Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread

[Straight Edge]

That really is a dumb business decision in the age of digital distribution

But yeah, this'll be their holiday title with the PS5 delayed.
Only Microsoft will be dumb enough to actually launch the new $799 Xbox in the midst of an economic collapse.

Physical still accounts for around half of sales;  how is it a dumb business decision to not ignore that half your sales might be majorly effected? 

And MS spoke candidly about the fact the economy might limit sales;  but yeah they R dumbzos!

Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart, and Target all still ship physical games,

[Ghoul]

With TLOU2 being delayed because financial reasons, they can suck my dick, just because you can't ship your shitty overpriced collectors editions.

I'll be picking it up on sale, as fuck them, nothing but greed. They could have easily charged people for the collectors editions and given then a code for the game.

Greedy mother fuckers. Anyone that shills and says take your time can get fucked.

[thisismyusername]

And 5,800 Gamestop locations, hundreds or thousands of other small store locations aren't open.

Amazon is also not delivering games in a timely fashion anymore. 

Majorly effecting physical sales, as well as those partners (like Tasty mentioned).  Gamers think Gamestop is some enemy of console manufacturers when in fact they are one of their largest retail partners and source of revenue.
 
And people love to declare "retail dead" when it's far from it.  Corona if anything should prove that to people.

I mean, I guess I can see you Tasty's point: But... releasing it on digital means more folks trying that option if they REALLY want that right now. Also kills Gamestop faster which is a net benefit for console platform owners in regards to no used sales.

[Pissy F Benny]

Lol at giving a shit about some guaranteed dog shit like the last of us being delayed 

[thisismyusername]

And 5,800 Gamestop locations, hundreds or thousands of other small store locations aren't open.

Amazon is also not delivering games in a timely fashion anymore. 

Majorly effecting physical sales, as well as those partners (like Tasty mentioned).  Gamers think Gamestop is some enemy of console manufacturers when in fact they are one of their largest retail partners and source of revenue.
 
And people love to declare "retail dead" when it's far from it.  Corona if anything should prove that to people.

I mean, I guess I can see you Tasty's point: But... releasing it on digital means more folks trying that option if they REALLY want that right now. Also kills Gamestop faster which is a net benefit for console platform owners in regards to no used sales.

There is no net benefit to killing gamestop.   That is just silly gamer logic IMO.

Amazon, Best-Buy and others do used game sales and trade-ins.. do you think console manufacturers want them to die?

If they wanted to kill gamestop they could just... stop selling them their products.

Best-buy is slowly dying like Gamestop, so... yes?

I mean, Amazon and Wal-mart certainly aren't going anywhere. And given Microsoft wanted to do a "digital only" console only to backtrack when console folks were like "uh, excuse me: WTF R U DOIN'? We don't have the bandwidth for that shit?" it's on the cards that they want to kill physical sooner than later.

[Uncle]

[Hermit]

riotous there is a digital only xbox one s

[thisismyusername]

riotous there is a digital only xbox one s

I'm well aware;  I don't think that's what TIMU was referring to though.. because.. they didn't backtrack on that.  You can buy it now.

Pretty sure he's talking about the always online DRM fiasco.  (I assumed he meant "console generation")

It's both. They're pushing/trying to get to a digital future. Again: You have to be really dense to not see that on the cards for the console platforms. They want to copy what Steam is doing, but can't because physical products were stronger/tied on consoles.

Tasty brought up the PSP Go which is another good example of "they've been trying to do this for a while but fail because physical buyers/console users balk at digital-only."

If the platform owners can cut out the middlemen (Walmart, Target, et. al.) and take a bigger cut of the profits by going digital, you can be damn sure they'd do it. Pissing off retailers or not.

[Nintex]

So you thought about releasing The Last of Us II only Digitally

[EightBitNate]

There’s Era Discord drama again

Sony fanboys accusing Microsoft fanboys of coordinating responses in Discord lmao

[VomKriege]

There’s Era Discord drama again

Sony fanboys accusing Microsoft fanboys of coordinating responses in Discord lmao

Secret ballots post drafts now !

