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Wal-Mart Controls Modern Game Design?
An anonymous reader writes "That Wal-Mart smiley face is looking pretty evil now that Allen Varney has explained how much influence they have on virtually every modern game: 'Publisher sales reps inform Wal-Mart buyers of games in development; the games' subjects, titles, artwork and packaging are vetted and sometimes vetoed by Wal-Mart. If Wal-Mart tells a top-end publisher it won't carry a certain game, the publisher kills that game. In short, every triple-A game sold at retail in North America is managed start to finish, top to bottom, with the publisher's gaze fixed squarely on Wal-Mart, and no other.'"
Fuck you you fat fuck- Why do you care where people shop? You and your fucking wife are always eating out- you should be growing your own organic food and not going to restaurants, right? I mean, you bust on people who shop at Wal Mart, but you wouldn't want anyone looking at your habits... You should cook at home and save the environment, by not driving to restaurants. Jesus- you are such a self pretentious Prick Think of all the wasted crap in the food service industry- and you are supporting it...
Why is it that liberals are always so worried about everyone else's habits?
That's called the free market.
No its not. In a free market, you have a large number of consumers (buyers) and a large number of producers. In the current market, you have a large number of producers, and 2 buyers: Walmart and EB/Gamestop. How anyone can call this a free market is beyond me. It doesn't matter that there are a large number of end users (e.g. gamers). These 2 companies control the distribution network, and as far as a game publisher is concerned, WalMart and EB are the buyers, not gamers.
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Dude, go play your toy OSS games and get out of here. Does XBill have multiplayer yet? I'll play you and your flaming pc. Actually I don't want to catch teh gay from your syphillis infected UDP packets, FAG!!!
That's horse shit, before walmart moved into my town there was k-mart, and a ton of other things that could fill the needs of a walmart type store. They are building a superwalmart ten minutes from where I live when there's already a regular walmart 15 minutes up, and 20 minutes in the other direction. It's not a matter of need, nobody needs this many fucking walmarts.
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The ugly truth is that the "left" doesn't like Wal-Mart because Wal-Mart is for the common man. It's low brow. It's redneck. It's a store for the poor and middle classes. It isn't trendy. It's elitism, pure and simple.
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