I play World of Warcraft, and since it's the summer and I'm not at uni I've been playing it a LOT lately, some days 10 hours perhaps. I have friends. I have a girlfriend. I love games, and I'm not ashamed. If I was an amateur artist and painted for hours every day to make paintings for myself and my own personal pleasure you wouldn't say I had problems, you'd say I was spending time doing something I love.
I honestly believe that playing MMORPGs can broaden people's horizons and make them fuller people. I've made at least two friends in WoW from countries I've never been to that I expect to still be in contact after the point in the future where one of us leaves the game.
However, I'll agree that some people seem to love being dicks in these games precisely because they wouldn't get away with it in real life.
Sorry you think that, but I have to disagree. I bought the DVD set a few months ago on a whim and loved it. I then lent it to a friend who wasn't particularly enthusiastic and received a text message from him that very night saying "Firefly kicks ass, shame there's so little of it left to watch". That's a perfect 2 out of 2, and last week I lent it to my 53 year old father, let's see if he likes it too.
Just because not many people watched a show doesn't mean it sucked. You obviously weren't one of the people trying to get tickets for a Serenity screening this year, I tried to get one for the Edinburgh International Film Festival next Sunday and the ticket lines were engaged and the booking computer went down under the load.
If Serenity is a good movie it will be a hit, because the fans won't let it be hidden amongst the competition.
I think the idea is that this kind of "marketing" doesn't need to be marketed. You release some information/footage/specs and let the internet go crazy and spread the news for you, like a virus.
They had this game on a big screen with proper podiums with buzzers at the Edinburgh International Games Festival this month. Was pretty good fun and apart from the intros to each round and the "witty" putdowns to players getting a question wrong I think it would have good replayability provided there were a lot of questions. They weren't all about pop stars and presidents either, lots were quite technical science questions or identifying songs that were in the charts 30+ years ago. One for the whole family I'd say.
I'm quite interested to see how the Finns pull of full-length sci-fi comedy, considering very few other countries seem to have even got close to making it funny.
On the other hand, if it's the complete set then this might great for a PA fan who has no interest in actually playing with the cards. They don't need to buy blister packs to complete their set, just keep them as something to look at every so often. Would be much like those who buy Games Workshop models for their asthetic qualities (not a dig at people like that, I had a few for that reason once).
My friend, you have clearly not seen "The Return of Jafar", the quite excellent Disney straight-to-video sequel to Aladdin. The third one's not terrible either.
KOTOR wasn't part of any exclusivity deal on Microsoft's part, the PC version just took longer to complete than the Xbox one.
Halo you're right about of course.
Y'know it'd be great if the original was released in the UK, since I hear it was a real classic. AFAIK it's not even available anywhere in Europe.
What are Sony smoking? Surely with all the great reviews the game(s) would sell here.
I quite like the sound of the regular live events the MO team have got planned and are happening already as we've just read. I'm a WoW player myself, still loving it to bits but I'd like to see this sort of thing in "my" game as well.
I wonder if these live events will help MO capture some players who want to feel they are taking part in a real story, and whether other MMOG will follow their lead.
Meh, I wouldn't say I was dumb, I just never investigated iPods in enough depth to discover that you can't take music off the thing. I wonder how many people know about that when they get one, it probably surprises a few people.
For God's sake, just because that's the equivalent price in Japan it doesn't mean that's what you'll pay in the US....$45 for a movie on DVD would be shooting themselves in the foot a little.
Red Vs. Blue has a huge fanbase, due to it being usually very funny and because it's made using Halo it appeals to gamers. Lots of gamers are nerds.
News for Nerds, y'know.
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That Eric Kaplan, he's so crazy!
