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Jersey GameStops Break Street for Assassin's Creed II, L4D2

surft — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:11:36 MST

Assassins Creed 2 has been out (leaked) in PAL territories since about Wednesday, and Left for Dead 2 since about Friday (FYI) #gamestop

surft

buddhathing — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:11:19 MST

@Dustin Dong: By little guys I mean the mom and pop stores. Gamestop is doing this so as not to lose sales, but also to force publishers to take punitive action on the independent retailers who broke the street date first and also (coincidentally, I'm sure) compete with Gamestop. And if you think publishers are going to side with independent retailers, then... well, I guess I could most charitably say... I hope you're right. #gamestop

buddhathing

Jersey GameStops Break Street for Assassin's Creed II, L4D2

kingbob337 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:10:36 MST

I mean is it really that big of a deal. It seems kind of dumb that they have to sit on the games till the official release day. Why can't they sell them when they get them in the mail? No one is losing any money. #gamestop

kingbob337

Jersey GameStops Break Street for Assassin's Creed II, L4D2

themadman123 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:10:33 MST

Here's my two cents. I own a small mom and pop game store. MW2 brought in 10X as much revenue the store has ever done in a single game. Why? Because I sold it 1 day early. I could have had it last Thursday. Do you think I could have sold anywhere near as many copies without having it early? No. But I had to sign a piece of paper from the distributors saying I couldn't pick it up until Monday, even though they had it 5 days early. I can't afford to pick up hundreds if not Thousands of copies of one game. Although Gamestop can. The only jump I have on gamestop is that we have all the old gaming systems...literally everything, and we have games early.

How many copies did I sell the actual day of release...about 5.....Because you can pick it up everywhere else. Plus all the crappy exclusive pre-order bonuses that they get too....why would you buy from someone else if you can get more for your money? Other than actually talking to someone who isn't a pimply faced kid at Gamestop who has always thought that the Nintendo 64 was the first video system ever.

If Gamestop now releases games early, What is the point?

Again, I was supposed to have AC2 and L4D2 on Thursday, now I don't get it till Monday morning...Why? Because my distributors are all scared of getting fined and whatnot because all the publishers are cracking down and in turn I pay the price because of Gamestop's crap. #gamestop

themadman123

reecord2 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:10:03 MST

@Fordio: Yes!! The loose controls are my only complaint with the New Super Mario Bros series #newsupermariobroswii

reecord2

Dark_Malice used the zapping gun! pew pew pew — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:09:57 MST

@jbest73: that's the thing....games should move away from that. Developers try so hard into making games as big as movies or books that it results with games turning into movies with occasional audience input.

Asking for a way to turn a soliloquy into a gameplay element is like asking for a way to give music a pictoral meaning.

Don't make gameplay that revolves around a script. Make a script that revolves around gameplay. #development

Dark_Malice used the zapping gun! pew pew pew

Jersey GameStops Break Street for Assassin's Creed II, L4D2

Bouchart — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:09:56 MST

With a GameStop every 100 feet, why does it surprise anyone that one or two here and there go rogue? #gamestop

Bouchart

The Importance of Asking 'Why'

Jean-François L'Her — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:09:43 MST

"hier ist kein warum" - Zombie Nazi, CoD5 #development

Jean-François L'Her

peAr nectAr — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:09:43 MST

@oosiegewolfoo: Got a GameCube?

Mario Power Tennis. Girls go crazy for a tennis-playing Boo. Way cuter than his monkeydog freakbeast. #eyepet

peAr nectAr

Jersey GameStops Break Street for Assassin's Creed II, L4D2

RySenkari — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:09:40 MST

Am I the only one here who doesn't give a rat's ass about street dates? The sooner I can get my hands on a game, the better. If publishers decide to take their ball and go home via online-only distribution, I'll just boycott their greedy selfish companies and that'll be that. #gamestop

RySenkari

Fallible. — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:09:37 MST

Never-mind trying to get to the bottom of a 140 character response that's supposed to fix your problem. E-mail works just fine. (2/2). #activision

Fallible.

