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@generic_username: I'd take that bet on this game going on sale. Rorher seems the type that will insist on remaining a man of his word. I think THIS game will never go on sale but every future game of his will still find their way to sales. I'm pretty sure that he knew that going in to this experiment which is why he's not saying 'all games I sell from now on' but instead limiting his wording to "The Castle Doctrine".

Ya know, I know Rohrer is just experimenting with pricing and will realize with this game that it likely doesn't work as well as he thinks, but I almost feel like he's being manipulative more now than on some Steam sale, even if he's not doing it intentionally.

"Buy my game early, get it for 8 bucks, sure you don't know if it's good, but hey, it's cheaper now. When it launches, and likely has the most buzz and reviews it'll be 12 bucks. If it turns out to be good and you waited, sorry, pay a 4 dollar waiting to hear if it's good fee. Anyone else whether you're late finding out about it or you just don't keep up on games, you get an 8 dollar 'just hearing about it' fee."

Sure, there will be times where this could work out for the developer, and more power to him regardless of which way it goes, it's his game to do this with. BUT, coming from someone who picked up 2 copies of Diamond Trust of London DS because of the Quick Look done here on Giant Bomb, well after the 'pre' buy (Kickstarter) and after the release date (When the carts actually went on sale), I can promise him, if I'd heard that the game was 20 before I bought it for 30, it would have had a negative impression on me and I might have shied away from buying it at all. Not because I couldn't afford it, but because I'd have felt that I was being taken advantage of because I hadn't been 'in the loop' and got the game early.

That said, I'm not even offended by a prebuy price, those supporting the game getting made/finished maybe deserve a thanks, but banning sales that might pick up those who didn't seems foolhardy and a middle finger to those who didn't support it before.

This coming is from someone who has put 750 into a single game (Tesla Effect) via Kickstarter. I'm not against prebuying a game if A: I trust a developer or B: The game wouldn't be made otherwise, but don't punish everyone else who hasn't yet learned to trust said developer to always make good games or who was late to the party. That feels more icky than a Steam sale where someone might buy a game and not play it, having essentially wasted their 2-5 bucks.

Edit: Oh, and as my wife pointed out, we never did get around to playing Diamond Trust of London for months after getting it because we moved as it showed up and it got lost in the shuffle, so buying a game full price doesn't necessarily mean you will play it.

@patrickklepek: Not to say they couldn't have used MORE Move games, but seriously, what marketing? Honestly, I don't remember one Move advertisement at all but I do remember Kinect ones.

@joshthebear:

Fuck yes. I started watching NXT last week, loved it, saw it this week and when I saw that Cesaro match I just couldn't believe it.

Him VS Daniel Bryan a few weeks back was a moment where I went, "huh, Cesaro CAN wrestle sometimes... Maybe it was just Bryan making him look good."

However, after that NXT match, I realized Cesaro is just a great wrestler that just isn't getting the push/matches he deserves on RAW/Smackdown. In a few weeks he went from being one of my least favorites to one of my favorites.

The crowd was right at the end of the match, that is definitely contender for match of the year.

It's sad that the WWE's best competition isn't TNA or something else but their own amateur show.

Not technically 'art' but here's Bob Backlund with me holding a memorial sign to Ryan I'd made for the WWE Money in the Bank PPV.

'Mania was interesting to me for the first time in years and that disappointed me that I didn't get tickets, but I was playing the odds when deciding on that one... The RAW after made me think maybe the WWE was finally on a good track.

Then the next few months happened. I felt like quitting watching completely and probably would have had I not bought MitB tickets. A few weeks before MitB it seemed to be finally getting interesting again and they've done a good job keeping the show good ever since IMO... even with the downer of Cena probably being champ for forever.

I'm hoping the WWE is on a long upswing but I can't help but watch every episode worried that it's going to go back to shit. I can't help but feel like a Sonic fan, where Sega releases a trailer and the cycle starts... fear, hope, excitement and then disappointment.

Not sure why I even wrote this, just felt like getting it off my chest after watching RAW and reading people's reactions to it. I guess I wonder if others keep experiencing this neverending cycle too...

Krazy Time Predicitions:

AJ and Ziggler will stay together. For now. Lip Service to that.

RVD will come down, seem to be back for good, Wyatt Family will come out and beat him to death.

Bryan vs Orton main event, not for anything other than, hey, we need to build up Orton.

Punk will get air time, probably with Heyman about "wah wah you don't love me Punk", but no match because he really fucked his head. Probably the start of the buildup to Brock vs Punk at Summerslam.

Cena... I got nothing except that he'll be in it because Super Cena.

Oh, and they pop up the Michael McGillicutty graphic for Christian again, proving they're rebranding him.

@damswedon: People were pissed. No one wanted him to win. There were the obvious outliers but the general consensus was... Oh god really?

@lord_canti: I like these predictions... which makes me think that none of them will happen. ;)

@cannonballbam: Actually, it's sad to see how much the crowd was 'controlled' audibly in the PPV. I was just tweeting about this (@lockecole) while watching the taped version of the PPV. People actually chanted and cheered loudly for Vickie. You can even see it in a lot of the crowd response, but can't hear it. Same with when The Miz got Heyman thrown out. Really loud booing tapered down to barely audible. I was surprised after that that the We want Heyman chant actually got through and was even acknowledged by the announcers. Though they tried to play it down as a small handful of people. It was depressing. I wonder how many PPVs and RAW/Smackdown tapings are like that. Makes me wonder how loud the NJ audience at the RAW after 'Mania had to be to actually get on the air with some of their great chanting. Maybe their usual sound guy was out sick that day.

The PPV seemed so much better live, and much of that was the crowd response. The WWE is doing their own shows a huge disservice to remove much of that as it seems they do. I've not made it to the end yet... I'm curious to see how they handle all the chanting for Mark Henry and almost completely one sided booing/heckling of Cena.