bjj hero said:
Therumancer said:
Sadly it's a lack of any kind of solidarity even on important issues...
Were talking about the odd graphical issue here not not third world debt or war in the middle east. The issues on the petition are far from important, they dont even "ruin" the game.
Actually, by reports you are not seeing minor graphical issues, but some rather signifigant ones. What's more an entire mode for the game, the split-screen co-op is missing from the product.
It's only not signifigant if it didn't affect you, or you didn't want the mising feature to begin with.
This is not a big issue like the ones you descibe, it's a smaller one that affects all of us gamers and how we are treated by the industry. If we keep shelling out to companies that gouge us, or pull moves like this, we are ultimatly hurting ourselves.
I have a hard time believing you've never been irritated with the industry or screwed on a game. If your that lucky, with time it will happen, then you'll be that guy, and won't appreciate the kind of responses your giving.
Ultimatly the biggest obstacle to gamers demanding more of the gaming industry, less exploitive and predatory pricing, and a higher quality of product (I mean look at how many games are released as buggy messes today, with the companies taking months after we paid to fix things that should have been resolved to begin with. Half the time these guys seem to be releasing what should be considered beta software it seems) is ourselves.
I mean I understand the whole "I want immediate gratification, and Black Ops. is a decent game" point of view. You can replace "Black Ops." with any one of numerous other games run by companies gouging consumers and delivering shoddy products, it's just that Activision is unusually bad about it. The problem is that until we as gamers are willing to go without in order to get fair treatment, we're never going to see it. The only way to change things is to hit the industry in their collective wallets. We're also dealing with a cancer, patronizing products like the "Call Of Duty" series with it's overprice map packs, which people continue to buy DESPITE their constant complaints, is exactly why we see companies like Capcom deciding to do things like hold back characters from "Marvel Vs. Capcom 3" and charge people for them singly.
It's also noteworthy that the fact that as a community we won't stop buying games, even temporarily for our own long term interest, plays into the whole idea of "gaming addiction". I don't believe such a thing exists, but when we exhibit the same behaviors, we can't complain very much. Guys like Bobby Kotick handle gamers much like how pushers handle junkies.
