RockyRan
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I do wonder how you manage to find the absolute worst roommates ever.
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He's laughably defensive about any comment that calls him a paid shill, making it all the more obvious. One good read through the comments section has reminded me why I left in the first place. A bunch of garbage articles written by egotistical monkeys, for ignorant yes-man monkeys. I have no idea why we wanted this hack to associate himself with us.
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Uh, so why exactly did we even want him on this forum?
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GameStop apparently stores more than just credit card info
RockyRan replied to RockyRan's topic in General Gaming Chat
Wow, never thought of that. And since they're being shipped back to Sqeenix it doesn't seem like they're going to be sold again. -
I can't believe the "even if GameStop opens the game, it's still new" argument is STILL going even today. I guess some people will always stay ignorant of the term "open-box item".
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Damn. Good thing I convinced my brother to pre-order from Amazon instead of GS.
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There are no Gamestops where I love and even I hate them.
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They just wanted the good prize in the cereal box
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Some weirdass 3DS-related rumors. I'll eat my hat if they're true.
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When they faked that they were closing down completely even though they were just re-launching the site.
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I remember Good old Games' marketing stunt. Pissed off a whole bunch of people.
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Oh, SNES, how I missed thee. And look, you're in better condition than the one I had!
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Original. It was manufactured in 1991.
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*This one is perfectly gray
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Nice. You probably know they turn brown due to the flame retardant chemicals put in the plastic. There is stuff out there to restore its color.
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My thoughts are that they're not going to make the digital versions cheaper for exactly the reason you've described. Since at this point retail versions are far more profitable than their digital counterparts, it would be suicide for Sony to piss off retailers by making it cheaper and more convenient to buy online. IIRC, there were a couple of retailers who refused to carry the PSP Go on launch because, to them, a PSP Go was practically a profitless transaction. They made more money on games, and since the PSP Go was digital only, there was absolutely no reason for retailers to sell them.
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In light of the rage behind the horrendous From Dust port, I've been reminded of one of my biggest internet pet peeves: the famous "internet boycott". Now, I completely support people not buying Ubisoft games anymore, but don't try to give yourself more credit than you deserve in calling it a "boycott". It's not. Boycotts involve depriving a business of money with a MASS exodus of consumer revenue. These are organized protests, made very clear to the business in question, and involve a very large amount of people. You're not part of a moral high ground by making a consumer choice. There's a very big difference between a real boycott and just not buying a game from a publisher just 'cause you don't wanna. But no, at this day and age everyone has to be just ANGRY about something. Everyone's always gotta be a part of a "protest" of some sort, and this is the saddest one of them all. Hey, look at me! I'm NOT buying a game! I'm so principled! I'm BOYCOTTING this publisher! What a fucking lazy way to protest. If you're not going to actually PROTEST in organizing a real boycott, don't make yourself seem all "high and mighty" just because you're not buying something. What a joke, protest by inaction. How convenient, I get to be a part of a principled protest, and I don't have to do absolutely ANYTHING! What a deal! I guess tomorrow I'll "boycott" gasoline companies by sitting on my ass all day watching reruns of Star Trek eating Cheetos and refusing to go out of the house! Lazy wankers.
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I dismissed the game because I found the demo terrible, but now that reviews are coming out and they're all pretty much singing praises I'll have to put it back on my list. It could very well be one of those great games that just had a shit demo. And it doesn't look like one of those cases where the publishers pull a CoD and pay reviewers to write good things. I'm sure reviewers in general would have no qualms about shitting on this game (they've shat on other unconventional games before), but they're not. Good thing in my book >_>b
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My first article as a writer. Hooray! http://www.pressxordie.com/2011/08/18/an-homage-to-rollercoaster-tycoon/
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It's a pen name. My name is neither Rocky nor Aaron
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I love RCT. For me it's even better because it's the game that Theme Park wasn't.
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Indeed. RCT was far and away the better implementation of the same concept.
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DRM, Online Pass, Project Ten Dollar and the like
RockyRan replied to Yantelope's topic in General Gaming Chat
Although it could be easily argued that a developer doesn't inherently deserve any money when their product exchanges hands between two random people for money. To demand that is simply silly (which is what devs are doing as of late). -
Bought an SNES. Bitches.
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I have a half dozen SNESes (both styles included) you female dogs. Also, Faiblesse, I have to wonder what controller is better than the SNES controller. The CCP maybe?
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What does authenticity matter? The game will be just as fun. More fun in some cases with speed boosts in RPGs and stuff like that.
