GameTap begins filling game losses with publisher Meridian4
by Alexander Sliwinski 
{ Dec 4th 2007 at 5:55PM }
The irritation customers are expressing with the loss of titles from GameTap doesn't seem so much that it happened, but how it all went down. Business is business, and subscribers are now well aware that games on the service have a contractual shelf life. The problem involves subscribers -- who had an understandably less-than-complete comprehension of how games exist on GameTap -- being told abruptly about the removal of titles two weeks before it happens. Adding insult to injury, a serious lapse in judgment occurred when GameTap hyped hitting 1000 games, only to renege on the milestone less than two weeks later. Hopefully the service has learned from its mistake.
Update: Rick Sanchez, VP of GameTap content, did make a statement today about the situation.
[Via Press Release]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
hvnlysoldr @ Dec 4th 2007 6:06PM
Pie=Truthiness
colin @ Dec 4th 2007 6:22PM
wham!
[.sm0ke.] @ Dec 4th 2007 6:30PM
I have heard of none of those games. Does anyone care?
Animagnum @ Dec 4th 2007 6:48PM
Populous, Command & Conquer, Earthworm Jim, SimCity, SimCity 2000, Tetris, Ultima, Wing Commander, and Worms don't ring a bell?
Steve @ Dec 4th 2007 7:00PM
I'm presuming he was referring to the Meridian4 games, Animagnum, not the game's leaving the service.
[.sm0ke.] @ Dec 4th 2007 7:11PM
@ Steve: Yes, that's what I meant.
Triforceowner @ Dec 4th 2007 6:41PM
Why do you fill me up, buttercup baby just to let me down, and waste me around and than worst of all, you never call baby when you say you will.
Fox @ Dec 4th 2007 7:03PM
I case you don't know thats a Rhubarb Pie. An enigma in its own right. A pie so sweet yet so bitter. The kind of pie created by God himself.
No matter what kind of next generation cooking system is used to cook the pie it is still the best damn pie out there.
gonk @ Dec 4th 2007 7:05PM
can you make it in cooking mama?
colin @ Dec 4th 2007 7:56PM
rhubarb? or strawberry rhubarb?
S-LAH-ziman (B-B-BRUSHED WITH FAAAAME) @ Dec 4th 2007 7:04PM
Fill up... a pie?
Did you do something there or is it coincidence?
Diskoboy @ Dec 4th 2007 7:19PM
That pie fills me with the sudden urge to watch Twin Peaks.
anilramcharand @ Dec 12th 2007 7:44PM
"Publisher Meridian4 announced today they'll be putting their titles on the service."
How is this a bad thing?
I'm assuming they meant OFF the service, and not on.
Clack @ Dec 4th 2007 8:37PM
I never realized how homo-erotic those lyrics were until I saw them alongside pie.
Tom @ Dec 4th 2007 9:37PM
The original lyrics are actually "*Wake* me up before you go go", so there's not actually any homo-eroticism inherent to the words themselves.... the song as a whole, and especially the music video, however, are very very gay.
Tacoman @ Dec 5th 2007 12:40PM
I was worried and then realized 75% of the games being removed were children's edutainment titles. I'd almost miss Moonbase Commander, but it's almost worthless without multiplayer.