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08/04/09
But my favorite song to play during a game of Wipeout is "Corneria" (see above).
If anyone else has any cool songs they listen to during WOHD, I'd love to hear them.
08/04/09
But there's one song in particular that i listen to when i want to get psyched is called "Dogfight" by m.o.v.e ^_^
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Well done Sony, you discouraged me from buying the expansion early. If your going to trap someone, do it after they buy the expansion not before hand.
08/03/09
And without question that obnoxious ad extends load time by several seconds. And what the hell gamer is thinking of insurance that they even thought it was somehow appropriate?
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@gordiehowe5:
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Yes... yes... it's slower. I hope that will make you accept me now :(
08/03/09
Seriously, you went and got second jobs to sit through this and you can't even stomach a little load time. Seems pretty disingenuous to me >_>
08/04/09
Its sad when consumers submit to companies' wills...
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It's like watching streaming videos with ads every 7mins, annoying to sit through but yet not long enough to do anything else.
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Especially when it EXTENDS the load time of a game that someone has paid for. That's no update, that's a downgrade and it also infringes on the integrity of the gameplay experience by not making sense in the context of the game and by extending load times.
I would almost say that it ruins the work that the development team did to ensure load times that are very short. If I were the dev team, I'd be rather upset about this.
08/03/09
Yay! Sony is learning from the masters: Microsoft and the Xbox!
I haven't been this excited since I last replayed Darkened Skye!
[en.wikipedia.org]
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Really? You never seen a dynamic billboard in a 360 game?
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Good Job! :)
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08/04/09
Billboards don't need to be loaded with ads. They are a great opportunity for artists and designers to design lookalikes and add a dash of humor. I know its a chance for companies to make more money, but I don't care about their stock prices. I care about the game I am playing.
Do you not care that people are using you to make money, and aren't giving you anything in return? I'm not a cow, I don't appreciate being milked like one.
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It is a shame that the game is ruined by these crappy ads because it really is a fun game. It was "advertaising" for the numerous fake brands in the game that would actually complement the wipeout experience.
But insurance commercials from a crappy insurance company, the only thing I can think of that would be worse would be those creepy palm pre commercials. Which I wouldn't be surprised if those were next.
08/03/09
This is not an update, this is a downgrade. They are adding NEGATIVE features to the game, after the fact, when the users are powerless to resist or attain any sort of recompense. This is like contract fraud, if your phone company suddenly said "by the way, you now need to see an ad before every phone call you make" that's a material change of service, you can dump/sue their asses and vote with your wallet. Not an option here, all I can do is never play the game again...except they already have my money and it only hurts myself.
I can say I'll never buy a wipeout game again, but I'm sure they don't care, they already have my money. And the ads aren't THAT bad, what worries me is that it's a horrible precedent to set. Aside from patch bugs, I can't think of another example where a developer INTENTIONALLY damaged the user experience for a blatant profit grab. What's next? I can't play multiiplayer unless I install spyware? Way to alienate your captive audience, guys.
08/03/09
In-game advertising boils the blood second to none, and shamelessly an outfit we have never heard of before disrespectfully forces their way in, wielding State Farm garbage, and does so with a straight faced used car salesman press release shtick?
This level of advertising would be understandable if the price of the download was $0.00, but all in total a price of $30 was paid in order to secure an ad free gaming experience that was fine without such an unnecessary intrusion.
Double Fusion has done nothing but brashly urinate on one of the standout games on the PS3, while trumpeting to the PS3 community that we should consider ourselves lucky for the unwelcome opportunity.
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...if ANY game wants to stream video commercials to me, it had better either be free, or pay me for the wasted bandwidth. Actually no, it wastes time too, so it had better just be free. Considering I've already paid for WoHD, if this starts affecting me, I'm gonna be pissed... as it stands, I refused the last update because I wanted to play instead of watching a download status bar at the time...
08/03/09
But seriously, this sucks. Do the customers get any benefits from this or do they just pocket the money? If they're going to be advertising, they should be providing free expansions...
But whatever, don't own it. Just think this is a pretty lame move if the customers don't see any of this money generated.
(If I'm uninformed, please enlighten me. I'm only going by what I read in the article)
08/03/09
As for seeing free expansions, they have give some free updates in the past adding rankings and statistics tracking to the game for online play and statistics for offline play as well. Also the fact that the game is only $20 ($15 during the former discount) and seriously has more content than some $60 dollar retail games should count for something?
The advertising is slightly annoying, but remember, if you don't succumb to the advertising you are succeeding in doing the opposite of what they want you to do. :)
08/03/09
Eeeeh, those updates wouldn't warrant this advertising. It's really intrusive. They say it fits the look of Wipeout, but from what I've seen it really doesn't.
And why should someone who bought the game be forced to watch advertisements when they weren't warned beforehand? (ie. the people who bought it before now) I don't play (or pay for) games to watch advertisements. If I paid for something, I shouldn't have to be subjected to such things. Just because the game was $20 and had some good content, doesn't mean its right. Shouldn't a game have good content without strings attached? And besides, aren't all the tracks just HD versions of previous tracks?
Well, I won't be succumbing to their advertising, because I won't be buying the game now. :P
08/03/09
At least its not the "what's in your wallet" commercials. That would make me go Dexter on the Liverpool studio.
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