I'm not sure how well Square-Enix has been doing on the PC, but pretty much anything they've released has jumped to the top of the Steam sales charts and stayed there for quite a while. With them wanting games to outsell 90% of the competition, they're going to have to have the extra sales from PC to achieve this.
I'd love to see FFXV come to the PC, but they need to change the way they work with hardware manufacturers and not screw over their customers by withholding code until after the game has shipped. It's a stupid practice that helps no one and only hurts the people paying them. If they can get this right I'll probably buy it, but I'm boycotting SE until they decide to start treating PC gamers with the same respect, regardless of the hardware in their machines.
@Nxss-effa-sim No, it cost 22 million to make, plus 8 million to market, plus 10 million to distribute for a total of 40 million. You misinterpreted what he was talking about. Altogether the profit would have been an estimated 60 million or 150% profit. Not bad at all.
I have the feeling that MS is going to do a lot of things that people really don't like with the next Xbox. Not sure why console developers feel the need to shoot themselves in the foot every 3rd console. And if things go like normal, Michael Pachter says MS will win the next console generation and given his track record of consistently being wrong, we can assume that Sony will win.
@AstuteSavage @GenomeSoldierDK @carolynmichelle @JOYRIDEME And I don't think it's a matter of extremes, I think the people were the same no matter the timeline, but circumstances caused them to appear in a different light. The reality where Booker was a martyr and hero of the Vox Populi was only because he needed and army to breach Comstock house, which fits exactly with his treacherous personality in every universe. In none of the universes that we were shown was Booker DeWitt a real hero and I think the same is true of Daisy Fitzroy.
There was an interesting preorder bonus from Amazon called Mind In Revolt. It was transcripts from Daisy Fitzroy's capture and interrogation and I think it should have been included with the game in another form other than a Kindle book. It only takes a few minutes to read, but it gives a lot of insight into her psyche and so the way she was portrayed in the game wasn't much of a surprise to me.
*spoilers not in the game*
The long short is that she's very intelligent, very manipulative and ruthless. While being interrogated by Dr. Pinchot she eventually wins him over with her intelligence and he becomes fascinated with her. When the Vox Populi come to rescue her she convinces him to free her so that more bloodshed can be prevented.
After the Vox find her she tells them not to hurt him then retrieves a pistol from one of the Vox and points it at Dr. Pinchot, when he tells her she doesn't have to kill him she says, "Ain't a matter of have to. It's a matter of want." then shoots him. When one of the Vox asks who he was, she reponds "That one? Oh, just another snake, I 'spose. Never can tell 'em apart."
*end of spoilers*
Her hate of the founders ran pretty deep, so the fact that she would wipe them all out if given power seemed logical. She wasn't the voice of the people, she was the voice guiding the people to support her agenda. There was discourse already, but she was the one that whipped everyone into a frenzy. If anything she was the opposite of Martin Luther King Jr.
@rogue81 This has been the case with all of EAs last few PC titles. Happened with Dead Space 3, Crysis 3 and now SimCity. They're probably bleeding money, no telling how much SimCity cost them, but doubt the 1.1 million sales was the target they were shooting for.
Wonder how many people, like myself, would have bought any of the above 3 titles if they were offered on Steam rather than Origin? We may never know...
Kinda sad, just because Jennifer Hale killed it throughout the series as fem shep. But the idea of a female shepard always took a back seat to the male version, from box art to advertising, etc. Not really a surprise. That being said, I've played through the entire trilogy multiple times as both male and female shepard, which is what I really think they intended for a lot of people to do with the gender option.
@Alyzen @McGregor @Crzy1 Yeah, it comes down to support of it. Publishers see Steam as a surefire way to get revenue because it has a much larger base. And most are too afraid to release any of their games with no DRM whatsoever.
But most PC gamers are going to pay for the convenience of a service, Gabe Newell spelled it out pretty well in an interview one time. The more walls publishers put between the consumer and their product (invasive DRM) the more likely they are to pirate the product to avoid the headaches caused by DRM. I usually just take the path of not purchasing said titles.
News flash: Origin and Uplay are hated almost universally in the PC space. Steam is tolerated, but a lot would prefer a DRM free solution like GoG offers. Adding more games to a service that we don't want to use isn't going to make us want to use it.
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