yeah, delaying the launch in some countries suggests that this may be a production issue. obviously MS are going to want to ship as many units as possible to the countries/regions where they expect to sell the most. so its possible that they've redirected some unit, either because they want more units in stronger regions or because they simply can't produce enough units to warrant launching in all those countries simultaneously.
That is apparently the case if you believe cboat (and who isn't on #TeamCBOAT at this point?), and according to him it's a bigger problem than we even realize.
Yeah, the NCAA decision is all about the impending lawyer train that's coming their way with all the complaints of profiting off of player's likeness. Hell, the NFLPA is now telling players get to waivers signed when they get tattoos so that when they appear in ads/games, their tattoo artists don't try to claim... royalty rights, I guess.
That is apparently the case if you believe cboat (and who isn't on #TeamCBOAT at this point?)
I'm not. My kingdom for a leaker with a decent grasp of the English language...
He's already said he has to post that way to get around work filters. Plus it makes it mysterious and fun!
Dude has been dead-on about so much shit it's scary, his single random posts contain more pertinent info about the industry than a month of "stories" from JoyStiq/Kotaku/Polygon/every other game site
That is apparently the case if you believe cboat (and who isn't on #TeamCBOAT at this point?)
I'm not. My kingdom for a leaker with a decent grasp of the English language...
He's already said he has to post that way to get around work filters. Plus it makes it mysterious and fun!
Dude has been dead-on about so much shit it's scary, his single random posts contain more pertinent info about the industry than a month of "stories" from JoyStiq/Kotaku/Polygon/every other game site
People will always doubt CBOAT, and they'll almost always be wrong. He's wonderful.
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edited August 2013
The core of the issue with that bundle being that some of the games/game content is Origin only.
And as someone who was locked out of Origin for months (at the beginning of this summer) because they couldn't get their damn password system functioning properly and has never had a smooth experience with buying stuff through Origin, yeah, I can pretty much confirm that Origin is total ass.
Still, that bundle is totally worth it for at least 3 of the 5 games with Steam versions, and the other 2 I just don't know about. Totally worthwile purchase, even if you skip everything shackled to Origin.
I don't understand, what are we holy shitting about? Aren't a bunch of those games 3 to 5 years old?
Its not like games have an expiration date or anything, a good game is still a good game and that is a pretty solid lineup (I bet the Sims 3 Starter Pack alone was rather expensive when it first released).
I just recently replayed Super Mario Bros 3 and A Link to the Past and they are still fuckawesome despite being older than 3 to 5 years old. Imagine that!
Dead Space 3 came out this year. The others are of varying ages, but having a game that was new as of February that can basically be bought for a $1 is nothing to sneeze at.
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Mego Thor"I say thee...NAY!"Registered Userregular
Unrelated to the article, but the headline made me think, "If Microsoft wants to bring real innovation to the XBox One, let me play Steam games on it."
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Warlock82Never pet a burning dogRegistered Userregular
Unrelated to the article, but the headline made me think, "If Microsoft wants to bring real innovation to the XBox One, let me play Steam games on it."
Is it really innovation is Sony already did it? :P (albeit I think only for Portal 2)
So what's the latest kinda pointless perk being offered for the Xbone?
Buy a season pass for a game on the 360, get a season pass for the same game on the Xbone for free! Whee! Now all you need to do is buy the same game twice.
So I'd avoided Origin for a number of reasons, poor use of a beloved company name, I don't really trust EA to have a client on my machine etc. Still, I wanted Mirror's Edge and if they were doing nerfarious shit, I assume it would have come out by now. I mean, more than the usual nefarious shit. I ponied up some cash and hey, it's all going to the Cancer society, so there's a win. Sure enough they changed my ancient EA store account into an Origin account so I just had to download the client. (You didn't think all those Origin accounts they trumpeted about were new signups eager to use EA's Steam knockoff, right?) Well, I get it installed annnnnnd - 'Code redemption isn't working' is the first message Origin gives me.
On the upside, I've activated and downloaded Mirror's Edge already - the Origin client still has some spinning wheel thing going on.
Unrelated to the article, but the headline made me think, "If Microsoft wants to bring real innovation to the XBox One, let me play Steam games on it."
Is it really innovation is Sony already did it? :P (albeit I think only for Portal 2)
I wonder if we would have gotten more of that if not for the big hack that messed up PSN right around the Portal 2 launch.
So I'd avoided Origin for a number of reasons, poor use of a beloved company name, I don't really trust EA to have a client on my machine etc. Still, I wanted Mirror's Edge and if they were doing nerfarious shit, I assume it would have come out by now. I mean, more than the usual nefarious shit. I ponied up some cash and hey, it's all going to the Cancer society, so there's a win. Sure enough they changed my ancient EA store account into an Origin account so I just had to download the client. (You didn't think all those Origin accounts they trumpeted about were new signups eager to use EA's Steam knockoff, right?) Well, I get it installed annnnnnd - 'Code redemption isn't working' is the first message Origin gives me.
On the upside, I've activated and downloaded Mirror's Edge already - the Origin client still has some spinning wheel thing going on.
Mirror's Edge came with a Steam key. you didn't need to use Origin.
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Warlock82Never pet a burning dogRegistered Userregular
Unrelated to the article, but the headline made me think, "If Microsoft wants to bring real innovation to the XBox One, let me play Steam games on it."
