Heck yes. Kudos to Alexander for the Firefly reference and +1 to you for catching it.

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[Wishes series was never cancelled]

So this is the wrong place to celebrate Unification Day?

*is a nonconformist*

haha, amen. Props to the Firefly nod.

"Firefly could you shine your light
Now I know your ways 'cause they're just like mine
Now I'm justified as I fall in line and it's hard to try
when your open wide"

Take my dog, take my cat. Western without cowboy hats.
Look at me. I'm on TV. You can't take this show from me.

Take my doctor, make him squeal. I'm told our whore is quite a deal. We say Zed instead of Zee. You can't take this show from me.

They're airing baseball yet again. We might not break episode ten. But you can’t take this show from me...

I'm a recent browncoat but I think the real mistake everyone should be talking about is why fox canceled this show and/or when will they pick it back up or universal make a sequel.

Fox canceled it because they're retards. Basically the show was unable to attract viewers because the retarded monkeys at fox fucked with it.

1. They rejected Whedon's pilot episode and picked another episode as the pilot
2. They aired episodes out of order making following the storyline impossible
3. They postponed episodes in favor of airing sporting events and didnt notify anyone about it.

and a bunch of other BS.

Serenity reference = win.

gotta love the firefly ref. though, I'm not sure what it has to do with GTAIV, I'll take it :)

why, oh why, was that show ever cancelled? i've watched those episodes more than any other dvd I own.

He is right. GTA4 will give the stock a temporary boost for a little, if that even. My guess is GTA4 has already been taken into account for their stock.

I wonder how much longer it will be until EA takes them by force.

Curtis is right. With the release of GTA IV so close i'd assume the stock already reflected that even before EA's offer.

Think of it this way: If the stock was definitely going to go up right after GTA's release because people expected good sales then everyone would just buy the stock BEFORE the release to get in before the stock price increased. By doing this the stock price increases earlier and therefore already reflects GTA's release. It's a bit more complicated than that but that's the jist of it.

Grow up.

Okay, but how will that help?

He'd replace "goat" with "kidd" because then he'd have a better sense of controversy and he could indicate pedophilia to the stupid people, beastiality to the smart ones....

50% of the time, all the time.

So why not fire the git and just flip a coin? It'll be cheaper I'm sure.

OMGWTFBBQ YOU HAS OPINON!!!!!

:)

Same here, GTA has always been about screwing around in a huge world, doing stuff you might get a slap on the hand for in real life.



Oh and running over hookers and drinking coffee too.

Saints Row is the only game like GTA that I've beaten....

But I still love them.

You probably missed the hype because they don't print it in Nintendo Power.

Or you live under a rock, I can't decide which.

With an attitude like that, you'll never get to run over hoes now.

Take 2 are not pissing on EA because they have the balls to stand up against another giant corporation. They are just waiting for more money to be offered. Take 2 and EA are no better, they are both corporations trying to maximise profits. I don't agree with consolidation, but this is capitalism working.

It really wouldnt be a big deal. Mergers happen all the time. This one is in response to ACTI-BLIZZARD. It's not like the actual employees have to stay on board. More or less EA is just buying I.P.'s with maybe a promise of major staff leaders staying on for 1 more iteration. It's not crushing the "little guy". Take two has made too much money on GTA to be the little guy. New companies will be formed and this will force them to make new I.P.'s. Win/Win.

How in the hell did you pull a Halo 3 analogy out of your ass?

We all know your hatred with MS and love affair with Sony, but FFS, give it a rest.

Actually, that was a bit of an accident. Wasn't intentional, just wanted to mention some random game board, for some reason Halo 3 came to mind.

Also, pay attention.... the only reason why I'm down on 360 is because I had it fail on me five times. Extra comedy? My friend who bought it had it go down an additional two. I'd like to see you be all roses and smiles over a console that failed you that many times, especially when two of those events weren't covered by the warranty. Hell, most people bitch at the first time. And if I wasn't willing to give them another shot, I would have sold my games and hard drive long ago. Right now, I'm waiting on the Jaspers. I still have my sealed copy of Halo 3 (I went down 3 days before that game launched...) and Mass Effect and still want to finish Bioshock one day.

