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More or less. I mean I work at one, and pretty much never trade anything in.
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How do you not get this
They're not gonna give you some amazing price on games that sell for low amounts
I bought Etrian Odyssey used from GS for $15, of course $6 is a good price for it
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Remnants? Uh, Free Radical still exists. They're Crytek UK. And they didn't sell TimeSplitters. They're actually rumoured to be developing the sequel.
I have mixed feelings over the entire thing. On the one hand, throughout this Silicon Knights have come across as incredibly whiney and self-centred.
On the other, the idea that no matter how much developers modify UE3, it's still going to be considered UE3 and they're still going to have to pay Epic licensing fees, is ridiculous to me. How many modern games still have bits and pieces of code that go back to some of id's earlier engines? Source Engine still has bits of id Tech 2 (Quake 2 engine) in it. The Call of Duty Engine (IW Engine) is basically id Tech 3 (Quake 3 engine). And I'm sure there are plenty of other similar examples we don't know of.
Plus, you know, Epic are kinda dickish and UE3 sucks.
Really? You think they're going to unveil a Dragon Quest in the US of all places? Good luck with that. I'd say there's about a 5% chance of that happening and even then, that 5% relies entirely on them having a DQX press event in Japan at least a week before E3. Otherwise, that number drops down to 0%, cause it ain't gonna happen.
Can't say I'm remotely surprised. DCU Online was in development for what, 5 or 6 years? And The Agency was looking like it'd be similar? If anything, I've no clue why they've been laying off people from Sony Liverpool of all places, when SOE were there sucking up money.
I mean, I feel for the people losing their jobs but really, SOE has been a mess for the longest time and has desperately needed to be cleaned up. I've no idea why they haven't gone even further than this actually. As far as I'm aware, even though they answer to SCEA, SOE still basically exists as a seperate publisher, with their own management, marketing department, publishing arm (they've published a number of PSN titles) and what not. It's all very dumb and backwards, I don't know why they can't be completely integrated into SCEA.
I've read all your posts relating to this and honestly, you've managed to come across even worse than him. You continually say he's dumb for even daring to insult Nintendo games but then talk shit about him because his games are "just something you play when you're taking a dump" and not 'awesome games'. Guess what, everything's subjective, including acceptable prices. Just because you're happy to spend $40 on an 'awesome' DS game like Imagine Babyz doesn't mean everyone else is. opinions opinions olol
No no no, don't you get it? If he did actually die it'd be so funny.
I think someone used a "one hit wonder" analogy awhile back? You can make millions upon millions with that kind of stuff, but generally the press hates you after your 15 minutes is up unless you make it very obvious that you are aware you got lucky. Can't think of any off the top of my head, but there are plenty of one-off musicians that took the money and had great lives with it. Then there are people like MC Hammer who just don't know what to do with it. I think he's being painted as the latter right now by some people.
Of course, if he comes out with another "smash hit" nobody can call him a one-off anymore and the whole argument becomes moot, since then he can at least claim he knows what he's doing rather than getting super lucky.
Christopher Walken Takes Lead Role in GTA V
Thats obviously bullshit, but now whenever we find out who actually that takes the lead role there will only be disappointment that it wasn't really Christopher Walken.
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What a bunch of whiners.
http://kotaku.com/#!5788207/super-meat-boy-creators-went-through-hell-to-get-their-game-done-felt-taken-advantage-of-by-microsoft
Or I can eBay is and probably get $30 (not that I'd sell Etrian Odyssey).
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I mean, that's getting caught being shitty, and not being able to do a damn thing about it, right there. One guy did it more than a few times (he also bought used games, so he wasn't just some weirdo, regular customer) and the manager just told him he was banned from the premesis on suspicion of shoplifting. Which, since we hadn't had any shoplifting incidents in like months, everyone knew to be total bullshit.
Even better is when someone brings in something they don't carry. I got a pristine SNES and about fifteen games (mainly RPGs and sports titles) for FIVE DOLLARS.
All you need to do is quickly whisper to the guy that you'll meet him outside in a few minutes.
Needless to say, reading that thread with the benefit of hindsight was good for a laugh.
You're muckin' with a G!
Wow, just wow. I liked Comic Jumper too, but this is people blatantly shitting on something for being 2-d. Call of Duty generation hard at work.
I pronounce it bee-log.
Well he asked for an example of a rare game that would be worth more.
I can't blame Gamestop for the whole supply/demand thing. If you want to blame anyone, blame the people who trade in their games at Gamestop instead of getting more money for them elsewhere. If less people traded in games then they would have to up the price they pay.
It is really dumb of them to be complaining about Microsoft and Nintendo. Unless they don't want to make games anymore. It is one thing do to do that when you are a large developer but at their size you don't set bridges on fire.
I was going to talk about the medical thing but everything I can think to say is way too political.
Call of Duty generation?
That 2D vs 3D shit has been going on since PS1...
Afterlife made over 300 million worldwide don't forget.
Part of the visual charm of the game was that it was initially a Wiiware product before they took the devil's deal.
If they hated all this shit so much, why not just release on the PC? All they did was put up with it for the money, and honestly if they did, you don't really deserve to complain about it.
The guy offering to buy it for ten bucks is presumingly not trying to then turn around and sell it for profit, though.
EB is not going to pay you a lot of money for a used game when the entire reason they buy them is to resell them. Of course you're going to get more if you cut out the middleman.
The delta between buy and sell prices is pretty huge at Gamestop but that has a lot to do with what they are actually selling--convenience and immediate gratification. People who can defer gratification will always be able to make a better deal.
Way back when I worked at Gamestop, I did that to a customer for Fable for Xbox.
"Look, you'll only get $10 from us. I'll give you $15 for it." Knowing that we sold it for $20. Win-win for both of us.
The trick is to do it when manager's aren't around. Got a number of games at decent prices that way.
I write news there. It is fun.
Basically this. They willingly made concessions and sacrifices in an attempt to appeal to a larger market and to satisfy a publisher. It's not Twisted Pixel's fault, MS' fault, or any other companies fault that people compared to two games and they should have anticipated some of these issues before hand.
With that said, despite their experience, they had a wonderful reception, have a good following, and good sales.
So... what are they complaining about? That they weren't served from a silver platter?
That didn't seem like complaining so much as just explaining how development has some hard times.
Edit- Also I doubt they could release the game on PC only after signing a contract with MS.
I don't think the visuals would have been any different without the WiiWare part. The visuals are basically the same as the flash version that originated the concept.
Because they were going to get a great deal on XBLA, until Microsoft decided they wouldn't.
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I want to know how that customer responded to that BS accusation.
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To be fair you should be able to kick people using your infrastructure to make their own deals. It's like card counting in Vegas. It ain't illegal but they can give you the boot. That doesn't excuse the bogus allegation of shoplifting which to me sounds like slander.
I agree with this. It's their store, and if a person is there costing them business, they can definitely kick that person out. They definitely shouldn't do so with false allegations though.
I hear knocking over video game racks is suppose to be the standard approach to all EB shenanigans.
There's never anything good on the racks
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Except a rational human being would say to a regular customer that does also bring money into the store (as the poster said), hey, please don't do that or we'll have to ask you to leave. Not immediately ban the customer and make up lies about them.
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