NKD wrote on May 18, 2013, 13:03:

Redmask wrote on May 18, 2013, 12:53:

The thing about 50/50 guesses...they don't make you some sort of visionary

Cutter is one of those vaccinations cause autism clowns? El oh fucking el.

The real reason Cutter thinks he's always right is that every time he is right, he points it out. Every time he is wrong, no one gives enough fucks to call him on it. Someone could literally go through his post history and list hundreds of times he was wrong, but he knows no one is going to waste that kind of time on him.

Plus, like you said, even a broken clock is right twice a day. If you say everything sucks and everything is going to fail in an industry wher e most things do suck, and most things do fail, you're hardly showing any kind of special insight. You're just making the safe bet.

Burrito of Peace wrote on May 16, 2013, 09:32:
I'd rather see a game about Dickwolves.

netnerd85 wrote on May 15, 2013, 10:43:

InBlack wrote on May 15, 2013, 10:31:

nin wrote on May 15, 2013, 10:10:

avianflu wrote on May 15, 2013, 10:02:
Notably, Metacritic forces game devs to look at an aggregate of gamer's scores. Something that game devs generally dont bother doing or dont like doing.

And there it is on one web page that EVERYBODY knows about in the gaming industry.

That aggregate gamer score doesnt express everything important of course, but it says something about the desirability of a particular game to consumers.

Metacritic for all of its faults offers insights into the game consumer's mind that arent offered in any other way.

Warren should realize that metacritic can be a useful tool for game devs, if taken with a grain of salt.

I use it as a jumping off point for various industry reviews, but there's no way in hell I'd read the end user side...

Yeah but say a game you were thinking about buying got 50% user score on metacritic. IE half the users who tried it wrote unfavorable reviews on it. Wouldnt that strike you as particularly damning? You can say a lot of things about particular reviews and 0 point reviews and 10/10 reviews, but the average score rarely lies when you have a large enough sample.

Note: Im talking about user reviews, not paid 'professional' reviews.

No because people just vote 0 or 10 these days.

It should just be did you enjoy the game or not. That's all people want to know. If they enjoy XX game with they enjoy this XX game. People will make up their own mind about price (I hope/believe).

Ward wrote on May 14, 2013, 18:05:
take your pick

Rest In Peace Diablo Franchise, Alas you died to young

Happy Birthday Wow Jr.



Grim Dawn almost in Alpha WILL be the REAL D3 (i sure hope so, and so far is looking like it)

Acleacius wrote on May 13, 2013, 12:20:

Canada is one of the, if not the only nation without a national financial securities regulatory system and it might not even matter. In the US we had one of the strongest corporate financial regulation systems for about 40 years. At least till 1980 and now it's been captured by corporate malicious malfeasants.
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LittleMe wrote on May 9, 2013, 12:54:
We live in a tyrannical socialist state. Don't underestimate the current degree of human insanity.

gradbot wrote on May 7, 2013, 22:58:
Whine whine whine, you will all be using Windows 8 in a year or two.

ledhead1969 wrote on May 7, 2013, 22:24:

theyarecomingforyou wrote on May 7, 2013, 20:55:
It was disgusting that EA was funding the gun industry anyway.

Checking your Steam games you are chock full of murder simulation playing, or criminal simulation if I include your GTA games. Stop thinking you are any better than the rest of us, NRA included. The gun industry protects your pathetic existence and makes it possible for you to live in your mom's basement spouting off about how bad guns are.

swedishfriend wrote on May 7, 2013, 12:24:
STFU about valve time. They are one of the most prolific developers out there.

mag wrote on May 7, 2013, 14:24:

nin wrote on May 7, 2013, 14:13:

jdreyer wrote on May 7, 2013, 13:38:
On the other hand, to quote the last article:

These sales figures are pretty much identical to that of its predecessor, Windows 7, which reached 100 million sales on April 27, 2010. While the traditional PC industry is on a downward slope, Microsoft are still somehow moving significant amounts of Windows 8 licenses.

That's really bizarre. How do you sell as many copies of an inferior
product in a declining market?

You give it away for $40.

Also, more PCs were sold in 2012 than in 2009 (when Win7 was released). The 'decline' is slower than the growth that was being seen immediately before.