I play World of Warcraft, and since it's the summer and I'm not at uni I've been playing it a LOT lately, some days 10 hours perhaps. I have friends. I have a girlfriend. I love games, and I'm not ashamed. If I was an amateur artist and painted for hours every day to make paintings for myself and my own personal pleasure you wouldn't say I had problems, you'd say I was spending time doing something I love. I honestly believe that playing MMORPGs can broaden people's horizons and make them fuller people. I've made at least two friends in WoW from countries I've never been to that I expect to still be in contact after the point in the future where one of us leaves the game. However, I'll agree that some people seem to love being dicks in these games precisely because they wouldn't get away with it in real life.
Wow, you're an idiot. And yes, I do feed trolls. I blame partying with them in World of Warcraft, I think they're my friends.
Sorry you think that, but I have to disagree. I bought the DVD set a few months ago on a whim and loved it. I then lent it to a friend who wasn't particularly enthusiastic and received a text message from him that very night saying "Firefly kicks ass, shame there's so little of it left to watch". That's a perfect 2 out of 2, and last week I lent it to my 53 year old father, let's see if he likes it too. Just because not many people watched a show doesn't mean it sucked. You obviously weren't one of the people trying to get tickets for a Serenity screening this year, I tried to get one for the Edinburgh International Film Festival next Sunday and the ticket lines were engaged and the booking computer went down under the load. If Serenity is a good movie it will be a hit, because the fans won't let it be hidden amongst the competition.
I think the idea is that this kind of "marketing" doesn't need to be marketed. You release some information/footage/specs and let the internet go crazy and spread the news for you, like a virus.
Modded informative? Can someone not tell an amusing joke remark from fact? The game's in production and is already playable.
They had this game on a big screen with proper podiums with buzzers at the Edinburgh International Games Festival this month. Was pretty good fun and apart from the intros to each round and the "witty" putdowns to players getting a question wrong I think it would have good replayability provided there were a lot of questions. They weren't all about pop stars and presidents either, lots were quite technical science questions or identifying songs that were in the charts 30+ years ago. One for the whole family I'd say.
I'm quite interested to see how the Finns pull of full-length sci-fi comedy, considering very few other countries seem to have even got close to making it funny.
On the other hand, if it's the complete set then this might great for a PA fan who has no interest in actually playing with the cards. They don't need to buy blister packs to complete their set, just keep them as something to look at every so often. Would be much like those who buy Games Workshop models for their asthetic qualities (not a dig at people like that, I had a few for that reason once).
Almost, that line was said by Jayne :P (twice in the same episode, I might add)
My friend, you have clearly not seen "The Return of Jafar", the quite excellent Disney straight-to-video sequel to Aladdin. The third one's not terrible either.
KOTOR wasn't part of any exclusivity deal on Microsoft's part, the PC version just took longer to complete than the Xbox one. Halo you're right about of course.
Y'know it'd be great if the original was released in the UK, since I hear it was a real classic. AFAIK it's not even available anywhere in Europe. What are Sony smoking? Surely with all the great reviews the game(s) would sell here.
I quite like the sound of the regular live events the MO team have got planned and are happening already as we've just read. I'm a WoW player myself, still loving it to bits but I'd like to see this sort of thing in "my" game as well. I wonder if these live events will help MO capture some players who want to feel they are taking part in a real story, and whether other MMOG will follow their lead.
Meh, I wouldn't say I was dumb, I just never investigated iPods in enough depth to discover that you can't take music off the thing. I wonder how many people know about that when they get one, it probably surprises a few people.
I for one never realised that iPods wouldn't let you copy music *off* them. Thank god I never bought one, that would annoy the hell out of me.
For God's sake, just because that's the equivalent price in Japan it doesn't mean that's what you'll pay in the US....$45 for a movie on DVD would be shooting themselves in the foot a little.
On a side note, is that because you realised how good BNL are?
Some of best bits from Season 1 were the extra videos on the DVD. I think they were on the website too, though I may be wrong.
Red Vs. Blue has a huge fanbase, due to it being usually very funny and because it's made using Halo it appeals to gamers. Lots of gamers are nerds. News for Nerds, y'know.