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Re: Evening Legal Briefs |
Jan 5, 2019, 10:50 |
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| Third person shooters push the character further and further to the side of the screen every year. By 2022 games will require a second monitor just to show you the character model. |
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| News Comments > Discord Store Undercuts Epic With 10% Split |
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Re: Evening Legal Briefs |
Dec 14, 2018, 17:42 |
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This is excellent. We have well-funded companies competing with each other for developer business, which means that they'll end up competing with each other for customers. Steam has run a near-monopoly since PC games left the retail shelves.
Remember the Steam sales of the past? This is how we get them back.
The downside being that should some companies end up way out in front, the others could collapse, taking game libraries with them. |
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| News Comments > Diablo Mobile Backlash |
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Re: Evening Legal Briefs |
Nov 3, 2018, 20:41 |
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| There's nothing wrong with them announcing a mobile game. The problem is that they hyped a mobile game in such a way as to build expectations for their core fan base - who expected something completely different. |
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| News Comments > Diablo Mobile Backlash |
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Re: Evening Legal Briefs |
Nov 3, 2018, 19:44 |
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Blizzard did exactly this same thing once before, in 2002 with Starcraft: Ghost. They teased a big announcement was coming for Starcraft. They hyped it. They then did this big website tease that had everyone on the edge of their seats.
When it turned out the be a console exclusive action game, people went ape. They were genuinely pissed off.
You build hype, but you don't give the wrong message, or it will backfire. |
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| News Comments > Bethesda Blocked Game Sale Because of "New" Designation |
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Re: Evening Legal Briefs |
Aug 12, 2018, 17:32 |
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The fact is that Bethesda is trying to push the boundaries of the exceptions to First Sale Doctrine so far that they could, if successful, also shut down used sales in the future. It's a scary, dangerous precedent to allow them to set. They are literally trying to redefine what 'new' means to 'directly from an authorized distributor' only. By their logic, you can never give anyone a new game for Christmas, as simply the act of buying it turns it 'used.' That's not what used means.
And Bethesda doesn't care about the support or a disappointed customer somewhere. They care about someone selling one of their new products without them getting their cut. They want to control the only sources of new products, so that every initial sale.
As to their points, once you push past the PR polish, all it is is Bethesda threatening someone with some legal claims that have never been shown to be true in court. As long as they're using a big law firm to threaten individuals, the chance of someone calling their bluff and forcing them to actually prove wrongdoing is low, as people tend to be to afraid (or unable to pay) to stand up for their rights.
It's abusive, plain and simple. |
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| News Comments > Bethesda Blocks Used Game Sale |
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Re: Evening Legal Briefs |
Aug 12, 2018, 01:30 |
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That argument is absurd. He makes two points. The first is that because it has been owned, it isn't new. New in media doesn't mean never owned, it means never used. The two sides of the market are even called new and used.
The second point was that they can't prove that it is new. That is true of every new product on the effing market that isn't consumed on use or metered, from games to BluRays to underwear to furniture. Apparently they think that nothing can ever be marketed as 'new' unless you buy it directly from the manufacturer. Amazon has nothing but used products.
Bethesda is going to lose more value in reputation and good will than they ever would from people reselling their sealed games. |
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| News Comments > Bethesda Blocks Used Game Sale |
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Re: Evening Legal Briefs |
Aug 11, 2018, 20:31 |
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Bethesda is pretty clearly trying to bully small business and individuals by reinterpreting laws in ways they were clearly never intended. That's shady and abusive in every way.
Bethesda, one piece at a time, has lost the respect I had for them 15 years ago. |
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| News Comments > Steam Ending Windows XP and Vista Support |
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Jun 12, 2018, 19:34 |
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Valve Hardware Survey says that 0.22% of users are on XP. Vista didn't even register. GoG won't be getting that much new business.
At some point you can't release improvements to a piece of software if you're still supporting a 17-year-old operating system that doesn't support the newer code you need for those improvements. |
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| News Comments > Fallout Tease? |
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Re: Evening Legal Briefs |
May 30, 2018, 14:22 |
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For those who haven't caught up, this has been announced as Fallout 76, and there are strong indications that it will be a Fallout-themed Rust clone game-as-service.
So... blech. |
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Re: Evening Legal Briefs |
May 25, 2018, 19:21 |
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RE: BF V. It's kinda funny how many people are justifying their views by saying it isn't authentic.
Were they actually under the impression that Battlefield was a historically accurate series? It's always been a military fantasy series. It's known for being able to bail out a jet and land in a helicopter while firing a rocket launcher in midair. |
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| News Comments > Razer Game Store Launches |
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Re: Evening Legal Briefs |
Apr 9, 2018, 13:19 |
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Razer sold me a mouse. It was defective with a well-documented manufacturing flaw. I returned it, on my dime, for a replacement. They sent me another mouse with the exact same issue. I returned it. They sent me a third mouse with a completely different known defect. I returned it. They accused me of being a scammer and a thief, and sent me a 'last' mouse, even though it was still under the warranty period of the first one.
The final mouse also had the same issue as the first one and started failing within a couple of months (the issue was a switch that was so weak that it was registering single clicks as double clicks, and wouldn't register a held down mouse button at all.)
Four defective product in a row and an accusation.
There is zero chance that I will ever buy any product from Razer again. |
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| News Comments > Trump Calls Out Video Games |
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Re: Evening Legal Briefs |
Feb 22, 2018, 23:34 |
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sliv wrote on Feb 22, 2018, 23:03:
I don't hear anyone calling for alcohol to be illegal. Do those deaths not matter as much as a school shooting? Who will be the first to stop drinking alcohol? Where's the outrage?
In almost every state, you can buy a gun years before you can buy a beer. |
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