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• :'( : soundcreepy
• RIP : sanchez
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  Has valve ever said how much they've made total off hats and accessories for TF2? I mean it must be astr... : deathofrats
  • i believe the term you are looking for is moneyhats : homeboyJim
  • Whatever they make from their games pales in comparison to what they make from steam. : Lucy Labia
• maximum hats : devpaul
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  So... not to beat a dead horse here but this is the developer that was complaining about how much money t... : Schnapple
  • They do make an engine that's used in non-gaming applications; for example, the US Army licensed it to ma... : the archvile
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    Why is free-to-play impossible on consoles? : greg-m
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      If MMO's haven't taken hold, I rather doubt F2P anything will be able to : soundcreepy
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        Well also, will the consoles even allow it? I see that Dust 514 is coming to PS3 since Microsoft won'... : Schnapple
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          I imagine console makers would gladly take their cut of all those in-game transactions if the free-to-pla... : greg-m
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            Because if they stray too far from the boxed product market the brick and mortar stores will kick them ou : Schnapple
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              Does Best Buy no longer sell iPods? : greg-m
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                iPods have a profit margin. Consoles are sold at a near-loss in favor of game sales. Tell them that they ... : Schnapple
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                  Gamestop sells plenty of DLC codes, XBL cards, etc already. They know what's coming. : derelict515
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                    What's coming is GameStop is going to go under. It's like Exxon - one day all of the oil will be gone, an... : Schnapple
                    • they're preparing in other ways, like trying their own streaming games service : derelict515
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              (yes I remember the PSP GO - it was a dud and the Vita has cartridges) And you think this isn't largel... : derelict515
              • PSP GO did have other issues - like no compatibility with any existing UMD investment - but I think it's ... : Schnapple
      • that doesn't make any sense... : derelict515
    • Because of Microsoft and Sony? : funnynamehere
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      how well did Battlefield Heroes do? : deathofrats
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        that was PC only and it did really well as there were over 9 million subscribers (the game was fun while ... : cptstern
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          oh wow, for some reason i thought that was console only all this time. : deathofrats
          • You're thinking of Battlefield 1943. : schnitz76
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        that's PC only. But, since you asked, it had 10 million registered users at one point. : derelict515
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          Yea, and then most of them started realizing that it was a pay 2 win game, and that they got stomped by p... : Longgshot
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            that's a failure of long term execution by the developer then, clearly the interest was there : derelict515
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              Question: not knowing a lot about the long term business plans of these things, aren't all F2P games doom : Schnapple
              • By that time, they should have made back their money. I mean, you could argue the same thing happens to a... : holinka
              • How is that different from other business models though? MMOs are exactly the same. And then a traditiona... : derelict515
              • All businesses fail eventually. : master_disaster_17
          • That is not true : holinka
      • quite well : holinka
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      Its not impossible, its just not very feasible on this current generation. : disembodied potato
      • given that they've already shown Crysis 3 as their next thing I kind of doubt this F2P stuff they're talk... : derelict515
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      I believe for one thing Sony and especially MS will not allow it, as far as I know. : Lucy Labia
      • If the industry continues to move in that direction they will. They'll figure out deals to get their cuts... : disembodied potato
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  So much for Single player games from Crytek. Their multiplayer has never been that compelling or popular ... : snubble100
  • My thoughts exactly, have never played the MP on 1 or 2, and most likely won't for 3 either....... DAMMIT... : soundcreepy
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  titles of "console game quality" And that's the problem. Console quality isn't very high in my opinion... : Lung Fu Mo Shi
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    They're probably referring to graphics quality, but yeah, "console quality" in terms of user experience i... : the archvile
    • Whatever you are smoking pass it on as it must be good : .css
  • They are referring to the budget..... jesus.. : Lucy Labia
