Beyond The Red Line, Guitar Hero 2 Whores, Download Content And Game Extension, Games For Windows Live and more!
What happens to otherwise reasonable people when a new plastic guitar, nerd points and a chance to spend more money are presented? Things get crazy-go-nuts! We also delve into download content and what it does for a game's success over the long run and what's coming in the future. Also, Microsoft doesn't seem to know what's going on with Games For Windows Live!
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My Comments: Ale and Whores Edition
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Rockband
Vocalization will probably run similar to that Karaoke Revolution game.
GH Tactics
I'm a stander, myself. I even get a little bounce in my stance on Killing in the Name. My kids are still laughing at me.
Beyond the Red Line
Don't you have a system that could launch the space shuttle?
And whoever it was who got to play everything
You suck. Seriously. I got to play some DS while cooking dinner tonight and that's been it.
Ugh on the 12-year-olds.
Downloadable Doohickies
My son has the horse armor. He did extra chores to earn it, too. If you provide something that is a reasonable price, people will buy. If you don't have much content in it, then no price is reasonable. Which I guess equates to free.
Shivering Isles plus The Knights of the Nine was just two points cards. It really wasn't a problem.
Maybe if you all had to do extra chores to get your purchases you'd have better online self control.
Mythos
Have any of you played Maplestory? Believe me, it's viable. They've got over 50 million players online world-wide. It's not like there isn't a farkin' shop in every village in the town in Diablo. And it works the same way here. And yes there is a way to earn things. It's been there and done that and is making more money than I care to think about for Nexon.
Games for Windows
Peter Moore has his head up his arse? wow. News.
Brussists!
Great line.
Contest
Dude, I'm workin' on it. Sheesh.
Maybe this issue is best debated amongst the people who need to get off my lawn. - JoeBedurndurn
Steam: Momgamer
AMD 2500+
1 gig of ram
9800 pro
As far as comps go my system is on the low end of the spectrum these days. Hopefully not for long.
"Can I have a job? I donut have much experiences, butt I always use an spellchecker spellchecker on my articles." - Sway
Using Prayer To Microevolve Latent Antibiotic Resistance In Bacteria since 2005!
Spoiler Fanatic!
So now that the pricing for the Guitar Hero II DLC is out, how are you feeling about it?
$6.25 for three songs released on the PS2. $2.08 per song that they've already played on the PS2. Yeah, they'll buy it. I would say it's well within the upper range of what seemed to be acceptable as a per song cost. Personally, I think it's pushing it a fair bit, but I know most hardcore players will get plenty of use out of a song they like.
I just had a thought. The fricking leaderboard is going to push people to buy every song released, more songs = more points! Devious.
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” ― Howard Thurman
About BSG - If my memory isn't completely fooling me right now, I got the analogue throttle working on my sidewinder joystick somehow.. It's gotta be somewhere in the options (not on my pc right now or else I'd look it up)
It was working, but not perfectly though.. I think the game had a problem when I wanted to match speed
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I was expecting $2.95/song so this is fine with me.
The thing about smart people is they seem like crazy people to dumb people -- Thing I saw on the Internet
Good god! No kidding!
I would have preferred a bit more bulking up -- 10 songs for 12 bucks or something ...
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Fixed.
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” ― Howard Thurman
you're a bad bad man.
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It seems to be pretty much 2 bucks a song which is around where I thought they were going to be in fact almost 50 cents lower. While I would like to see the price even lower than that it isn't horrible.
"Can I have a job? I donut have much experiences, butt I always use an spellchecker spellchecker on my articles." - Sway
Using Prayer To Microevolve Latent Antibiotic Resistance In Bacteria since 2005!
Spoiler Fanatic!
It seems to me that Microsoft is turning the XBox 360 into a cellular economy. Cell phone companies have 3 consumer-unfriendly practices that I can't stand: #1) closed systems #2) traps to prevent customers from leaving, and #3) pricing based on the maximum amount customers are willing to pay without causing them to set the country on fire.
I hate #3 the most. It's not that I don't understand the basics of business and profit, I dislike the attitude to automatically push anything and everything to its limits. Will customers pay $1 per song? Then charge $1.50. Will they pay $2? Then charge $3. On and on. What this creates is a creeping, lingering distrust between a business and its customers.
"Once you can accept the universe is matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy." -- Albert Einstein
Am I still the only one that chuckles when Certis does the sponsor slogan?
Backloggery | Origin: VrikkGWJ
"There's no constitutional amendment that says a golden retreiver CAN'T be Speaker of the House! 'AIR BUD 6: HOUSE BROKEN'" - TheHarpoMarxist
RE: Freespace/BSG, it's my understanding that most throttles can be configured to recognize certain positions that can be mapped to specific keys, which can then be mapped to the % speed bindings. So you can get your throttle working, it'll just make 10% jumps.
