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Reply #1260 on: September 26, 2013, 01:57:08 PM

They have finally set a date to auction off the (rotten) corpse of 38 studios. I'm genuinely interested to see if someone will make an offer that is actually enough to make the sale go thru.

Most interesting thing in that lot is the Rise of Nations IP.   I wouldn't mind seeing someone pick that up to make a sequel.
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Reply #1261 on: September 27, 2013, 01:02:47 PM

I wonder how much of the tech for the MMO was finished. If it was reasonably solid would it be a good investment to basically buy it for lead time?

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Reply #1262 on: September 27, 2013, 01:14:54 PM

For pennies on the dollar, could be.

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Reply #1263 on: October 15, 2013, 12:58:43 PM

Ubisoft wises up to the fact that they have two major IPs launching on the same day, delays Watch Dogs to spring 2014.  I know I was planning on purchasing it and not AC4 because of how closely they were launching.  Now, maybe they'll get my day one AC4 purchase, too.  Maybe.

http://kotaku.com/watch-dogs-delayed-until-spring-2014-1445647171
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Reply #1264 on: October 15, 2013, 11:30:38 PM

Ohgodidontcareaboutfuckingac4
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Reply #1265 on: October 16, 2013, 12:41:22 AM

After the clusterfuck that was AC3, I have no trust in Ubisoft. Especially given that 4 is an obvious rush job.
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Reply #1266 on: October 16, 2013, 04:31:56 AM

So they delay the only IP people care about to be able to launch AC4 an IP nobody really gives a shit about anymore?

Sounds like great marketing
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Reply #1267 on: October 16, 2013, 04:57:50 AM

I wouldn't be surprised if the game just plain wasn't finished either. Guess it's time to edit the front page calendar.
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Reply #1268 on: October 16, 2013, 07:53:57 AM

I wouldn't be surprised if the game just plain wasn't finished either. Guess it's time to edit the front page calendar.

I would be more surprised is the game WAS finished based on the feedback from AC3. I also could not give two rat fucks about any Assassin's Creed game. Bring on Watch Dogs - though if this delay gives them time to make it something other than a rushed out buggy piece of monkey shit, I'm all for it.

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Reply #1269 on: October 16, 2013, 10:20:09 AM

So they delay the only IP people care about to be able to launch AC4 an IP nobody really gives a shit about anymore?

Sounds like great marketing

AC4 is likely projected to sell more copies than Watch Dogs because it is an established IP, regardless of how good the game actually is.  From Ubi's perspective, they stand to sell a lot more copies of AC4 during the holidays than they would Watch Dogs.  A business can't underestimate the power of the American holiday season for revenue, obviously.

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Reply #1270 on: October 16, 2013, 02:56:53 PM

I don't think 4 people here saying "I don't give a shit about AC4" translates to it being an IP that nobody cares about, not in the slightest. I don't care about it either, but I have seen plenty of buzz from people about it.

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Reply #1271 on: October 16, 2013, 03:36:16 PM

As of last March, AC3 had sold 12.5 million copies, and while Ubisoft is expecting AC4 to be down from that number you're still likely looking at around 10 million.
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Reply #1272 on: October 17, 2013, 12:58:25 AM

Tons of people care about AC3. An absolute fuckton. The problem with letting a game slip is you don't know what your competition will be. While they'd have been competing with themselves with AC4, now they're going to be competing against an unknown enemy - and they'll be missing the Christmas bump.

but hey

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Reply #1273 on: October 17, 2013, 01:23:56 AM

Between Watchdogs slipping and some "underperforming" titles, it appears investors are displeased.

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Reply #1274 on: October 17, 2013, 05:56:43 AM

Hopefully Watch Dogs benefits from the delay in terms of polish, rather than suffering feature creep or having the bonus time wasted on DLC or something.

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Reply #1275 on: October 17, 2013, 05:59:20 AM

No one delays games for polish anymore.

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Reply #1276 on: October 17, 2013, 06:58:37 AM

The conspiracy theory I'm going to go with is they played GTA V and realized that, fair or not, watch dogs would be compared to it and look small and simple.  Maybe they don't have enough faith that the mechanics and more interesting systems they are trying to use differentiates them enough.

