My favorite thing about this silly practice is that you don't actually have to sit there signed into a social networking site that you despise to get a key.
You can just... edit an .ini file.
As opposed to a 4gb hard drive? Now that would be dumb.
For small town girls and soft summer nights?
British Columbia probably has the most draconian liquor laws on the entire continent.
Peter Molyneux; a jaded, broken man.
I'd say the 60 hours I've sunken into this game already proves the point behind this whole review wrong. I don't think that the lack of a solid story equates to the 3.2 point hit the author doled out.
Of course it's not - it's 2012 now.
See, you can't use gift cards as a comparison, because no outlet exclusively accepts such cards... except Microsoft, apparently. When you have a gift card, you didn't pay for it yourself (who buys themselves a gift card for something), and even if you did, the option of spending money otherwise is always there.
I can name one reason better than all of those reasons:
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Why does it need to be anything more? The empty vessel is YOU. You decide how your character reacts to things and handles situations. This is entirely in YOUR power. If you fail to see that and require hearing the person that YOU are playing to say things that you probably wouldn't even say, then you don't have the imagination required to get the most out of Skyrim.
This article just comes off as whining about whining, so I'll address it as such.
PC gamers have the right to stick their noses in the air. They put far more time into building and maintaining a machine that does significantly more than a console does. Tossing the decisions that individual companies like Valve and EA have made for specific games is irrelevant and does not reflect the nature of the platform. This particular instance with Civ 5? That was the publisher fucki...
She can jump off of walls, if it's any reassurance.
My Raph can beat your Mitsurugi, HIS raph, and that guy's Cervantes. Or your money back.
Anyone who thought they could purchase victory in the first place was a fool.
You people talk about the actual content of the game as if people give a fuck about fighting games anymore. Namco KNOWS this, and they are simply reaching out to a large demographic. Sue them.
That being said, I'm buying this game day one. But I'm also a graphic designer and I've studied marketing, and what they're doing isn't "dumb" at all. If it grabbed your attention, it worked. Plain and simple. Low blow, maybe? So what.
We're not wearing hockey pads.
Another wanderer here to lick Morrowind's boots. Good job!
I bet the author was a huge fan of the Battlefield 3 single player.
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"CLOCKING ON!"
Seriously? They release a code at 4 in the morning pacific time and wonder why people don't like it?