buckybit

I envy you, Duders.

It must be nice to see such sales and find games you - unlike me - don't already own.

Play System Shock 2! Play Planescape Tourment!

Even in 2013 those "first time experiences" are going to blow your minds!

Happy hunting :)

Short answer: lack of vocabulary meets hormons?

The reasonable reaction would be, thinking about your option, as a consumer?

Don't buy it, if you don't like it.

"It's a free market, out there"

... to paraphrase Jon Voight as Nate in Michael Mann's Heat.

An hour ago Paradox Interactive CEO @TheWesterFront and his Producer @ShamsJorjani finished a Twitch Stream, saying, they are having a BIG party going on tonight in Stockholm HQ.

All kinds of game developers are going to come, including some folks from Mojang.

I was trying to convince them in the Twitch chat to sneak in a notebook and start a XBONE style sneaky stream, so we could see game developers get drunk and barf from eating Surströmming - no luck, so far.

I failed you, Duders! :(

Is it your English or mine, that does not grok "it kind of fails to be honest"? So the game (or developers?) are "dishonest"?? Are not honest ... in relation to what, exactly?

I am not attacking you, I just want to find out, what you mean by that word. It sounds strange.

I don't know you, but 20 hours of playing an RTS is not nearly enough for someone like myself to judge a game and its nuances. But I am probably not as good as you are, playing these kind of games. I do hear a lot of criticism in forums (not Giantbomb. On Giantbomb, every strategy game fan is a delicate rare flower) about the new CoH2 - but mostly framerate & network lag.

What would - in your opinion - take CoH forward, if you don't mind sharing? Again - I am just curious to hear.

@all

Making strategy games of this kind is hard? Wouldn't everyone agree?

You are basically making six different games in one?

You have the multiplayer, the skrimish and the single player campaign - and on top, you have to balance each for at least two types of players: the top-level players and the "casual"/beginners = 3x2.

Aisha Tyler ... and four of here female friends?

... also, Drake, 50 Cents, The Pope (no - the Catholic Pope one), Obamacare (is that his real name?) ... and - eff it, why not - Leigh Alexander!

They don't want Twitch to make (more) money from them. They want their own (or rather CBSi's) website to make money, by having people come here.

I can only guess, posting an embedded Twitch link as an "official" GB article to their own website takes TOP MEN and endless hours to do? Just a guess.

Hello, Premium Member! I used to be just like you ...

"Welcome to Europe".

When I listen to the press and PR people, I have to filter out what they say and adjust

a) prices

b) services

There is NO country in Europe that will have the kind of video/media streaming services XBOX ONE is trying to sell to you, in the States or Canada. No matter, which provider you have there (unless you live in some Canadian woods, without electricity, or in the swamps of Louisiana).

"Europe" is considered by Sony, Microsoft and game publishers as 'high-income' 1st world consumer territory. Even though, the economy is stumbling for almost a decade in most countries. Southern Europe has a unemployment rate way above 10%? I think Spain alone has an unemployment rate of young people above 25%?!

Jeff was right, last night, talking on the stream. Microsoft's hidden message is "poor people - we don't need you. You are not our XBOX ONE target audience." Sadly, even IF you have a job in Europe and have a middle-income home/life, the prices for consumer electronics are way above the average costs, somebody in the States has to pay for AND the attached services are minimal, in comparison, too.

But buying a console, one has to look of the "OVERALL costs of ownership" aka ROI = "Return on Investment"?

You buy a machine, that will last you for several years (unless the Red Rings Of Death found a new home)? You have to add the costs for Internet Provider and Online Services, for game purchases, etc ... 100 bucks difference, suddenly just becomes a drop in the ocean?

I wanted to raise my hand and say "yes - stay at home". But everyone else, in this thread is right. Their best stuff is born out of this event.

Also, it IS the biggest event. They n e e d to stay in touch with publishers, PR and peers and developers. And they need to 'cover' it on location, to stay relevant for their audiences?

... and then, there is the business side of things? Highest traffic, highest stream audiences ...

I would be ok, if it's just Jeff with his iPhone and a Twitter & Twitch account. I would pay for that, but only for that.

A) So called "video game journalists" - channel what they hear from developers and publishers?

B) So called "video game journalists" are out of touch with the consumers? These media monkeys get their free copies of games, often reviewing them but not knowing how much they cost to 'real people': parents, school children, low-income workers, etc, etc ...

This is the same generalization they pull off, of course. Btw, Jason Rubin said some very smart things about the consumer and used-games yesterday on #GTE3 "BONUS ROUND" - worth watching. The discussion also included some Jeff Gerstmann.