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| News Comments > Steam Summer Sale Day 9 |
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Re: Steam Summer Sale Day 9 |
Jul 2, 2010, 20:29 |
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I picked up Borderlands, I couldn't pass it up for $10.00.
I'm considering buying Saints Row 2, but I've heard bad things about the PC port, particularly that the frame rate is terrible. Anyone have experience running it on a X4 955 w/ 8800GTS (G92)? I just want to know if it's at least playable before purchasing it.
Edit: Is any of the Borderland DLC worth buying for single player only?
This comment was edited on Jul 2, 2010, 20:55. |
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| News Comments > On Sale |
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Re: On Sale |
Jun 5, 2010, 03:51 |
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Wow, SC2 is already being marked down to $10.00. I guess abandoning your user base by turning what was a unique RTS game into another C&C clone didn't pan out.
With that being said, for ten bucks I'll buy it and play through the SP campaign. |
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| News Comments > Ubisoft: DRM "Vital" To PC Success |
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Re: Ubisoft: DRM |
Apr 17, 2010, 03:34 |
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spindoctor wrote on Apr 16, 2010, 11:33:
gilly775 wrote on Apr 16, 2010, 10:15:
Really? Vital? And how come this DRM isn't vital to companies like StarDock and yet they are selling games well with no DRM???
Because Stardock games cost 20-50 times less to make and subsequently the sales required (and obtained) are significantly less? Half a million sales of a game is a success for Stardock. Half a million sales for the high budget games would result in the studio being shutdown and the employees being fired.
I doubt Ubisoft's PC only releases (Silent Hunter 5 and Settlers 7) had budgets 20-50 times that of Sins of a Solar Empire. And by the same token, I doubt Ubisoft is depending on PC sales to get their big budgets titles such as AC2 or SC:C in the black.
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| News Comments > Op Ed |
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Re: Op Ed |
Apr 13, 2010, 20:39 |
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It has nothing to do with the actual dollar amount, it's the perceived value that people are looking at.
If a publisher is going to charge 1/6th the price of the full game for a DLC pack, they better be offering roughly 1/6th the content of the full game, or many people will perceive the DLC to be lacking value.
I don't think most people believe that below some arbitrary dollar amount getting value back for their money stops being important.
If it were that way, grocery stores would never put anything on-sale. After all, who would care about saving 50 cents or a dollar on an item. |
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| News Comments > StarCraft II Monthly Fees in Russia |
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Re: StarCraft II Monthly Fees in Russia |
Apr 13, 2010, 20:02 |
Kabuto |
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As it stands, I don't have any problem with what they are doing. It makes sense to offer a less expensive legal alternative in markets rife with piracy. However, it does go to show that a lot of the hoopla about lost revenue due to piracy in their primary markets is often a lot of hot air. If it wasn't, why not use the same strategy in the US and Europe?
I thought blizzard already announced their plan to monetize bnet using a free to play system with paid "extras". I don't see why they would abandon that model before it even gets started. |
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| News Comments > Steam Top-Sellers |
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Re: Steam Top-Sellers |
Apr 12, 2010, 06:59 |
Kabuto |
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That makes as much sense as if I claimed the lack of AC2 and SH4 on the list proves people won't buy games with intrusive DRM.
What affect Ubisoft's decision to include such draconian DRM has had on sales is only known by those with access to total sales numbers and pre-release sales projections. Even then, it is difficult to factor why any product does better or worse than projections. |
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| News Comments > On Sale |
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Re: On Sale |
Apr 9, 2010, 00:11 |
Kabuto |
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"NOTE: The Impulse version of King Arthur does not include multiplayer gameplay. "
I haven't played the game, but that seems like a significant caveat against purchasing it on impulse.
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| News Comments > On Sale |
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Re: On Sale |
Apr 8, 2010, 22:32 |
Kabuto |
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Is ARMA 2 worth picking up for $30?
One of my concerns is whether the performance has been improved since the demo version. The demo ran pretty iffy on my 8800GTS (N92). |
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| News Comments > On Gears of War 2, PCs, and Piracy |
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Re: No subject |
Sep 30, 2008, 07:25 |
Kabuto |
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Sure, all of those people are just buying it to play SNES games right? Hahahaha. Easily the biggest load of crap you have ever posted. PSP piracy is rampant pal, stop making excuses.
While I haven't really been keeping up on the PSP "hacking" scene, I believe a large contributing factor for the poor PSP game sales is sony continually trying to kill the "unauthorized" software people keep creating for the PSP (emulators and the like).
New PSP games force a bios update to play, which screws up everything non-sony you have installed.
I think quite a few people may be making the choice to continue, as you say, using their SNES emulator rather then playing the latest PS2 rehash.
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| News Comments > Op Ed |
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Re: Royalties for used games |
Sep 28, 2008, 08:46 |
Kabuto |
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Royalties for used games why not?
Then what about books, movies, CDs, art, ect..
Can you really formulate a logical reason why video games are different then every other product ever created when it comes to second-hand sales?
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