To the two dudes duking it out in the wee hours of the morning, I'm hoping you guys will give it a rest and stop that rather incessant squabble of yours. Many a name was called and intellects questioned, so fair warning to you two to stop it.


The thing is, since mods will be monetized, its VERY important that popular mods will get more attention as it helps the community decide (As nobody's going to pay for a custom MP map that has very little players). Similar to the iTunes App store, where its a lot easier to find stuff that is generally popular since to a lot of ppl, lots of buyers = high quality (Yeah, this metric is extremely flawed, but that's the most fundamental of buyer guides)

Like you, I don't necessarily agree with it (Since it obviously just makes the more popular games even more popular and sinks everything else), but its perfectly understandable from a business point of view.

Well, in Malaysia's case, I blame our Activision distros. If you look at the last 2 years, all Activision games sell for a minimum of RM 180 (Unlike RM 150 which is the average for other companies) and of late, I'm seeing that rise to about RM 200... Hence, I'm ignoring pretty much all Activision games.

As for Singularity, hmmmm, looks like Youbeli is jacking its price as its only RM 200 at TSB.

Ah well, our local retail scene had a good run (In spite of that, I'm still a fan of EA SEA). Time to turn to DDs I guess.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME? EA was FAR worst than Activision during its heyday as the big evil corporation.

They killed of great development houses
Attempted to monopolize whole sports games
Had a reputation for running their operations like a sweatshop

EA was really REALLY horrid back then. Yes, they're angels now compared to what they were before, but I'm not going to forget what they did as it could easily happen again (EA actually started out as a very good publisher)

Activision may be evil now, but that doesn't suddenly exonerate EA from their past exploits. That's just double standards.

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That hit list is nowhere near as painful as EA's list:
Westwood
Bullfrog
Origin
Jane's


Infinity Ward went through the same thing with EA. Funny isn't it?

When Guitar Hero starts getting yearly releases whereby you only get slight graphical updates and where the songlists are 90% the same as the game before it, then yeah, it would be as bad as EA's exploiting.

Also, isn't it a general consensus that the RB controllers are far superior in quality to the GH ones?

Anyway, GH is only ONE game series. EA were exploiting up to FIVE sports games and until today I've never seen a vile enough move like their super infamous buyout of the NFL for 2 years (Which nearly killed 2K's sports division)... When Activision decides to do the same with music games, then we can compare notes.

Yes, because clearly EA hasn't defended their own IPs before.

And EA went through the same thing with Spore and Battlefield 2 (Which had no offline LAN or private dedicated servers).

That is all drops in the ocean compared to EA's magnificent acts of evilry (So evil I can make up words!) since most of it is either Guitar Hero related or just MW2.

Anyway, JackAlvins, final warning to you. Another personal attack from you and you're going to get a vacation. evofantasy is discussing this in a polite and civil manner, please reciprocate that courtesy.

This post has been edited by H@H@: Aug 4 2010, 04:23 PM

You being coy with me here?

"dota fag" isn't exactly a compliment.

This isn't a shooting range for you. Keep in line, or I will keep you in line.

Oh c'mon, around here tangent isn't the enemy, its your friend!

Look! A giraffe! Woooo!


Seriously though, I never discourage tangents as long as it is a natural evolution of the thread. Flames and personal attacks though are a different story.

Here's news for you:
NPD doesn't (Can't actually) track digital sales... at all. That little statistic they put up on the Internet last week was based on a "survey".