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fireb0x
08/27/09

In reply to Peggle Nights Gets An Extra Ball On Xbox Live Arcade
As much as I love this game, I hate that the computer always conveniently pulls a bucket bonus out of its ass. It's like every shot the computer takes is a Zen shot.
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searanox
08/27/09

In reply to Peggle Nights Gets An Extra Ball On Xbox Live Arcade
I actually don't think Nights is as good as the original Peggle. The new stages are frustratingly difficult, due to their relatively poor design and lack of real potential for good combos etc. The chances of you getting a good shot due to your skill in setting it up are pretty small.

Also fishy that this is DLC. Peggle is tiny, with all versions at about 25 MB, so size can't be blamed. My guess is they want to force you to buy the original to get this one as well. I wonder if it comes with the bonus spring and winter levels added on the PC version.
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BubbleF**kingBuddy
08/27/09

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Peggle Nights Gets An Extra Ball On Xbox Live Arcade

FINALLY! A game I can relate to!
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tehdorkz
07/20/09

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Please don't roll your eyes probably should have been first, it was a natural reaction as soon as I read Family Games..
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Hungry_Ghost
07/20/09

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That makes plants vs zombies 5 bucks right?
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DrunkAus
07/20/09

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Doesn't Steam already have a genre called 'Casual'? *checks* Yep they do, now why would Peggle and Plants vs Zombies be in the Family section when there is a perfectly good Casual section there?

Just checked the family section again and they both have basically the same games, why bother really?
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ReconToaster misses garnett :(
07/20/09

@DrunkAus:

I think the created the section so that they could be a bit more broad with the titles they put in it. Spore is sort of a casual game... but 'family game' is a more fair way of describing it.
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PositivelyGreg
07/20/09

@DrunkAus: They're a store, and labeling shelves. More people will find the product they want if a shelf is labeled "Family". Especially nowadays, where the term "casual", in gaming, often means "cheap crap, and occasionally Peggle".
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BubbleF**kingBuddy
07/20/09

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Is this where the casual games like Peggle and Team Fortress 2 will end up?

(As I thought of this joke, I wondered: would anyone really get mad at this? Then I remembered: internet. So now I have to add this addendum that ruins the joke, all because a few of you [you know who you are] take offense to the word "casual".)
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Đipic
07/20/09

@BubbleF**kingBuddy: I dun get it.
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ThisCharmingMan
07/08/09

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How hard would it have been to make a mac version? :(
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ZaxxonQ.com
07/08/09

In reply to Peggle Gives Away World of Warcraft-Themed Game
Fuck yeah! Peggle Forever!!! ^_^
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Brian Crecente
07/08/09

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Tech problem. There is a story there, promise.
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stranger
06/16/09

In reply to $1 Peggle "Hacked" The iPhone Store
Said it a thousand times: Games are too expensive for consumers. You want the audience to expand? Drop the price of entry.

Screw waggle controls and pony simulators and plastic peripherals. Make gaming affordable to the masses by lowering the price of games at retail, and gaming will become a mass market industry.

A very select group of enthusiast gamers drive a disproportionate amount of videogame sales. Those of us who can afford to invest the time and money into playing more than new one game a month shouldn't be the one's dictating the content of the marketplace, but we are.

Publishers continually try to cater to the relatively small demographic of hardcore gamers with heaps of same-looking content (hence the proliferation of FPS games on consoles over the last few years), while marginalizing their brand identity to the mass audience.

They create an artificial wall around their products because people who aren't already informed about their product have no idea whether or not the box in their hand at Best Buy is worth the $60 asking price, and nobody to help them make an educated decision.

If said game was at a $30-40 MSRP, people would be much more likely to take a chance in buying it. As things stand now, gamers have to wait 3-6 months for a game to drop in price, and by that time the marketing support has totally dried up and the casual consumer won't even remember the titles' name by the time it becomes worth the price of entry.

That's why I don't buy games anymore. It's too expensive for me to sate my appetite for games so I go Gamefly. I'd rather be buying games and supporting the developers I love, but the truth of the matter is that most game's aren't worth the price of admission, and I can only really afford to buy 5-6 games a year in this economy.

Hopefully publishers will figure this out. I think PopCap just undermined their own business model by revealing the intent behind this pricing experiment.

Wanna make a bunch of money off of your game? Price it in such a way as to make the consumer feel stupid for not buying it. Maybe not $1 per se, but something...
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Perfectnumpty; Doesn't have a clue
06/16/09

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Non-English peoples may not understand.

Gman looks an awful lot like James from the Apprentice.
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markhilol
06/16/09

@Perfectnumpty: OH GOD, he's bloody right!
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Megamoppy
06/16/09

@markhilol: Love the *bloody* makes you seem just that bit more british (Im not knocking im english aswell :P)
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bobtheduck in Korea
06/16/09

@Megamoppy: I'm American and I say bloody all the time. I only say it because no one in the States is really offended by it like they may be other things I say. I also say "Ay yai yai" and "Oy vey" and "Hoy!" and a few other things not exactly native to my nationality...

Then there are words I've made up. The greeting "Boliki" and its more polite variant "Boliki ta pasuke" but, seriously, I'm on the internet, no one is that polite on the internet.
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f0cus
06/16/09

In reply to $1 Peggle "Hacked" The iPhone Store
So basically they sell more if they make it cheaper.

Wow. Who'da thought?

Make things cheaper if you want more sales!!!!!
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Paradox me
06/16/09

@f0cus: But not really for the right reason. Sale increments here can be attributed to both the lower price and getting the game in the public's eye. There's not telling how well it would have sold originally if the game was in the spotlight from the get go.
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SleepingLesson
06/16/09

In reply to $1 Peggle "Hacked" The iPhone Store
Huh. Well how 'bout that. Will Apple take notice, though?
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BritBloke916
06/16/09

@SleepingLesson: Apple had already been talking about adding a "premium content" section containing only the larger high-quality works from the bigger development studios, which may help.
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Tom-Servo
06/16/09

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Ohhh 1 dolla make you holla
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BubbleF**kingBuddy
06/16/09

@Tom-Servo: HOLLA HOLLA POP COLLA GET DOLLA.
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