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She's not taking questions from Blabbermouth users but my favourite is "What is it you do that makes you important enough to have questions submitted to?". She's actually answering questions submitted on Twitter. Once the trolls realize that there should be some gems in there.
 
Well I'm going to bed now. I think I've done all the packing that I can tonight. In four hours and forty minutes my alarm will go off and I'm getting the train in six hours and twenty minutes.:eek:
 
Travis The Dragon said:
A BIG FUCK YOU to Sony for this!: http://www.afterdawn.com/news/artic...terENG&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20130104
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Well, hold on. This is probably driven by game developers and publishers who are seeing sales slide and revenues decline while at the same time shelling out tens (sometimes hundreds) of millions in costs for AAA-rated games. Console games are a great but dying breed, as the economics are so difficult. THQ recently filed for bankruptcy, Electronic Arts and Take-Two have had well-publicized problems, and even Activision, which has the benefit of the Call of Duty money-minting-machine, is looking for ways to innovate the monetization of the game experience because the model of gamers shelling out $50 for a new title is not one that can likely be sustained. If slowing the used game market results in more and better games being made in the future, god bless Sony for this.
 
After little over nine years and three months, I am now the member with the most posts on this forum.
Not sure if I should take some pride in that (it actually shows a form of addiction!), but at least most time that I've spent here ranges from pretty good to excellent.
 
Cornfed Hick said:
Well, hold on. This is probably driven by game developers and publishers who are seeing sales slide and revenues decline while at the same time shelling out tens (sometimes hundreds) of millions in costs for AAA-rated games. Console games are a great but dying breed, as the economics are so difficult. THQ recently filed for bankruptcy, Electronic Arts and Take-Two have had well-publicized problems, and even Activision, which has the benefit of the Call of Duty money-minting-machine, is looking for ways to innovate the monetization of the game experience because the model of gamers shelling out $50 for a new title is not one that can likely be sustained. If slowing the used game market results in more and better games being made in the future, god bless Sony for this.
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I like what Battlefield 3 did with theirs, you have to have a code to play online. If you buy it used, you pay $10 for the code. And you pay $50 for a year of downloadable content. I think the used game market is the biggest scam since the mini-mart on the corner charged $2.25 for a cup of 5 cent coffee. I've paid less at Wal-mart for a new older game than a used one goes for at Gamestop.

A question to the legal part, isn't the concept of gaming that you don't own the game, but that you have purchased, from the manufacturer, a license to use it? Thus, you don't have the right to sell your rights to play? I'd love to see the mfg's switch to all DLC, no physical media at all. It'd kill the used game market, but who cares? (yes, it'd take a lot of HDD space to replace your game library)
 
Ariana said:
Ouch. I just slept for ten hours straight and I feel like a new person.
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It was casual reading, don't worry. One of those novels you don't want to put down... and a very big one at that.
 
That's awesome, actually! I sometimes get so busy doing other things, I have to make myself stop and read something easy to just get back into the swing of reading again. Then it's all lights on and I go through half my library.
 
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