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10/13/09
10/13/09
I made the decision a while ago to no longer financially support Card because of his beliefs, and I wish more people would too.
Here's an example:
http://www.nauvoo.com/library/card-hypocrites.html
(The irony of Card- whose writings have always been laced with slightly homoerotic imagery, calling homosexuals hypocrites..)
and here's an article about Card:
http://www.afterelton.com/people/2008/7/orsonscottcard
I'm just saying, yo.
10/13/09
10/13/09
Well, I purchased and played through the entire game and I can gladly report that not a single homosexual was bashed throughout the entirety of the experience.
Awesome game.
10/13/09
I also couldn't disagree with you more. You don't change someone's mind by boycotting their projects and insulting them. You don't make someone see your point of view by ostricizing them. It's completely counter-productive.
10/13/09
I can understand boycotts in reaction to poor policies and business decisions. I've done them before.
I can't figure out boycotts on someone's personal opinion, or strong arming companies who happen to sponsor someone with a different opinion.
What happened to "I may not agree with you, but I'll defend your right to say it?"
10/13/09
What's your favorite AAA video game? Once you answer that, find out how many people helped make it. It's going to be somewhere around 50-200 people, maybe even more. I'll bet you anything at least one of those people is homophobic, racist, or an outright neo-nazi. Congratulations, your favorite game funds those people. You should probably stop playing video games.
Just buy the game to support the developers and to play a game that you already said you would enjoy. When you try to be all high and mighty about "not financially backing someone who is homophobic" you're buying into media hype. If nobody told you the game's plot was loosely based on a Card plot, you'd have bought it, yes? What if I told you Card lost money every time someone bought the game? Would you buy it twice?
Critical thinking. Try it sometime.
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I love it.
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10/13/09
ALSO, I think part of the treasure hunting aspect of the game was lackluster because of the way the map marked locations of hidden items with a question mark. It made it a simple matter of flashing the light around all over the question mark room until you found the "hidden" panel or whatever.
Fine for $15 I guess.
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Life is unfair.
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At first I named the bad guy Bowser but my older brother informed me that that might not be the most original idea for a villain. So I named him ICON, after those super high-tech computers with the trackballs that were out at the time.
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hohoho
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09/15/09
What I can say is it never affected me because I only ever see my friends scores next to mine. There is no multiplayer so I am not seeing it in real time, and therefore don't care if it isn't getting enforced/fixed.
If it is a SOFTWARE issue, then Microsoft should be wiping the gamerscores of all the Chair employees, and any testers who worked on the game.
09/16/09
and no, neither chair employees nor their QA department should be punished for this, but the people that use it. just because an exploit made it into the final build doesn't mean it's ok to abuse it.
09/16/09
09/17/09
@JahB: I still stand by the idea that any "exploit" found by a gamer is the responsibility of the developer. Wiping their scores, obviously a joke, but as a developer you should be aware of what you are giving away in a demo, and for a game like this a time limit may have been a good idea.
I personally bought the game at release, and don't condone sequence breaking the demo as a means to not buy the game.
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I'm all for seeing things pop up on the screen acknowledging certain deeds that actually have merit but tying them to an arbitrary number with no real reward is just silly.
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It's a single player game. Who cares if they cheat. They bought the gameand should be able to do what they want with it.
How does it hurt anyone?
09/15/09
Ruins the leaderboards. If they wanted to cheat it, they should have left it offline. Simple as that.
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People like that should get banned.
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09/16/09
Or how about those people who finished the game in 00 hours 00 minutes and 00 seconds?