Recent content by timboo_drow

I don't think Sterling would begrudge you that, just don't expect him to respect your choice. My belief is that I will buy a product if and when it is available and worth my money and not a second sooner. If companies are taking money and not providing the product then they get the extra...

Maybe someone at GDC needs to do a seminar on a real issue in the industry, the corporate tactic of convincing gamers to buy your stuff by using backhanded insults and bullying tactics. The implied message from Orth, Spencer, Mattrick and the ilk is that if we don't like what the XB1 is trying...

Let's not forget about the sheer variety PS4 showed as well. I keep hearing that people were more impressed with XB1's lineup but let's have a closer look shall we. 1.) A stealth game (sequel) 2.) A swordy slashy quicktime event game (God of War) 3.) A zombie game (if you put all the...

Necessity has everything to do with it. Steam is an ONLINE gamestore. In order to use it, you have to be online. What MS is trying to convince us is that ALL gaming has to reside online. Even when I purchase items on Steam I don't have to check in every time I want to play. I'm ok if a...

And I'm saying that tying any benefits arbitrarily to mandatory online will NEVER be received well because it's unnecessary and savvy consumers know that. Any attempt to convince us otherwise amounts to artful BS.

Agreed. One of the principles in setting price is supposed to be considering what the market can bear. The proliferation of affordable alternatives suggests that game companies are charging more than the market can bear and should re-evaluate the pricing model, not try to cut-out the part of...

For example; technically my iTunes library is "always online", attached to the cloud. But when I take my non-3G iPad on the road, my music, games, apps, and videos all still work if they are on my iPad's internal storage. Now I like the idea of not having to rely on my iPad's paltry 16GB of...

How so? All he's done is encourage MS to be more persuasive with their BS. I don't care how you dress up the "mandatory" online thing, it'll always be a thing that exists to benefit publishers. Always online can be called a "feature" only when it is OPTIONAL.

Sony and MS playing off each other is only going to benefit one group of people. The consumer. Yeah, I'm okay with that. It's called competition. You watch what your competitor does, and then you try to steal his customers by offering something better. Granted an entire business model...

I can't stand this guy. Everything out of his mouth is self-serving douchebaggery. Why don't you think used games are good? CliffyB: Because it takes money away from me. If the costs of making games is too high, reduce costs, don't try and take away a part of the games industry that...

How about this golden nugget of wisdom from Don Mattrick "I think the critical thing that people should get their head around is your social and gaming identity, and the content that is associated with your identity, and where your identity roams your content roams with you. It's how you...

"The reaction, I think, is complete when the product is on the shelf and it has a price and it has a content library and consumers vote," Spencer added, "and that's the date I'm looking forward to." So first it was "don't react to Adam Orth's statement, let's wait and judge it at the reveal"...

This discussion is now moot. Sony listened and stuck it to MS good by actually COMPETING WITH THEM.

I suppose Martin Luther King should have stopped supporting racism so much and gone on to be a farmer instead.

I've heard this argument a lot. "Don't get upset, just don't give them any money". This is all well and good, and exactly what I plan on doing, however, the problem is, as Yahtzee pointed out, MS and probably Sony, are ending up holding a great deal of our hobby hostage. If you want to take...