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Yeah, or atleast do what Bungie used to do with halo, when the latest DLC was released the previous would become free.
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#42 |
Ron Paul 4 EVA
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If Bobby Kotick was all about the consumer with giving things as goodwill gestures and suggested to their share holders that the Modern Warfare DLC becomes free when MW2 came out, even though MW1 was still in the top 20 most played on XBL the month after MW2 came out, he would have been shot down for making a revenue stream disappear, no matter how small a stream it was at that point. And the "More likely to buy their stuff in the future" argument doesn't wash either because more people bought MW2 than MW. The only way things will change will be if they don't buy it, but even if every single registered user of TPWW past present and future saw this, agreed and had the willpower to follow through with not buying Activision products until they change grabbing for every penny it can, there would still be millions more to convince. They're a company and a damn profitable at that right now. If we're too stupid to buy, they're very smart in selling. |
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What you've seen is Microsoft lure you in and now they've got you, everybody has a price, as we've seen by not allowing Valve to have it's DLC free. |
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Ron Paul 4 EVA
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I wonder how long gaming stays recession proof. |
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I wonder that too. They must know that people will be driven away if quality stays low.
I know they're a completley different company now really, but they must see paralells drawing with the "pump out masses amount of crap and hope it sticks" methodology they're doing now and the Atari led video game crash. It could be just around the corner, more households own Wii's than anything else and the shovelware they're subjected to could turn some of these first time gamers off forever. Nintendo's keeping up the game quality somewhat, but even they must be drowned out at some point. |
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Ron Paul 4 EVA
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After all, I'm not sure we can get here without some serious myopia. |
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