"My suggestion for a model that would work (and be profitable for both consumer and publisher) is this:
You buy a game for, let's say, $30-40.
When you insert the disc, you get a choice of which part of the game you want to open; Offline single-player, offline multi-player or online multiplayer.
In addition, you could also be asked whether or not you want to open the additional features for $10-15 each.
This way, the full game will cost exactly as much as it does nowadays, but the people who want less can get less, and there will still only be one single edition to put out in stores."
"Probably a little late to comment, but seemed like a fun topic.
Anyway, I really don't excel at anything, although I am better than most people in almost every genre."
"Even though there are only a few countries in the EU that has english as a first language, most countries have it as a second language or have good english learning in schools.
I would venture a guess that less than 10% of the inhabitants in Scandinavia can't understand english perfectly fine."
"@Mattz: "I have no need to play BluRay discs when I realised that the limits of the human optic nerve come into play long before the quality of the picture has anything to do with it at such high definition"
This is, in fact, not true.
Firstly, the human optic nerve can utilize up to 20 megapixels, which is about the same quality you'll get with HD."
"I would like to take this opportunity to tell the devs:
Please make ALL your FPSs so that you can change the way to use the analog sticks.
I like them like this:
Left stick: walk forward/back + turn left/right.Right stick: look up/down + strafe left/right.
This setup is known as Legacy on Call of Duty 4 and Radical on Timesplitters.
I never buy an FPS-game that hasn't got this option, and many of my friends neither.
I've posted this message on as many forums I can think of, but there are still games that only let you have the sucky default controller.
It really shouldn't be hard to implement."
as to your post on the discussion about Jack Thompson. Plenty of studies have showed causal relationships between violent video game play and aggressive behavior. Just look to studies by Craig Anderson and Brad Bushman.
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