Had me at Platinum Games.

I think previews are important. And, to me, the answer is simple: recognize early and often when a title is something that we should be skeptical of. Mention it loudly, frequently, in title AND body, and let that skepticism do battle with our unrestrained hope, that the finished product will be both GOOD and free of…

The article you've linked to is, itself, skeptical of GameStop's assertion. It MIGHT be true, and certainly GameStop present it as fact, but it's only fair to question the hand that's patting the back of its owner.

It wouldn't happen like that, though. Digital storefronts would lag well behind brick and mortar operations regarding price drops, but the mechanism behind retail pricing— competition, shelf space, and merchant returns— would still be in effect. So long as retailers have limited space to stock games and also the…

I am opposed to the plan, but not so much re used games. Really the only aspect of it that bothers me is that it would kill social sharing between friends, which I do sometimes, and it would murder GameFly, which I use periodically. GameStop's business model is untenable in the long term, and I'm not against the…

Except that GameStop is, quite usually, more expensive for used products than new-game retailers with some savvy work on CAG. The money part of the argument is the one I understand least. Not being able to resell my games, OK I understand the annoyance— I just traded a bunch of old 360 games for the black Wii U and…

Except for this: you're just as guilty of the same illogical thinking. It's irresponsible to suggest some kind of certainty wherein MOST people trade in used games to defray the cost of brand new titles. You can't possibly know what they're using that credit for— and in fact it stands to reason that people who want to…

I can't help but wonder: what would the world be like, if Activision carefully cultivated franchises and maintained them with the hope of developing them into long-term franchises instead of running every goddamned thing under the sun into the ground? Skylanders can't hold out forever, can it? The franchise isn't even…

If we're talking prolific via volume, then yeah: they're not in the same category as Activision and EA. It IS, however, very weird to see them in company that we tend to think of as small potatoes.

We should throw the contenders into a pit and have them battle for that dubious honor...

I kind of wonder exactly what will happen to Epic in the future.

Jesus, that was hard to read.

Doesn't sound kosher. When my account was hacked, and someone spent a bunch of money, Microsoft fixed it immediately. Didn't require anything more than my console serial number or ID and they looked up my geographical location and compared it to where the hacker was located. Got an email twenty minutes later returning…

I can understand being frustrated. Unfortunately, the way I understand them, this doesn't violate ANY current unfair competition regulation. Primarily because it doesn't seek to muscle out any competitor— that is to say, to restrict the XBOX or PS4 from playing anything but XBOX and PS4 software.

First: jesus, your reply was dickish. Your point is taken, I guess, but man that was unpleasantly expressed. Kudos on that.

The problem is that the flip-side of that transaction, the RESALE of that used product, replaces a new copy sale that would bring revenue to the publisher. In that regard, the console manufacturers are completely correct... GameStop and its ilk are just a parallel economy that removes the workable business model in…

Hm. Not a huge fan of destroying the second-hand market, but really the bigger issue for me is that this would kill GameFly dead. Completely. They don't ship out any non-disc materials already, meaning no online pass for games that require it... so without the single-use code, NONE of these games would be playable.

Morrowind IS very hard to get into— that is, I think, part of why it is so revered. Its successors both dumbed down the game's systems and world in an effort to make them more accessible. Morrowind is, particularly at the outset, brutally unfair— the complete lack of level scaling makes everything a serious challenge…

Not counting the offshoot titles (Battlespire, Redguard) I'm OK with this list. Mine is more like...

If you're willing to jailbreak, there is a Swype build for the iPhone, I believe. Think it came out a while back.