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5 Innovative Ways the Gaming Industry is Screwing You
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EA Sports Creates A Mini-Monopoly
Electronic Arts has dominated the video game pro football market since the early '90s. But then, in 2004, rival NFL 2K5 beat Madden 2005 out in nearly every department, including price (you see, sports games are always one year higher than the actual year in which they are released--this tricks customers into believing that they can look into the future!) EA Sports learned the hard way that, when someone else sells the exact same product as you, except cheaper, and with an air-hockey minigame and cheerleaders with actual boob-bouncing, it's going to cut into your profit a little bit. So how could EA overcome their competitor? By working extra hard to make sure their game was superior? By cutting the price?
It's the same as any monopoly: EA no longer had anyone to compete with and, thus, got lazy. Slowly, the Madden games started adding less and less each year, to the point that features were gutted from the first round of Madden games for the new generation of systems. At times the series appears to be going backward, and we project that by 2011, we'll be playing something that looks like Tecmo Bowl.
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Gamespot Offers Good Reviews To Companies That Pay Them
Gamespot.com is one of the most popular gaming sites on the web, offering a large database of information on pretty much every game ever made. Gamespot's reviews, in spite of the whining of some fans, have been consistently tough on even big games. On November 13th of 2007, Jeff Gerstmann of Gamespot released this review for Kane and Lynch: Dead Men. The review received a score of 6.0, or "fair" from the reviewer. Unfortunately for Jeff, the publishers of the game had recently purchased a great deal of advertising on Gamespot, creating the awkward situation where ads were splashed all around the review--the review of the game that the writer specifically told readers not to buy. Gerstmann was immediately fired. So what's the problem?Of particular note is the fact that, in spite of being fired, the review score for the game is still quite a bit higher than the average user review scores on Gamespot. In other words: Gerstmann gave a very generous review for a terrible game, but was nonetheless fired for not lying his ass off. The message from Gamespot's management (they're owned by Cnet) was clear: a good review is part of what the advertiser pays for. Gerstmann's firing was meant to send this message loud and clear to every reviewer on the site.
In the aftermath of the whole ordeal, several other long-time employees at Gamespot quit their jobs (Gerstmann and others went off to form their own site). Meanwhile gamers, who are used to reading these reviews before making their $60 purchase, had to rethink whether or not they can trust reviews from Gamespot, or any review site for that matter.
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Don't be ridiculous! They just signed a deal with the NFL that would forbid anyone else from making those games. If competitors wanted to make a football game, it would be without any of your favorite pro teams or players.
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I think you missed the point there. This is about how video game companies are screwing us over. The point being made was that you could pay for the regular version and use the good guns, or you could pay extra and use the exact same good guns.
It would be like making Mario and Mario Elite. In Mario you would have to do the mushroom world first, but in Mario Elite (for only $15 exrta) you could do the mushroom world OR the turtle world first. Nevermind the fact that in both games you would go through both worlds anyway.
that business with being able to pay for upgrades has been around for while, long before battlefield. for MMORPGs, many of them have a system where if you pay, you get unique or rare items, or you get special points that you can't get from anything else. battlefield is the least of these offenders. at least you can still unlock the guns yourself if you play for long enough. is it that outrageous? the idea of "unlocking items as you progress in gameplay" has been around since just about forever. and if, instead of letting people with the money and willingness pay for the upgrades, they just made everyone have to work for it, would you be as mad? there really isn't a difference. some people are big enough losers to invest a shitload of time into a game, some people are even bigger losers to waste additional real life money on a game. but that's who they are. it's just economics; you get the most profit out of an item by having people pay whatever they value it at.
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alicehuang002I remember when that commercial first came out...what idiot thought that was the actual gameplay? Even though the 360 was new, this commercial could supposedly fool the casual or first-time gamer but not the normal nerds/virgins who play video games to an extent equivalent to a full-time job (40-hours a week).