[Ghoul]

Xbox guys like gears and sea of thieves shipped ontime

spoiler (click to show/hide)

have you seen crackdown 3 nicca?

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[HaughtyFrank]

With TLOU2 being delayed because financial reasons, they can suck my dick, just because you can't ship your shitty overpriced collectors editions.

I'll be picking it up on sale, as fuck them, nothing but greed. They could have easily charged people for the collectors editions and given then a code for the game.

Greedy mother fuckers. Anyone that shills and says take your time can get fucked.

I bet they could get this to everyone if they send the game out earlier than usual but they don't want it to hit the market at uneven times like it's happening with FF7

[Ghoul]

With TLOU2 being delayed because financial reasons, they can suck my dick, just because you can't ship your shitty overpriced collectors editions.

I'll be picking it up on sale, as fuck them, nothing but greed. They could have easily charged people for the collectors editions and given then a code for the game.

Greedy mother fuckers. Anyone that shills and says take your time can get fucked.

I bet they could get this to everyone if they send the game out earlier than usual to retailers but they don't want it to hit the market early like it's happening with FF7

Yeah of course they could, they could probably even make it so you have to download a patch that releases only on the day of release to enable the game to become playable.

for a first party studio it's just a greedy move IMO

[Switters]

My little waifu torture porn got delayed!!!!!!

 

[HaughtyFrank]

My little waifu torture porn got delayed!!!!!!

 

Hey!

She's not that little...

[EightBitNate]

riotous if you dont shut your big head ass up

[EightBitNate]

dumb ass little boy 

[nachobro]

 

[Ghoul]

Corona about to make this forum bum fights isn't it? 

[nachobro]

i dunno what nate is on but that legit made me laugh out loud. i'm going crazy...

[Propagandhim]

someone 'bout to get their dick sucked by the end of this

[nachobro]

dumb ass little boy 

[Don Rumata]

Imagine having crunched on Last of Us 2 for the last 6 months, just to get the game out in time, and now that you're done, having to sit on it for another 4+ months, because of a global pandemic. 

[Cauliflower Of Love]

reading the OT (open to everybody) and the Politics (senior members only) on neogaf is fucking wild.

[Tripon]

Imagine having crunched on Last of Us 2 for the last 6 months, just to get the game out in time, and now that you're done, having to sit on it for another 4+ months, because of a global pandemic. 

If Sony/Naughty Dog follows to form, there's going to be a round of layoffs due to project 'restructuring'.

[Ghoul]

reading the OT (open to everybody) and the Politics (senior members only) on neogaf is fucking wild.

And you're not gonna post some quotes? Tease!

[Straight Edge]

LOL at the ads on Resetera.

[VomKriege]

Sheltering at home ? You love fantasy stories ?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/if-dems-take-congress-senate-and-presidency-in-2020-kill-the-electoral-college.178826/

OP is Canadian

[D3RANG3D]

Sheltering at home ? You love fantasy stories ?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/if-dems-take-congress-senate-and-presidency-in-2020-kill-the-electoral-college.178826/

OP is Canadian

 

[Snoopycat_]

This moron throws a hissy fit -

"So Last of Us delayed because...what? They are afraid sales will suffer? A lot of retail chains are closed? AC and Doom Eternal seems fine. In fact more than fine. Is Sony concerned with the game not charting as high as they would like?

What a stupid fucking reason. Guess we can look forward to Ghost and the PS5 launch to be delayed indefinitely too if that's their reasoning."

Then edits in this after being rightfully criticised -

" Everyone lashing out at me can fuck right off. Digital exists. It would be nice for those of us like me and millions of others around the world who are unemployed, depressed and forced to stay inside for months on end to have some glimmer of happiness."

Then posts this after more criticism -
 
"Fuck you. Seriously. Fuck you. You don't know what I'm going through right now. It's clear I'm not the only one having issues with this. I'm sure I'm not the only one whose mental state is fucking fucked.

I have people in the hospital dying of this shit right now. My entire household lost their jobs and my baby has been sick for the past three months and started running a fever this week. So SORRY for wanting some digital distraction to take me away from this shithole of a planet for a few hours."

