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"nes would work. So would a subscription by email. A community site for subscribers would be cool too, and effective. Don't know who might have a new, as yet not-fully formed website yet. Possibly... no. There'd be no reason for the guys at bitmob to be interested in a crazy scheme like"
Sunday, July 05, 2009
"r post:
As a modder, there's no point in putting in a half year's work on a custom campaign, only to see it go rotten in another half year. TF2 was released 2 years ago, and CS:S is even older: both are still strongly supported with no sequels in sight. What gives?
My reply?
Money.
I could write it out in longer form, [url]http://www.bitmob.com/index.php/mobfeed/Left-4-Dead-2-and-Team-Fortress-2-a-tale-of-two-Valve-IPs.html#comment-3737["
Monday, June 01, 2009
"hink that Valve's latest strategy with weekend Steam sales reflects that the company is in a period of business model experimentation, and has learned that any good press about a game will drive massive sales.
EA has utilized the yearly installment strategy to great success. Somebody at Valve probably projected the numbers on L4D's DLC launch sales at L4D2 prices and said "Why the fuck not? EA does it," to someone higher up... and thus L4D2 was born. Valve is trying a new strategy because they have financial leeway and bonus credibility to burn. If the response to L4D2 is overwhelmingly negative due to cost, expect to see a massive price cut followed by high praise, and grumbling amidst the launch day buyers.
If I've learned anything about being a Valve-oriented gamer, it's that you wait for the first 50% off sale to buy their games. The annoying glitches are patched, Steam will handle validation properly, and there are more multiplayer servers available; it just makes sense. Valve is alienating their hardcore fanbase by approaching sales in this way, and it'd be nice if they provided some incentive to pay double the price for not waiting a few more months. It doesn't bother me to wait: there's always something else to"
Monday, June 01, 2009
"Real journalists for hundreds of years started in mailrooms with nothing and proved themselves by doing hard journalistic work in their free time.
I have no idea why my post cut off mid-sentence. I attribute it to the site's newness. I hope Shoe, Linn & Co. have an 'edit post' feature thrown in sometime"
Monday, June 01, 2009
"a long-time reader of EGM, I find it ridiculous that you'd think the magazine is poorly served by being back in the hands of its founder as opposed to dead in a drawer at Ziff Davis' legal department.
Here's what your post sounded like after it ran through my bullshit filter:
"EGM won't be the same unless I get my old job back and all my old co-workers do too!"
That's shallow and short-sighted. As others have stated in this comment thread, a periodical constantly endures evolutionary shifts in staff, layout design, page count, and content prioritization. What remains constant, hypothetically speaking, is editorial integrity and the overall mission of the publication. EGM never had a sameness beyond a general theme. That was what made it excellent.
I argue, as others have here, that your attitude and that of other James Mielke-alikes runs and ran contrary to the overall spirit of EGM: honest, unbiased appreciation for gaming. Sure, the staff personalities were always emphasized so you could feel familiar with where they were coming from: but that wasn't the point. Games were always the point. Mielke gave in to vanity and celebrity. He used EGM as a sounding post to talk regularly about Final Fantasy XI, which is quite possibly one of the worst-paced MMOs in history; easily up there with EVE: Online. A good editor would have told him to keep it in his blog... but Mielke WAS the editor. Sure, it was nice that he got us great exclusives like that Final Fantasy X cover and interviews with the apostles of Square-Enix (Nomura, Uematsu, etc) but he made the classic mistake of getting in bed with his sources, and I felt it somewhat tarnished EGM.
I see this reboot as a massive opportunity for EGM to unburden itself of all the corporate garbage thrust upon it by Ziff Davis' business model and reclaim its legacy. Previously, EGM was headed in the direction of style over substance, and now... maybe we'll have a nice reversal. Although what with Mielke being placed front and center again, maybe that won't be the case. My fingers are crossed.
Oh, and get over yourself. Everyone who knows anything knows that journalism degrees were manufactured by the education industry to make bank off all the Hunter S. Thompson and Woodward & Bernstein"
Monday, June 01, 2009