• That's a phenomenally fast turnaround from "We need to charge money for our demos because everyone is pla... : MOOMANiBE
• My, how quickly they lose sight of why they make money. : dreamwraith
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  Everyone doesn't just want MP!!! When they start making F2P single player games with great stories and pr... : MarkcusD
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    The problem is that building an SP experience to compete with a short, highly scripted experience like Co... : Dessicator82
    • Piracy is killing the offline game. : HockeyJohnston
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      There's a problem that's not being taken into account here - the singleplayer or "consumable content" mar... : MOOMANiBE
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        Every market has its own maximum addressable size, and this goes along multiple axis, price and time. The... : derelict515
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          I really don't think you can point at Riot as an example of what every company can be like - they got in ... : MOOMANiBE
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            I'm not saying every company can be like Riot, I'm just pointing out their marketshare vs SC2 as an examp... : derelict515
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              LoL is not a RTS. It's a single character TD team PVP game. Yes, I know the genre spawned inside of an RT... : StealthHawk
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                The audience for a hardcore RTS and MOBA obviously overlap significantly, the distinction hardly seemed w... : derelict515
                • The audience for a hardcore RTS and MOBA obviously overlap significantly Not necessarily. An RTS play : Serpico74
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        The problem with people trying to copy WoW is that they're trying to copy WoW. As you say, they're fighti... : StealthHawk
        • The actual results of those MMOs says otherwise. Bioware + Star Wars just fell on its face, no one else w... : derelict515
• :( horrible news, are they having financial issues, why the shift? Oh all the companies I never thought I... : valcan_s
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  "Milking the customer to death" is exactly what the free to play model is based on. Obviously they want ... : Lucy Labia
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    Unless you're a runaway hit I'm pretty sure it will all equal out anyway with all the leechers or people ... : StealthHawk
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      I am just saying though, the business plan behind free to play games is either advertising or milking the... : Lucy Labia
      • The game still has to be good or no one will play it. If the experience is good and people think the pri... : Peanut Fox
• I love the Rodney King beat down interrupted by a well-placed frag at 1:06 :) : Jobos
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  I just figured out what's weird about this game: No giant RED TEAM and BLUE TEAM tags on the screen. You... : Jobos
  • I miss that so much. : Zolneirz
• nooooooooooooooo :( oh well. I enjoyed their products. I will miss the suit. thanks pirates! : Downforce
• And so endeth my relationship with those who made the excellent, future proof open world(ish) shooter Cry... : apocreg
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  they always struck me as entitled. Not making supermoney like CoD? We'll go to consoles! Oh, still not... : MamiyaOtaru
  • lol : derelict515
• I blame cheap people. Also the poor. : Boxelder
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  Cynical bunch here. I don't think the interview says they are going f2p because they aren't making enough... : gnoleb
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    For a company that is predicated on making single player experiences, there is no shift. Crytek isn't kno... : StealthHawk
    • Well they weren't known for console games, either, were they? And they seem to adapt just fine to that. : gnoleb
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    To a certain degree that works but there are still quite a few turds in iRacing despite the 100$'s i've s... : Pneum0
    • Yeah, but that's like $12 a month. I don't think that's premium. I'd pay $40 a month if I had access to a... : gnoleb
• Maybe if they stopped stripping everything people liked from the first game out of sequels, they'd sell m... : DerHuhnTeufel
• Yeah there's a reason Crytek plans to go exclusively f2p and not, say Epic or Treyarch. Crysis 2 was not : SpaecKow
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  Hijack how do you feel about the F2P model? For some reason I hate the idea of F2P. The basic concept o... : Strid3rtheGreat
  • F2P does not require paying for items with a material effect on the gameplay or items that are objectivel... : derelict515
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    So you can pay 60 bucks for a COD game, and then grind for hours and hours to unlock the gun you want? I... : Peanut Fox
    • The prices are FKing retarded in Free2play games like Combat arms (Ew) and Battlefield Play4free, it's al... : Seabass5000
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  am i the only human being left in this planet that thinks F2P is garbage? I think when big devs make f2p ... : squeakychimp
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    Free to play is still in its shitty early stages. I think that in time they will start making higher qual... : Seabass5000
    • And Idk why but this game reminds me of Alliance of Valiant Arms, it's actually still a decent free2play : Seabass5000