Malakili
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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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Fabricated
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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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"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist." - George Bernard Shaw
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HaemishM
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For pennies on the dollar, could be.
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Hawkbit
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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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schild
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Ohgodidontcareaboutfuckingac4
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jakonovski
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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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Jeff Kelly
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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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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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HaemishM
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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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Hawkbit
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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. Sure, it sucks for gamers who like good games, but Business. |
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Ingmar
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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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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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schild
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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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Stormwaltz
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Fabricated
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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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"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist." - George Bernard Shaw
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Yegolev
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No one delays games for polish anymore.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Miasma
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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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Yegolev
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Maybe so, but why delay it past Dec'13?
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Ingmar
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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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Mithas
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So looks like Blizzard All-stars is getting re-branded as Heroes of the Storm: Blizzard.com |
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schild
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BALLS to HOTS
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schild
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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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Maledict
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Not even any shots of the actual game yet? How slow can they be at this?
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Kail
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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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Hawkbit
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It's dripping gooey wads of Activision.
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Lakov_Sanite
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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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Margalis
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There's a wiki out there with shots of the alpha and it does indeed look pretty and further along then you'd expect.
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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Simond
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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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Nightblade
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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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Simond
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"You're really a good person, aren't you? So, there's no path for you to take here. Go home. This isn't a place for someone like you."
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Nightblade
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Yes, especially to those who barely care. |
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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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schild
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Got it. Sweeeeet.
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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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Yegolev
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Someone (schild) let me know how it is.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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