Money grows on trees? You DO realize the state that the economy is in right now, right?
They made more money and probably thrilled their investors and shareholders. They also caught a ton of negative PR for the stunt. Did they lose sales as a result? Maybe. Did they lose some customer loyalty? Without a doubt.
It was probably the right business choice, but it was also a pretty big D-Bag move that didn't win them any love from gamers. And like someone said earlier, t...
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Yes it was a supply and demand call.
But when you operate in an industry where the price of commodity are more or less fixed, charging more just because you have a product that's more popular just pisses people off.
Will it make you money short term? Yes. Does it hurt customer loyalty? Definitely.
But I'm sure you know that since you were so quick to act like a pretentious know it all.
I think BioWare gave up one Baldur's Gate since Atari now owns the rights to Dungeons and Dragons.
Which is BS, I know. Minsc and Boo....I miss thee. :(
I disagree.
Final Fantasy X is still the BEST in the franchise.
Best story, best gameplay and best music.
The biggest difference is that journalists don't directly impact you.
If Activision jacks up the price of Modern Warfare 2, that pisses you off. If someone posts a crappy article, that might be mildly annoying, but it's really not that big of a deal.
I'll take bad articles any day over being raped in the butt by big corporations.
Sooooo...pretty much everything Activision, Sony and Microsoft have been doing for years now?
I can't believe what I'm reading.
Rebellion hasn't made a good game in YEARS. What in the world made anyone think that this one would be any different?
Decent idea for an article, but PLEASE, hire a freaking editor. Good ideas are being ruined by poor writing.
Worth mentioning I suppose that the article is written humorously. It's not designed to say "OMGWTF THIS GUY WAS CLEARLY INSPIRED BY THIS GUY" but to show how the different heroic (or villain) archetypes have resonated throughout history.
What got me was the Jak and Yuna one though. Those similarities are pretty glaring.
Terribly incomplete list. Also, five pages, seriously? You could've easily fit everything on two.
Someone actually wrote this huge paper that compares Crono to Jesus. Pretty crazy stuff.
Hahaha. Funny read. Where's JUDAS though? Surely there's enough video game Judas' out there.
But it's on the PSP now too!!!
I really, really, really wish they had hired a better writer. This game would be so much better if the story was better.
I'm playing it now and enjoying it. Story does suck though.
The problem with that argument is that it makes the insinuation that Bayonetta actually had characters or a story for them to interact in. There wasn't.
And the gang rape? That was thrown in there for cheap laughs.
Oh look, there's Don Coreno. He's a rapist. HAHAHAHA.
Also, it's pretty obvious that the article is a joke article and not the rambling of a prudish puritan. It's the Internet. Not everything is meant to be taken seriously.
Admittedly, I did awake from my violence induced coma every time Bayonetta started licking lollipops and/or getting naked for some inexplicable reason.
I actually remember when IW used to be one of the good guys years ago. What happened to them?