General Complaints and Whines

[Ghostwolf]

Now it's turning out to be a really exciting movie,, We'll throw in the stud of the Republican party Newt Gingrich to add drama between him and Al Gore.

[neildarkstar]

"Nobody" was that Native American guy in that Johnny Depp movie. There wasn't anybody who wanted to see his naked butt either, but we all did...

[Elaura]

I think there should be a part for Charlie Sheen . . .

[neildarkstar]

In the nude "Love Boat" Charlie could be "Gopher"...

[Ghostwolf]

Ah one could just envy those script writers

[Kitsune]

A lot of "RPG"s these days are nothing less then adventure games too me. Skyrim included. Which I don' really like. My opinion is simple. We should stop letting marketing create the games, and return to making games.

[Jac]

Game development is a costly business, so I can't blame publishers for backing things they're certain will sell. I "vote" for games the best way I can: I buy those I like and ignore those I'm not interested in. Unless the market as a whole decides that the current wave of games isn't to their liking, those types of games will continue to be produced.

[Ghostwolf]

That is why I'm a retro gamer, aside from them being cheap, there's several I haven't played before.

[Elaura]

I know you preordered Skyrim, Kitsune, but I really don't mean any personal offense to you by saying that preordering is one of the worst things a consumer can do. You can't even have a hope of influencing a market when you buy their product sight-unseen. The market then becomes a hype machine, with whichever game company that can whip up the biggest frenzy becoming the winner. I wonder how many of the vastly disappointed gamers actually *returned* their copies and got refunds? Even then, the money has been on the company's books for an entire quarter or more before the returns are figured back in.

There are stages of sales that might hurt a game developer's feelings, like if a game sucks so bad nobody buys the expansions or re-releases, but really, that is just gravy. The content is already developed it just has to be polished and packaged, so no real revenue is lost there.

However, I really must warn folks in the PC gaming community about complaining too loudly. As previously pointed out, companies like Bethesda and Bioware are not made or broken by us. A lot of them could stop marketing PC games altogether and hardly notice a drop in revenue. They're already kind of doing us a favor by even porting their console games and making modding kits to begin with, but since big companies aren't known for doing unprofitable favors, maybe there is some benefit to doing it, but if PC gamers become too big of an annoyance, the benefit might someday be outweighed . . . then all we would have left is Indie and retro games.

I'm not saying people shouldn't bitch, but preordering (or not returning) a product and then bitching about it is as useless as bitching about politicians and not bothering to vote.

[Ghostwolf]

My serious perspective about this is $$ rules, as long as there's $$ in it then they will deal it out. A moddable game that sucks has a huge advantage over a great game that can't be modded. It can be improved, with community made mods and addons while the other is good until it gets boring.

Though Skyrim may be eye candy, it (with modders with over active imaginations) can actually be made better than Oblivion.

I'm not saying people shouldn't bitch, but preordering (or not returning) a product and then bitching about it is as useless as bitching about politicians and not bothering to vote.

True but when there's no one worth voting for which is currently the case I can

Anyways hopefully someone makes a sex mod for Skyrim involving Rosie O'Donnell as a hapless Nord lass seeking true love in a cold world.