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| News Comments > EA Layoffs |
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Re: EA Layoffs |
Apr 12, 2013, 20:34 |
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Since we are sharing firing/layoff stories...
You haven't truly lived until you, the store manager of a Fortune 500 company's retail store, arrive at your workplace to find a bunch of guys putting black plastic in the windows of your store and a HR representative hands you a stack of severance packages. No warning, no courtesy call, just "Hi, I am HR Rep #340 and today you are going to fire your entire staff. Don't worry though, we have another store we want you to take over, so your job is safe. Now if you'll excuse me, these things tend to depress me so I am just going to let you handle this. Call me if you have questions." (seriously, that was basically the conversation in the parking lot outside the store)
As if knowing that you still have a job makes one feel better. Made me feel like even more of an asshole. Fucking sucked. After a horrible day of telling 30 something people they were fired and convincing them to spend the next 7 miserable days closing the store so that they could "receive all of the benefits they are entitled to under the terms of the severance package", I decided that my tenure in retail was going to end sooner rather than later and left retail 2 years later.
I don't know how many good ways there are to go about firing people who haven't done anything wrong, but I do know that there are classier ways. It made me feel like a true asshole to have to participate in that process. All of the people that I fired that day had spent the last 3 months working the single most profitable company store in the country. In a bit of cruel irony, two days beforehand the store was given an award by the CFO based on profitability. I was told later that the decision to close the store was based on the numbers previous to my arrival. (I took over 4 months before closure) Which of course means I got transferred to a store they knew they were going to close which sucks for all sorts of reasons but mainly because my job up until that point had been to "fix" problem stores. Never had anyone ever told me that any store was in danger of closing should I run into troubles "fixing" it....let alone succeed at fixing it. Naive of me to not figure that out on my own I guess.
Anyway, yeah, it sucked. |
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| News Comments > Dark Souls PC "Half-Assed" - PC Prioritized for Sequel |
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Re: Dark Souls PC |
Apr 12, 2013, 15:35 |
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Funny how you only seem to be defend your position by degrading others in some fashion. Your opinion seems to be the only one of worth, people must use their money and play their games as you think they should, and if someone has another opinion or preference not only are they wrong but there is some larger problem in the world they are contributing to by having thinking in that way.
Seriously man, that is so completely loony. It does however explain what I was asking, so thank you for that. |
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| News Comments > Dark Souls PC "Half-Assed" - PC Prioritized for Sequel |
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Re: Dark Souls PC |
Apr 12, 2013, 14:59 |
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I just got finished reading this thread, beginning to end...and something jumps out at me. My memory was jogged and I recalled a previous thread regarding Aliens CM.
Darks said:
It is not that I’m defending the game; I’m just getting tired of all the negativity when it comes to pc games in general here at Blues. It’s becoming a routine here listening to whinny assed people bitch about pc games in general when there are not a whole lot of them to go around as it is.
That's you Darks, a while back when I asked why you were defending Aliens:CM so adamantly even though by that time it was quite clear how poor of a game it really had turned out to be at release.
Funny how when it was a game you liked you were "just tired of the negativity", but now it is a game you don't like and people are "console freaks" and you are on the attack, as negative as anyone in the thread.
So which is it? I mean with Aliens:CM we had a game where the developers insisted it was a high quality game. The previews showed footage of graphics and gameplay that didn't even make the final cut. People weren't just angry because the game came up short of expectations (myself included), they were angry because they felt deliberately misled. Here with Dark Souls we had the developers admitting to being a bit lost with the PC port before the game even released. Turns out they were right, and many people (myself included) were pretty uptight about some of the problems. That said, I don't know about you but I prefer the honesty angle. Not only that, I am more likely to believe them now since they owed up to the shortcomings before whereas Gearbox was nearly silent and in some cases defiant.
I do know one thing for certain however. In both situations fans have had to come up with their own solutions to make the games (somewhat) more enjoyable, and in both cases they did. Why? Because they were on a PC and they could. The PC platform is uniquely capable of allowing the gamer to tweak and fiddle with things until they can play the game exactly how they want to. (You as a modder are well aware of this) Whether they are using a controller or modding the game settings or whatever, I have no idea why you would hold that against anyone, regardless of whether you liked their game of choice or not. That freedom, that capability, is what makes the PC the superior platform.