I hate to be cynical but I think he's being disingenuous and might have a history of histories and similar infractions towards staff


https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-last-of-us-part-ii-and-iron-man-vr-delayed-until-further-notice.178767/page-25#post-30450701

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-last-of-us-part-ii-and-iron-man-vr-delayed-until-further-notice.178767/page-27#post-30451688

[Uncle]

oh I'm SORRY, so very SORRY for having an empathetic heart that can't cope with all the death surrounding me unless I get to experience more of it in a video game

sorry I have FEELINGS I hope you accept this apology

[Snoopycat_]

Fuck you. Seriously. Fuck you. You don't know what I'm going through right now.

We're forced to eat frozen pizza and watch new Star Wars. My 97th Netflix trial is running out. I was depending on video game about the collapse of society to get me through the collapse of society.

[benjipwns]

Genesis vs SNES versions of Mortal Kombat had me in a tizzy during freshman year. Better graphics or blood? What a conundrum.

Better graphics if you like framey moves that come out at one-fifth the speed

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The first Mortal Kombat was hot garbage even back then

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[benjipwns]

I saw an ad on the mobile for some game called The Seven Deadly Sins or something about anime or something and the amount of boob jiggle in the ad alone would power that men complain about women in games thread for six months.

[Joe Molotov]

I saw an ad on the mobile for some game called The Seven Deadly Sins or something about anime or something and the amount of boob jiggle in the ad alone would power that men complain about women in games thread for six months.

It's based on an anime, so this is considered accurate physics.

[benjipwns]

Everything I learn about mobile games comes from the ads I get from activating the Propaganda Boost during AdVenture Communist events.

You all like Toon Blast right?

[Joe Molotov]

Everything I learn about mobile games comes from the ads I get from activating the Propaganda Boost during AdVenture Communist events.

You all like Toon Blast right?

Thanks to Adventure Communist, I've realized that there's an entire subset of ads revolving around intentionally playing a game badly to make you so furious that you'll download the game to "play it right". It's like if the Doom ads were just that Polygon playthrough.

[benjipwns]

My friend had Mortal Kombat for the Game Boy, I once spent many hours trying to beat that so I could use the code to play as Goro the second time around. Might be the worst game I've ever beaten.

It was also a huge mistake, Goro was maybe even worse to control.

I blame demi's beloved Tips & Tricks for this youthful misbehavior.

[benjipwns]

Thanks to Adventure Communist, I've realized that there's an entire subset of ads revolving around intentionally playing the game badly to make you so furious that you'll download the game to "play it right".

I saw one of these for those games where you move tetris type pieces around in a box, and they moved every object but the obvious one and then it goes "THINK YOU CAN DO BETTER?!? PROVE IT!!!"

[HaughtyFrank]

"Fuck you. Seriously. Fuck you. You don't know what I'm going through right now. It's clear I'm not the only one having issues with this. I'm sure I'm not the only one whose mental state is fucking fucked.

I have people in the hospital dying of this shit right now. My entire household lost their jobs and my baby has been sick for the past three months and started running a fever this week. So SORRY for wanting some digital distraction to take me away from this shithole of a planet for a few hours."

I hate to be cynical but I think he's being disingenuous and might have a history of histories and similar infractions towards staff


https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-last-of-us-part-ii-and-iron-man-vr-delayed-until-further-notice.178767/page-25#post-30450701

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-last-of-us-part-ii-and-iron-man-vr-delayed-until-further-notice.178767/page-27#post-30451688

How would this even work?

"My friends are dying, no one in my house has a job and my baby is sick as fuck. Time to lean back and enjoy a round of Last of Us 2"

[benjipwns]

User banned (1 week): inflammatory point of comparison

seeing liberals morphing into trump supporters over this accusation has been wild. but not surprising. scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds etc.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/star-wars-the-high-republic-characters-revealed.178880/

 

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/star-wars-the-high-republic-characters-revealed.178880/

 

1. Black lady out the gate, nice.

3. White people just gotta get two characters and oh hey they are basically a "powerhouse" couple.

Collecting diversity like trading cards

[bluemax]

My friend had Mortal Kombat for the Game Boy, I once spent many hours trying to beat that so I could use the code to play as Goro the second time around. Might be the worst game I've ever beaten.

