I've been saying the same for ages. If you you can't afford to put an advert on the side of every single bus in Britain, how about not doing that rather than doing it anyway and complaining you've made a loss.

The games industry - both in the way it spends it's money and the way it treats it's staff - is an absolute poster child for broken management practices and down right poor planning. In what other industry is selling multimillions of your product seen as a failure? In what other industry is it routine practice to have you staff work 20 hours a day seven days a week for months on end to get a project finished every. single. time. because you endemically can't project plan worth a damn?

If you aren't making a profit, don't carry on doing it using customer hostile practices to increase revenue. That's a long term spiral to decimation. Try figuring out something that does make a profit, you utter retards.

It is like movies. If I see a poster on the side of a bus I know the film is not worth the cinema ticket. I will then wait till it is shown on TV. Excessive advertising hints at crap being glossed over. With mobile games if it is decent it will get a staff recommendation. With console and computer games there will be reviews on Amazon and online. So marketing budgets are an emulation of the movie business. Rather than have deadlines for release and expensive adverts, finish the game properly, allow minimal promotion and allow the game to sell itself. If it is going to have potential for DLC then price it cheaper and hint at DLC and then people will not sell so rapidly and will buy the DLC as well. If the game sells retail for £59 then it gives lots of scope for piracy. If the game sells for £20 it is less attractive as a piracy option.


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EA will resume Wii U support when it's 'a viable platform'

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/41 ... -platform/

It didn't help that they were 'old'/sh1t ports, but still, how do they suggest Nintendo should sell boxes?

http://www.techradar.com/news/consoles/ ... le-1159314

I'm sure you'd be well pleased to rush to get a launch day console only to find this out

MS rep says they'll never shut off the authentication server down the line - believe him?

http://kotaku.com/microsoft-we-wont-ren ... -513602148

Honestly, it's time one of MS's Halo guys stood up or something

I doubt anyone who bought their 'plays for sure' kit/songs does, let's put it that way.


Actually, I think it's time they shut the hell up for a while

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2 ... -this-year

I hope he means 'premium' as it stands today, cos nobody in their right mind is going back to the days of £50 games. It's not like it's a geeky business anymore.

Xbox One's E3 showing "very unprofessionally done," says Molyneux

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2 ... s-molyneux

The cheek of him, but he's right about the industry attempting whatever it can get away with.

He might be influenced by the glitches they had. They had two game demos/sequences play with no audio. It didn't help them and, long term, they probably didn't want to make the creative director of the Battlefield franchise look like an idiot in front of millions of people. Mind you there seemed to be a lot of glitches this time round, I think all the main shows had something or other that didn't go perfectly. I think it's a function of most of the things they're showing being at best beta software playing on pre-release hardware. There have been times in the past where the footage they've shown has essentially been video, with whichever person up on stage 'miming' playing the game. They probably all should have done that this time...

I don't think you could find anyone who would say anything other than MS's PR has been pretty disastrous though.


He is Mr. Hyperbole, that's certainly true. And I can't imagine he'd be saying it if he was still working at Rare.

Sorry about all the links but it really is some laughable stuff...

Xbox One has power of 10 Xbox 360 consoles, says Microsoft

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2 ... -microsoft

+1 It is something that potential buyers are definitely considering.


Or at least clarify the situation when they say anything.

Does anyone at MS speak to each other?

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/41 ... one-games/

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/41 ... erviceman/

It is a major fcuk up, army-wise. I'd love to see them making YouTube vids. It's only take one journalist to get a hold of it and MS would go into another PR spiral of some description

http://uk.gamespot.com/news/microsoft-d ... ue-6410352

I've run out of facepalm. I need some more facepalm.... Has anyone got any facepalm to spare? What? Microsoft used it all up? ALL of it?