So why aren't people suing over Bioshock Infinite? Why didn't people sue over Duke Nukem Forever? This sort of thing happens constantly and has for twenty years. Why is it suddenly an issue that requires a lawsuit?
There's a problem here, and I'm not trying to detract from the problem, but pretending like this isn't happening because of this SPECIFIC game just isn't fair.
The rapid production of promotional materials is always going to...
There was a lot of coverage and even support for it pre-launch, but things pretty rapidly turned sour and I do think a lot of people were put off by early reaction.
The "it isn't GTA" crowd ruined it for an awful lot of people.
@TKCMuzzer
You're right that liking is easy, but that's not the proof, is it? The casuals that everybody looks down on ARE Microsoft's biggest market, and have been since they revealed more people use their Live accounts for Netflix and ESPN than for gaming. These people are usually in the US, and these people are the ones that give Microsoft the most money. They have been more than catered for this evening. They probably don't even know what the PS4 can do. ...
It's less "no publicity is bad publicity" and more the lesser of two evils.
They had to choose between directly competing with the PS4 reveal or getting people talking in other ways. If they really are six months behind on everything and they have nothing to show, the former isn't a possibility. So they've won over the best of both worlds.
They've impressed the casuals who love ESPN and CoD, while specifically ignoring the core crow...
@TKCMuzzer
They HAVE come out firing. Financially, they've impressed their biggest backers. The Netflix, ESPN, Sports, COD crowd has been well-catered for, and two minutes on the Xbox Facebook page makes that pretty obvious. There are people out there who are willing to argue that tonight's conference is proof that this is Sony's last generation.
Xbox One will sell, and it'll sell in its millions - it'll probably be the biggest seller in t...
That's rather the point. They can and have.
I suggest you read the article (or at least the excerpt above) to get my full point, but it's fairly obvious that Microsoft have manufactured this hate. They've said nothing at all about the console, nothing at all about the games that'll be released for it, and yet people are ranting and raving. They had the opportunity to court the core crowd over and over again, and purposefully didn't.
It'...
Square's EU PR sent them out as new at around 5PM and, unsurprisingly, a search for "new FFXIV screens" came up with too many results.
Can't delete now that they're approved, will wait for a mod to come along.
It was pretty obviously a publicity thing. The article turned up on their own site days after release. Nobody in their right mind considered this a win against piracy. They uploaded the cracked version themselves to get their work mentioned on as many gaming sites as possible with only a little effort.
There's nothing wrong with that. It was a funny move. But I imagine there was a "proper" crack within hours.
I've felt that way about PA since they hired Kuchera.
They were making all this big song and dance about how "games journalism is broken, we're going to do it differently."
Give any games journalist of any skill level the amount of hits that Penny Arcade gets and they'd be in a position to do things differently as well. The need to fight for those hits/sales/market share is what leads to the downsides of ALL journalism and taking away th...
There are already some fantastic mods out there that manage to make the graphics and parts of the gameplay much, much better.
I think there are even programs that allow you to write new campaigns and change speech, although I don't know that anyone ever did anything substantial with them.
That's unfortunately true. The most obvious difference was that the choir in One Winged Angel was swapped out for a midi version.
With that said, that was one of the first things modded, so it's fairly easy to do. I'm not sure if Square swapped it up for the re-release of FF7, but if they didn't it shouldn't be hard to do it yourself.
That would actually be pretty great.
There's no easy solution. Everything would either cost the industry money to set up or would mean less money per game. That's why we're stuck with what is perhaps the worst distribution method.
If we could start everything from scratch and implement this, I think it would be the best way of solving all the current problems. As it stands now, a game is released at a high price, is undercut by the used market and comes down in price to attract sales. This doesn'...
"Because idiotic sites like Kotaku completely miss the point, that's why. They pick a controversial topic, like sexism, that can be easily thrown around to drum up some attention and then they sit back and let the publicity build itself up."
Or they get the point entirely. Man, I'm sick of people talking as if Kotaku (and pals) don't know exactly what they're doing. They pick a really easy topic, write 500 words, then take the high road when people c...
@HonestDragon
Completely agree. The difference between trying something and paying when you can, or downloading and selling, is huge. Even then, I think there are issues that the industry has to face. If people are taking their $300 machine, paying to have it chipped/altered/having alt firmware placed on it so they can pay slightly less for games at launch, there's something wrong with the way publishers expect us to buy games.
Your main complaint is that because of pirating, legitimate customers have to deal with DRM.
But surely your complaint should be aimed towards the developers/publishers? There are a million better ways of dealing with piracy than DRM, but publishers have taken the attitude of each pirated game is a missed sale, and so they work to instead enforce that sale.
I don't pirate, but there are lots of reasons people pirate a game, valid reasons. If those issues ...
Why is that a problem? If the multiplayer is of a high quality, and the single player is as enjoyable as in previous games, what difference does it make?
"And with that single comment, the world learnt that nobody is allowed an opinion on anything they're not directly involved with, and thus it came that there was never another bad thing said about a product again."
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I've been told it doesn't work.
So there isn't a difference? The Bioshock gameplay was shown as gameplay. The Nukem gameplay was shown as gameplay (back in 99). The fact that both games were entirely remade, or at least restructured, gives them a free pass? What happens if I pre-ordered Forever at announcement? Can I sue for getting a completely different product on a completely different console if I knew nothing about the new game except that it was out?
It's not about being more aware of the prod...