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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #3980 on: June 13, 2013, 11:31:42 PM »

And then he dies and he's all DX
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #3981 on: June 14, 2013, 03:38:40 AM »

And then he's a vampire. :l <---Vampire.
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #3982 on: June 17, 2013, 03:38:22 AM »

So, whenever I see ads for low-rent games they always have ad lines now like "You'll never want to hang out with your friends!" "Your buddies will never see you again!" "You'll never want to leave your room!"

When did this actually become a selling point?  :wakka:
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #3983 on: June 17, 2013, 05:10:43 AM »

I have literally never seen that but man. That's a pretty low bar for marketing ;D
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #3984 on: June 17, 2013, 08:55:45 AM »

I always thought it was weird that "addictive" is a salable quality.  It implies that people are out looking for games to feel dependent on, and the fact that that's probably true feels awful.
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #3985 on: June 17, 2013, 09:40:23 AM »

I tend to see that on really cheap games, like the various "Not-40K" MMO clones, or the "Fondle my boobs, my lord!" type of thing, but yeah I have legit seen that on at least a half-dozen different ads for different games now.
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #3986 on: June 19, 2013, 02:11:06 AM »

<beatbandito> http://www.crypticsea.com/subrosa/ everyone play this
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #3987 on: June 19, 2013, 07:35:01 AM »

Complete 180 on all Xbox DRM.
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No more always online requirement
The console no longer has to check in every 24 hours
All game discs will work on Xbox One as they do on Xbox 360
Authentication is no longer necessary
An Internet connection is only required when initially setting up the console
All downloaded games will function the same when online or offline
No additional restrictions on trading games or loaning discs
Region locks have been dropped
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #3988 on: June 19, 2013, 07:36:44 AM »

Xbox 180
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #3989 on: June 19, 2013, 07:39:02 AM »

Yeah, saw that coming a mile away.
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #3990 on: June 19, 2013, 07:41:23 AM »

The reversal, or the joke?
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #3991 on: June 19, 2013, 07:56:41 AM »

The reversal. I didn't even realize you had made a post.
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #3992 on: June 19, 2013, 07:59:56 AM »

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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #3993 on: June 19, 2013, 09:17:15 AM »

I know it's not any consolation to wanting for the peerless esteem and regard of DN, but I thought it was a fabulous pun.
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #3994 on: June 19, 2013, 09:38:44 AM »

It was delightful pun.
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #3995 on: June 19, 2013, 09:40:57 AM »

It was for about five minutes after the news broke, and then EVERYBODY was saying it.

Anyway, judging from the reaction on the interwebs, this is simultaneously the best and worst news, proof that Microsoft is going to win and lose the next console generation, and just another ploy in their grand scheme to dominate the market by making everyone hate them, so the Kinect can track our movements and eating habits through the subdermal chips the government implanted in us at birth, open your eyes, sheeple!
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #3996 on: June 19, 2013, 10:15:00 AM »

I think they're still going to lose, and this blatant damage control isn't going to help them all that much in the face of the hundred dollar price gap, and the really sour taste that this has not washed out.
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #3997 on: June 19, 2013, 10:23:59 AM »

No, but they probably have at least recovered from "total wipeout" to merely "third place this generation".
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #3998 on: June 19, 2013, 10:55:37 AM »

It's not like sphorts sphorts sphorts sphorts sphorts sports TELEVISION got a 180.
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #3999 on: June 19, 2013, 11:19:54 AM »

What Microsoft learned from this generation: don't advertise these things, attack the user with them after the purchase.
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