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04-02-2008, 12:40 PM
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| | | Perfectly written Craig, the only thing left to do is get these corporate a-holes to read this. |
04-02-2008, 12:52 PM
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Originally Posted by DominiKing  | They would read it, unfortunately most of them have their heads so far up their ass that they would quickly disregard it and begin working on Crysis 2 or something........ oh wait...  |
04-02-2008, 01:43 PM
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| | | Great stuff Craig.
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04-02-2008, 01:43 PM
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| | | Man... i remember when Best-Buy did have high end computer parts. but that died back in the late 90's. I'm not surprised that online stores are usually cheaper (as it was said, no brick-and-mortar), but common.. 50% increase in cost on crappy stuff? bah
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04-02-2008, 04:59 PM
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| | | Awesome Craig! I really agree that retail stores need to sell high end cards at good prices. I have the money to get stuff but don't have a damn credit card leaving me to have to argue with my anti-gaming mom and losing.
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04-03-2008, 01:25 AM
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| | | I only go local to the PC-Club here, I won't go anywhere else unless it's on a business account. PC-Club has okay prices, but for major stuff, I'll wait 3 days for the UPS girl.
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04-03-2008, 08:14 PM
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| | | very well put craig!
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04-05-2008, 01:48 AM
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Nice editorial!
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04-06-2008, 02:33 AM
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| | | Well said indeed.
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05-25-2008, 11:55 PM
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 : 78 th | | There's a nice piece over on Shacknews that discusses the death (or life) of PC gaming. He hints at some of what is listed above. Valve Interview Part 1: Doug Lombardi on PC Gaming - Shacknews - PC Games, PlayStation, Xbox 360 and Wii video game news, previews and downloads Quote:
Shack: As far as improving perception, what do you think about something like the PC Gaming Alliance? I noticed you guys aren't partners. Any particular reason behind that? Do you see a real benefit coming out of the PCGA?
Doug Lombardi: We'll see. I mean, I think it's great that a group of major players are getting together and trying to address the problem. For us, we're really busy doing Steam, building our games. We're not really members of any of the boards, whether it's the IDG, or the PC Gaming Alliance, or whatever. If those guys want our opinion, we'll give it to them, but being on those boards is kind of a job. We try to remain a small independent studio, and if our help is needed in some way other than just joining the group for the sake of being another developer sitting a table at the meetings, then we'll talk to those guys. I mean we're totally open to it, we want them to succeed, but until we see an actionable reason for us to be involved in it, you know, how we can help in a tangible way, we're going to kind of sit in the bleachers with everybody else and wish them luck.
We definitely wish them luck. Like I say, part of the reason why the PC has the perception issue is that they don't have a group of people championing it. And if the PC Gaming Alliance says, "We need to attack this from an advertising and PR standpoint," we'll be there to give them quotes. [laughs] So however we can help. Just because we're not on the board doesn't mean we're not rooting for them.
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