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| News Comments > Op Ed |
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Re: Op Ed |
Nov 29, 2010, 22:29 |
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It's not different than anything else. Make fun of Lord of the Rings, 2PAC or Biggie, CSI: Miami, Obama or Bush, or whatever else in the world and someone is going to jump on you about how many ways you're wrong and why.
Hell, just reading comments on Facebook from people I thought I knew in everyday life yields the same results. It's not just us gamers, although it doesn't help that the things we're passionate about are pretty trivial things to be up in arms over. |
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| News Comments > Evening Metaverse |
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Nov 23, 2010, 22:02 |
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In the case of most smaller purchases via the internet, though, the cost savings is made up or more than made up by shipping costs anyway.
Not that it's not nice, but it's not a huge deal unless you're buying really big ticket items. |
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| News Comments > Witcher 2 Preorder Response |
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Re: Witcher 2 Preorder Response |
Nov 22, 2010, 18:18 |
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Eldaron Imotholin wrote on Nov 22, 2010, 16:47:
Make the customers love you, and they'll buy from you and not hurt you.
This is bullshit, and has been proven to be by the "name your own price" sales that some developers have done where even for free people still chose to pirate the games in large numbers.
People pirate because it's free, not because of DRM, or because of whatever slight they want to imagine is driving them to do it.
And internet speeds making downloads much easier has made piracy much, much easier than it was before broadband proliferation was a factor in the numbers. I don't even know how anyone could argue otherwise unless you're talking about CD markets in back alleys of Singapore.
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| News Comments > EA on OnLive |
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Nov 19, 2010, 22:45 |
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Verno wrote on Nov 19, 2010, 22:12:
Yeah sorry, not until the ISPs stop ramming usage caps down everyones throat.
I think this is the biggest issue, especially if the other reports I read were true where some users reported having upwards of 200gb of usage a month on their service because of using OnLive.
I don't have metered access at home, and I'd still be willing to bet that a month or two of that kind of usage would have them either talking to me or just outright disconnecting me. |
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| News Comments > Op Ed |
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Re: Op Ed |
Nov 17, 2010, 21:04 |
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PHJF wrote on Nov 17, 2010, 18:50:
Really though, to take it further, why are all games priced exactly the same, and why have they ever been? Are some games not better or worth more than other games? Do some games not cost more to make than others? It's total horseshit. I guess idiot publishers are afraid that pricing their game lower will reveal they think it isn't, gasp, the best game evar. The standard practice now is to con sorry sod early adopters out of as much change as possible before retailers inevitably shove the shitty software into the bargain bin.
There has to be some kind of constant for pricing, though. If you price a game too low it becomes a bargain bin game, and isn't going to be equated to being a quality title or being full featured. At the same time, you can't price your new MMO box at $79 just because the development time for it was more than the single player game your company put out at $59.
As it is now, new games have a set price, and games that have been out for a few months can usually be judged on their quality just by looking at their release date and how much the sticker price has fallen since that time. I prefer the method now where better games have additional content that can be purchased later to give them more value, where people will be more inclined to pay it, rather than just costing more up front. It's not perfect, but it works for me.
If there's anything I take away from the article, it's to ignore review scores and play games that appeal to you. I'm not sure if that's what they were going for, though. |
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| News Comments > VGA Nominees |
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Nov 17, 2010, 20:55 |
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Tumbler wrote on Nov 17, 2010, 18:17:
I'd vote ME2. Not sure why Halo Reach is even on their there though...
Reach is really excellent. It's definitely one of the best games that came out this year...and that's from someone that's not a fan of the series, and hadn't played one of them since quitting the first Halo without finishing it.
God of War 3 was awful, though, in my opinion, and has no place on that list. It wasn't even the best game in that genre this year (Dante's Inferno was just plain better, and so was Castlevania), forget about being one of the games of the year.
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| News Comments > Fallout New Vegas Xbox DLC Announced |
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Re: Fallout New Vegas Xbox DLC Announced |
Nov 17, 2010, 17:17 |
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Tumbler wrote on Nov 17, 2010, 16:44:
Are the mods you're talking about adding content to the game? Like new missions, weapons, etc? It sounds like the mods are closer to patches that make the game more functional on the PC.
What kinds of mods are people seeing?
Yes, and yes.
Mods like the d3D9.dll that people were using to make the framerates playable until the most recent patch...there are mods to fix problems with other issues in the game, like making factions not bug out on you and go aggressive despite having good reputation with them or making quests function without crashes (one in the Ultra Luxe, for example). There are tons of mods out there on the Nexus already that just tweak or fix small issues with various parts of the game, some of which I found that made it impossible to complete the main story on my first playthrough...well after I had save that I was able to still work with, unfortunately.
Things like auto-aim disable that made guns actually work right, mods like Fellout to make the world not look that grating orange color, and so on are ones I consider a must to even tolerate playing well but aren't technically necessary like the first ones.
I love games, and I'm not as cynical and hard on them as a lot of people here are. This game, though, has really tested my last nerve for buggy releases and I can't imagine being on the 360 version where I have no avenue for addressing the bugs I ran into while playing other than waiting months for patches from the developer.
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| News Comments > Fallout New Vegas Xbox DLC Announced |
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Re: Fallout New Vegas Xbox DLC Announced |
Nov 17, 2010, 15:54 |
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This game would be unplayable without mods anyway. They can keep their exclusive DLC pack, unless it's the one that includes working quests and factions that don't bug out... I can't see spending more money on this game until they concentrate more on making it actually work right rather than adding on more content that probably won't work right either.