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One thing where emus do have an edge on the real systems is that unless you get a flash cart, you can't play some of the excellent Mario level hacks out there.
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It's confirmed. Selling my SNES and 14 games 6 years ago was the biggest mistake I've ever made. Ever.
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AFAIK there wasn't really any purpose to having multiple soldiers in the game, was there? Other than wanting to completely restart your soldier progress from scratch...
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Fixed that for you. This, so much. I still shake my head every time I'm in third person and side-step and move forward at the same time. It's like my character is skating across the Mojave. That and the "I'm frozen in a Matrix-jumping-pose" bit. I still remember the first time I saw this and went to a forum to ask if there were any mods that made the character actually face the direction he was running. The response? "Just don't strafe and move forward at the same time, dude. Who does that?" Indeed. Perfect solution.
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Valve announces new game. All you need to know? It's not Half Life. Yet again. Fuck.
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The hitboxes were so borked 1/2 the time and then the other 1/2 they were perfect.
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CSS was pretty much a tech demo. I don't think Valve ever expected it to grow this popular.
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At least we know Valve can count to 3.
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I highly doubt this has anything to do with the entitlements. This isn't "free college" or "free retirement", this is simply "free PSP I stole from that clod over there". Cheapass, amoral kids + collective mob mentality + free shit + no repercussions = riots. That's all there is to it.
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Microsoft on the fritz with the Xbox UI again. Here's a tip, MS. If you HAVE to completely overhaul your UI every single year, you're doing it wrong. Go back to design school.
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At least they're moving towards Metro. That makes sense unlike the NXE.
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I still remember what the Gamecube menu UI looked like. I can't remember what the Xbox one looks like at all.
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I'm gonna go ahead and put my "hipster" shades on and say that the Zune had the new redesign first. That aside I've never been to fond of the 350's UI. I like the Xbox's UI, felt like a scary green machine.
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That's...quite out there,
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It's a mystery why they keep up with their silly DRM schemes, although I tend to think it's just simple ignorance from the company's part. Ubi, for instance, seems to have this completely strange idea that if they release a game with its PC version on day 1 WITHOUT always-on DRM, that it would be pirated so much it'd drive people who would've bought the console versions to piracy on the PC instead. At least that's what I read when they tweeted that "Keep in mind Driver is being released on the PC day 1 as well" excuse when someone asked them about their DRM. Publishers currently are having entitlement issues as much as many gamers are. There's this idea that any time anyone ever plays their game they're automatically entitled to money and should get a cut ASAP, hence their crackdown on used games. But more relevant to this topic is the idea that every single time something is pirated they're automatically owed money. Now, I'm not trying to condone piracy, but I am saying this kind of mentality is destructive, because emotions begin playing into what should be a business decision. They're not sitting back and analyzing whether or not every pirate is even their target market, given how so many businesses operate under this principle. Instead, they see people pirating the game and they start throwing hissy fits that they're not being paid for it all. These entitlement issues begin to bleed onto their corporate strategy, trying to eradicate piracy that in reality will never go away because there will always be millions who pirate just for the sake of pirating and wouldn't have bought the game at any time. The only people who lose out of this tunnel-vision policy are the paying consumers.
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"Consumers" (plural) theoretically wield all the power. The "consumer" (singular) holds no power. You as a single entity is worthless to the average publisher. They only listen when there's a very large group of people involved, and even then it almost never works. You can round up 100K, 200K, even 500K for your cause and it's still a relatively tiny amount for a company like EA. Consumers only matter when it's a gigantic mob all behaving in a specific way. Any less than that and your opinion falls to deaf ears, and the entire PC community is in the minority, so that entire user base is completely ignored. What then? What CAN people do but be as squeaky a wheel as they can? There's literally nothing else they can do, because simply not buying a product isn't going to get major publishers to listen to them. That, or they make up excuses as to why sales were low, completely missing the point (game sold low = "PC market is dying. We'll care even less about that platform in the future") Just look at Ubisoft's pathetically circular logic. They've rigged their own "system" so that, no matter what, they can blame the PC in cases like Driver: San Francisco with its shitty always-on DRM. High sales, low piracy? "DRM worked!" Low sales, high piracy? "PC is infested with pirates! More draconian DRM!" High sales, high piracy? "Pirated games = lost sales! We deserve more! More DRM!" Low sales, low piracy? "The PC market is dying!" And they can do whatever they want because that market isn't big enough for them to care. Simply voting with your wallet one way or the other won't do a thing when your platform is largely ignored regardless of what happens in it.
