VG]Reagle wrote on Sep 26, 2010, 18:50:
Good to see Garrys mod up there.

garys mod is a game? i thought it was just a tool that gives people access to half life 2 assets and allow them to mess with the physics?

Sempai wrote on Sep 23, 2010, 19:17:

zirik wrote on Sep 23, 2010, 18:58:

Dr. D. Schreber wrote on Sep 23, 2010, 18:43:

zirik wrote on Sep 23, 2010, 17:50:
wonder how long til kotick retracts his comments.

Why in the world would he do that? Because someone who's clearly not as good at making money and a bunch of angry forum-goers say he's wrong?

sorry, my bad. i meant to say tamte. who was the other guy who criticized kotick then later retracted everything he said? activision is too big to ignore especially with tamte's comments. it will burn bridges and bite him in the ass one day.

Yeah..so lets kiss the giant evil corporations ass so they don't bring the wrath down upon our heads or we will never make it in the video game industry!

You sir have obviously bought into fear and not upsetting the apple cart.

Fuck Kotick and his company. Trust me, what comes around goes around, his day will come.

..And im pretty sure Tamte is shaking in his boots..

zirik wrote on Sep 23, 2010, 17:50:
wonder how long til kotick retracts his comments.

killer_roach wrote on Sep 22, 2010, 01:08:

spindoctor wrote on Sep 22, 2010, 00:47:
It's interesting that everyone here who is bitching about this assumes no one at Capcom has a calculator to make these basic cost and revenue assessments that this forum is pointing out.

If they don't release a PC version, it will be because they have calculated everything and decided that it isn't worth it.

Precisely. Then again, you're assuming the average gamer is comfortable with basic economic principles as well as the standard game development process, something that, clearly, isn't the case.

Sepharo wrote on Sep 17, 2010, 22:09:

bhcompy wrote on Sep 17, 2010, 20:24:

Flatline wrote on Sep 17, 2010, 20:12:
I dunno how successful such an idea would be.

Most of the people I know (even diehard FF7 fans) skipped Advent Children. The ones who didn't wished they had.

And I'll agree that Blizzard games have a plot about as deep as a tuna can.

you know different FF fans than I do then

Yeah I'm not really a big FF fan or anything but listening to remixed One Winged Angel with electric guitars as Sephiroth and Cloud fight on a collapsing sky scraper is pretty good fan service if you ask me.

D_K_night wrote on Sep 17, 2010, 13:41:

Beamer wrote on Sep 17, 2010, 13:29:

What we need is regulation and consumer protection on this industry because this kind of shit would generate a class action lawsuit in any other industry.

No it wouldn't. Not a valid one at least.

Let's say you buy a Blockbuster gift card today, and Blockbuster goes out of business tomorrow. Your gift card is dead. Oh, well, so it goes.
Or let's say you buy a new vaccuum, the company that made it goes out of business, and it breaks and needs a new part. Oh, well, in the trash it goes.

Even if you did decide to sue, who are you suing? RTW is dead. They can't afford an attorney to represent them, let pay any potential judgment. Sure, there's EA, but EA was just a distributor - RTW published it themselves. EA had no responsibility here, suing them for distributing is no different than suing the store that sold it or the trucking company that hauled it.


It's the risk of early adopting. We all do it in some capacity. As I mentioned in another thread, people that bought HD-DVD players got screwed, but they early adopted and it's a risk. Those of us that waited out the battle didn't take that risk, but we had to wait. The same thing happens all the time in every industry.

Good ol' Beamer, how do you do, Mr anti-customer?

So let me guess, you'll also add that, the people who bought into beta instead of VHS deserved what they got, right?

You keep bringing up these examples which have no similarity to an MMO. When you bring home that vacuum, would it not work immediately upon usage(say it's DOA - fine, you can bring it back to the store for refund or exchange).

It's amazing that for a guy who claims that he works for this very industry(yet you hate your customers), that you're still not getting it.

APB. You buy it from EBGames/Gamestop, bring it home, find out that you can't play it(because the servers are dead) - you have no recourse. You can't refund it, because you've opened the box. Completely different scenario. This has nothing to do with early adoption.

Stop trying to confuse your customers(that's us) by trying to blur the lines between buying things that can be returned to the store, versus buying software which cannot be.

Slashman wrote on Sep 16, 2010, 18:08:
Also, if there is no base building and researching, doesn't that eliminate several strategies that are RTS staples right there? Like actually out-building or overwhelming your foe? Or winning in terms of disposable resources etc?