jack dee

What's Wrong with the Gaming Industry?

bad titles at $59.99 is killing the biz, it is directly driving consumers away from all but the best of breed.

Everyone is sick of shelling out $40 to $60 bucks only to find the game is a complete POS. So why risk it, just get a sub and rent a years supply of games for the price of a couple/few games.

Or Use steam for you PC games.....

Electronic Arts: Battlefield Heroes Business Model Is Brilliant

well said, now where did I put that backburner.


On Aug 23 01:57 AM SafisKusai wrote:

> I see a bunch of problems with this. First of all I see this game
> as a huge ripoff of Valve's Team Fortress 2. And then secondly Valve
> through their Steam Powered distribution system revolutionized the
> online distribution system with anti piracy and anti hack/cheat software
> about 5 years ago. Steam Powered has hundreds of titles with most
> of the major game Distributors for EA to try and set up their own
> system that most likely won't compare seems silly. Steam has been
> doing this for years and they have been very successful.
>
> The fact that this game looks almost exactly like TF2 I think will
> be a major turnoff to people. And the whole buying items in game
> thing looks like it is a lot like the play for free game Combat Arms
> by Nexon where you can buy the games currency to buy special weapons
> and clothing. When you are new at this sort of thing your games become
> riddled with hackers and cheats (which was the major downfall to
> Combat Arms). You say that people will be playing this for a long
> time and that may be true for real die hards but there is always
> the next big fps with better graphics, gameplay, and story and those
> are what make the game companies money.
>
> At least EA is trying to get something to work.
>
> As a disclosure I am long ATVI.

Electronic Arts on Mobile Phones

And if Net apps add NOK or Rimm to those figures it would look completely different, but hey live in a dream.

Net apps like to make the news, they pub silly numbers based on tweaked stats, it does not seem to matter that the information is rubbish, it makes blog headlines.