TheMightyEthan
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DRM, Online Pass, Project Ten Dollar and the like
TheMightyEthan replied to Yantelope's topic in General Gaming Chat
EA is now saying that every game of theirs will have microtransactions. Apparently they really want the most-hated-publisher title back from Activision. -
I guess this is as good a place to put this as any: http://www.joystiq.com/2013/02/27/retro-city-rampage-sold-much-more-on-psn-than-steam-xbla/ Apparently Retro City Rampage on PSN did far better than XBLA, not even counting PS+ numbers. Vita was the most successful platform of all. It's not explicitly said, but from statements in the article I'm inferring that XBLA was the worst, at least among PS3, Vita, Xbox and PC. He also said that it cost as much to get it put on XBLA as all the other platforms combined. Sounds like XBLA is to be avoided.
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Yeah, we had moved on, and then Blizzard brought it back up so we called them on their bullshit. *Edit* - Notice the thread was inactive for 6 months until the PS4 announce. Why should they care if I want to dupe items in my singleplayer game? It's just like banning SC2 players for cheating while playing singleplayer: who the fuck cares? It's not like they're impacting anyone else's experience.
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And that would require having the data client side while it's all currently only server side. Which is exactly what would open the door to cheating and duping. I'm not sure how you figure that would "fix" anything. It would make available data that currently isn't. It would fix things because even if the data on items and stuff was available client-side, if for online characters it was all running server side it wouldn't matter that you could find the shit on the PC, it wouldn't interact with the online ones, which would be the only ones that could use the AH.
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But if cheating and item duping are their concern they could easily fix that by having separate online and offline characters. Your online characters are kept server-side and you can only use them online, but if you want to play offline there's still the option.
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Ding ding ding! You just hit the nail on the head with the real reason they wanted it always-online: piracy. Part of the irritating thing, at least for me, is the how they're pissing on our legs and telling us it's raining. Don't make your game always-online (unless it truly is required, like competitive shooters), but if you do then DEFINITELY don't lie to me about why and try to say it's a good thing.
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You know, MS might win a lot of good attention away from Sony if the 720 has BC.
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That's what happened to me, but I haven't actually played my 360 since, it hasn't even been plugged in for 6 months. Unless you reaaaallly want Halo, you could probably own just a PS3 and a Wii U (if you like first party Nintendo) and be just fine for console gaming, IMO. So as someone who owns both consoles, I can say: it is stupid. If I could go back in time to 21 year old TCP, I'd slap that 360 out of his hands. Also I'd tell him to get a haircut.
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Well, as far as exclusives go between MS and Sony, Halo is literally the only one I care about (other than Team Ico, but apparently they don't actually make games anymore). I know that I'm in the minority there, though.
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Pretty amazing if you think the entire Uncharted trilogy, plus The Last of Us, will have come out in the time Team Ico has been trying to do The Last Guardian.
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Though it does seem like all the news sites disagree with my interpretation.
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I'm sure that's fake. I could see them doing something like this, but it would be a side game like Brotherhood or Revelations, rather than a numbered entry.
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I know it was about the auction house, but their justification was that the auction house was absolutely critical to their vision of the game. That's why they couldn't even make an option to create an entirely offline character. Obviously, however, that was a load of shit, as seen by this.
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No, I used the polar bear for my ice pokemon.
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Diablo 3 is going to allow offline play on PS4. But wait! I thought being always connected was critical to your vision of the game and it would be impossible to remove it!
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My exact thoughts.
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I don't have any idea what you're asking.
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Woo! Now for the sequel.
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Yes, because we were all 100% serious about it making sense in an IRL kind of way, and not just saying it would have been amusing. Don't take everything so seriously.
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Sony President says that it's "our dream" to have a Gaikai-based streaming service where you pay a subscription and have access to thousands of games. Sounds sweet to me.
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Why do people have Wikipedia edit wars over whether it's "Star Trek into Darkness" or "Star Trek Into Darkness"?
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Right, that's what I mean, it wasn't considered a base feature of the console, so PS2 had a really ad hoc approach to it, but now a lot of people do consider it that.
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Yeah, that shelved option is nice.
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I was actually meaning it was premium in the Xbox 1/PS2 era. Like, any kind of online service at all was premium, so it makes sense to pay for it.
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The problem with that approach is that everything starts out as a "premium" feature until it gets popular enough that people start to expect it as a base part of the product, and so at what point does it become "basic functionality" that you shouldn't charge for? Online play used to be premium, but now people consider it base functionality.
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Yeah, any tail on an object like that will be caused by escaping gasses. A true asteroid shouldn't have a tail until it enters the atmosphere and starts ablating surface material/heating the atmosphere to the glowing point. Comets have tails because they're mostly balls of frozen water and gas, and as they approach the inner solar system the heat from the sun starts vaporizing that material, which expands into space and is visible as a tail.
