Colette Bennett of Destructoid writes: Rule one of Internet anonymity: you can be a dick. Anytime, anywhere, and there are no consequences. This rule has somehow managed to drip over to Xbox LIVE, where you can be called any colorful racial or sexual slur with hardly a thought. It seems fans of the F-bomb will soon have their cereal peed in, however, I couldn't be happier to hear the news.
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A look into the sad trajectory of indie games from high successful releases to complete irrelevancy in just a few weeks or months.
That's the thing with gaming there's always new experiences to have why spend months or years playing a single game when there's a new experience right around the corner.
Indie or AAA if your building your game expecting long term player counts you'll probably be disappointed as gamers often enjoy something for a few weeks and move on only to return if it's truely a classic.
Out of all the generations I've experienced there's games from 30 plus years ago I still dust off and play like super Mario bros, earthbound, vice city and san Andreas being games I treasure and revisit every few years but I'm not going back to play a game designed to keep me engaged for months on end because it's also designed to milk my wallet in most cases.
Build a great game that people love make it playable offline and ask does it matter if the concurrent player count is under 100 a year post launch more often that not it doesn't
The price of entry is too high to take chances like I used to. Was looking at V Rising and that ranges from $50-$130 CAD. That’s a lot for an indie imo. By the time it goes on sale, the player count might be dwindling. But that’s the trade-off, I guess.
GL: "Staff writer Shaz reflects on his small library of physical games he's kept throughout the decades, and how a recent move made him nostalgic."
I lost my drive for collecting physical games due to many discs lacking the whole complete game. Instead, of collecting games I started collected figurines.
I am a collector have a room dedicated with a couple original arcade cabinets, physical game library, old and new consoles and controllers backlit with LED lighting. It’s very cool to have but with emulation being so strong and prevalent, I sometimes feel foolish because the hobby is expensive and like another said, the full game is not always on the disc. Could probably spend more wisely but I enjoy it.
Most games are usually on disc still. Of course you got you publishers that are hit and miss, Activision, ubisoft, ea, Microsoft, where the rest of the game needs downloaded.
No more stupid racist remarks from those little kids on Live will be gone? Great!
Im sure mute is a better option than this crap. This is censorship. I hate being censored!
I'm just glad, there's too many 13 yr olds getting away with it. Little kids have NO discipline these days, because of their dumba$$ parents that raised them that way. There should be an age limit on XBL as well as on this site. *cough* yoshida, snipa, lilliflop multiple account idiot. We all know these are kids, because they have no sense in their posts it's just all jumbled BS. If I was their parents I woulda sent them to a mental institution and throw away the key.
i highly doubt this will be implememnted over xbox live, just because microsoft developed a pieces of software doesn't mean it is going to the xbox
this is probably more for live streams online being broadcast on family friendly sites
but if it does get implemented on xbox or xbox live i'm going to guess that it will be an option which the user could turn on or off such as family settings or something
it is unfortunate that the little kids on live think they are cool by spouting profanity ad racist remarks but that is what you get when these kids are unsupervised and find entertainment by rick rolling on gamefaqs or making ytmnd page or reading /b/
you can't really stop it and in time as the use socom headset spreads psn will be meeting the same fate with obnoxious little kids or immature adults, i expect a high influx of them at christmas