Do you know exactly why Pachter has such a high "success" rate? It's all about smoke and mirrors. This is what he does, so pay attention closely.

Pachter is not really that good. You rarely ever see him make "predictions" more than a few weeks out from any upcoming event in the industry. So say company X is about a week away from posting their quarterlies, Pachter steps in with a "prediction" about said quarterly reports that usually rings close to the mark. But here's the thing. Anyone keeping track of industry trackers like NPD or Media Crate could have made the exact same "prediction" and gotten it just as right. The very fact that every fucking gaming forum on the internet has at least one member that does just that and makes the exact same "predictions" just as accurately should have invalidated Pachter's wunderkind abilities ages ago. It's no different than how a week before GDC 2007, Pachter comes out and "predicts" that Microsoft is going to unveil Gears of War 2 at the events. Well fuck, of course he can make that "prediction" when the fact that the story had already leaked to the internet two weeks before GDC. You talk about reading into the industry 60+ hours a week, well there are literally hundreds of thousands of gamers that do the same thing - they're called internet forums.

Now here is where things get pretty funny. Whenever Pacther is required to make an actual prediction for events that are six, twelve, eighteen, twenty-four months down the road (what real Wall Street analysts are paid big money for), Pachter's success rate drops off the scale. More often than not, he gets it completely wrong - even stuff that would be obvious as fuck to the average Joe on any of the myriad of internet forums, Pachter gets it dead wrong if he has got make a real prediction more than a few months out.

So stuff like how he predicted Xbox 360 would only be 30% of the market - WRONG!

Or how he predicted PS3 would kick ass at launch and then go on to dominate 2007 - WRONG!

Or how following E3 2006 (remember the stampedes and long lines to see the Wii?), Pachter predicted the Wii would be a failure - FUCKING WRONG!

I could go on, but I think you see the point. Anytime he's got to make a longterm prediction that anyone could have made accurately, he gets it completely wrong - almost everytime. At times, it's almost as if he knows absolutely nothing about the video games industry.

See the thing is, Pachter only makes "predictions" these days once whatever events are at play, have a high percentage chance of being guaranteed - the proverbial "sure thing". He makes himself look good in this fashion as he tricks people like yourself into thinking that he has done something that no one else could have done. And even then, he only gets it right about 70% right, so even on his "sure bets" there is a large margin for error. Which is about the same large margin of error you'd see if you read many of the educated predictions at half the online gaming forums. The only difference is, Pachter probably gets paid some huge salary like $250,000/year to do what most of us having been doing for free. That alone is reason enough to generate a sizable backlash against Pachter from the online community. However, in Pachter's defense, he has not allowed any of it to go to his head. He honestly seems to be a genuinely nice guy. And seriously, is it really fault that so many people fall so easily for his smoke and mirrors performance? Let's be honest everyone, if you are one of the many gamers out there who have a prediction track record on par or better than Pachter's, if you could score big money salary (plus speaking deals, and no doubt, soon enough, endorsements) for doing this crap for a living, you mean to tell me you'd pass up on the offer? I don't think so. I personally have a damned good prediction track record, anyone wants to pay me even $150,000/year, and I'd make sure you saw my face just as much as you saw Pachter's. I'd be the 30something red bone, with the stylish eyewear, lots of charisma and a low-cut fade. And yes, I'd always have a shiteating smile on my face, because scamming so many into paying me the big money, should never have gotten to be so easy

@Swagman: He would've done the Psychic Hotline thing, except he prefers that people know who he is, rather than hide behind a phone.

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But Pachter makes his money saying what would make the best deals, no what makes moral sense. People confuse this easily. He doesn't give a shit what it would mean for the industry. Hell, his business is essentially taking a look at the success of 50 Cent: Bullet Proof and Scarface, looking at if either property has devaluated, and deciding whether sequels should be made based purely on those factors. Not whether the games will be good or not.

I WAS JUST ABOUT TO POST WHAT YOU SAID DFSDFSDffbngfj

Answer: Yes.

look at phone/cable companies, etc. It's all moving that direction. The games industry is already pretty much where the film industry is at- a handful of major players pulling the strings of hundreds of smaller studios. The only difference is that the games industry is still growing at an alarming rate, and the film industry is not..

They'll slow down.EA will assimilate.Resistance is futile.