Thing is, Valve dont NEED marketing. Their games and pedigree speak for themselves. They aren't as desperate as, say, Activision, even though Activision makes more money.
No, Valve are content. Why get more money when the amount they recieve now is great.
When a game comes out by Valve, they know it will sell, because they always release great games, and their community all know about it, so they almost definitely WILL buy it, and if they alone give Va...
From what I've seen, Gears 3 looks identical to Gears 2. Pass.
Had this same argument in a Sony store as well.
And, ironically, I ended up doing the exact same thing to him with my iPhone. Pulled up Amazon.co.uk and showed him the exact same cable for a reduced price at £25 or near abouts, and the cable in store was £89.99
I asked him for a reason why I shouldnt buy from Amazon, to which he clearly had no reply. Wouldnt even offer me a deal if I bought it with the BluRay player I was buying, which, granted, w...
Part of me agrees with them, and part of me thinks they should just let it go. It's not like Blizzard lose anything by letting it happen.
Follow EVE's philosophy. ''Oh that guy ripped you off with a bogus insurance agreement, infiltrated your organisation and syphoned off billions of in-game currency?...tough ***t mate.''
In EVE you're in complete control of the world. Markets crash, alliances start wars, fraud is allowed...its ...
Give me Battlefield over CoD any damn day.
Want maturity, go play Bad Company 2, which, you know, requires skill and teamwork to win.
''But you cant no-scope someone doing a 360 in a battlefield games, battlefield is teh suxor''
Uh-huh...
As much as I LOVE Valve, the Half Life series is arguably the best FPS series ever made, and EP1 and EP2 blew my mind, I have become incredibly frustrated with them.
The whole idea of the episodes was that they came out one after another with a relatively short period between each one, and that limit was kind of pushed when EP2 was released late.
Now though, Episode 3 has taken..simply too long to be released. If it comes out this year I will die of shock, a...
''"Throwing in all kinds of crap to fill up a disc is a thing of the past," he said.''
Hmm. Activision and Infinity Ward don't seem to think so...
Games ARE less than £30. If you buy the PC version.
Almost every big-release has a lower price on the superior system, i.e., the PC. Look at Dead Space 2. PS3 and 360 prices were just under £40, PC version was just under £30 if I remember right. Either way, if those figures are wrong, PC is always cheaper.
Are games getting too expensive? No.
Are CONSOLE versions getting too expensive? Yes.
Console gaming...
Didnt Microsoft release the Elite version of the 360 in response to the clearly superior PS3? And no BluRay yet 360? Oh come on...
I think the 360 has passed its' prime. The lack of IPs this year compared to the PS3 is testemony alone to that.
The PS3 has 20-odd IPs being released this year alone. 360 has 2 or 3..Gears 3 and Forza (3 or 4, cant remember or care, as GT5 is better anyway) is all I can think of.
Laughable.
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Wrath of the Litch King was an appauling move by Blizzard. I mean, the whole content, THE WHOLE CONTENT, was completed by 1 guild (i.e. they killed the final boss, the Lick King himself) in, what was it, 2 days after the expansion's release? 2 days? That's insane. And they had to wait how long now for a new expansion having completed it every time the dungeon resets and they farm the crap out of it?
But yeah, WoW will surely die. It's based on WoW lore, and t...
I cant see the £40 being justified. It's more of a trend, as people still pay it, clearly, so why lower profits to take the moral high ground.
And it's not the devs that lower the prices, it's the stores.
The dev sells a game for pennies to stores, who slap ATLEAST £20-30 ontop of it. NOw I have nothing to back that up with, other than sales; no company in their right minds would ever sell a product for less than they paid for it. WHi...
I can just see the job description now;
Candidate will require an ability to create an original FPS game...as we are desperate for one.
I couldn't agree more about the FPS genre.
Tried and tested formula, only rinsed and repeated in almost every shooter out there because we, the consumer, complain about the similarities...but then buy it anyway.
So the only way to get rid of certain games is to show the developers and stockholders a decrease in sales. The money is what will force the developers back to the drawing board to create something, I dunno, NEW for once *eyes Infinity Ward and A...
''The BBC?... No thankyou.''
Better than any American network.
I cant believe people are saying Killzone 3 is better looking, when, frankly, it clearly isnt.
Killzone 3 is a fantastic looking game of course, one of the best on the PS3, but I think Crysis 2 and Uncharted 2 look better.
Not just the art style, of which Killzone 3 PROBABLY wins, but as a technical achievement with lighting etc, Crysis 2 will be the new king. Maybe only by a fraction, but winning is winning.
SC2's skil comes in knowing how to counter units. When your opponent throws a certain type of unit at you, if you dont know/have the means to counter it, it's ''GG'' and quit.
So much learning involved. You learn something new every game, it's never, ever the same each time you play.
Oh no, now we cant use that useless piece of tech nobody wanted in the first place.
EA has put a review embargo on Crysis 2, so we wont see any reviews other than magazines or piss-poor ones from people who have 'played the game', aka 'played the demo', until tuesday. Doesnt even come out in Europe until friday...god I hate that.
It's nothing really fresh, seeing as its a sequel and all.
It's more of a CryEngine 3 release for Crytek rather than a game. As a developing tool, it's cutting edge.
I think you'll find in some cases it's not the devs' fault.
Like take a look at the Crysis 2 demo.
The serves failed because they didnt expect the sheer amount of people that downloaded it, so the servers overloaded and crashed under the strain.
I think most of the time, it's a case of thinking about what type/size of servers to have that saves money yet gets the job done, but at the same time, its' like trying to pre...
I dont think anyone really cares for sound effects until you hear them in a game developed by DICE. They literally blow the competition away.
If you want to know good sound in a game, play Bad Company 2 with speakers and a subwoofer, whack up the volume and it's like you're there. House shudders, it's simply amazing.
Everything is perfect. Bullets snap past when they are close, hiss past when it's not so close, explosions in the distance ge...