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Post by wittyscorpion on Aug 19, 2014 15:09:56 GMT -5
Just to wrap up side topic of what The Division plays like, cross post from the "The Division" thread: More preview: www.videogamer.com/ps4/tom_clancys_the_division/preview-3783.htmlThis article shed some lights on how this game is like from high level point of view. Specifically speaking, looks like the game has more of a crowd control focus than boss fights in traditional MMOs. I personally prefer crowd control over boss fights (although admittedly speaking my PvE experience is very limited so this preference is very superficial at the moment), so this interests me.
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Post by mannon on Aug 19, 2014 15:34:10 GMT -5
I'm okay with a smart and interesting boss fight. Bullet sponges are just tedious and annoying.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Aug 22, 2014 15:07:01 GMT -5
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Post by xFEARtheSHIELDx on Aug 24, 2014 22:26:49 GMT -5
"PlayStation Plus memberships are up more than 200% since the launch of PlayStation 4, which shows that gamers are looking for memberships that offer a multitude of services, across various devices, for one low price." Ummmm, no... it shows that anyone who wants to play online with their shiny new PS4 is REQUIRED to purchase PS+...
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Post by ChloeB42 (Alexcalibur42) on Aug 25, 2014 12:53:22 GMT -5
2. Always annoys me and The ESA seems to be trying to make it more than it is. Going by the last ESA report I saw was 45% females 55% male. 36% Women, 17% Boys. But they don't finish the whole story. 64% are Girls and 83% are Men. Do some more math and Men are 45% of all gamers and Women are 16%. So why they're comparing adult women with teenage boys is perplexing. Most AAA games I see are targeted towards men 18-24 or whatever the demographic qualification for "of legal age but not matured". Not only that but they include mobile and Facebook games which seems to be two separate markets from AAA games. So whenever I hear this being used towards AAA Devs like 'See girls are half of gamers' I'm just left scratching my head. I'm not saying they shouldn't consider female gamers, but the single largest demographic between genders and between kids and adults, is adult Men. So this notion that say CoD or GTA or BF need to start catering towards women as if they were half their player base is silly.
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Post by mannon on Aug 25, 2014 13:18:11 GMT -5
I don't know how you get 64% Girls and 83% Men, especially when you have 45%:55% female to males. Wouldn't it be 9% girls and 38% men?
45% Females 55% Males 100% Total 36% Women 38% Men 74% Adults 9% Girls 17% Boys 26% Minors
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Post by wittyscorpion on Aug 25, 2014 13:46:14 GMT -5
The main point they are trying to make here is not about AAA games (or more generally speaking "core" gaming), but the broader concept of "gaming", that's why FB and mobile gaming are part of the conversation. For this generation, I don't see "core" gaming being challenged much, but we can't overlook how quickly "mobile" has been taking more and more of a center stage among people's lives. Almost all heavy weight tech companies, APPL/GOOG/AMZN/MSFT/FB/etc, have stately clearly that "mobile first' are one of their primary focuses for the next a few years. Core gaming has always been dominated by male. But with the rise of mobile, female participations in gaming is significantly increasing (in a recent trip I noticed lots of women playing games on mobile phone or pads at the airports and on the planes) gong to change the landscape of the consumer demand and I believe that in the next 5-10 years we will see AAA game developers looking into cross overs to the mobile. By next gen (say 10 years from now), the lines between console/PC gaming and mobile gaming will be greatly blurred, and we probably will finally see a world of gaming with better gender balance (for better or for worse ).
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Post by wittyscorpion on Aug 25, 2014 13:51:30 GMT -5
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Post by UrbaneVirtuoso on Aug 25, 2014 14:15:07 GMT -5
Oooooooooh snap! The future shines brightly, I see~.
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Post by ChloeB42 (Alexcalibur42) on Aug 25, 2014 16:34:18 GMT -5
I don't know how you get 64% Girls and 83% Men, especially when you have 45%:55% female to males. Wouldn't it be 9% girls and 38% men? 45% Females 55% Males 100% Total 36% Women 38% Men 74% Adults 9% Girls 17% Boys 26% Minors I was basing it off of the 2013 report which was not as good as the 2014 apparently. BRB doing updated calculations. EDIT: This is why I dislike their numbers. The more I look at them the more they just...don't make sense. They pick and choose which numbers they give which annoys me. I give up. "The number of female gamers age 50 and older increased by 32% from 2012 to 2013" FROM WHAT TO WHAT? "Types of online games played most often" BUT WHO IS IT PLAYING THESE? Gah it's like a half assed attempt at giving us information. There's absolutely NO perspective, nothing to base these numbers on, nothing to relate to. Fuck the ESA they're worse than CoD and their stat bars.