I bet Tony chuckles... all the way to the bank!
NOTE: Not a doodle bug.
Try mapping the A and Z keys to the throttle to get it to work in BtRL.
I wish you guys would stop encouraging him.
EvilHomer3k wrote:You are an evil, evil person.
Baron Of Hell wrote:YOU VILLAIN!
I totally sing along to the songs as I play. Possum Kingdom is one of those songs I pretty much can't stop myself from singing when I hear it on the radio, let alone when i'm playing along.
I alternate between sitting and standing, but mostly because it's too small for me to hold comfortably in my lap. (Fat Bottomed Girls reference?) I've only played through Jessica, though.
Words... are a big deal.
Jill Lapore wrote:Editing is one of the great inventions of civilization.
When I tried this in Battlefield it made it so pushing the throttle forward was like pushing A, and pulling it back was like pushing Z. In other words, if I stopped moving the throttle it would go neutral. Not terribly useful.
NOTE: Not a doodle bug.
But it does work that way in FS2. Battlefield has a throttle axis you can map, if I remember right.
I wish you guys would stop encouraging him.
EvilHomer3k wrote:You are an evil, evil person.
Baron Of Hell wrote:YOU VILLAIN!
Rabbit have you ever tracked your game purchases? In my case, I'm glad I did. I stopped estimating what I was spending and reigned it in when I was overspending.
I'm not sure if you were including game hardware in your $1000/year estimate, but even if you weren't, I'd guess you're well over that figure. Especially with your "Ooh shiny" complex.
In fact, you should probably just send some more money to gametap, they're probably saving you money.
Xbox Live/PSN: Scaphism
Compared to my best box, that would launch the space shuttle. But I see what you mean.
Maybe this issue is best debated amongst the people who need to get off my lawn. - JoeBedurndurn
Steam: Momgamer
I think MS should let developers/publishers decide how they want to price their extra content over Live. Of course MS is the publisher for Gears too.
LIke Epic said giving away content helps sell the original game and provides incentive for gamers to keep the game and not trade it in. IT also builds up goodwill and strengthens brand names. MS will benefit from this as well as Epic in the form of less used games out there and more new copies sold.
LIve isn't proof that a good microtransaction system is key to charging for content. IT's proof that a monopoly over the distribution system for content means you'll be able to force the nickel & diming for extra said content.
Wow, they release song packs for 500 points and people go nuts. There is already an online petition concerning the pricing.
Oh procrastination. Just like masturbation, it feels great until you realize you just f*cked yourself. - Grenn
Oh you baited me real good, Grenn. Now you owe me a cuddle. - NathanialG
Ouch man, where's the love? I game so you don't have to! Or something.
Seriously, I know for a fact exactly how much money I spend on video games themselves TO THE PENNY because every penny of it ends up on my taxes. Without hardware, $1,000 year isn't too far off, unless you add boardgaming and travel into it (Gencon costs me twice that all by its lonesome).
Hardware's iffy. From mid 2005 to mid 2006 I did OK. Then I bought a 360 and upgraded my PC. Oi.
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Much love Rabbit, much love.
I just called you out on it since you were the only one brave enough to bring it up during the Conference Call. And you do keep mentioning how quickly you move from one game to the next.
Hardware can be a real killer, it tends to be expensive and comes in bursts. I think travel has to get its own category - it might get tagged as "game-related" but its a separate expense.
Xbox Live/PSN: Scaphism
Oh hey! Total tangent, but that twigged my brain: Been thinking of picking up Hive but not sure it's worth the $30. Have you played it?
The man directly responsible for early termination fee's and yearly contracts for cell phones sits in the office next to mine... you want me to punch him for you?
Aint nothing new about the world order..it's been playing since the day they put George Washington on a quarter
Delivering Truth while the 10% deliver lies.
Slice his nuts off and kill his cat.
Hive's pretty cool, I've played it a few times with a friend who has it. If you are in a situation that you need 2 player games it would be well worth it, but if that only occurs 1-2 times a year then I'd probably say no. There is lots of replay value in it, which is real nice.
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they fly by." -- Douglas Adams
I've been itching to buy a new board game lately and it's a three way tie between Hive, Robo Rally, and Ticket to Ride. Hive, being the cheapest of the 3 certainly makes my wallet happier but Robo Rally is so much fun!
Certis regarding that mission. I don't know if you've beat it yet or not, but having 3 harvesters off the bat makes a huge difference. Build up a large force of infantry and take over the city... You are garissoning the buildings before trying to move the construction yard in right? Use those features!
892 condescending Certis quotes out of a possible infinity - Elysium scores Torchlight lower than expected.
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Xfire/Xbox Live: StylezXP
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