I'm curious why you received so many disagrees.
You speak truth, padawan.
By "full game" I meant the play experience. Don't be dense.
Nine full levels of the Doom shareware version gave you MORE playtime and content than most single-player $60 games today.
And yes, the purpose of shareware was to share it. Someone paid $19.95 for shareware and then made copies and gave it to friends. It's the quivalent of buying the The Ballad of Gay Tony for $19.95 and making copies and giving it to friends, if they liked it then...
Yeah I paid $6 for it and never conquered it. It was a freaking long game and the first game to feature the ability to walk around in an open-world, hijack vehicles and fight badly designed 3D aliens.
People do that anyways.
But Kazuma is ultimately right. Games like Demon Souls, Binary Domain and every NICHE title out there would tank and tank hard.
AAA mainstream titles like the Halos, Gears and Uncharteds will always sell well but used games helps when gamers want to pick up something they may have never heard of and want to try it out for cheap.
As kazuma pointed out, gamers make the industry thrive and without gamers most non-AAA d...
Bubbles to you. Well said.
I don't get why so many people are defending a solution that pacifies corporate greed.
I mean I imagine it'll get to a point where they'll strip split-screen out of games and say "You'll need to buy a new console and another copy of the game to play this via multiplayer." And I'm sure there will be a bunch of retard gamers defending why buying extra consoles and games is better than playing split-scre...
Yeah us fickle gamers....our money should be pissed away on every game that comes out because they're all 10/10 games.
Obviously, having choices and buying preferences that used to exist (shareware/demos/rentals/used games) is wrong for us consumers to explore. It's all about putting "food on teh table for teh children".
Game reviewers are crap these days and say every $60 AAA game is worth the purchase. I Agree with Abdou23, there are a l...
A lot of people are forgetting that if you wait for a game like Modern Warfare 2 or Black Ops to come down to $19.99 you could be waiting half-a-decade. I think you can finally buy Modern Warfare 1 for $19.99 new but that game came out in 2007. Really?
Also, if everyone did the wait-and-buy tactic devs and publishers would tank fast because many of them rely on brisk sales based on quarterly results. If majority gamers waited a year or two to buy a new game at a lower price p...
The problem is that some people still buy a game legitimately but then use a DRM workaround. It tells the company "We'll support your product even though we hate the DRM in it."
The concept is the same dude.
You basically got a full game for free, from friends, from neighbors from anyone who was handing out the shared copy. People still do the exact same thing when testing or trying out games. Gamers HAVE NOT changed.
The only difference is that now file-sharing is a dirty word and piracy is a greater evil than child sex-slavery. And devs didn't "Give out" copies of their games, you still had to pay for them in stores ...
I don't know what he's going on about. WWE games get better by the year and the sales justify that.
The only people who gripe about WWE games are people who aren't fans or haven't played enough wrestling games to know what changed.
EDIT: Also, he rails on the animations in WWE but did he play WWE 12? That has some of the best animation transitions in any game released in any genre to-date thanks to the Predator technology. Did we play the sam...
Bubbles for a well-thought out response and a good viewpoint of the matter.
Okay, so here's the thing...you make a few good points about length versus quality and quantity of gameplay versus actual enjoyment or "happiness" while playing.
I agree, there are some games that goad you into playing more and more and more without it ever feeling fun, intuitive or progressively satisfying. The insatiable urge or compulsion to keep going as you mention ...
I bought 5 games for $25 that's TWENTY-FIVE dollars not $125.
I'm sorry but 5 games for $25 is a steal.
Halo Reach had a demo?
RAGE had a demo?
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 had a demo?
Demon Souls had a demo?
STALKER games have demos?
Darkness II had a demo?
Assassin's Creed Revelations had a demo?
Gears of War 3 had a demo?
GTA IV had a demo?
Saints Row The Third has a demo?
I'm not trolling I'm actually asking b...
I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you on a few things.
1.) I love grinding on games if the grinding is fun. For instance, I had a ton of fun grinding in Vindictus because you could still die and it still required a lot of skill. It's the same for grinding in Borderlands. I never get bored landing well-placed headshots.
2.) The more a game has to offer and the bigger it is the better the grinding (theoretically). I love the idea of beco...
It depends on the game.
A lot of times sequels use recycled code, especially fetch quests and kill quests. It's simply a matter of changing targets on the map and in the script, but essentially it's a copy/paste job.
The real trouble comes in with streamlined point-to-point quests where there are different effects to be had based on prior decisions.
All while playing Mass Effect 2 I just kept thinking about how taxing it would have...
A CPU exclusively for games?
How about cross-game voice chat? Movie streaming? Kinect interfaces? MP3 overlays?
No, consoles are no longer exclusively dedicated to gaming and I don't see that changing with the next set of consoles. More than anything home consoles will be doing a lot more background multi-tasking if they keep on adding additional entertainment apps to their cache.
Also PC quad-core CPUs are rarely put under that much s...
@C_Menz
nondecaf is right, my two 5770s run better and consume less power than my one 4850.
AMD has done a superb job of cutting down energy consumption and heat output in their mid-ranged cards.
Not to mention, you can get two 6670s for the price of one GTX 560ti if you shop around. Also, Crossfired HD 6670s outperform a single GTX 560ti every time in the benchmarking tests.
It's a very smart, affordable and viable choic...
I thought they were going for Xfired cards?
I still have Xfired 5770s they can run the latest and greatest on the highest settings with DX11 turned all the way up.
I imagine two 6670s will tide MS over for the next four years or so, which should buy them enough time to start up Cloud services as an alternative for staying relevant in the [3D]HD arena.
Careful, the CoD fanboys will be in here any second to say how Activision was just tossing easter eggs in for CoD loyalist and all those recycled textures, models and assets were there way of saying "Thanks for paying $60 for stuff we already had you pay $60 for back in 2007."
1.) I asked if you could provide information about a company shutting down due to digital piracy as a rhetorical question. There is NO company that shutdown in 2011 directly related to PC exclusives and their game being pirated. It does not exist. The companies that shutdown were all console-centric. The point is, piracy didn't shutdown any development studios even though a lot of studios shutdown in 2011.
2.) The article relates to piracy and shareware being the same on...