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| News Comments > Evening Consolidation |
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Re: Evening Consolidation |
Aug 24, 2011, 22:37 |
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I'm not sure I understand the XBL article. Is the MS guy really arguing that they don't want games unless they're timed exclusives for the 360 because they're looking out for their users?
There's either some kind of weirdo voodoo logic going on there, or I completely misunderstood what he's after.
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| News Comments > GameStop Stops Selling Physical Copies of Deus Ex: Human Revolution |
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Re: GameStop Stops Selling Physical Copies of Deus Ex: Human Revolution |
Aug 24, 2011, 22:02 |
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Dev wrote on Aug 24, 2011, 21:19:
Gamestop VP:
ZOMG! That first bad decision I made to pull the coupons was a bad one, so lets follow it up with a worse one!
I don't know, they've written off their pc games retail business so much over the years that I doubt it matters much for their bottom line. |
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| News Comments > Deus Ex: Human Revolution Patched |
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Re: Deus Ex: Human Revolution Patched |
Aug 23, 2011, 23:48 |
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ForgedReality wrote on Aug 23, 2011, 22:28:
SWEET!! Zero-day patches! Good job publishers! Way to push your devs so hard they can't even fucking QA their unfinished products! 
Games go gold way before they actually hit retail, would you rather they just sit and do nothing during that time than work on patching issues that pop up? |
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| News Comments > Ships Ahoy - Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Retail Includes OnLive |
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Re: Ships Ahoy - Deus Ex: Human Revolution |
Aug 23, 2011, 19:10 |
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jimnms wrote on Aug 23, 2011, 18:07:
It has health regen. They try to play it off as an augmentation, but I don't buy it. The original DE had a health regen augmentation you could get and install later, but it consumed bio-electric energy to restore health. If this game takes place before the original DE, why does it have a more advanced health augmentation?
Health aug shows in the augmentation menu (can't remember on upgrades since I haven't leveled much yet). It's not like it makes a huge difference, though; this isn't Halo where you can just duck around a corner and regen to full again in a few seconds. It's enough to take away the annoyance without being a free healthpack to just duck into cover.
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| News Comments > Razer Declares PC Gaming Lives |
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Re: Razer Declares PC Gaming Lives |
Aug 22, 2011, 21:36 |
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| Razer's mice are hands down the best I've used. They aren't priced any higher than anything else that would be comparable, either, so not sure why you guys would say they're overpriced junk. A Diamondback is pretty much perfect and it's less than $50. |
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| News Comments > Star Wars: The Old Republic Launch Sales Limited; Huttball Introduced |
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Re: Star Wars: The Old Republic Launch Sales Limited Huttball Introduced |
Aug 19, 2011, 20:45 |
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Bhruic wrote on Aug 19, 2011, 20:39:
Anyone who's been there for the launch of any popular MMO will realize you're wrong. Having massive queues for servers is no marketing drivel, when Rift came out, the queues during prime time were 2-3+hrs. And that was during the 7 day "early access", which meant the only people playing were pre-orders.
If EA plans to limit sales in order to avoid that situation, I'm all for it - assuming they are timely about adding new servers to open up more sales.
Yup. It's a good move that will, hopefully, help early adopters and give a more positive introduction as people get started. |
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| News Comments > World of Warcraft Transmogrification Coming |
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Re: World of Warcraft Transmogrification Coming |
Aug 18, 2011, 13:36 |
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Cutter wrote on Aug 17, 2011, 23:04:
Yeah, every other game on earth has had this for years now, they're called wardrobe tabs.
Yup, and in true WoW fashion they made it into yet another gold sink instead of just making it the feature everyone asked for. |
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| News Comments > New AMD/ATI Reference Drivers |
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Re: New AMD/ATI Reference Drivers |
Aug 17, 2011, 20:17 |
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JediPunisher wrote on Aug 17, 2011, 19:55:
You do know that you're supposed to uninstall the previous drivers first, don't you?
The install package does that itself these days anyway. |
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| News Comments > Morning Mobilization |
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Re: Morning Mobilization |
Aug 16, 2011, 20:28 |
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Tumbler wrote on Aug 16, 2011, 16:15:
Most iOS games are probably worth only $1...but most 3DS and Vita games will not be worth $40.
Worth is a hard thing to judge, since some games will certainly sell for $40. It's likely to be the same issue as $49 games shifting to $59 this last generation; the quote from Epic today that talks about the disappearing middle-class of gaming hits the nail on the head, and the pricing of games isn't helping that at all...if it's not the root cause of it.
Handheld games had been $30ish until recently, a price where most can afford to gamble on some of the games you pick up. The higher the price goes, the less likely that people are going to make that gamble on non-AAA games or games with middling review scores.
