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ggrobot
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 Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 9:31 pm Post subject: In gaming,everything is amazing,but no one is happy [31587] |
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The chaps over at ArsTechnica have posted an interesting article called \'In gaming, everything is amazing, but no one is happy\'. Here\'s a taster:
lessly of ourselves what it all means. to be an elf... strategically. We are sitting around a Dungeons and Dragons table and complaining about people who read Twili
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Source: GGMania headlines
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Koogle
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| Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Shut the fuck up Arsetech! |
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Last time I was so satisfied and amazed at a single player PC game was the Homeworld series. I went in with zero expectations and ended up playing 24/7 all weekend till I had to go to work the next Monday in the morning. The closest game to come near that experience was Sins of a Solar Empire. Shooters have been bleh and even then the last one I played at any length of time MP wise was FEAR (first one mind you). I don't count MMO's as an amazing experience for the PC.
I'm literally bored with it all. ARS is just generalizing things here. Consoles provide little challenge for me and I find myself wanting the older NES SNES Genesis titles when I do take time to play them. |
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Koogle
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I never got into Homeworld at all, pretty much just didn't like it.. yet years later I totally got into Sins of Solar Empire, infact I wish they'd hurry up and do a proper sequel.
| Quote: | | ARS is just generalizing things here. |
generalizing... is an understatement for a lot of what they do.
Arseholetech and most the obnoxious little scum fucks in most of their social degenerate articles sidelining the real issues while cherry picking the things they want to manipulate readers on, not dissimilar from many of these high profile media sites and collectivist out of order legal brainwashed retards.
| Quote: | | We will not buy Battlefield 3 unless it comes out on Steam, even though Steam is an indefensible form of DRM that allows you to rent games and not buy them. The fact a company is forcing us to put our name into this box instead of that box is the worst thing that could be possibly happen, so of course we will boycott, and we will complain, and we will pirate. In two years, if we don't log in to our games, they may disappear. |
I don't have a problem with a competitive service.. infact I think most people are stupid too buy all their games from just one like steam.. you've got to be completely naive to think owning a library of DRM games on one account is good thinking. My problem with EA and origins competing service is the EULA legal agreement bullshit, give those corporate fucks an inch and they'll be wanting more.. its ok though, to those like ARS why should you mind or let that bother you... yeh that works on *gullible dumb fucks of society* who aren't seeing the imbalance of what they are creating by allowing shit like this to go on. Clearly not paying attention and to easily bribed into accepting it.
| Quote: | | In two years, if we don't log in to our games, they may disappear. |
No nothing wrong in that ARS.. damn stupid people they don't log into the games they bought I mean rented, they don't play on the servers and the company running the severs isn't getting enough money to keep them up, a choice they make out of total greed and control in the first place, otherwise they'd do it it differently and things like server client would be released for anyone to run it. Nope shutting down servers and taking away game is totally ok.. it doesn't matter the majority will buy their new crap and it will only effect a minority. |
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Csimbi
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| Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 5:46 am Post subject: |
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ArseTechica made an attempt, thank you.
Unfortunately you have no clue. |
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deus ex is a "avoid or kill enemies in an half-empty room, hack the door, rinse and repeat" game, nothing spectacular about it, I got bored of it after an hour or so.
I don't really care about the rest of the stuff they wrote about. Most games I played I pirated, 90% of them weren't even worth the ratio on download, let alone 50$. |
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ggn
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Yes, another attempt at shoving that so called "gaming culture" down our throats. That's what happens when you do something you don't like just for the money (i.e. play games, something that is our hobby).
IOW, get stuffed crank journalists - I'll be happy or unhappy without you telling me so  |
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These so-called "gaming journalists" are making the common assumption that people who read about videogames and comment about videogames on forums are somehow representative of the population of gamers as a whole. That is not a valid assumption.
Those sorts, (of which I am one) represent only a tiny fraction of gamers. I have a many friends, acquaintances and co-workers who play videogames. When I mention something about a game that I saw on a forum discussion, they just look at me blankly. Most people who game have neither the time nor the interest for reading about the game industry. They just want to play the games. CEOs of publishing houses understand this fact. Gaming journalists, by and large, do not. |
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Csimbi
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| Apathy Curve wrote: | These so-called "gaming journalists" are making the common assumption that people who read about videogames and comment about videogames on forums are somehow representative of the population of gamers as a whole. That is not a valid assumption.
Those sorts, (of which I am one) represent only a tiny fraction of gamers. I have a many friends, acquaintances and co-workers who play videogames. When I mention something about a game that I saw on a forum discussion, they just look at me blankly. Most people who game have neither the time nor the interest for reading about the game industry. They just want to play the games. CEOs of publishing houses understand this fact. Gaming journalists, by and large, do not. |
Good summary, I second that.
I'd like to add that quite a lot of people don't even waste time commenting on the games they did not like - so the negative feedback is kinda missing. |
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