That business model makes sense when you're pumping out new versions of essentially the same game every year, but Flight Sims are not games and are different beasts all together. What MS is looking for is the long tail revenue that 3rd party developers got off of FSX. You're not the type of guy to give it to them if you're not willing to pay $5 for a flight sim. You've proven my point, they may get more people initially to throw some kitty in the jar, but after a short period of time all the short timers will fade out and the hardcore enthusiasts will move elsewhere. That long tail revenue stream won't exist. If MS was smart then they would charge developers access to the API a la Apple and take a cut of the money coming in so that they could launch a full feature sim with more than three planes and retain a revenue stream for 5+ years with the most minimal maintenance staff.
I liked the singleplayer of MOH, the multiplayer left a bit to be desired. If it's built in Frosbite 2 I'm interested. The quality of BF3s look and sound turned it into a more immersive experience (especially if you've played it in a movie theater) over the CODs. I liked the storyline of the last MOH because it felt more like what an elite operator would deal with than the rushed, dramatic COD/BF3 narratives. The real hero's downrange aren't raging rambos with hard-ons for the incessant smell of cordite, they're professional, meticulous, and most of all patient men who keep their shit together when things get hot.
The problem with this really comes down to the lack of 3rd party dev support. Essentially MS is getting greedy and seeing all that money the devs mad off of MSFS and saying to themselves, Hell how do I get in on that action?!
Their answer, kill the golden goose. They're hoping to bring in more consumers with e fremium model at the expense of the people who were willing to shell upwards of $200 for add on scenery, planes, and physics. No casual gamer is going to shell out like that ever. They might by a couple planes, but the inherent nature of a flight sim is not gaming, it's simulation and that's essentially as exciting as making a video game about driving I5 from Seattle to San Fran. Only the core enthusiasts, like myself, will be willing to spend that kind of dough. And I'm officially saying fuck you MS.
At launch I expect to be able to fly the continental united states, if not the world. I'm more than willing to pay for it, I would guess 40-80 is the range I'd be looking at. But launching with fucking Hawaii and 3 planes???????? Are you shitting me? Let me tell you what's going to happen here MS. You might get a good number of initial installs, and they'll open the game and dabble for an hour tops. Then less than 1% will think, hey I want more of this, and will shell out the $20 that buys them 1 state. Any FS enthusiast will get on and immediately shit their pants and scream all the way to the (shudders) xplane store and swallow having to deal with crappy scenery. And you'll be left with a game that dies before it gets off the ground. Learn from Apple's mistake with Final Cut Microsoft. Don't piss off your core consumer base in hopes of finding more users. WE'RE THE ONES WHO PAID YOU IN THE FIRST PLACE.
I feel like your comment should have read "My suggestion to this Erik fellow is to do what his parents did and GET A JOB! The wars over, the gyres loss!"
I want to slap her everytime she says it. I got it the first few times mule!
She's probably back at Whiterun or if you've bought a house sitting in your bedroom waiting for you to return. I left Lydia in Riften and forgot about her one time for a couple days. The next time I went home she was chilling in my room. She is a pain in the butt inside buildings, but great for carrying extra weight. If you hand her off some enchanted staffs she can also use them to fight with magic which is sometimes useful.
I had a similar glitch happen at one point where Alduin was summoning a dragon from the dead so I walked up and shot Alduin with a steel arrow and he just buggered off. The dragons skeleton did not get up and fly, however, but rather languidly sat there while I proceeded to kill it without fighting back. I know it was a glitch because I died for some stupid reason 15 minutes later and had to re kill the same dragon again except this time he full reanimated and everything.
Look like God of War was an inspiration to this weekends Immortals
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TOO BAD IT COMES OUT AGAINST SKYRIM!!
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Found a link on r/videos on Reddit and it looks like Immortals is shaping up to be Bloody Hell!
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Kind of like how in Black Ops they sold you a map labeled as a golf course that was actually just a reskin of the japanese cliff map from WaW? Thanks for reselling my my own fat ass Activision.
I know, I'm just saying at least these were free.
Hell at least I don't have to buy a soda to get the dog tags. I thought the trailer was pretty damn cool. Now, how can we get them boats in BF3?
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It's not the only gaming bit that Relativity (the studio) has used. They're launching a film starring Navy SEALs that screens tomorrow in LA along with EA letting attendees play Battlefield 3 in the movie theater: [www.gofobo.com]
As someone who just successfully negotiated a raise from the same situation, the two most important things are leverage and humility. Always have your eye open to other job opportunities even if you really don't want to take the other jobs. Having an offer from any other employer is valuable. If they know your value you will force their hand as to whether they think your worth the raise and worth keeping from a competitor. But always be humble in how you present this information. My strategy was to make it clear I wanted to stay at my current job, that I liked this job more than I would like the other job, but that the competing offer was too good to pass up, and if my company could beat it I would stay. Also, make sure to ask for more than the price you want. Negotiation will always work you down so be sure to think ahead. My boss went to work with the higher ups and I got a promotion and raise in two weeks.
This is EA's response to every disgruntled CoD fan complaining about premium services:
Not saying it's a bad film, just that Cabin has goods built within it (Whitford and Jenkins) that allow it to move farther into the metanarrative world and become more relatable to people outside the horror genre.
MGM's not releasing it. Lionsgate is. And this movie is all kinds of better than Tucker and Dale. Don't ask me how I know this, I just do ;)
I second this. How does Facebook exceed Imgur as a image hosting/photo sharing site? How would you even link to an image on another webpage from a facebook upload?