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Its weird how we finnally have come full circle from a game being paid out becuase people thought that the trailers were fake, only to find that, holy s**t, Killzone 2 actually does look that good in gameplay.
People thought that the commercial for Call of Duty 2 was the actual game??? The commercial for Big Red One was the same thing, pre-rendered, really good looking and not the actual game, and I bet nobody thought the PS2 or XBOX game really looked like or even played like the commercial. Both games had commercials of lies.
I guess in tough times they have to make by too you know.
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JimMcDoshLittle Big Planet looks fun as hell. Too bad it's not for the 360 :(
I agree. Spore should've been alot better. But at least I get to laugh as my giant-penis-monster crushes the other creatures. hilarious.
Am the only one who voluntarily gave Blizzard my name, password, and credit card number? I was under the impression those were required to play WoW.
They must've conned me good!
A few things:
1st. EA is a piece of s**t. Especially recently with the PC game entitled Spore. if you have not heard about the controversy, well where to begin.
First, the game was supposed to be revolutionary in its design. Basically the idea was that you are God and you create an animal organism that evolves through different stages. For instance, from a single celled organism to multigalatic (if that is even a word) conquerer. Sounds sweet right? Well, the game is over before you start. I think it was made for children under 5. Its mind bogoling easy and you're already in space in about 5 hours. You miss like half of the evolutionary stages!! The game itself takes about maybe 8-10 hours to complete, then it is just repetition.
Second, EA decided to stick you with a device that comes in the install disk that never comes off of your computer! That's right, its called DRM and once you install the game onto your computer you can only install it two more times else where. So for 50 dollars EA sells you a rental game that you can only install 3 times. I fucked up the first time because Vista is a piece of crap. so now if I ever buy a new computer and later pull Spore off the shelf to install it, I better get it right because I only have one install left before I have to go out and buy a new one. s**t.. f*****g EA.
Now for game reviews. I went out and bought Assassins Creed because it had amazing reviews (in game informer magazine). I found the game to be crap. It was boring. Maybe it was just me, but the only thing I found that was fun was trying to kill my self by falling off various buildings and missing the landing platforms. Now I am very skeptic about buying games based on reviews by larger magazines. Its sometimes better to go buy Amazons user reviews.
i remember the COD2 thing and i was pissed, but doesn't blizzard ALREADY have my username, password, and credit card number? you assume that this "house maid" is less trustworthy than the guys with my cc number.
what ea did with the nfl was total bullshit. their games were pretty good and it was still better than espn 2k5 but the monopolizing just made them control the gamers completely. i refuse to buy any of their garbage they make today.
stop the fanboy bullshit everyone.
Wow, I finally found the most bias comment in humanity. Either bendybuddy works for microsoft or his parents were killed by sony employees. Either way his long rant was a load of bias bullshit that was opinion stated like fact. I don't know if he or hardcore 360 owners are aware but... some people ACTUALLY DON'T LIKE HALO. Yeah I know... hard to believe right? All this time you thought everyone universally thought halo was anywhere near above average but I don't mind being the first to say.... Halo is.... alright. Nothing more.
And to complain a company being "scammiest" while raving about your support for microsoft, who makes you pay for everything from playing online to taking a s**t, is pretty f*****g retarded. So nice rant, just wanted to point out how retardedly hypocritical it was.
Good job! You should start up a website with more interesting s**t you have to say. A good name for it would be www. facts that aren't really facts at all .com or maybe www. ravings of a bias moron .com
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EA have been cheating PC owners for years now. Oh, and they do the same thing Blizzard does, only EA doesn't tell you about it. It's a program called SecuRom, which is a fancy title for the spyware program they hit you with. It was put in to stop Sims players from using custom content. EA also uses underhanded tactics on those plaers by obtaining (illegally) and displaying personal details on each person they find to be customising content. Ok, so the piracy isn't legal, but it pales in comparison to the s**t EA pulls on a regular basis.