I would call 8 million players showing up a 'bad beta.' It fact I would call it a 'wildly successful beta.' The goal for EA is to sell as many games as possible. Having 8 million people show that much interest in your game at beta stage probably means that you are going sell at least 8 million copies.
If people are complaining about bugs, then it means that they are playing the game enough to find the bugs.
Call of Duty 4 had a perfect storm going in its favor.
1) The 360 fanbase is almost a solid vein of FPS gamers and they can support multiple 5 to 10 million selling FPS's in any one year.
2) Guitar Hero played out so Activision had to direct their marketing muscle to another big game.
3) The creative juices around Bungie and Halo seemed to stall for internal reasons.
Modern Warfare fit the bill on all counts...And I do mean Modern Warfare instead o...
Xianghua, pronounced "Zhung-whoi"
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I don't know what you are looking at.
The other large character is Sophie, or some relative who has her sword and shield.
The only other characters that I can recognize are Knightmare, Voldo, Isabelle Valetine, and I think Tira (I think she is the one to the left of Knightmare).
Yeah, PS3 gamers, like myself, are really going to love that(sarcasm)....spending 8GB of storage for what is still a weaker performance. It looks like ID got almost finished with development and realized that they made a broken and unplayable PS3 game, and Sony bailed them out by allowing an 8GB installation in order to make the game playable.
I agree with Perjoss. I am a console gamer (PS2, Xbox, PS3, 360, PSP) and have never bought a game on PC, at least not yet.
I think developers get greedy and become dissatisfied 'being what they are'. It looks like Carmack and ID are PC developers who saw the console pasture and thought it was greener but forgot to take care of their real base first. You can tell where their real base is by looking at who care most when they screw up. Clearly PC guys are more offe...
The used games market helps the game developers; it doesn't hurt them. I don't buy for one second that that the used games market is costing them any sales at all.
1) A used games market allows people to enter the market that would not enter the market at all. Some people can't afford to pay $60 for a game so they wait and buy it for $30; online passes don't magically make these people have more money.
Similarly there are people who buy gam...
Time travel????
We go from the team being saved at the end by an act of god, a literal Deus Ex Machina, to time travel, another plot device.
I was hoping for some more answers. I thought we were going to get some insight as to why everybody but Fang and Vanille awoke from crystal sleep. I expected some explanation as to why Etro decided to intervene. But all we get is time travel? Time travel never answers anything. Time travel only creates more questions...
Spawning is different depending on where you spawn.
As I learned in Killzone 2 all characters should be invulnerable when they are in their own base. In KZ2 we had people running into enemy bases and laying down mobile spawn points in enemy bases; it made for very ugly gameplay.
Speaking of spawn points, all the mobile spawn points should have a heavy motion mine ability. That way if some decides that they are going to spawn-camp your mobile spawn point t...
He still has the overcoat, it's just a different color.
Snow & Serah don't seem pedo to me at all. Serah is a grown woman. Have you seen that skirt? Man is it short. Serah is either grown or a pro.
I haven't heard any rumors of a 360 port.
No, Metal Gear Solid 4 is the best game ever? Uncharted 2 is the second best game ever.
Valkyria Chronicles(original) is the third best game ever.
Indeed Meerkat, indeed.
Bubbles for you.
There is not a machine that can not be hacked.
Sony over-reacted to having their system jailbroken. Only a small fraction of console users use pirated games. People use consoles because they don't want to get into the technical mumbo-jumbo. They want to 1)buy a game, 2)put the game in the machine, and 3)start playing the game.
True, someone will pirate a game when they would have otherwise paid for it but, 1)there will not be enough of them to be stati...
@zeeshan
"You get what you pay for" I think the lesson that Sony needs to learn is "don't take what the people already paid for". I can help but think that this is another episode of some hacker(s) getting their pound of flesh against Sony for removing features from their console.
"Dialogue written and not voiced"...
As in 'I will need to read in order to know what is being said?'
As in 'I will not be able to listen to the NPC talk to me?'
Are you sure about that?
If "yes" then my response is...
DAMN THAT.
Didn't Final Fantasy 10 have spoken dialogue? Didn't the original Knights of the Old Republic have spoken dialogue? Now they wa...
@Peaceful_Jelly
I went to the link you posted. In the comments section beneath the article, a user named M83J01P97 wrote....
"FFXIII-2 in a few years time then huh?"
It is comment #3, and it is tagged...
M83J01P97
13/01/10 @ 12:50
#3
So this guy and many others predicted XIII-2 in 2010 before XIII even released.
People care about Versus 13 because the vision of it that was communicated back at E3 2006 is simply beautiful. In fact, it is the most beautiful vision of any game that has been displayed this generation.
This song is crap. In no way is it better or as good as "My Hands". Not that "My Hands" was great; it was simply acceptable. This song is where between acceptable and bad, depending on how much the crappy video quality took from the song.
Mass Effect is the spiritual successor to Knights of the Old Republic. LucasArts would give Bioware license to do another game so they Bioware made their own game in the same mold of KOTOR.
If you are not counting spiritual successors then you should not count it.
But you did have an interest. Evidenced by the fact that you not only downloaded the beta, you also played it for two days AFTER YOU ENCOUNTERED BUGS.
If it was a game that you did not care about, then you would have encountered bugs dismissed it and moved on to some other game.
And numbers are an indication of interest. True, every beta download is not a sale, but the more interest in the game the more sales they will make. There are lots of people that w...