Missing Christmas and the launch of the new systems is going to hurt, the only reason I can see for them losing that is that they are worried it will compare so poorly that they won't be able to turn it into a franchise.  I still can't imagine a delay strategy will work, they can't make it as big and featured as GTA V in a few months, Rockstar had a legion of people working on that for years.

I mean GTA has a completely functioning subway system with stations throughout the city, commuters that get on and off, security, artistic murals, station announcements and camera shots at every angle as you ride the train - they didn't even use it in any of the missions!  I didn't find it until after I finished the game because they didn't bother to use it.  I was running from the cops and found myself on foot for some reason, jumped down some stairs to hide and boom, a fully animated unused subway system under the city.  I think you drive on some tracks underground in one heist but that's it.
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Reply #1277 on: October 17, 2013, 08:34:29 AM

Maybe so, but why delay it past Dec'13?

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Reply #1278 on: October 17, 2013, 11:17:46 AM

Read at Lum's that the delay is because the game just isn't going to be ready, from am Ubi guy.

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Reply #1279 on: October 17, 2013, 11:33:06 AM

So looks like Blizzard All-stars is getting re-branded as Heroes of the Storm:

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Reply #1280 on: October 17, 2013, 01:14:53 PM

BALLS to HOTS
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Reply #1281 on: October 17, 2013, 01:16:52 PM

That animation sucked and the logo looked too much like Hearthstone's. Which is to say, too much Warcraft, not enough Diablo and Starcraft.
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Reply #1282 on: October 17, 2013, 01:28:44 PM

Not even any shots of the actual game yet? How slow can they be at this?
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Reply #1283 on: October 17, 2013, 02:22:30 PM

Not even any shots of the actual game yet? How slow can they be at this?

Who, Blizzard?

You sure you want an answer to that?
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Reply #1284 on: October 17, 2013, 02:26:35 PM

It's dripping gooey wads of Activision.
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Reply #1285 on: October 17, 2013, 05:22:00 PM

There's a wiki out there with shots of the alpha and it does indeed look pretty and further along then you'd expect.  Just wait for the unveil tomorrow at blizzcon.

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Reply #1286 on: October 17, 2013, 07:10:36 PM

There's a wiki out there with shots of the alpha and it does indeed look pretty and further along then you'd expect.

I expected it to be done at least a year ago.

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Reply #1287 on: October 19, 2013, 05:07:16 AM

There's a wiki out there with shots of the alpha and it does indeed look pretty and further along then you'd expect.  Just wait for the unveil tomorrow at blizzcon.
Um. Blizzcon is three weeks away?

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Reply #1288 on: October 19, 2013, 07:38:12 AM

That animation sucked and the logo looked too much like Hearthstone's. Which is to say, too much Warcraft, not enough Diablo and Starcraft.

For a moment I thought it was fan made...
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Reply #1289 on: October 19, 2013, 10:05:45 AM

Because it was made by someone who made a bunch of SC2 fanvids?
http://www.youtube.com/user/CarbotAnimations

Reading comprehension is unfair to some.

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Reply #1290 on: October 19, 2013, 10:13:16 AM

Because it was made by someone who made a bunch of SC2 fanvids?
http://www.youtube.com/user/CarbotAnimations

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Reply #1291 on: October 24, 2013, 02:48:28 PM

Apparently the first 90000 people that redeem the code 38qq8dne97aa on PSN can get into the Dark Souls 2 closed beta. Just redeemed mine and got in. Downloading it now. Not sure what it includes but the article I read says it's about 90 mins of gameplay.
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Reply #1292 on: October 24, 2013, 02:54:22 PM

Got it. Sweeeeet.
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Reply #1293 on: October 24, 2013, 04:19:51 PM

While not stated on the site giving away the code, it seems likely that this is for the test on the 26th which is running 10/26 11:00PM PDT - 10/27 2:00AM PDT.
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Reply #1294 on: October 25, 2013, 06:46:21 AM

Someone (schild) let me know how it is.

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