http://metagame.org/2009/06/30/trial-balloon-for-microsoft/ a blog on games and stuff Fri, 04 Feb 2011 20:24:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://metagame.org/2009/06/30/trial-balloon-for-microsoft/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Peter Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:04:01 +0000 http://metagame.org/?p=327#comment-25 Ok, this right here pisses me off and is EXACTLY what is going wrong with the VG industry today. So along with 50% of consoles (XB3) being shipped faulty, charging a fee for online use, and making back deals with game companies for first dibs on DL content (and some of that being content shipped on the game disk but unusable before paying for it...), now we have to deal with advertisements too, and mark my words, next will be advertisements IN-GAME, see an add for their next game on loading screens. Activisions CEO has already blatantly said if he could charge more for his games, he would. Along with no allowing multiple profiles (on a SINGLE computer no less), no dedicated servers, no custom mods or maps, and pretty much refusing to fix GLARING issues and rampant hacking in CODMW2 (among other nonsense in other games, Rock Guitar Pro Hero Band 11 for $399.99 anyone?). I swear, Blizzard messed it up for everyone with the successful PPM model (not blaming WoW personally cuz I played it and it was great), but now everyone wants on the PPM bandwagon, but without developing a HUGE game like WoW, or putting as much effort and money into it as Blizzard does. This kind of stuff needs to end, or theres going to be no one left to see their ads. Ok, this right here pisses me off and is EXACTLY what is going wrong with the VG industry today. So along with 50% of consoles (XB3) being shipped faulty, charging a fee for online use, and making back deals with game companies for first dibs on DL content (and some of that being content shipped on the game disk but unusable before paying for it…), now we have to deal with advertisements too, and mark my words, next will be advertisements IN-GAME, see an add for their next game on loading screens. Activisions CEO has already blatantly said if he could charge more for his games, he would. Along with no allowing multiple profiles (on a SINGLE computer no less), no dedicated servers, no custom mods or maps, and pretty much refusing to fix GLARING issues and rampant hacking in CODMW2 (among other nonsense in other games, Rock Guitar Pro Hero Band 11 for $399.99 anyone?). I swear, Blizzard messed it up for everyone with the successful PPM model (not blaming WoW personally cuz I played it and it was great), but now everyone wants on the PPM bandwagon, but without developing a HUGE game like WoW, or putting as much effort and money into it as Blizzard does. This kind of stuff needs to end, or theres going to be no one left to see their ads.

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