@sammo21: Gobbletygamergoop is a hate group. Full stop. It started as a bitter ex-boyfriend's revenge, masqueraded on the platform of ethics in game journalism (which it gained a lot of support with), but the movement's efforts have most largely been directed at attacking women in the industry. When threats like this come up, its leaders do not condemn the actions. When legitimate questions about game journalism have come up that could draw their attention, like the recent Shadow of Mordor youtube contracts, GaGa, have made it clear they don't care. There is nothing to be gained from even using that hashtag anymore. It's too toxic to ever come around to having any respect.
Even Patrick admits the argument is a fallacy in the title, so yeah.
Using Nintendo as an example is funny. Their console titles are generally priced 10 dollars below what competing consoles price their titles, but they never really go on sale. Yet he's boasting of having a higher price than rival titles of similar quality. Que?
Also, I agree with the poster who said that sales entice people to play a game they would otherwise never try. The idea that that someone who bought a game on sale would have eventually bought your game at full price is simply not true a lot of the time. It's the same as the anti-piracy argument that some one who pirates something would have paid full price if they had no other choice, when in reality it doesn't work that way. You're overestimating how some one else values the product.
I see some point in the argument that "if no one buys a game until it's on sale, why would you ever buy full price?" but it's really just the digital flip side to used games. There are many titles I am happy to pay full price for because I feel the game is worth the price and I want to play it right away. However, if your answer to the "problem" of "rampant sales" is to never have sales, ever, I think you're just hurting yourself. But that's his choice.
Awesome, a Wii without many of the features that makes it worthwhile in the first place, like Netflix, Virtual Console, WiiWare, Gamecube game compatibility, and support for Gamecube controllers on traditional control Wii games. What a piece of crap.
Also, I can point you to a ton of Wiis under 100 bucks languishing in pawn shops and Gamestops around the country, and they aren't stripped of features like this. Yeah, no warranty of course (unless you buy one from Gamestop from extra), but you might get lucky and score one with virtual console and wiiware games stored on it, still (I assume Gamestop wipes them clean, though).
(Preowned Wiis are 80 bucks at Gamestop: http://www.gamestop.com/wii/consoles/nintendo-wii/64004)
Yeah, this is a load of horseshit you have to actually mail them or you pretty much have to run the xbox offline. It still has the desired effect, though, because 99.999% of users won't ever read or care about the waiver, and just accept it and not even look into opting out. The remainder is...guess what? Not really going to be worth representing in a class action suit. Microsoft wins either way.
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