Given all of that, ripping into people for choosing a controller as a matter of personal preference seems to fly in the face of exactly what it means to be a PC gamer. Heck, given what you have said previously in other threads, ripping into someone for simply liking a game you don't, despite it's shortcomings, seems a bit hypocritical.
As for Dark Souls 2, I have enjoyed this franchise since Demons Soul on PS3. I chose not to buy the game on PC because of the porting issues and instead stayed on PS3. I don't pre-order or Day One gaming purchase anything any longer, but I expect that I will be picking up Dark Souls 2 on PC shortly after release unless the initial reviews report yet another crappy console porting job. I really hope it is done well. This is a franchise that was meant to be on PC and I would love a chance at playing with a mouse and keyboard.
EDIT: And yes, I did buy and play Aliens: CM. (Well actually, I bought it for my stepson and played it when he wasn't) And for the record, I didn't find it as bad as the Internet would lead a person to believe, I did find it underwhelming and substandard in many ways...all of which many people have already beaten with a stick, so I don't need to. Bums me out that this franchise has so much trouble with the video game market.
This comment was edited on Apr 12, 2013, 15:06. |
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| News Comments > Steam and DRM-Free Shadowrun Returns in June |
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Re: Steam and DRM-Free Shadowrun Returns in June |
Apr 10, 2013, 14:02 |
Jivaro |
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nin wrote on Apr 10, 2013, 10:33:
vrok wrote on Apr 10, 2013, 09:35:
It's a damn shame that mods will only be available through Steam, but I'm really looking forward to the game regardless. Hopefully some kind of hack will be developed to make it possible without Steam.
So, if everyone has the editor, what's to stop people from saving the mod/level/etc locally and uploading it elsewhere (and then others downloading and manually installing it, like they normally would)?
I think, and I could be wrong of course, but I think that there isn't really anything to stop anyone other than "official support". I mean, obviously, people can get around limitations as soft as this when it comes to modding. The gaming community has been modding games with or without official support for basically as long as the hobby has existed on digital platforms. |
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| News Comments > Batman: Arkham Origins Revealed |
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Re: Batman: Arkham Origins Revealed |
Apr 9, 2013, 19:59 |
Jivaro |
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NKD wrote on Apr 9, 2013, 19:01:
Kosumo wrote on Apr 9, 2013, 18:41:
Out of no where ----- WHERE THE FUCK IS MY HIGHLANDER GAME!
Best property thats never made a game transfer yet. (to my knowlarge)
Eidos was working on one about 8 years ago but it was a piece of shit and Squeenix officially killed the project a few years ago.
Holy crap...if SE cancelled it.....it must really have sucked. |
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| News Comments > Batman: Arkham Origins Revealed |
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Re: Batman: Arkham Origins Revealed |
Apr 9, 2013, 15:25 |
Jivaro |
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Unless the week after release consensus is that the games suck I will definitely be picking this up on Vita and most likely be picking this up on PS3. I don't do pre-orders or Day One purchases much anymore, so I am not worried about not getting my monies worth. Provided they don't try to reinvent the wheel I am optimistic that these will turn out fine. Maybe I am not convinced they will, but I am optimistic.  |
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| News Comments > Thunder Wolves Trailer |
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Re: Thunder Wolves Trailer |
Apr 8, 2013, 12:19 |
Jivaro |
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netnerd85 wrote on Apr 8, 2013, 11:05:
Looks a bit too fast paced... am I getting old?
*Picks up bifocals*
It does, and yes you are.
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| News Comments > Shroud of the Avatar Kickstarted |
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Re: Shroud of the Avatar Kickstarted |
Apr 8, 2013, 12:18 |
Jivaro |
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InBlack wrote on Apr 8, 2013, 09:52:
Mr. Tact wrote on Apr 8, 2013, 09:41:
Is it just me, or are the numbers unusual on this KS? $1.9m but only 22k backers?
Hey I just thought of something. Could Kickstarter be used to launder money somehow? Lawyers feel free to share your thoughts on this one...
Theoretically, yes. Practically, no. Kickstarters are very public and transparent ventures. Not exactly prime "criminal activity" real estate.