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| News Comments > Michael Pachter Interview |
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Re: Michael Pachter Interview |
Nov 16, 2010, 22:59 |
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xXBatmanXx wrote on Nov 16, 2010, 21:34:
and I use the press to promote myself so that more investors want to talk to me. That helps me get paid more money."
Sounds like a scam to me.
He doesn't know shit.
Yeah, exactly.
The shotgun approach is just a ridiculous way to do a job where you're vocal about everything you do. Just because you get a few things on target doesn't make up for all the other bullshit and rumors you started that were completely off base.
Gamers hate him on forums because he's a professional troll. He's extremely vocal with just anything he can make up, and the general press often carries it like it's truth well before any attempt has been made to verify it...like the EA charged demo story, for example, that people STILL quote as being something EA said when it was all Pachter.
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| News Comments > FINAL FANTASY XIV Explanations |
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Nov 16, 2010, 16:33 |
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Creston wrote on Nov 16, 2010, 15:10:
There have been some truly execrable MMO launches, but I think this one really takes the biscuit.
Yeah, this is really one of the worst games I've ever played for any platform.
It's not just the launch for this game, though; it's that game design concepts and loads of content issues just go out of their way to take any fun out of playing it. There are games with absolutely terrible launches (SWG, Anarchy Online, even WoW's first few months) that were excusable because the games had their audience and were at least either competently made or fun enough to just deal with the problems until they were fixed.
FFXIV is just flat out terrible and it's not worth wading through the sewer of content they pushed out to wait until things get better. These guys want people to wait around until things are fixed, but I honestly don't believe that the game CAN be fixed...a lot of its problems are stupid design choices, not bugs.
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| News Comments > APB to Return Next Year |
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Re: APB to Return Next Year |
Nov 16, 2010, 16:19 |
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Elye wrote on Nov 16, 2010, 12:52:
Maybe I'm weird, but I really liked this game.
I liked it pretty well, too. It needed work, and I didn't want to pay a monthly fee for it, but it was fun for what I played. |
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| News Comments > SSX Domains |
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Re: SSX Domains |
Nov 9, 2010, 17:35 |
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I'd love a new SSX game, I just hope they don't try to turn it into some super-casual Kinect/Move/Wii-mote type motion only thing like they've been trying to do with the Tony Hawk series.
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| News Comments > Morning Safety Dance |
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Re: Morning Safety Dance |
Nov 9, 2010, 16:03 |
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space captain wrote on Nov 9, 2010, 15:46:
parents ARE society.. in fact....<stuff..snip>
Are you just typing randomly or actually discussing the subject? Nothing you just said makes any sense whatsoever and might be one of the most rambling and incoherent faux-intellectual posts I've ever seen on the whole of the internet.
JoeNapalm's point that you completely missed was that Johnny has cut himself off from society completely, and the only people that can do anything about it are not only not helping him but are actually enabling him to continue with his detrimental behavior.
You can't blame society when the entire problem is directly attributable to a pair of individuals or himself. He either needs to do something about it, or the people who keep buying him the tools he uses to achieve his perfect hermit-like world need to let him find out why he needed to go out and get (and keep) a job and an outside life.
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| News Comments > Into the Black |
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Re: Into the Black |
Nov 5, 2010, 21:01 |
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Creston wrote on Nov 5, 2010, 20:36:
I love how Craig's commitment to "Trilogy nobody's heard of" is somehow going to keep him from shooting another Bond movie, which is what put him on the map to begin with.
The Milennium Trilogy isn't exactly obscure. I think the only way you could have not heard of it is if you haven't set foot in or near a book store in the last few years.
I like him in the Bond movies (the only Bond movies I like, to be honest), but he's not really going from mainstream to unheard of indie films here. |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: 8 Sequels That Destroy Their Originals |
Nov 4, 2010, 12:32 |
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I like the first Terminator better than the second and I thought the second Ace Ventura movie was universally regarded as crap. To each his own, I guess :p
Alien 3 is the only other one I can think of, but that's one that I don't think destroys its predecessors in the way that he's talking about. |
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| News Comments > Op Ed |
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Oct 21, 2010, 10:42 |
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| Ahh, MMORPG.com, a site with all the editorial value of the comments section on Youtube. |
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| News Comments > etc., etc. |
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Re: etc., etc. |
Oct 21, 2010, 09:14 |
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Sepharo wrote on Oct 21, 2010, 00:14:
A whole article about sp bans and then oh-yeah-by-the-way he did hack online too 
Well, the AI games he played were online ones too. I have trouble believing that he knows how to download and use a trainer to cheat but can't tell the difference between the single player vs. AI and the online mode...you click Single Player on the main screen to play vs. AI offline, and you click Multiplayer to play the way he did. I don't know, maybe I'm going out on a limb here, but to me that would suggest that I'm using cheats in multiplayer. |
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| News Comments > Op Ed |
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Re: Op Ed |
Oct 13, 2010, 16:54 |
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Com wrote on Oct 13, 2010, 16:37:
What... CoD is one of the simplest gaming experiences you can have. A virtual fucking whackamole.
Keep in mind it's CNN and they're using a game that isn't even out yet as an example on playability. Half the news stories they post on their site are because they have a marketing stake in their sales numbers. |
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