Just to clarify, the comments I've made above are based on the UK.
Your comment was a little insulting to say the least.
Yes I do have children, and yes I do care about what they are exposed to, although I do think that some games are judged incorrectly when it comes to age ratings. Take Borderlands for example, I thought that an 18 rating a little over the top.
As for violent media causing violent behaviour, I think the whole topic is utter bull. Anybody that is going to be violent have deep rooted problems to start with, c...
Yeah, they release a new title every year, but don't you get the feeling that it's all just to make themselves another $1 billion?
Surely if they respected their customers they would fix issues that have been present in every CoD since #4 or maybe introduce dedicated servers. Even giving away old maps for free wouldn't make a dent in that $1 billion. It's funny, some studios who struggle to break even offer these things and more.
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I submitted this article to illustrate the unbearable state of media reporting. Once again somebody claims that violent games cause violent behaviour and continue blame the games themselves when it's quite clearly a parenting issue.
Remember, these games have age recommendations for a reason.
That's all very well, but how do they thank the millions of customers for their continued success?
That's right, they don't.
Strange, nearly all the new PC titles in the UK are around £30 ($48).
Edit: BTW I didn't disagree.
Why should it cost more, it doesn't on the PC.
First it was "we can't do what we want with current gen", now it's "it'll cost too much on next gen". Are these people never happy? What's wrong with challenging yourselves to do what you can with what you've got, be it hardware or money?
We need more media to highlight and comment on this kind of behaviour. But also we need to recognise those that do DLC in the way it was expected to be, ie. Rockstar (GTA, RDR), Bethesda, Polyphony Digital, Gearbox (Borderlands) etc.
Unfortunately I fear the majority of the recognised gaming media outlets are held to ransom by unscrupulous publishers, so your layperson is not being informed fairly, which is why the protest against this kind of thing is not loud enough yet.
Capcom, along with other notorious publishers are all going to suffer in the long run if this kind of behaviour continues. In the pursuit of maximum profits they are going to drive away customers.
I wonder how long it will be till this kind of thing is highlighted on BBC's Watchdog.
Destroy? Quite an acute exaggeration don't you think?
How would releasing early stop Microsoft from 'destroying' the competition? The Wii released around the same time as the PS3 and we all know how that story ended. So it doesn't really matter. The problem with the PS3 was the price.
Nice try, but waaaay too obvious.
@reynod
Don't you mean publishers?
I'm sure most of the devs' are sick of rehashes.
Oh! EA, how can I put it as politely as I can?
I know.......F*** OFF! and keep your diseased mitts to yourselves you money hungry parasitic worms.
However much I try, I find it impossible to be surprised by this.
I'm not paying too much,I just wait for a significant price drop.
Personally I blame the money hungry publishers, most of them need to be taken outside and beaten with a hefty stick. With publishers taking nearly all the profit, and rarely reinvesting a decent percentage there's very little chance of a happy ending. I'd like to see an end to publisher greed and a vast improvement in journalism, the rest will sort itself out.
Or he's legally bound to keep quiet, we just don't know.
They don't say it's free either.
Author sounds like the kind of guy that would be fooled by a scratch card claiming that you could win a holiday or a car that you find in magazines.
"oo! what have I won?" *scratch, scratch* "I've won a gold prize, I wonder what that could be?"
You know the type of thing, spend wads of cash on a premium rate phone line to learn you've probably won a cheap towel set.
I recall the early PS1 games retailing at £50, that's $79 at today's exchange rate, so I don't understand why it's a problem now.
I've even got Atari 2600 games in the loft with £20 price tags on them from the late '70s, early '80s. I dread to think what that equates to now.
I bet many people bought Kinect on the back of Microsoft's claims that Star Wars would be the only Lightsaber game you'd ever wish to own.
I find it's always wise to be cautious when it comes to huge corporations.