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• DevSword: Posted May 12, 2012 4:58pm PDT On MMO story telling, I think it might be a cool idea if developers established canon time lines, so that they could make more wide sweeping macro...
• DevSword: Posted May 12, 2012 6:54am PDT So, many people feel games should have stories because of their experiences with video games. However from an elite perspective, a freaking...
• DevSword: Posted May 12, 2012 6:51am PDT I think you're a little too focused on the prestige of the word "art" rather than the substance of peoples' criticisms for or against narrative....
• DevSword: Posted May 10, 2012 4:21pm PDT I want to paint more of a picture here too. I think a lot of this deal depends on Microsoft marketing Live as some amazing great service that will...
• DevSword: Posted May 10, 2012 3:56pm PDT Well no, what you said is that this deal will help out poor people because they're more likely to have $99 than $400 at any one time. What I said...
• DevSword: Posted May 10, 2012 1:31pm PDT Uh not really. Some people are just smart enough to save up their money and not use credit cards. Unless its a necessity, and a particularly...
• DevSword: Posted May 10, 2012 11:57am PDT If someone can't afford a $400 purchase in less than a 2 year span, they should not be make one in the first place. Again, backwards logic. A big...
• DevSword: Posted May 09, 2012 6:22pm PDT He would probably care that he's paying more for last gen than other gamers are paying for the next gen.
• DevSword: Posted May 09, 2012 5:02pm PDT If its not a good value for us though then by definition its an even worse value for the people falling for it. What would be good for the broad...
• DevSword: Posted May 09, 2012 5:00pm PDT Yeah but the cost of hardware is not a question of gaming itself's capacity to change over time. Its the capacity of technology to become cheaper...
• DevSword: Posted May 08, 2012 10:44am PDT Well you're missing the point. Its not that games today are "so technically advanced," its that there isn't a lot of incentive for pushing the...
• DevSword: Posted May 08, 2012 8:06am PDT "Xbox 360 at $99: Great for Microsoft, not for consumers"...
• DevSword: Posted May 08, 2012 6:17am PDT Well its not just the Kinect effect, but the Wii effect, and the point of diminishing returns on hardware. I was thinking recently about how vast...
• DevSword: Posted May 08, 2012 6:13am PDT Yes but can you imagine putting $99 down today for like an iphone 1 with a two year contract? That's basically what this amounts to. I mean what...
• DevSword: Posted May 07, 2012 11:09am PDT I mean I guess you could argue that if you were to forgo all cable bills, and paid for all the services that come through XBL, on top of the cost...