Just a note if people missed it in the original post, it is meant to be your top 3 weapons, and the list will be compiled from those.

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Is Battlefield Pirates a mod? If it is (I couldn't find a listing for such a game on Gamespot) it shouldn't be included. Otherwise my entire top 3 would be guns from the Unreal 4 Eva mod :)

As there weren't enough responses, and some didn't stick to the maximum of 3, I've decided to not go ahead with this. I do think it is a good idea, and perhaps if Gamespot made a feature of it, it could work. For those that replied, sorry to have wasted your time guys. I just didn't have enough information to the idea justice.

I'll be staying away from Guitar Hero until I know the final song list and whether the achievements are stupid again (seriously, GH3's achievements are easily some of the worst to date -- just AWFUL).

Still, I think Guitar Hero's a more recognizable brand, and the uninformed actually think Rock Band ripped off Guitar Hero, not the other way around. I think World Tour will outsell Rock Band 2. Also, I hope Harmonix has gotten their act together with the reliability of their instruments -- the Rock Band instruments were pretty awful.

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You would seriously consider not buying the game because of the achievements? Wouldn't the differences in gameplay between these two contenders be way more important?

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[QUOTE="Oilers99"]If you could honestly offer an end to GameStop's cannabalistic used game sales practice, I think this would more than satisfy developers and publishers. I don't think it bothers them if someone sells something over Ebay... that's kinda inevitable. But it bothers them when GameStop buys games from gamers for peanuts, then pushes them, at only slightly discounted rates, to everyone who comes into the store. If you read the article, it's really what they're talking about.MarcusAntonius

If EA doesn't like it, then they can open their own retail outlet to compete with GS. Welcome to the free market EA.

Or they can choose to make them downloadable and tie the software to your profile so you can't sell the software to another person, in which case you're buying the rights to play their games and not the actual software.

Only if they want to commit financial suicide.

This is what all of the downloadable services do now. You can't sell them back or to another person. Assuming they could be played offline, the best you could do is sell your console with those items on it.

I wonder what would happen if all games became digital downloads like this, and they cut the price of full games by a third (though I doubt they would actually cut the price if they did go down this road) to account for the fact that they can not be sold, and we need to provide the storage space. Previously something that sold to 1 million may have ended up in the hands of 2 million (for example, I don't know what the ratios are really like) through used sales. If they all bought the game even at the discount the publisher would be better off. On the other hand, gamers may not have as much money because they may have sold games they bought brand new previously.

If they were going to take this direction, I'd like a rental option seeing as I can't sell the game if I don't like it. Maybe give first half hour free (doubtful) and then charge $10 an hour or something until we either stop playing, or we reach a cap where we have bought the game and can then play it whenever we want after that. That way all the rental revenue goes straight to the publisher too.

I didn't know some of these games had dropped in price. As I understand it, digital distribution has a longer 'tail'. By that, I mean that physical releases are enormous in their first month, and then taper off, where digital downloads are slower to taper off in this way. Microsoft mentioned a policy a while ago of removing titles that scored less than 6.5 on metacritic and had fallen below certain sales thresholds. I don't know why they wouldn't just make them cheaper once that happens. To me, the beauty of digital downloads is that they will be available for ever (or at least a really long time) as there is little cost to keeping them available.

If they are selling decent numbers at the current prices, there is no reason for them to reduce the price, but if sales are slowing, I'm all for reducing the price. There are some games I'm just shy of buying at 800 points that I would pick up for 400.

While a few people I track have the top 100 reviewers emblem, I was wondering if there was a list or way to find other people who also have this emblem. Any help appreciated, thanks.

I own a video store and had a customer hire our Xbox 360 and GTA4. He put a decent number of hours into it, and has since purchased his own 360 and the game.

He has asked me whether it is possible to move the save from our Xbox onto his. He asked if it would work if he loaded the game, swapped the hard drives, then saved. I just about had a heart attack! Is it possible to move just that save file with a memory card or cable? I'm not concerned about the actual data on the shops hard drive, but I figure the two different profiles is what is going to prevent such a file swap from happening.