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Digital accounts for like 40% of games purchases now. tbh that seems surprisingly high to me. I'd be somewhat wary of download only on consoles. ATM I have like 5 PSN games of which 2 are from the downtime. PC has stood the test of time, but consoles come and go like a fart in the wind. And at least if a PC DD service goes down I still have many ways to get the games back . So I'm all for discs on consoles until I can have some assurances that I'm not just making a very very expensive rental.

In other Crysis related news: http://crytek.com/news/crytek-releases-cryengine-3-sdk-free-of-charge

The sound was the big killer. The music was something you'd expect for an action film, the reverse cymbal in between each fade out was bad, then a sudden random change to slow pop music you get in prom dance scenes towards the end. We were generally encouraged to submit work with no sound at all as it was usually extremely bad. Especially when students discover the sound library The acting of most of the cast being worse than a limp fart didn't help at all either. It's like they're acting serious business, but it's clear the lines are meant to be funny. And the only thing that got halfway their was the KISS part.

Wow that looks shiiiittttt. It's like some trailer for a film you make at college. If it wasn't for the fact it has Malcolm McDowell in it I'd have assumed it was just a stand-alone trailer someone made for a project. Anyway the premise has been done before.

Hell yeah. Is it shared though?

http://techreport.com/articles.x/21404 Found out why the DX11 patch pushes system too hard: tl;dr - They've tessellated nearly everything, including flat objects that would work with bump maps. And nearly every map has water right across it. It doesn't stop at the shore.

Just to take the heat off Thursday a bit: http://forums.eidosgames.com/showthread.php?t=119397 What the fuck do they think this is? A console?

Is this something that's been said at Gamescom?

If what happens in the clip is implied by the title and that's the spoiler part, then yeah it's rosebud territory given the first Planet of the Apes came out over 40 years ago and ever since then they've had one thing in common.

http://dota2.com/tournaments/international/ Beta Sign-ups

Yeah I read the article. I was talking more about Gamestop. Who wouldn't be increasing their trade in prices while also having to give a cut to publishers. As for that other company, what happens when the company collapses? As you've said your profit calculations are without any of the overheads. One of which will be the free posting on both trading in and delivering games. That isn't going to be cheap. Their maths puts the 10% at "$3-5" which means games retailing for $30-$50. Their calculation also puts it at $500million towards publishers within 4-5years. That means an overall revenue of $5billion. Which is pretty damn high for a start-up. And given their mission statement suggest wanting to stop the publishers abolishment of used sales I don't think a small discount on P$10 codes is really what they're after. I'm failing to see how postalgamer could form a "mutually beneficial relationship" with companies when several of them are actively trying to destroying their business model of selling used games. I have a feeling the mutually beneficial relationship with EA will go as far as EA happily accepting the 10% cuts and sales metrics and stop there. Every part of their business model just seems to revolve around making less money than everyone else selling used games. And as publishers go further and further to clamp down on used sales it'll just become more and more unprofitable to run.

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People who trade in games would get less money. I doubt that if the cost of the game includes a cut going to the publishers the used prices would be much cheaper than what GAME/Gamestop would be selling them for given they won't be paying a cut. Unless the game is made by Bioware or DICE there's not much guarantee that the cut would go towards supporting developers since EA have closed or dissolved 5 studios the last 5 years alone. Pandemic was closed a month before their final game was even released. And if the retailer is paying 10% cut towards the publisher on used sales while they will probably still be making a profit that's a hefty overall cut to that. And if giving a cut would only get a discount on project $10 stuff it just further confirms that EA would have no intention of dropping those schemes even if every retailer was to shift towards 10% cuts. Nobody wins but the publishers bottom line.

Yeah they posted about it a couple hours ago.

I think you missed my point. From a publisher perspective, this is getting value from used game sales, as such it is better than piracy. Had retailers done this to begin with, then we may not have had the "Project $10" issue in the first place. As it is, perhaps these guys will be able to negotiate for discounted Online Pass codes or something? I don't know. Just saying that this is what publishers had wanted from second hand retailers from the get go. I didn't miss your point, as I've said before I disagree that retailers need to be doing this. I've also made a point before that I strongly doubt that stores doing things like this would change the Project $10/Online Pass/etc that's currently in use. That store is essentially worse from everyone's perspective except the publishers who most likely will still be getting the $10 and the 10% on top. I just don't understand how this is meant to play out. All P$10 does is instantly wipe off a fair amount of value from the product right away. And how would a 10% cut be worked out? How do you get that from people selling on Ebay or similar? If you can talk retailers into giving EA a cut of the profits and people are already used to having to pay for Online Pass n Project $10 stuff then what reason is their for EA to stop running that program? How would it retroactively work with older games? Yes I understand that Gamestop & Co make significant amount of profit from used sales. But what does EA have to do with any of that? Does EA hire the staff? Rent the stores? Run the websites? EA sold their game to Gamestop for what I assume is at a profitable price. boom your money is made. If you feel you want more then raise your wholesaler price that you sell your games for to Gamestop.

http://store.steampo...d.com/video/570 Trailer. I don't think it's meant to be known about yet unless I'm missing something. (Gamescom doesn't start for 2 days and the video isn't actually on the "new videos" list)

Yeah I'm hoping most other publishers are still quite happy to stick with the current DD channels than make their own.

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Except despite paying publishers a cut, the games will still have the same issues as used sales anywhere else. So what's the point? If it's paying more to buy in the games, and giving away a cut of it's profits to publishers then I don't see it lasting long unless it pushes it's prices up. But then people may as well pick up their used games from GAME/Gamestop, where it's also much more accessible since they can just pop in store and walk out with something instead of posting stuff about all over the place.

Some DOTA 2

Oblivion is about 95% side quests and 5% main questline. I'm hoping Skyrim is about the same.

7oZ Gammon nicely done, nice n thick, and caramelised around it. With a side of chips, peas, onion rings (home made), coleslaw, n salad. Not at this moment, had it at Whitby (we had Fish n chips other day, turns out parents had it last night)

I'll leave it as a link as it could be spoilerific. Not in a plot sense but a "what is in the film" sense.

Technically you're buying one copy already. You just get a free copy with it. You could always buy it and then use the Trade system to trade it for a game you'd want?