The problem with "competition" in the games industry is that isn't an open and competitive market, it is a duopoly where the platform holders hold most of the power.
Jimquisition: Rise Of The Exclusivity Wars
- Thread starter Jimothy Sterling
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Sooo. Microsoft and Square hedge their bets on people not having impulse control? Are they expecting people to throw down their PS4 and run out and buy a Xbone because they have an extra 500 dollars just sitting in their wallets? Or is it for the handful of people that happen to already own both a PS4 and Xbone and Microsoft wants them to purchase the game for their console first? I'm very confused by this move. I mean PS4 owners know its coming to their system. Sooo how exactly is pissing off your customers in one hand and giving absolutely no favors to the others in the other hand that buy the game how you want them to buy it help you? You aren't giving them anything, so to them its just another video game purchase and to the others its a horrible slight to those fans. Nothing the video game industry does makes any sense to me.
All publishers are training people to do is not buy Consoles because anything on the PC is probably going to be the better deal and more importantly the potential library of games you can posses on PC is NEARLY EVERY SINGLE GAME EVER.
All publishers are training people to do is not buy Consoles because anything on the PC is probably going to be the better deal and more importantly the potential library of games you can posses on PC is NEARLY EVERY SINGLE GAME EVER.
What i liked with this PR mess it's the simple fact that MS made an announcement about the deal one day later because of the sh...storm. It's simply awesome to see a big corp making a interview just to calm peoples.
In a single day...
Another thing is for square enix... They lost a day one sell with me, i'll wait for a Steam sale.
Since i'm a pc player, i can even choose to play the game without buying it, after all SE prefer MS money than mine...
I'll wait for a steam sale at 10$ maximum.
In a single day...
Another thing is for square enix... They lost a day one sell with me, i'll wait for a Steam sale.
Since i'm a pc player, i can even choose to play the game without buying it, after all SE prefer MS money than mine...
I'll wait for a steam sale at 10$ maximum.
Well that offers an idea as to how we the consumers could get them to cut this shit out. Timed exclusive? Everyone who has the other console(s) boycotts it. Force them to nut up and make an actual exclusive if they want to pull this shit. See how much they like it when the new Tomb Raider has less than a million sales because they chose to put it exclusively on a console where that was inevitable.Evonisia said:
Anybody with me?
Yeah Kuchera has not exactly been pro consumer. Besides the fact that he was COMPLETELY WRONG in underestimating the gaming public (which he doesn't seem to hold much respect for in the first place).Callate said:
Plus he has a nasty habit of banning people who expose the hypocrisy of his articles.
I'm just waiting for the eventual picture of him next to the Mountain Dew and Doritos.
Nope! For you see, what you paid for was the "privilege" of "early access." While all the commoners had to wait longer for the once thought "exclusive" whatever to arrive to their peasant tables, you were feasting and growing fat on its "innovative" whatever, however long in advance.Silentpony said:
What bugs me as a Tomb Raider fan of the reboot, and an Xbox owner, is that Tomb Raider had been struggling for awhile, selling less and less, and with Uncharted around seemed headed for irrelevancy.
Then the reboot came out and gave it a much-needed shot in the arm, one supported STRONGLY by Playstation and PC fans. For the first time in YEARS, people liked Tomb Raider again.
I feel this will take that forward momentum, that fresh start, and just utterly grind it all to a screeching halt. That roughly 80% of their market share is upset and angry, which is NOT what you want to have on a franchise that only JUST got its legs under it only a short year ago.
Then the reboot came out and gave it a much-needed shot in the arm, one supported STRONGLY by Playstation and PC fans. For the first time in YEARS, people liked Tomb Raider again.
I feel this will take that forward momentum, that fresh start, and just utterly grind it all to a screeching halt. That roughly 80% of their market share is upset and angry, which is NOT what you want to have on a franchise that only JUST got its legs under it only a short year ago.
I agree.Deathfish15 said:
Jim, your personality comes off no better than the companies you criticize. Yes, you are right, but I'm not going to "Thank God" for someone who is so full of himself.
I haven't watched Boogie2988's video. But I have been subscribed to RTU for a while, and let me tell you. I have never seen so many dislikes in one of his videos since the last time he badmouthed Minecraft.Magmarock said:
OT: I agree with Rich (RTU) that the XB1 needs something that gives to the consumer a good reason to get one. However holding a multiplatform hostage is a cheap move... figuratelly. Microsoft must have offered a really nice deal to Crystal Dynamics for them to pospone their PC and PS4 ports sales for God (and Jim) knows how long.
I don't think Rich got dislikes as much because of his stance, but because he was an utter dick about it.CaitSeith said:
Wouldn't God, by his very nature, be full of Himself? Then why not His most holy prophet, Jim Sterling?praetor_alpha said:
So you don't get the joke? Jim being so full of him self is the joke.praetor_alpha said:
Why must we thank God for Jim when he is so much greater than God? Than Jim for Jim!
You don't have to be God or the amazing Rando even to have seen this coming.
We saw this happening last gen.
"Why am I going to buy a machine with an absurd defect rate and a monthly fee?"
"Because it's getting the GTA4 dlc exclusively."
So those people got to pay the absurd $20 first...for some extra missions. And they knew people would pay however much for whatever they released because thats why they bought the thing.
I'm tempted to buy whatever (pay for) dlc they release for GTA V, not because it's going to be exclusive, but because it's a year later and I'm still playing that same $60 game that they constantly update for free.
We saw this happening last gen.
"Why am I going to buy a machine with an absurd defect rate and a monthly fee?"
"Because it's getting the GTA4 dlc exclusively."
So those people got to pay the absurd $20 first...for some extra missions. And they knew people would pay however much for whatever they released because thats why they bought the thing.
I'm tempted to buy whatever (pay for) dlc they release for GTA V, not because it's going to be exclusive, but because it's a year later and I'm still playing that same $60 game that they constantly update for free.
I resent this being referred to as a war. The term war implies that both sides are fighting. Sony have been getting their exclusives the old fashioned way, like you said - being the better, more popular console, having better first and second party studios, and funding and supporting promising devs (usually indie) to secure exclusive content.
i hate exclusives in almost all its forms (not the games, the concept), but you do have a point when it comes to competition, i guess when they come from first party devs or if the game couldnt exist otherwise, theres an argument there