I do find it interesting in the comments the only company anyone mentions is gamestop. Am I the only person that never sells my games to gamestop? I use ebay or craigslist. We all know GS rips ppl off. I've always got fair prices on Ebay.
Xbox One Family Plan was apparantly not what we were thinking at all.
http://www.heyuguysgaming.com/news/12507/heartbroken-xbox-one-employee-lets-rip-must-read
I read this earlier today but wasn't sure if it was BS or not and didn't bother posting. It seems that it probably is pretty legit as CBOAT (guy that posted a bunch of leaked info on the X1 and ended up being right) confirmed that was how it was. Obviously have to take with a grain of salt, but we will probably never hear that it is true from MS if it is I imagine.
If it is true....
Xbox One Family Plan was apparantly not what we were thinking at all.
http://www.heyuguysgaming.com/news/12507/heartbroken-xbox-one-employee-lets-rip-must-read
I read this earlier today but wasn't sure if it was BS or not and didn't bother posting. It seems that it probably is pretty legit as CBOAT (guy that posted a bunch of leaked info on the X1 and ended up being right) confirmed that was how it was. Obviously have to take with a grain of salt, but we will probably never hear that it is true from MS if it is I imagine.
If it is true....
Call me old fashioned, or a PC gamer at heart, or whatever, but none of that sounded that great to me.
Freakin kids want all the bullshit, social media posting high scores, dancing around in your underwear yelling at your tv, showing your friends what games you have. But us adults are the ones with the money actually buying stuff with regularity, carrying this industry if you will. I'm glad the suits sacked up and realized that somewhat.
You give a kid a game, he'll play that for months, generating zero dollars. I buy five games a month on a whim.
Guess I'm a spoiled son of a bitch who doesn't want change. Give me better graphics and cool games and that's all I need to keep pumping dollars into your company.
Xbox One Family Plan was apparantly not what we were thinking at all.
http://www.heyuguysgaming.com/news/12507/heartbroken-xbox-one-employee-lets-rip-must-read
another indepth opinion/look about ki.
LOL! Family sharing was just a timed demo.
"When your family member accesses any of your games, theyre placed into a special demo mode. This demo mode in most cases would be the full game with a 15-45 minute timer and in some cases an hour. This allowed the person to play the game, get familiar with it then make a purchase if they wanted to. When the time limit was up they would automatically be prompted to the Marketplace so that they may order it if liked the game."
The new KI, from Double Helix, the same people who made Battleship, http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/battleship
The new KI, from Double Helix, the same people who made Battleship, http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/battleship
LOL! Family sharing was just a timed demo.
"When your family member accesses any of your games, theyre placed into a special demo mode. This demo mode in most cases would be the full game with a 15-45 minute timer and in some cases an hour. This allowed the person to play the game, get familiar with it then make a purchase if they wanted to. When the time limit was up they would automatically be prompted to the Marketplace so that they may order it if liked the game."
And the guys who made Earthworm Jim 1 & 2, so I don't care.
Plus, they have actual fighting game community members helping it along.
he is absolutely 100% clueless about the game if he's trying to make the comparison. well either clueless or just trolling.
How is that bad? Its basically like giving soemone you all family even ont he other side of the world a demo of the game which would be better than an actual demo.. where is the problem with this, its an awesome idea?
Your actual family who is physically able to access your xbox could play the full game. So its the same as now execpt you can't give friends or family a 45 min blat on a game they are curious about from their own homes.
How is that bad? Its basically like giving soemone you all family even ont he other side of the world a demo of the game which would be better than an actual demo.. where is the problem with this, its an awesome idea?
Your actual family who is physically able to access your xbox could play the full game. So its the same as now execpt you can't give friends or family a 45 min blat on a game they are curious about from their own homes.
The problem stems from people assuming it is just as simple as unchecking a box and that it doesn't have some deeper integration. We don't know the actual extent of the system, and never will really. People were getting upset because Joe was put on blast for not knowing anything about it, and then they announced they were removing it a few days later. And they assume it was so easy. They could have to recode the entire OS for all we know. That is a bit extreme, and highly unlikely, but with 5 months until release, removing it isn't a big deal whether it is hard or not.
The real question is how will this impact developers now. Before, you could assume the console was going to be online and possibly have features only available online as integral parts of the game. With that completely gone, it is unlikely people will "use the cloud" as often and for things of import.
It's simply because ^^ is in no way shape or form remotely like how it was described on that picture they sent around. AT NO TIME did they say DEMO. I really doubt we'll hear it from MS's mouth. They essentially were selling it as you can play the whole game (no mention of timed). No, they were just using it as a marketing tool. If they want to sell demos, they can just offer the same EXACT thing from XBL which you have to have anyway to even do any of the above. How is this hard to understand that if true it was a sham? There was NO need for the family share plan (that people thought it was).
I stopped at "when you buy a used game you are hurting the developer much more than in other industries". Anyone who thinks this has nothing to say I'm interested in. Guess they should quit bleeding money on semi crap games. Good games sell. Period. Used games drive the market. Trying to guilt the consumer into not buying used? Sorry, that medium has always existed, if you can't hang, then you are doing it wrong. Can't sell that 300 million dollar game? Quit spending 300 million on trash and trying to pass it off as a AAA title. Quit dragging your developers through the muck and let them actually make a quality game. Quit trying to caiter to people who aren't interested in your particular game to begin with ending in a watered down mess that no one wants.
The consumer isn't at fault here.
EDIT: OK I lied, I kept reading. BWHAHAHAH. So the family share plan wasn't what people thought. It was demos with limited # of times you could play them. Again, it was there to market more sales, it had nothing to do with letting you share games with family/friends.
who is they in that sentence? cause i'm 99% sure that the image you are thinking about was not released by microsoft.
You mean the one that was identical to the one on their website?
Yes exactly...if your game is good it will sell. That's all there is to it.Blame poor sales on your shitty game.
Plus...every game on retail shelves is paid for by the retailer before it's sold to the consumer. The devloper sees their money before we even put it in the system.