Jersey GameStops Break Street for Assassin's Creed II, L4D2

AdamOfDudeMountainFame — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:09:32 MST

STREET DATE LIMIT BREAK!!!
You see, GameStop has to take enough Mom & Pop Damage [M&PDmg] to fill their Street Date Limit meter. Only then can they perform such awesome Techs as the "Jersey Trifecta Pre-Sale [Lv.34]!" #gamestop

AdamOfDudeMountainFame

At Activision Customer Support, Do Unto Others Before They Do Unto You

Fallible. — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:09:26 MST

Twitter customer support is ridiculous. The 140 character limit alone makes it near to impossible to ask any serious question. (1/2). #activision

Fallible.

At Activision Customer Support, Do Unto Others Before They Do Unto You

roglrogl — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:09:13 MST

Pie in face win every time! #activision

roglrogl

kingbob337 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:09:10 MST

@BloodEden: Lol yea. I remember when assassin's creed 1 came out I was selling back my copy theday after it was released while someone was about to buy it. I ended up just selling the guy my copy for 45 bucks, inside the gamestop. #gamestop

kingbob337

EA Boss A Little Bummed With Wii Performance

DrZaius — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:09:03 MST

Try to invest in some actual advertisements for the game... in places casual gamers look... meaning not in video game magazines or video game websites. The last thing casual gamers would ever do is look at anything that has to do with video games. #ea

DrZaius

Stephen Totilo — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:08:58 MST

@Ryan_Long: Thanks very much. #notebookdump

Stephen Totilo

Keepin It Hamsta — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:08:56 MST

@bwwardiii: I'm assuming Simas thinks XBL solely consists of MW2 players. #modernwarfare2

Keepin It Hamsta

EolirinX — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:08:09 MST

@Sobersean: You do realize that it's not one or the other even with respect to the point of there being a "why", right?

Your lowbrow hack and slashes are actually benefited by an creative structure that asks what it means to be a "lowbrow hack and slash". Creating something that better expresses on a visceral, emotional level, what it means to mindlessly gut orcs will result in a better game. It's still art, in that it's about expression of a particular feeling.

Also to answer your question:
"How many of the top movies of all time have been based on comics?" Um, not many. Not a one has managed to place on any critics Top 100 list that I can find, though, perhaps, maybe, The Dark Knight will end up there eventually. And if you're using movie grosses as your metric... 10 out of the top 100, more than half of which are sequels (outside of Spider Man, Batman and X-Men, there is only 300), and 15 or so out of the top 200 (more Batman and X-men related stuff, with the first Fantastic Four movie in there too). So not very many, and not with any real diversity. Comic books have certainly grown a lot since the release of The Watchmen, but they're really not fully "there" yet either. There aren't enough Sandmans and Mauses to provide the necessary diversity. #development

EolirinX

EyePet Review: His Master's Voice

Haruhila — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:08:00 MST

Can you drop a book on the eyepet and smash the little bugger into a bloody pulp? I still hate that thing's creepy face. #eyepet

Haruhila

halfthought — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:07:55 MST

@ryanwilhite:

So I heard the aesthetic quality of pre-alphas were a good judge of visual quality in a game.

y/n? #fallout

halfthought

Jersey GameStops Break Street for Assassin's Creed II, L4D2

henhowc — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:07:47 MST

I call BS. Independent stores my ass. My guess is that they are just trying to lure people in early so that they buy from them instead of any of the other larger retail chains (i.e. their main competition). #gamestop

henhowc

out-phaze — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:07:43 MST

@nipsen: Infrared picks up shapes and depth without having to worry about the lighting conditions of a room.

Watch some infrared motion detection videos on Youtube.com

(mute the audio)

At one point in the video he switches to the window showing off what the infrared camera is picking up, and you can see how accurate it is, and can also see how the ambient lighting in the room doesn't affect it in any way :3 #eyepet

out-phaze

Jersey GameStops Break Street for Assassin's Creed II, L4D2

KiLL3rNZ — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:07:19 MST

I hear they rcently announced their new company motto.

GameStop: The #1 source for early pirated releases #gamestop

KiLL3rNZ

Laute — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:06:42 MST

@Wuth: If I had a star, I'd promote your comment.

Definition is always the best grounds for starting an argument. If more people did it, the signal to noise ratio of things like "What do we mean by art?" would be eliminated entirely.

I truly wish more people would read this first. #development

Laute