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Well if what i hear about people with histories in marketing departments running the game industry are true, we damn well better be cautious and pessimistic. People such as them made thier careers on selling to the naive and easily persuaded, after all.Mosesj said:It's sad though, that you have to be so cautious and pessimistic in what should be a ENTERTAINMENT industry. you know, something that's supposed to be fun?
Most tech companies (with a few exceptions) are run by people not with tech degrees but marketing degrees. Meaning they know shit all about the products they are selling, and only know how to apply marketing. If we could like institute a law where people with marketing degrees can only work in management positions that are part of a marketing company or the marketing department of a corporation.gigastar said:But Jim! For EA to even have my attention, much less my trust, they must publish a game that even looks appealing.
Well if what i hear about people with histories in marketing departments running the game industry are true, we damn well better be cautious and pessimistic. People such as them made thier careers on selling to the naive and easily persuaded, after all.Mosesj said:It's sad though, that you have to be so cautious and pessimistic in what should be a ENTERTAINMENT industry. you know, something that's supposed to be fun?
You need to sign up for Jim Sterling's new service. >.>False Messiah said:Same, my access whas... Denied
Sorry about that, there was an issue with the server sessions that should be resolved now.Magmarock said:I am getting a 404 error.
It's always easy when you go second. Just look at Xbone v PS4. I'm betting Ea got a look at the response to PSNOW and said "hell, even we're not that stupid."WildFire15 said:As always, I agree with Jim entirely and I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if Ubisoft and Activision are already working more their own 'access' programs. I've got enough subscriptions to worry about and really don't want more, even if it does look good. I'm still amazed EA came out with a program that's considerably better then one Sony came up with, ie Playstation Now.
If I may approximate a Jimism, that's like saying "Ooh well they're gonna fuck us in the arse eventually so I might as well lube them with the moist demanding chasm of my mouth in the meantime"!Wulfram77 said:It's $5/$30. That doesn't require massive amounts of trust.
And, yeah, eventually they'll try to screw us. But they'll do that anyway. I don't see why it'll be worse with subscriptions.
And really, are we so enamoured of the current AAA publishing model? I'm not, so why fight to defend it? A subscription model could end up encouraging a less short term approach, if retaining customer loyalty becomes more important than covering holes in your cash flow with rushed releases.