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@snide said:

I'll see if I can contact Amazon and see what's up. This seems to be getting worse.

So what's going on guys? Haven't heard anything from Alexis or Dave in over a month about this. And just today, the progressive option stopped working for me, which means I can't watch subscriber videos without leeching off of the streaming site you guys use for the live shows. I live on the East Coast, so it should be a non-issue for streaming your videos. Honestly, this is the same problem I had when you first moved to the new player, you fixed it somehow and now it's back with a vengeance. If I weren't locked in for a year, I'd probably have unsubbed by now because the premium subscription is doing jack squat for me. Can't watch videos on the site anymore unless it's progressive, if that option breaks like it did today, I can't watch subscriber only videos. Alot of things were promised when the move to CBSi occurred, namely, transparency and communication when things broke. That has all but vanished in the last few months.

And Amber Sweet is addicted to the kni... O wait, it says Anna... Well shi. -end joke about cult classic play that probably only a handful of us have ever seen-

The only issue I see is that there will be a game that get's 'green lighted' by the community but never comes around. And there's always the issue with Steam tweaking the system in favor of one game or another. Let's be entirely honest here, Valve have been dicks both in the past and present about what gets a game on or off their store and I'm not talking about the whole EA debacle. Games from FarCry 2 to Super Meat Boy, from Eve Online to Section 8... All games that are currently on Steam but were either originally denied or were taken off for a week here or there due to problems with Steam's 'Quality Assurance Program' that classified them as 'underwhelming' or 'non-suited for the Steam service'

I do think this is a step in the right direction, but I do worry that Valve will let their egos get the best of them once again and manage to screw it all up and people will get pissed. Which they'll then easily fix by leaking releasing news of Half-Life 3 a new game again for the first time!

Not interested.

It'll be interesting to see where this goes, they left the breathing scene in the Extended Cut, even after placing Sheps name on the casualty list, which makes me think they obviously plan to continue using her in some capacity. It'll probably be another game or story that implies that you got the perfect ending and didn't sacrifice yourself to control or synthesize. All I can say is, THANK GOD they made the Indoctrination Theory people shut up about the plot holes in the ending.

@Demoskinos: In an age where most people don't buy $60 games at launch, can that argument really be used though? As I stated before, Darksiders, another great game, didn't catch on until it was in the $29.99 bin, SR3, went on sale really quickly as well. While both games were great, I really wonder at how much the retail copies actually made for them compared to the post purchase DLC.

Also, to everyone wondering about the Season Pass, it wasn't a real Season Pass, it gave you 2 additional campaigns and the Nightblade pack, not all the DLC, so even if Dominatrix wasn't a standalone, it wasn't going to be included anyways.

@Brodehouse: What? Darksiders 2? I'm not sure it's going to sell nearly as well as people are making it out to be, I really hope it does but the first game really didn't sell all that well, was a great game but just didn't sell until it went on sale.

@Pr1mus: And what is it that I know nothing about hmm? You have no idea how much of their internal situation I do or do not know.

Fuck off THQ, Volition needs to bail faster than a virgin in a whore house. Seriously, THQ is digging their death bed, Dominatrix was going to bring them funds to survive and now they're waiting til 2013!?! They won't be financially alive that long! FFS why did Rubin even come to take this over if not to just run it into the ground? Because that's exactly what he's doing with these 'new company virtues' and 'trying to keep things respectable for the company's best interest'. Because we all know closing a studio the day before E3 and then calling another studio embarrassing in the same week is completely respectable and in the company's best interest.

It's going to be an exciting next few weeks, E3, Acti-Trial amongst all of the post E3 stuff for the companies who don't support E3 as a thing. On another note, the author of the 'Lost Theory' really needed to use a spelling and grammar check back in 2010. I swear that guy had no idea what a comma was, it's just one long drawn out sentence moving from topic to topic. Atleast he did use a period or two in the article.

Also the ingame photographers are really cool but publishers still aren't playing ball and that's a shame. We have this every so many years where screenshots are considered fair use, then they aren't, then a case threatens to go to court, fans go into a fit, the whole thing dies, waits a few years and starts over again. Unfortunately, this cycle is also involving videos this time, but yeah... You made your games, you sold your games, these screenshots and videos will only make people want to buy your game more.

Nice, though I really wonder how Activision is going to pull out of this one. This looks remarkably one sided and as of yet, the only allegations being brought forth by Activision is that they may have been looking to do the EA deal right under Activision's nose. I still hold the same opinions I've had since 09 right before this blew up. IW was great at making COD games, but they knew they were stuck making only those and crappy FPS licensed titles. They wanted to branch out but never really acted on it, they were with Activision and they were going to honor that agreement for as long as the COD franchise remained their primary focus. But Bobby jumped the gun based of fruitless and frankly paranoid assumptions. This entire thing blew up because IW had made a cash cow, they were making a ton of money for themselves. That was money being taken away from Bobby, so he freaked out and made this shit storm out of nothing and now it's coming to a head and the Anti-Activision hate is booming again. Sure, they paid thousands of dollars to remove other former IW employees from the case, but they haven't held their agreement with West and Zampella and that's going to bite them in the ass if this actually goes to court.