Is it really innovation is Sony already did it? :P (albeit I think only for Portal 2)
I wonder if we would have gotten more of that if not for the big hack that messed up PSN right around the Portal 2 launch.
Also wasn't it a complete mess too? I don't remember exactly, but I remember a lot of really pissed off PS3 Portal 2 owners who couldn't download their game or something for like a week.
So I'd avoided Origin for a number of reasons, poor use of a beloved company name, I don't really trust EA to have a client on my machine etc. Still, I wanted Mirror's Edge and if they were doing nerfarious shit, I assume it would have come out by now. I mean, more than the usual nefarious shit. I ponied up some cash and hey, it's all going to the Cancer society, so there's a win. Sure enough they changed my ancient EA store account into an Origin account so I just had to download the client. (You didn't think all those Origin accounts they trumpeted about were new signups eager to use EA's Steam knockoff, right?) Well, I get it installed annnnnnd - 'Code redemption isn't working' is the first message Origin gives me.
On the upside, I've activated and downloaded Mirror's Edge already - the Origin client still has some spinning wheel thing going on.
Mirror's Edge came with a Steam key. you didn't need to use Origin.
Yep, that's why I got that one - I activated whatever I could on Steam and it worked fine. No luck on BF3, DS3 and Sims 3 so far, Origin is still crapped out.
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That is apparently the case if you believe cboat (and who isn't on #TeamCBOAT at this point?), and according to him it's a bigger problem than we even realize.
I'm not. My kingdom for a leaker with a decent grasp of the English language...
holy shit
PSN/Steam/NNID: SyphonBlue | BNet: SyphonBlue#1126
He's already said he has to post that way to get around work filters. Plus it makes it mysterious and fun!
Dude has been dead-on about so much shit it's scary, his single random posts contain more pertinent info about the industry than a month of "stories" from JoyStiq/Kotaku/Polygon/every other game site
whoops I was late with that one!
Seems like there is an easier solution to get around work filters :P Unless he lives at work and/or does not own a computer with internet access.
I suspect he's also aware of software that analyzes writing patterns to determine authorship...
Or, you know, find the guys with this level of knowledge that have neogaf on their browser history :P And possibly 4chan :P
Dude is the video game industry equivalent of Deep Throat, it's awesome.
He's probably Don Mattrick.
I'm so torn about this, the biggest games I want on there are origin only which makes me sad...
Also good on EA for giving their whole portion to the charities
At a tech company on the West Coast that makes video games? They'd have to fire half their workforce.
(Please do not gift. My game bank is already full.)
People will always doubt CBOAT, and they'll almost always be wrong. He's wonderful.
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I don't understand, what are we holy shitting about? Aren't a bunch of those games 3 to 5 years old?
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But it's still only $5 for the lot
Plus, Dead Space 3 is still pretty new, I bet TONS of people were waiting on a bigger price drop on that guy.
Well, Western games, I guess. Still no guarantees when it comes to Japanese ones. (Xenoblade, Atlus)
And as someone who was locked out of Origin for months (at the beginning of this summer) because they couldn't get their damn password system functioning properly and has never had a smooth experience with buying stuff through Origin, yeah, I can pretty much confirm that Origin is total ass.
Still, that bundle is totally worth it for at least 3 of the 5 games with Steam versions, and the other 2 I just don't know about. Totally worthwile purchase, even if you skip everything shackled to Origin.
On one hand awesome deal for charity. On the other hand... Origin...
So conflicted.
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Psst... most of the games have Steam keys.
Well that certainly helps.
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Its not like games have an expiration date or anything, a good game is still a good game and that is a pretty solid lineup (I bet the Sims 3 Starter Pack alone was rather expensive when it first released).
I just recently replayed Super Mario Bros 3 and A Link to the Past and they are still fuckawesome despite being older than 3 to 5 years old. Imagine that!
Unrelated to the article, but the headline made me think, "If Microsoft wants to bring real innovation to the XBox One, let me play Steam games on it."
Is it really innovation is Sony already did it? :P (albeit I think only for Portal 2)
But only if you have an active Gold subscription.
Buy a season pass for a game on the 360, get a season pass for the same game on the Xbone for free! Whee! Now all you need to do is buy the same game twice.
http://majornelson.com/2013/08/14/introducing-season-pass-guarantee-buy-a-season-pass-on-xbox-360-get-a-season-pass-for-the-same-game-on-xbox-one-free/
So I'd avoided Origin for a number of reasons, poor use of a beloved company name, I don't really trust EA to have a client on my machine etc. Still, I wanted Mirror's Edge and if they were doing nerfarious shit, I assume it would have come out by now. I mean, more than the usual nefarious shit. I ponied up some cash and hey, it's all going to the Cancer society, so there's a win. Sure enough they changed my ancient EA store account into an Origin account so I just had to download the client. (You didn't think all those Origin accounts they trumpeted about were new signups eager to use EA's Steam knockoff, right?) Well, I get it installed annnnnnd - 'Code redemption isn't working' is the first message Origin gives me.
On the upside, I've activated and downloaded Mirror's Edge already - the Origin client still has some spinning wheel thing going on.
Mirror's Edge came with a Steam key. you didn't need to use Origin.
Also wasn't it a complete mess too? I don't remember exactly, but I remember a lot of really pissed off PS3 Portal 2 owners who couldn't download their game or something for like a week.
Yep, that's why I got that one - I activated whatever I could on Steam and it worked fine. No luck on BF3, DS3 and Sims 3 so far, Origin is still crapped out.