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Re: Out of the Blue |
Nov 24, 2011, 14:34 |
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Happy Thanksgiving! We don't celebrate thanksgiving here, but i'm thankful and i thank you (and all the BluesNews "team") for giving us the N. 1 (IMHO) video gaming news site in the web.
So thanks, and have a nice holiday american Bluesnews-reading-thanks-givers! |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Aug 27, 2010, 15:50 |
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Oh geee, i actually remember reading this OotB back in the day, i can't believe it's been 8 years already . I can't think of any other website i've been visiting on a daily basis this long  .
As others have said, OotB is just another one of the reasons i visit Bluesnews everyday, it's like a reality check for me in between all the web, blogging and videogames madness  .
You rock Blue, keep up the good work!  |
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| News Comments > Command & Conquer 4 Announced |
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Beware |
Jul 9, 2009, 21:21 |
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As a RA3 online player almost from its launch, i warn you. Game shipped bugged and highly imbalanced, and 9 months later it's still buggy and with balance problems. Patches have been scarce, mostly disappointing and took too long launch.
EA has had the stupid habit of overbuffing and overnerfing units and whole factions, so tactics that worked in last patch without being OP are no longer effective next patch, for no apparent reason. Besides, they've taken very long time to make the smallest changes.
For example, last patch (1.11) is flawed due to a unit getting a armor buff from 25% to 65%, where it was to be from 25% to 35% (balance-breaking). All they need to hot-fix that is to change two digits in an XML file (a modder can do it in under a minute), but it's taking them 2 weeks and counting to release the hot-fix  . And it'll probably be the last patch.
Beware, EA doesn't care about C&C, or just making a good RTS, all they care is about your money.
This comment was edited on Jul 9, 2009, 21:23. |
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| News Comments > Red Alert 3 DL Add-on Nears |
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Re: Red Alert 3 DL Add-on Nears |
Jan 8, 2009, 18:20 |
caralimon |
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More info from official forum (which is burning right now BTW):
-They haven't ruled out a later retail version yet.
-No multiplayer nor Cooperative play. Skirmish only.
-Single player focused. I guess they saw people's disappointment with RA3 original campaigns and how Cooperative focused mission design hurt the lone player experience and thought on selling a "proper" solo game. This feels like Bonus Content for those 20$ spare dollars in your pocket.
-Standalone expansion. No RA3 needed to play. I fail to see how anyone who hasn't played RA3 campaigns would want to play this from "where the original game leaves off".
The whole thing makes absolute no sense to me. Seeing how multiplayer focused RA3 is, I just can't understand how they want people to pay for an online distributed "xpandalone" that has NO online functionality.
Starcraft II episodic release seems divine-inspired compared to this.  |
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| News Comments > Red Alert 3 DL Add-on Nears |
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Re: Red Alert 3 DL Add-on Nears |
Jan 8, 2009, 17:14 |
caralimon |
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Digital Distribution? EA Store? The same EA store that still charges 46€ for RA3 when you can get it for less than 20€-£ from UK retail stores?
Six months download limit? No discount for RA3 owners? 
Not even 3 months from RA3 release, with bugs and balance problems still needing patching and they already announce an STANDALONE expansion, out in 3 months?
Kane's Wrath took a full year to be developed and released after C&C3 and still was bugged and imbalanced (according to users, never liked C&C3 so didn't try it).
Do EA still want us to think they really care about existing customers in the long term? Better talk about milking the cow.
BTW, I think RA3 faction/general design and gameplay mechanics are quite good (as opposed to C&C3) but they just haven't taken enough time to polish it, campaigns missions for example feel bland, generic and unchallenging. I'd rather replay RA2 campaigns than RA3's.
On a side note Uprising preorder already available in EA Store for 20€ for those still interested. |
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| News Comments > Red Alert 3 Dev: PC Piracy a "Huge Concern" |
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Re: Red Alert 3 Dev: PC Piracy a |
Nov 5, 2008, 17:49 |
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"If you give people a reason to buy the game they'll buy it".
Yeah, that's why they've disabled LAN Cooperative Campaign, ¿huh? (you can only play cooperative campaign online FYI)
He mentions the music industry... People can listen to some album songs in the radio or whatever before buying the whole album... ¿Have they released a fu**ing DEMO in order to people at least try a mission or two of the game? I'll let you answer that, NO, they haven't.
I've been asking wether or not they will release a demo on the official forums for weeks and still no official answer, by now i'm not expecting it.
They offered a closed-then-opened beta for a very limited amount of time and users, and was full of bugs and CTDs. And then a bunch of promotion videos, that's it. Still, I bet they're selling copies as cakes, and still they complain about piracy...
Look, if you don't want potential buyers to download a cracked version, release a demo so they don't have to torrent it to try it.  |
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