Nice catch. I actually didn't see that until you pointed it out.
Yeah, it would make more sense to make the DLCs free for those who bought the $60 recently (or at launch) but didn't yet get the DLC.
I believe 500g costs about $45 thesedays, from Chinese gold farmers.
.... we're talking about WoW here, right?
I had my reservations, and this quote basically confirmed my worst fears:
"Home is made to sound like a meeting place for people to meet and then play casual games"
I can do this by going to Yahoo Games already. I don't need a 3D client to meet people to play Pool with.
Sony is clueless.
As much as I like fanboy-bashing of all kinds, I have to respectfually disagree.
Even when I was the biggest Anti-Apple guy back in... 2002, I could still appreciate the great product that Apple had released in the iPod. Yes, the very first one. If you were looking for an MP3 player, there was no better alternative in the market that would have let you store and play that many songs AT THAT PRICE.
One of Jobs' genius is in his ability to look at his products fr...
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You win this thread with your superior moron-ness. LOLOLOL.
BTW, I'm really happy that some people still remember NeXT. That sh!t was KEEWWWLLLL (but out of my reach at the time).
Tecmo, regardless of its current financial status, still carries a powerful brand image in the industry. And with its current situation, this is a great time to pick them up at a cheap price. So it's a pretty smart and timely corporate move.
HOWEVER, as a consumer, I'm a little shocked by this. The Square-Enix, Sammy-Sega, Bandai-Namco all sorta made sense to me, but this one... somehow throws me off for some reason. It feels kind weird... kinda of EA-ish, if you will.
You see... at a certain level you are correct. But the reality is that $60 is simply too much to pay for 80% of the games in the market, period.
Don't give me the "but the cost is too high and the consumers have to pay this or else the developers would go out of business" rhetoric. It's bullshit. PURE. BULLSHIT. It's the same thing I used to hear when music CDs were $15. "But it costs $3million to market a new CD!! Someone has to pay for it!!"
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2 years.
So, if this comes out by XMas 2009, we'd be lucky.
Same for Diablo 3, I guess...
Actually, I just realized...
Perhaps people will start re-selling entire ACCOUNTS? As in, if I sold my PSN account to someone, he'd be able to download all the games I bought in the past for free, so I guess technically there *is* a way to resell DD games.
But yeah... it's a stupid and impractical. =D
That's not exactly what has happened though...
First of all, videogame prices haven't exactly gone down. It just allowed for much simpler games to access the market, while the "downloadable full-feature games" like the Orange Box or GT5 Prologue continue to be released at the same price as retail.
Secondly, DD doesn't allow for resale.
I sell 80% of the games I buy. Because 80% of them don't really deserve $60 of my money. And normally, I'm ab...
I addressed this literally two seconds ago, then saw your post. =)
Yeah, you are right, you can't underestimate the videophiles. BUT, like I said above, you can't overestimate them either. They may have great buying power as individuals (and that's great for Blu Ray sales), but their numbers aren't too great. We're talking at most 5 million people here, and each of them only count as one PS3 sale.
I think that was the point of the article.
Meh~
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Have you guys used Amazon Unbox? It's wonderful, really. Since I found it a couple of months ago, we stopped going to video rental stores. It takes about 3 minutes to buffer a movie, and prices range from 2.99 to 4.99 for ANY movie available out there. The total filesize is usually 2.5GB with a 24hr DRM lockout, but compared to renting movies, it's a great deal for convenience.
Okay, so why am I ranting about this Amazon thingy? Because I'm convinced that DD is already her...
Yeah, thanks for that info. I actually heard that already, but it actually looks like they added even more maps since the last time I heard about the US release.
I guess... with all those maps, the game would justify that $10 pricepoint. But I hope they don't keep charging $1.99 for extra maps, and at the least provide a free add-on for the Japanese version (with all the maps in the US version).
I'm just really sick of getting nickel/dimed by gaming companies....
...whether or not they charge for the extra maps.
I got the Japanese version when it came out. It cost me $10 (equivalent), but only came with ONE map (split up into three levels).
For $10, that's a rip off.
BUT!! I hear they're going to be adding more placed to the game, and if they are provided as free add-ons, I will take back what I said. Until then, I'm on the sideline. The game itself is quirkily fun; but it's got a potential pricing issue.
You realize that EVERY person you're yelling at in this thread owns a Wii?
And you realize that you're sound like the biggest idiot ever to have lived? You're offending all the real gamers who actually know what they're talking about. Shut it up already.
QFT. And it's only going to get worse.
Had to be the longest whine I've heard in a long time.
"The only people who are acting like they are upset now are those with no experience with Nintendo."
Classic fanboy comment BTW (regardless of system).
Can you set up voicechat with people and enter games together through HOME? How does it work?
I don't care about how beautiful it is (and it is beautiful). I just want to to know if it has any value to gamers besides being an eye-candy.
Is whether or not it will provide the functinality that the PS3 needs. If voice-chatting with your friends and setting up games to play together (read: play on the same team in Resistance 2 through Home) become easy for the average user, Home will indeed become the new hub for online gaming.
But if it becomes a MMO socializing client to meet/chat with people and show off trophies, but doesn't help at all toward playing the latest games together (and I'm not talking about those...
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