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What do you mean? In the screens we can see the character avatars at all times.
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Well, there are always the outliers like FF13, where the initial demand was super high, but then a flood of used copies got brought back because for a lot of people it was a total let down.
http://www.siliconera.com/2012/03/27/class-of-heroes-2-picked-up-by-monkeypaw-needs-500000-for-deluxe-physical-release/
Now, basically what's going on here is that the game will be localized regardless, but the Kickstarter is primarily to gauge interest in a Working Designs style deluxe physical bundle with all sorts of collectible macguffins, and a UMD copy of the game. No digital copy will come with this.
I just want to say that discounting the Mega Millions dude and his hypothetical MMO, this is probably the first of these copycat Kickstarter campaigns that really rubs me the wrong way. At every level it just feels amateurish.
Here is the Kickstarter page in question
RainbowDespair wrote up a pretty good article on the many failures of this project,
http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RobertBoyd/20120328/167405/A_Kickstarter_Without_a_Cause__Class_of_Heroes_2.php
Well, in their financial reports they say, time and time again, that used is gigantic business for them, and I serioudly doubt they'd be willing to sell used games at $5 off if it wasn't making any money for them. Surely they would have knocked the price down a bit if it wasn't the case. Besides, even with used games, newer games get more volume than the catalog games... that's why they have more of the new ones.
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They could work to create something like Netflix online videos, but I doubt companies would be willing to do that with their games.
Nah, just the usual "industry insider" rumors that could be accurate, could be accurate to the extent that the companies are playing with crazy prototypes that will never see the light of day, or could be full of shit.
If something were actually announced on that front I'm betting this forum would explode.
I know pretty much every person who walks up gets asked, 'WANT THIS USED INSTEAD? ITS CHEAPER AND HAS INSURANCE UNLIKE THESE NEW ONES.' Well, except me, because I know the guys and I'd tell em to go fuck themselves.
I know that at my local gamestop, newer games got a single shipment and havent got a single one since, because they have used copies so who needs new ones?
Anecdotal, of course, but I somehow doubt these practices are super rare, and saying such practices wouldn't effect sales at all seems hopeful at best. I mean we all know gamestop changed their new and used stickers to look identical, sometimes mix them together on the same shelves (Even company memos stating this as a new practice.) and most probably not correcting people at all. (I highly doubt the cashier is going to go, 'Oh, did you want the new one instead?')
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Still though, just how many of those returned copies sold because people simply didn't hear anything about the game and said to themselves that saving $5-over-new was a wise investment of a game with large amounts of used copies available?
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Ohh, probably more than you might think. This is 100% anecdotal of course, but when I walk in to GameStop, rarely do see what I would call "educated gamers", e.g. what most of us on these forums are. It's kids with their parents, it's brodudes picking up the next halo, it's a guy with his girlfriend looking for "that cat game". There is a huge section of the gaming public that a) doesn't read reviews and b) thinks saving $5 bucks is totally worth it, because they don't know and don't care about the machine they are feeding.
Yeah, where will we get a game with horribly mutated tits now?
In video games?
Probably never!
D:
By that I mean I prefer seeing tiny dudes on-screen fighting directly with the monsters. DQ/Wizardry-style has never been my preference.
I write news there. It is fun.
Personally, I think a lot of the 'short tail' effect comes from everyone who values a given title at <$60 just vanishing into this data aggregation.
To be fair, the male characters are also horrible mutants.
And you know there's preview vids of the game too.
Oh, for sure. But generally you don't see stuff that unabashedly looks like it belongs on a fetish site.
I think it's time to cleanse our eyes with a new thread.
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/157942/video-game-industry-thread-yet-more-crazy-ass-rumors-about-the-next-gen
Don't ask me how I know that.
It looked like a pretty zany beat 'em up with some neat online co-op mechanics, but it seems odd that Amazon would de-list the game just like that.
I mean, last I heard the project had hit some snags and would take a bit more time, but could this mean that it's canceled altogether? It could be as simple as Amazon jumping the gun for all I know, this is some funky shit.
Also that skeleton looks really happy.
I'll admit to having come across that comic...and what's worse is that it's like 8 months old.
Skullgiiiiiiirrrrrls!
But seriously, Skullgirls looks to be of higher quality than the travesty that is MvC3.
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