It was also a huge mistake, Goro was maybe even worse to control.

I blame demi's beloved Tips & Tricks for this youthful misbehavior.

I think I have MK2 for GB still. I beat it as Sub Zero because his specials were easy and really good. Fighting games on the GB were a mistake.

[Ghoul]

I saw a user review for the MK5 that called it Muslim Kombat, showing skin bad, being ultra violent fine.

Pretty sure that it’s been taken down but it did give me a chuckle

[VomKriege]

Mans should worry about why the fuck their kid has been sick for THREE FUCKING MONTHS STRAIGHT. Instead of trying to escape from real life with a video game.

My baby is sick. A SICK ASS MOFO !   

[Ghoul]

https://twitter.com/mannyhagopian/status/1245866640387923968

Good grief

[Momo]

Don't fuck with me 8bit.

[VomKriege]

Oh well here's hoping we don't get any major spoilers as the game's basically finished.

Oh my God I didnt even think about this
Lord have mercy on us

Priorities.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-last-of-us-part-ii-and-iron-man-vr-delayed-until-further-notice.178767/post-30451848

[VomKriege]

There is an element of this that needs to be discussed too, in lieu of the reporting that this move was made to maximize profit:

Entertainment is a very necessary source of diversion and sanity right now. Millions of people have been locked up in their homes for weeks. Games can help people better transit this difficult times. If a game is finished, I believe publishers would do better to release their games digitally. They can fulfill a public role in doing so.

 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-last-of-us-part-ii-and-iron-man-vr-delayed-until-further-notice.178767/post-30459890

[Pissy F Benny]

I agree tbh, release ff7 now square 

[VomKriege]

Oh he's doubling down

Right now, this very second, there is more content available to you digitally then you could possibly consume. A bunch of delayed games is unfortunate but it really doesn't change anything.

I understand that, but to expect people to have the same level of excitement for other games when compared to a release of this caliber is unrealistic. Look at Animal Crossing New Horizons as an example. And I STRONGLY disagree it doesn't change anything: It could quite literally make this difficult times easier to go through for many. There is plenty evidence of that.

Hype is like oxygen to some people, Jesus.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-last-of-us-part-ii-and-iron-man-vr-delayed-until-further-notice.178767/post-30459988

[Momo]

https://twitter.com/LetsTalkMAC/status/1244976875937714177


 

[Ghoul]

Oh he's doubling down

Right now, this very second, there is more content available to you digitally then you could possibly consume. A bunch of delayed games is unfortunate but it really doesn't change anything.

I understand that, but to expect people to have the same level of excitement for other games when compared to a release of this caliber is unrealistic. Look at Animal Crossing New Horizons as an example. And I STRONGLY disagree it doesn't change anything: It could quite literally make this difficult times easier to go through for many. There is plenty evidence of that.

Hype is like oxygen to some people, Jesus.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-last-of-us-part-ii-and-iron-man-vr-delayed-until-further-notice.178767/post-30459988

haha good lord what a mess.

Also this dick sucking Sony lol

A fair and good decision by Sony. Sucks for us waiting, but I guess it will be worth it. Be kind to everyone Era.

[VomKriege]

https://twitter.com/LetsTalkMAC/status/1244976875937714177


 

American Chavez

American Chavismo

[VomKriege]

https://twitter.com/Liz_UNfair/status/1245028683951169536

[Snoopycat_]

"The entire neighbourhood applauding the nhs last night made me so angry when you know that 8/10 of them voted tory. Hope you feel good about you self congratulatory posing when you lose a loved one, fuckers."

We have fun though don't we

https://www.resetera.com/threads/uk-coronavirus-discussion-%E2%80%9Cstay-at-home-protect-the-nhs-save-lives-%E2%80%9D.174910/page-186#post-30461452

[Switters]

Literally shaking rn! Do you guys know if there are any other third person action adventure exclusives available on the Sony platform that you would recommend.

I'm on quarantine and the only video game related thing I have is an article about Splatter House for the turbo grafx that I cut out to hide from my Christian mom.

[Hermit]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-depressed-has-covid-19-made-you.178899/