It's probably too late for the 3DS to go this route, but if the Vita opens up to having an indie-dev relationship, like what's being seen on XBL or Steam or even the Apple store right now, in addition to their core full-priced games, you could easily see something that does as well as any of the phones out there. |
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| News Comments > RAGE Using Steamworks |
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Re: RAGE Using Steamworks |
Aug 13, 2011, 11:50 |
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DanteUK wrote on Aug 13, 2011, 07:22:
Looks like simple is replaced by the Steam mandatory DRM and general malware client.
Why would you call Steam a malware client when you clearly have no idea what it does or how it even works?
You're also talking about scenarios that are rare and almost never an issue in the first place, but they aren't really a problem since you can work around them with Steam anyway. Of course you have to reinstall it after you reload Windows, but it takes maybe 2 minutes to get all of your games up and running again if you had them on a secondary drive. It'll take you longer to reconfigure and download your web browser.
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| News Comments > Op Ed |
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Re: Op Ed |
Aug 12, 2011, 12:22 |
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Ruffiana wrote on Aug 12, 2011, 12:07:
Blizzard attempting to make a succesful PC-exclusive fantasy-based multiplayer RPG that requires people to have a persistent internet connection in order to play? Ridiculously impossible. Something like that will never work!
You're completely missing the point of what people are saying.
Everyone knows it will sell well, gamers and Blizzard. That's part of why they're pissed about it; it's something being forced into the mix because they know it will be adopted whether people really want it or not since people are going to buy Diablo 3 either way.
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| News Comments > No Battlefield 3 on Steam |
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Re: No Battlefield 3 on Steam |
Aug 6, 2011, 14:42 |
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Dirwulf wrote on Aug 6, 2011, 12:58:
It absolutely is Steam. They don't get a cut if DLC is sold IN GAME, so they don't allow it.
Explain Mass Effect 2. The DLC isn't available on Steam, or anywhere else besides through EA's stores, and you can buy it in game. The game itself is available on Steam.
And frankly, if I could buy the DLC on Steam rather than through EA's Bioware bucks pain in the ass system I'd rather do that. If that's the scenario Valve is trying to stop, well, then more power to them. EA's DLC system sucks, and if they were offering something better then maybe I'd be behind them a bit on this...but as it is the only people they're screwing are their customers. Again.
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| News Comments > The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Collector’s Edition Details |
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Re: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Collector’s Edition Details |
Aug 6, 2011, 11:48 |
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Deathbishop wrote on Aug 6, 2011, 09:13:
You may not be into statues, but a lot of people are. Most other IP Factory statues go for about $250 but I wouldn't expect people here to know or care about such details.
The high quality statues people buy aren't PVC. |
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| News Comments > Morning Consolidation |
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Re: Morning Consolidation |
Aug 5, 2011, 23:43 |
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Beamer wrote on Aug 5, 2011, 14:31:
Yes. It is.
Right now.
With absolutely no sign of games looking to break out of that design. Who wants to be first to market with a $50-$60 hardcore-focused AAA title on a device that generally sells their games for less than $5?
Phones replacing handhelds? Sure, I can see that as a possibility. Eliminating the need for consoles, though? How are you going to control the games? With digital distribution becoming key, where are you going to store them? What network are you going to connect to? With no standards for design, what device are you going to make the software for? None of the groundwork is in place for this to happen in the near future.
10-20 years from now, well, maybe. Right now there's no reason at all to think that the next generation doesn't even need to exist because phones will take over that market, even if somehow production of a phone that was a viable gaming machine replacement could be done in a cheaper and better way than the next generation of consoles. |
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| News Comments > Morning Consolidation |
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Re: Morning Consolidation |
Aug 5, 2011, 13:41 |
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The point is that it's a different audience that looks for games on a console than the people who are looking to their phones for their gaming. It's like asking why people go to the movies when you can watch videos on YouTube.
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| News Comments > WoW Drops More Subs |
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Re: WoW Drops More Subs |
Aug 4, 2011, 17:56 |
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Wallshadows wrote on Aug 4, 2011, 14:56:
*put on tinfoil hat*
I always had the impression that there was an underlying meaning to the difficulty of raids and that was to give the new developers time to slug through creating the next tier of raids. In retrospect, all the balance issues, hot fixing, and delays gives me the impression that the new team is having a hard time filling the shoes of those who worked through TBC and WotLK content and needed to provide a steep learning curve for players to stifle progression.
Sure, I agree; the difference with the older raid areas is that people were still doing them after the newest tier was available. That stopped with Cataclysm; there wasn't a first tier for the casual people to break into, no farming runs to just latch onto. Making the new raids time consuming to progress through is one thing, but with no fallback for the more casual people to tag along with (or barriers to keep them from doing it), they run out of meaningful things to do pretty quickly while the hardcore are still working on their progression. |
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