hmmm, interesting take. so, all casinos need to do to not be clasified as "gambling" is to at least award trash! brilliant!
(casinos near near have free drinks all day, everyday. they should do away with that and have the cups as trash awards.)
jeez, wtf are they spending tax dollars in school for these days? kid correcting another kid about percentages, when the corrector is, himself, incorrect.
80,000 of 130mil is 0.0615%. it's not 7%. it's not 0.0006%.
the benefit is that the developers aren't wasting hundreds of man-hours and financial resources on a part of gameplay that they believe is only being utilized by a small section of the player base. this, in turn, allows them to have the programmers focus more time on framerate, resolution, modeling assets, and all the other goodies that most players focus on today. also, trimming unused sections does get games out in a timely matter.
in their defense, they probably have access to more information than you do on what the players in general use and don't use. they obviously see the user-ship among gamers low enough to not waste development time and resources on this section of gameplay.
sometimes, they need to trim the fat to get a better product out in an economical manner.
there's also a thing called "customer finds out item isn't very desirable and cancels preorder and manufacturer makes over supply leading to heavy discount and revenues fall and stockholders get angry."
you should try to get a few years older when you actually understand and have money in stocks for your retirement and understand that crap doesn't come free. you speak as if forecasting exact or even close demand is an easy thing. if it were, there...
or, you know, it could simply just be that the surgery itself took too high a toll on him. knocking on a dead man's corpse to make a statement is just plain bad taste.
love how the idiots on here are constantly griping about "blah, blah, blah, anti-consumer...blah, blah, blah, let's boycot them" but then they are oblivious to what a true monopoly will eventually do to them.
yeah, they are a piece of shietz. you hear about their GIFT CARD security breach last september? seems paypal somehow had the gift cards they sold people on eBay breached. the giftcard emails that had the passcode was unsecure as it was transmitted to recipient. people who did not immediately use their giftcards had it drained completely. thousands of people were affected. paypal denied everything. anyone who knows, you can tell the extreme displeasure of trying to get issues with payp...
then...uh...don't accept the terms. simple, huh, stapleface?
then buy physical media. you want the benefits of digital, yet you don't want to accept responsibility of clicking that "i accept the EULA" box. you entitled c#nts are the reason we can't have good things.
"opportunism and pr?"
what makes you think it would, with certainty, reach the people that matter at naughty dog to get their attention? just because they sent a letter? are you that naive?
the only way to make certain a message reaches a developer these days is to address them thru a social media outlet. entities will go thru great lengths to preserve their public image.
for example, i could write a letter addressed to son...
"The shortage stems from Nintendo not being prepared. They overstocked the Wii U and got burned. Nintendo continues to prove to the world they do not know how to meet demand."
seriously, where do you get your information? they didn't overstock the WiiU. there was an initial launch shortage as is usual with any new gaming item during the major holiday season. it then turned to a surplus of units because people stop buying the WiiU since it just wasn't a ...
it's because these geniuses think nintendo uses Star Trek replicators to pump out Switches and the parts required to make it. they believe the same thing happened with the PSVR shortage last christmas and then they found out there WAS AN ACTUAL ISSUE WITH THE PRODUCTION of the PSVR lenses/display component.
definitely agree that article reshaped someone's words to misrepresent the original person's intent and context. should be heavy fines for doing crap like this.
only this generation of retards would laud egotism and narcissism as commendable traits.
how does this wanker get so many knob polishers following him?
lol, dude is a classic narcissist. i highly doubt this is the reason.
NDAs don't shield parties from illegal harassment in violation of established laws.
which begs the question, "WHY hasn't he sued?" the only time someone wouldn't want to sue in a case like this, is when the "aggrieved" party doesn't want something that will be brought out in court to be revealed to the public.
there's a big difference between doing cosmetic coding to make SotC look better in 2018 and the coding it requires to develop SotC's physics logic, gameplay, and original aesthetics on a PS2 in 2005.
there's no doubt of bluepoint's abilities, but they are in no way "doing Team Ico better than Team Ico." the comparison is not even remotely correct.