Comments on: Gaming News: Halo Reach breaks sales records, APB is dead or is it, Pirates to go F2P, Activision to sell cut scene movies, Steam introduced new wallet

By: Pitrelli

Pitrelli — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:09:41 +0000

I hate Bobby Kotick!
There I said it! They guy is a complete goon and only opens his mouth with regards to finding more ways to skin his customers. Grrrrr rant over.

By: Tesh

Tesh — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 02:04:43 +0000

Tangential, perhaps, but I suspect FFVII Advent Children sold more than FF: The Spirits Within. Would have probably shown well in theaters, too.

By: Stabs

Stabs — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 23:46:37 +0000

Talarian may be right but I immediately thought “how creepy” before I read further and discovered that Spinks also found it creepy.

I was made very uncomfortable by the RealID fiasco a few months back and I really don’t like the idea of my personal information anywhere people like Kotick can access it.

Hopefully Diablo 3 will be buyable in a shop for cash.

By: Talarian

Talarian — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 21:00:46 +0000

Blah, that’s supposed to read “Bungie included a Halo “movie” in Halo 3 of all the cut scenes, story pieces, etc. from the prior two games…”

By: Talarian

Talarian — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 20:59:35 +0000

Bobby Kotick’s quote isn’t saying that he has everyone’s credit cards, he’s saying that if he were to send an e-mail to everyone who has given the company their credit card info and anyone who’s currently signed up to an Activision-Blizzard game via e-mail.

I don’t think I’d be that interested in paying for the content twice, essentially. On the other hand, Bungie included a Halo “movie” in Halo 3 of all the cut scenes, story pieces, etc. to get newer players on board with the story. It was a seperate disc, about 2 hours worth of material, and it was pretty great for what it was meant to do, so I don’t see it as impossible.

It’ll be interesting to see if that means all of those clips that go up on YouTube and the like of endgame scenes, missable story clips, etc. will get DMCA’d by Actiblizz, though, and what kind of effect that would have on the gaming community after years of essentially free reign.

By: Green Armadillo

Green Armadillo — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 13:59:23 +0000

I’m about to speak blasphemy here, but I would pay more for Dragon Age the interactive movie – cut scenes plus a brief scripted scene of the gang killing stuff as per my dialog tree decisions – than for a future Dragon Age game. Inserting cut scenes into a game can make for challenging pacing decisions. I’ve never been able to get into DA because I always find that I’m either in the mood to play the game or in the mood to watch the story, and one is always getting in between me and the other.