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Post by mannon on Aug 25, 2014 17:34:53 GMT -5
"lies, damned lies..."
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Post by mannon on Aug 25, 2014 17:35:26 GMT -5
nice heh
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Post by wittyscorpion on Aug 27, 2014 13:06:06 GMT -5
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Post by wittyscorpion on Aug 28, 2014 16:11:57 GMT -5
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Post by wittyscorpion on Aug 30, 2014 11:07:50 GMT -5
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Post by wittyscorpion on Sept 2, 2014 12:40:14 GMT -5
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Post by wittyscorpion on Sept 5, 2014 13:02:15 GMT -5
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Post by mannon on Sept 5, 2014 13:13:39 GMT -5
weird...
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Post by GodMars on Sept 5, 2014 13:28:47 GMT -5
Wait, MS is complaining about exclusivity marketing campaigns? Have they not seen a single one of the Xbox-branded CoD commercials? They've made a business out of these exclusivity hijinks, they need to STFU.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Sept 5, 2014 13:39:25 GMT -5
Wait, MS is complaining about exclusivity marketing campaigns? Have they not seen a single one of the Xbox-branded CoD commercials? They've made a business out of these exclusivity hijinks, they need to STFU. Well, the marketing team succeeded in making something out of nothing. www.destinyfragrance.com is going viral in Destiny related social media.
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Post by mannon on Sept 5, 2014 15:42:47 GMT -5
Odd, it's not even that clever, but sure... why not. If it gets Destiny out there even more I'm all for it even though I am doing it on PS4.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Sept 5, 2014 16:30:49 GMT -5
Looks like MSFT has taken it down. destinyfragrance.com is now showing the following:
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Post by GodMars on Sept 5, 2014 17:07:56 GMT -5
Of course they took it down. They realized it was something they would have done before they unfucked themselves a few months ago when the old Xbox team was running the show (into the ground).
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Post by wittyscorpion on Sept 9, 2014 17:10:34 GMT -5
MSFT is cranking up the discount on XONE purchase, cross posted from Video game sales thread:
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Post by wittyscorpion on Sept 10, 2014 1:44:08 GMT -5
WSJ breaking news: MSFT is in serious talk of acquiring Mojang, the maker of Minecraft, for $2billion+: online.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-near-deal-to-buy-minecraft-1410300213This news is a little disconcerting. My take if this deal does go through: I don't think MSFT is going to make Minecraft XBL exclusive, but they may get the studio to do something else (e.g. a new IP) that is. Even though I am an XONE owner, I don't like to see game studios to be acquired by platform holders. That does not usually end well.
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Post by UrbaneVirtuoso on Sept 10, 2014 2:05:15 GMT -5
That is genuinely terrifying.
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Post by ChloeB42 (Alexcalibur42) on Sept 15, 2014 9:21:15 GMT -5
Minecraft 2 $60 Always online DRM Requires kinect Xbox One Exclusive©®™
I'm really not digging these mergers and acquisitions of late. Comcast buying NBC and Time Warner, AT&T buying Dish, Facebook buying Oculus, thankfully that Sprint T-Mobile deal died.
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Post by UrbaneVirtuoso on Sept 15, 2014 9:35:21 GMT -5
Welp time to see how long things last before it inevitably hits the fan -- the least I can do is indulge in some Mojang-made 1.8.
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Post by LeGitBeeSting on Sept 15, 2014 11:35:53 GMT -5
But it'll be better w/ Kinect, that much is obvious.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Sept 15, 2014 11:43:38 GMT -5
Making minecraft an exclusive would be a very stupid move, I don't think MSFT is going to do it. However, it is entirely possible (and maybe likely) that they have plans to get Mojang working on an XBL exclusive new IP to counter "No Man's Land" on PS.
It's a bit sad to see this deal actually going through. Most (if not all) founders of Mojang have decided to immediately leave the company.
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