That doesn't mean someone wouldn't try of course.  |
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| News Comments > No One Knows Who Owns NOLF |
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Re: No One Knows Who Owns NOLF |
Apr 7, 2013, 13:15 |
Jivaro |
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NOLF 2 is available used on Amazon for 8 bucks and Ebay for 6 bucks right now, as I type this. So yes, it is out there. People just like the goodies GOG provides with releases and the ease of install since they fix all the problems that come with using an old game with a new OS. I bought a copy of NOLF 2 last year for 5 bucks on Amazon because one of my discs had busted.
If I was in the business and had the means I would have redone Outlaws, Shogo, Blood, Xwing vs Tie Fighter, Lords of the Realm, and a few other stellar titles of 'old' that come to mind. My vote for most under-rated game of all time is Freedom Force and I would love to see someone do something with that as well. To see them collecting dust while we get crap like "Syndicate" that isn't a reboot so much as franchise rape is frustrating.
Of course, I suppose there isn't anything to prevent someone from screwing up remakes of those classics I mentioned as well, so I guess I should be careful what I wish for. The recent X-Com and Tomb Raider reboots were done fairly well however, so I guess there is some hope.
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| News Comments > No One Knows Who Owns NOLF |
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Re: No One Knows Who Owns NOLF |
Apr 6, 2013, 19:55 |
Jivaro |
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Ant wrote on Apr 6, 2013, 17:57:
.net_Drifter wrote on Apr 6, 2013, 17:55:
Pretty sure there already was a third NOLF game, of sorts.
Did you play as one of the bad guys or something? Contract J.A.C.K. sucked.
It didn't suck...it just wasn't as awesome as the NOLF games. It was pretty vanilla. And buggy.
Okay, yeah...it sucked.  |
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| News Comments > Op Ed |
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Re: Op Ed |
Apr 6, 2013, 13:01 |
Jivaro |
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TychoCelchuuu wrote on Apr 6, 2013, 11:49:
Really awesome article.
Yep, very well written. |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Apr 5, 2013, 20:41 |
Jivaro |
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PHJF wrote on Apr 5, 2013, 18:24:
BLands 2 Season Pass is $10 right now on Amazon.
Thanks PHJF  I generally don't do the Season Pass thing...but I that price is too low to pass up given what it includes. |
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| News Comments > Morning Consolidation |
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Re: Morning Consolidation |
Apr 5, 2013, 16:41 |
Jivaro |
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| I guess Microsoft just thinks that the profits from Live subs and the data mined from the connection to it's customers is worth the risk an "always-on" pipeline opens up. |
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| News Comments > Morning Consolidation |
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Re: Morning Consolidation |
Apr 5, 2013, 16:08 |
Jivaro |
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Wow...he is really getting pounded over this. I was thinking this would kind of wash over quickly since it was a personal opinion and not a company statement.
I still think there will be at least 2 "nextboxes". One very similar to the PS4 and the other will be a closed box that uses only digitally downloaded stuff. It seems to me that MS wants console gaming to operate very much like cell phones....the money is in the subscriptions, not the hardware. I doubt seriously they would try to force that switch across their entire user base in one single generation.
Then again, nothing these large corporations do surprises me anymore. It is like the decision makers are detached from reality. |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Apr 5, 2013, 15:00 |
Jivaro |
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Katoku is reporting that Sega has cancelled the WiiU version of Aliens: Colonial Marines.
I am sure everyone here is shocked. |
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| News Comments > Morning Tech Bits |
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Re: Morning Tech Bits |
Apr 5, 2013, 12:05 |
Jivaro |
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The only part of PCs that I am going to miss, whenever they do run their course, is the "building" of them. I like picking out my own kit and throwing it together. I dig the problem solving, customization, etc.
I injured my back seriously at work 6 years ago (broken vertebrae, crushed disc) and had to have 2 surgeries that required 1 year of recovery each....and as a result had to buy computers from a company that let me choose my parts but sent me a pre-built rig. Both machines I have done this with are great, I really like the company I bought from because the systems turned out so well, but I miss making my own rig and it made me realize that a big part of my enjoyment from gaming comes from building my box.
I know how my Dad felt when he had to stop buying "kit" stereos in the late 70s/early 80s. He liked to build his own for years.
All of that said...I have been hearing out about the death of PC gaming and tower PCs for YEARS now and it never seems to happen. I understand some of the predictions given what mobile hardware and software is capable of today but I can say that gas powered cars are going to go the way of the dinosaur and eventually I will be correct. It is going to take awhile though, they are just so entrenched in our culture. Long after they stop making practical sense people will still be driving them. |
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