I do think that you are right that it is them trying to make publishers happy, but at the end of the day it is about making the consumer happy, not the publisher.
Do I think that if this came true gamers would suck it up and deal with it anyway? Yes.
Do I also think that it could hurt sales? Absolutely.
I can't think of many people who'd want to play with such restrictive DRM.
Imagine if the Kinect scanning the number of people in the room thing comes true. That'll be worse.
Yeah, the Kotaku article today was pretty much the latest on it.
It literally says "Durango consumer units" will need an internet connection.
It's a super niche market.
Personally, I think that it's kind of cool and will be picking one up, but I just don't see it becoming even a little bit of a success. A small subset of the market want something new and different while most of the market just wants another Call of Duty and a platform to play that on.
We've seen a ton of people try their hands at consoles in the past that didn't have a market and they are all footnotes or the p...
I don't think that they'd do that, as they'd severely limit their audience. HL2 and eps 1 and 2 were released on all consoles through Orange Box, so I don't see why they wouldn't do a wide release for this one as well.
The article, if you read it, mentions "Against the Day."
There are lot's of great books about that time period, yes. Doesn't mean that games don't have to provide commentary as well.
It really is a super fascinating era and I'm glad that we have some representation of it in games.
Yep, same here.
If a game has some awful elements in it but I like the story, I'll keep going. The first Mass Effect had parts that made me so mad (that damned lander you drive around in, for example), but I liked it enough to keep playing and was thankful that I did.
I'm saying that even if it is the best of the series, I probably won't stick my neck out to buy it. Played the first two and never saw the need to keep playing them.
Best of the series, but man, I can't bring myself to buy it. I just can't.
The games before AC3 really were good. I'll admit, I got some of that "fatigue" that they claimed wouldn't happen to the series and might have played them a bit after they were released, but still fun games.
Oh absolutely.
The last game was a piece of garbage and they really don't deserve another shot. It is kind of moving into tedium now.
Seriously that controller was made to make it rain.
Absolutely agree.
If you were playing San Francisco Rush on N64/PSX with the purpose of racing I think that you were doing it wrong. If you were just trying to launch yourself off of stationary objects and weird ditches you were having a ton of fun with it.
Hell, the Dreamcast sequel even had a stunt mode because of how many people were doing that stuff with the older game.
I honestly don't think that anyone plays the single player in Call of Duty games. If they do, I don't even know...
Microsoft's catalog of exclusives have dwindled down to stuff like Halo and Gears of War only. I'm not sure if Fable should go on without the creator...
Of course there are no guarantees that people will buy those great games and that sucks.
I wish that more people would have picked up Psychonauts when it came out.
The problem that you are talking about is one where a game doesn't have the right amount of marketing muscle behind it to make it that big of a success (or doesn't have a broad audience).
Shit like Call of Duty doesn't get a demo anymore and the reality is that yes, a...
I guess he's just confirming his own theory of age and knowledge going hand-in-hand in the form of himself?
I think he's done some great stuff in his career and I'm glad that he wants to evolve, but he still has something to learn when it comes to tact.
Bobby Kotick just wants you to buy more Call of Duty games.