The Death of Gaming - Page 37

**Slime Slayer** · 03-26-2014, 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Seahawk

That's quite an exaggeration. I take it you've never ordered a special edition of anything ever.

I can understand some people wanting a bunch of merchandise, I might do it for a game like DQ. Get some super sweet slimes to place around the house or whatever. But in this case, you are not even getting the game. It's retarded, no other industry has a retarded enough fanbase for this to be an acceptable practice. It's selling a bunch of cheap crap, under the guise of being a pre-order bonus.

Regardless of whether you guys think this is a super sweet deal or not, this is most definitely an example of why consoles are becoming less a less a viable option for more and more studios.

**DrunkN** · 03-26-2014, 07:38 PM

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Originally Posted by stevencassidy13

>buying merchandise is retarded if the game isn't included

**CrispyChicken** · 03-26-2014, 07:39 PM

**Dudebro** · 03-26-2014, 08:48 PM

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Originally Posted by stevencassidy13

Regardless of whether you guys think this is a super sweet deal or not, this is most definitely an example of why consoles are becoming less a less a viable option for more and more studios.

How do you come to that conclusion? To me this is just another collectors item for uber fans with money to burn. If someone is fooled by it they deserve to waste their money for not reading the clear warning.

**Slime Slayer** · 03-26-2014, 10:28 PM

Well can we at least all agree they should stop throwing around the word "edition"?

**KATZ** · 03-27-2014, 07:42 AM

"edition" is also overused on cars

**Kugyince** · 03-27-2014, 09:01 AM

Well to be honest, it's Bethesda. You're probably better off buying the collector's stuff now and waiting a year for the actual game to be 25% less buggy.

**DrunkN** · 03-27-2014, 09:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Kugyince

Well to be honest, it's Bethesda. You're probably better off buying the collector's stuff now and waiting a year for the actual game to be 25% less buggy.

Bethesda published.

**Kugyince** · 05-28-2014, 05:52 PM

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Index Corporation's chairman Masami Ochiai (54) and his wife, the president of the company, Yoshimi Ochiai (48) were arrested on suspicions of financial statement fraud.

[ame=http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=826510]President of Index (former Atlus owner) arrested - NeoGAF[/ame]

**Seahawk** · 05-29-2014, 03:45 AM

This was inevitable after it was known that Index was cooking the books and shifting assets in shell corporations for a while. At least the Atlus brand got away from the company in time.

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Nintendo officially does the Dew. Free product placement DLC in Mario Kart.

**Dudebro** · 05-29-2014, 08:00 AM

That's pretty shameful for a company like Nintendo. People think of them as different, now they're just Japanese Microsoft. This marketing also seems a bit desperate.

**OmegaShadow** · 05-29-2014, 07:19 PM

Those pics..... give me homicidal urges.

**Slime Slayer** · 05-29-2014, 07:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Dudebro

That's pretty shameful for a company like Nintendo. People think of them as different, now they're just Japanese Microsoft. This marketing also seems a bit desperate.

This is nothing new from them, remember the late 80's early 90's. They were over the top with this stuff. Although I don't recall them ever including anything in game...

**Seahawk** · 06-29-2014, 03:17 PM

Good news: Selling your unfinished game at retail at full price is now officially a thing! Bonus points if you Kickstarted your game in the first place!

Developer Comments On Kickstarted Planetary Annihilation Being Sold At Retail As Early Access Title - GameInformer.com

**DrunkN** · 06-29-2014, 05:31 PM

So long as the game has free updates like it says I don't see the harm.

**Dudebro** · 06-29-2014, 08:20 PM

It's definitely a worrying trend to get started on but from what I hear that game is nearly completed anyways so it's not like it's in alpha or even beta, it should be stable and playable. If they did it with something like Starbound I'd be against it because that's early access but has whole sections that are incomplete.

**Kugyince** · 07-30-2014, 10:25 PM

Looks Like You Can Only Install 300 Games And Apps On Your 3DS - 3DS eShop News @ Nintendo Life

**Dudebro** · 07-30-2014, 10:28 PM

I don't get why they'd have a limit. They want you to buy less of their product?

**Kugyince** · 07-30-2014, 11:13 PM

Most likely processing restraints to loading all those icons at once.

**CrispyChicken** · 07-31-2014, 12:49 AM

Wait 300 apps? I have like less than 30 total apps on my 3DS...

**Slime Slayer** · 07-31-2014, 01:28 AM

Yeah I won't be getting anywhere near 3 hundo.

**Seahawk** · 07-31-2014, 05:07 PM

Report: Japan’s Console Game Market Down 15.7% In 2013, Mobile Games Bigger

RIP Japan

**Kugyince** · 07-31-2014, 06:19 PM

Report:

Errything DOOMED! 178% of gamers now play only on Trac Phones. Consoles? Ded. Portables? Ded. PC? Ded. 100% of market now demands F2P smartphone shovelware. Steve Jobbs' rotting corpse dug up and reanimated to meet increasing demand. Consumers demand that all downloaded F2P games now come with a shiny plastic box so "they feel like they own it." All analysts agree; the video game industry is now perfect. Zynga CEO Don Mattrick now elected King of Earth.

TIME TO GAME ON!

**Dudebro** · 07-31-2014, 06:21 PM

Hey my free tracphone games aren't that bad!

**DrunkN** · 07-31-2014, 10:57 PM

Smartphone games get a bad rap.