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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21237 |  magusat999 (6) Feb 08, 2009 - 10:48 pm
| They should be pissed at shareholders who want more money every year, which forces them to come up with dumb excuses like this when they screw up.
The "piracy excuse", this new dumb "used game excuse", and their other excuses like bad criticism (game sites} and game previews that they use to account for their lack of sales are all bull - the game doesn't sell because it is too expensive and it sucks. Nobody is happy with spending sirloin money on chipped beef.
But instead of just admitting that they dropped the ball, they blame it on the consumer and now even the retail are - two entities that they would make NO money if they did not exist. And why don't they just take responsibility for their own failure? Plain and simple - fear of the wrath of an unhappy shareholder.
Screw everybody else - it's the shareholder that they care about, and it's this fear that will keep companies like them making up crap to cover their spineless backsides. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21248 | magusat999 (6) Feb 05, 2009 - 06:27 am
| | IN any case, it's obvious Microsplat has not learned their lesson about these multiple SKUs. They probably think the only thing wrong with the Vista strategy was Vista itself; which in reality was only part of the problem. They said they came up with Win7 due to customer feedback about Vista? Well customers wanted Microsoft to just sell one version, with everything in it - and let the CUSTOMER decide how they want it configured... I guess someone had a finger in the ear that day... Flag this | Edit this post |
| Matrix Blog Link » /matrix/blog.asp/61831/1553 | magusat999 (6) Jan 02, 2009 - 12:22 pm
| | Very informative and comprehensive article - thought provoking. It's unfortunate that all of this paranoia exists over PC games and other media, and that it is killing the PC media market as a consequence (unnecessarily). I wonder how much money companies would save if they just stop spending so much on protection schemes that take cracking groups about 3 days or less to defeat! For example, securerom is at the point where craks are automatic - they don't even have to "figure out" how to crack it. I think they should pursue the true pirates (the sellers, not the sharers) and just forget about the small audience that is sharing (sharezerz and warezerz - not pirates). That would boost their profits (but then they wouldn't have a scapegoat to use as an excuse when their sucky game tanks and they need to provide a "reason" to their greedy shareholders). Flag this | Edit this post |
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