Nothing new under the sun for anybody in the gaming industry.
Zynga: Cloning games since it's easier than cloning humans.
It's a commenter opinion dude, nothing to do with Crecente...
Nice. I would use a logarithmic scale just to screw them off more.
"I think it's over, and Zynga won."
You really need to have Zynga shares to say that kind of things. Recent reports are indicating a decline in Zynga profits with their new customers (-150$ each) and they aren't at the top spot anymore. IMO, EA is in the best position to take the crown from Zynga's head when they will exhaust their remaining fanbase. With their franchise (Sims/EA Sports/Hasbro deal) and studios (Popcaps/BlueFish) they have everything to defeat Zynga that is stuck with some very popular games, but struggling to create brands (MafiaWars 2) and only using the same formula.
Someone didn't read the article .... AT ALL!!!!
Star Wars the Old Republic.
Wasn't very interested about it at first, and heard a lot of bad comments about it. Then I tried the Beta with some friends. It really hook me up and THAT was a surprise.
Wasn't very interested about it at first, and heard a lot of bad comments about it. Then I tried the Beta with some friends. It really hook me up and THAT was a surprise.
As long as they keep it optional I'm totally fine with that. For the hardcore fans, it gives them the possibilities to play earlier and it's "hassle-free" (you always have all the DLCs and stuff). For the others that are just playing the "base" game, they aren't forced to pay for the premium part and it's alright. I don't know how this will go on the long run, it might be a wise move or maybe people will feel that they don't get much for their money.
Let see when they release the next COD (~9 months) how it turned out. IMO it's an interesting experiment.
This is the problem with Anonymous. Everybody claims to be Anon.
But in the end, everybody will end up crucified. As other has mentioned, each time "Anon" does stupid things like that, they are fueling those working against the freedom of the Internet.
But in the end, everybody will end up crucified. As other has mentioned, each time "Anon" does stupid things like that, they are fueling those working against the freedom of the Internet.
That is so AWESOME. OMG! tx for the tip #tips
Patch 1.1 for SWTOR today and first "major" shitstorm created on the PvP planet Ilum.
The video speaks for itself :)
No official words right now from Bioware, but expect something about it soon enough.
Forums are red hot right now (classic).
The video speaks for itself :)
No official words right now from Bioware, but expect something about it soon enough.
Forums are red hot right now (classic).
Also for the record, Martin Tremblay was the chief executive of Ubisoft Montreal studio back in 2000 until 2006. He was very influencial in the video game business in Montreal and Quebec. Without him, the industry wouldn't be what it is right now in those cities.
Welcome Dave!
On another note, this is the first time I go to RipTen and I like it. I read your hands-on Skyrim and found it great. Gonna add this site to my gaming-rotation website list :P
On another note, this is the first time I go to RipTen and I like it. I read your hands-on Skyrim and found it great. Gonna add this site to my gaming-rotation website list :P
Would be great if we could "unfeed" trolls.
In fact, giving the power to starred commenter to unfeed some comments could fix the visibility issue. IMO
In fact, giving the power to starred commenter to unfeed some comments could fix the visibility issue. IMO
Yeah! That was a great way to bring back good conversations on the front page. I agree with you!
All I say is that the PC is a small market compared to consoles that is a secure one. It is mainly shifting right now, thanks to digital distribution, but you have to remember that those big publishers (and mostly Ubisoft since it is his main business) are publishers. They are "dinosaurs" like the music industry that is still trying to sell CDs instead of going totally digital. Their business isn't about the media, it's about the medium. They sell hard box copies of games, they want to hit those mythical 10M sales so they can stamp it on the box and sell 10M more. They are changing but this is a slow and painful change for them since they have to restructure everything and still being profitable.
But right now, they don't care about those 500k sales on PCs, these are peanuts. They are going for the big bucks.
Let's take your example about Deus Ex. Eidos Montreal did the console version and the "upgraded" PC version was made by a 3rd party(Nixxes). If we look at the sales using the site VGChatz ([www.vgchartz.com]) they summarize the first week as:
Deus Ex: Human Revolution (X360) debuted at number one with sales of 348,000. The PlayStation 3 version debuted at number three with sales of 229,000 and the PC version at number five with sales of 81,000.
We are talking about a good game that had a fantastic launch on PC (Skyrim, B3 and MW3 do fall in this category for 2011 IMO) and even there, it only has 25% of 360 sales, 14% of all consoles sales. They put a lot of effort (read money) on the PC version and in the end, it doesn't "worth" it.
I agree that using piracy is a cheap excuse. However, if I look carefully at your country demographic, I don't even think that it is a market that the gaming industry is trying to conquer with all due respect. When they talk about piracy and how it hurts them, they mainly talk about potential consumers, not families with 500$/month revenues.
On a more personal note, I see in your other comment that you plan to work in the gaming business. The first thing that you have to remember is that it is a business. The day it will struck you, you might see your dreams fade and become a deluded developer (I saw a lot of them) or understand the game and deal with it (you may already be aware of it btw). It's hard, it's painful, but it's also a very challenging domain with full of surprises. I can't that it is not fun, but be prepared to be shocked by the business :)
(almost everyone's got a PC capable of gaming right?)
Well "maybe", but they might not buy their PC FOR gaming. The console market is mostly (like 90%) gamers that want to play games. If we take the PS3/360 numbers, we are near 100M. For PC, you have Billions of users but only a fraction use their PC for "hardcore" gaming (lets put Farmville in another category). The most successful digital distributor on the web is Steam and it just got 5M players at the same time. Their is more PC players than 5M and I agree that PC gaming is a bit snobbed by industry leaders right now, but the market isn't there. You have a game that will sell 3M copies on PC and only 100k on PC, why waste money on a small market.
Also, releasing your game on PC and consoles at the same time can hurt your consoles sales since some people will only pirate the PC version (since pirating PC games is easier than pirating consoles games).
Figurines look like Four Swords Adventures one... Iteresting...
Well in fact, Interplay kinda blew it up themselves. By not respecting the conditions they had to devellop the title. Still a sad day :(
However, it's better than nothing. But yeah it would be great if it was more "complete"
