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Weekend Confirmed 76 - PAX 2011 live show
by Garnett Lee, Sep 02, 2011 11:00am PDTWeekend Confirmed took the stage in the Unicorn Theater for this special PAX 2011 show. Recorded in front of an awesome crowd, a whole host of distinguished guests joined Xav, Jeff, and Garnett including Andrew Pfister, John Davison, Shane Bettenhausen, Billy Berghammer, Jeff Green, and Luke Smith. They shared their takes on some of the best games around the show including favorites from the PAX 10 indies in a custom Whatcha Been Playin, at PAX, and then answered some questions from the audience for a live version of the Warning.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 76: 09/02/2011
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The people that love and are interested in games, check out twitter, forums, podcasts to see what the buzz of a game is like.
The vast majority of consumers buy a game based on what they see their friends playing, what the commercials look like, or the brand name attached to it.
Does anybody really think the sales of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 will be significantly impacted by lower review scores?
My guess is, the people would buy it whether it was scoring 7s or 10s. They buy it cause their friends are playing it and because the box says Call of Duty.
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Before gamers had a really easy way to talk to each other and see what their friends were playing, it was nice to have a panel of 'experts' to guide people to the good stuff.
Now? Tastes are so different, there are so many subcommunities within gaming that love their own thing, you're never going to get a site or reviews process that everybody can agree is consistent or always right. So people instead look to their own communities, friends, and similar-minded people for news and recommendations.
A 'you have to play this' from a friend that knows me is INFINITELY more valuable than a 5-page review capped off with a score from some dude on a website.
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