Chris

Pffft. Like there will be any reason to enter your employee number in for purchase of a system, and outside of scanning for employee numbers, it would be tiresome at best to cull employee sales from regular customer purchases. You're not going to get a discount off of the hardware. It's going to look suspicious if you don't buy anything else, but if you're smart, you'll split up the purchase, get your discount off of those items, and list a bundle.

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Maybe the reason that you are automatically "labeled" as a bigot is because the opinions which you want to so loudly proclaim are, in fact, bigoted.

As for why you should be silenced, about the only good reason is so that irrational opinions like your own might wither and die in society. I do think, superficially, such a thing is against what this country purports to believe in, and that you should be entitled to your opinion, and to raise dozens of equally ignorant kids, should you wish. Then again, vociferously complaining, and attempting to censor another's lifestyle isn't really standing FOR something, now, is it? Certainly not freedom, at any rate.

Keep up the good work, Joystiq.

Yes, Scythe. That would be verry funny, now, wouldn't it?

You support stupidity with further idiocy.

For the love of anything at all, shut up. Turn away from this argument. There is nothing right about it. Whoever thought about writing such a thing should be fired and then blacklisted from any thinking enterprise that man might devise.

I don't know. Are we still paying a lower price for the Wii?

This is a dumb attitude to... well, I was going to say "adopt," but the word adopt would imply that you at Joystiq had shifted your stance from something that did not resemble this inane, two-fisting brand of stupidity.

Losing money on an item represents confidence in your product? Ugh.

No. God no. Just shut up. Please. You shouldn't exist.

In all fairness, though, you guys really are a terrible, terrible site.

It's incredibly deceptive, I think, to charge a price for a game and then tack on things that should have been included in the original game for more money. Additional levels for Lumines definitely fall under that category: It is a puzzle game. Puzzle games are supposed to be self-contained. If they were charging for a different mode of game play (not multiplayer--I'm talking about something more akin to the different modes of Tetris DS), I would be cool with it, just as I am cool with the downloads for Oblivion. But they should have realized that levels in a puzzle game is going to piss people off.

I'll still buy it, only because I think Lumines is a game that is worth $23.75. I just wish they didn't think that they were kidding me.

Grid Wars is a rip-off of Geometry Wars, plain and simple. Geometry Wars did borrow elements from previous games, yes, but you'll notice that it combined those elements to create something new, and (judging from response to it) interesting.

If some programmer wants to copy other's games, that's fine, but when he freely distributes those copies, he is hurting somebody's ability to profit off their creation.

These are plain-spoken facts, aside from all the name-calling, console bashing, and sour grapes. If you want something, pay for it. Can't afford to? I'm sorry, but that's your problem. Don't try and make it mine.

The PS2 has a much larger install base than the 'Cube, yes, yet the Gamecube has a more specific type of consumer. This is why certain games outsell their PS2 counterparts (Tales of Symphonia, Soul Calibur II, and I believe the first Viewtiful, as well). The other reason to put a game on the Gamecube as well as or instead of the PS2 is that it is a more powerful machine, and some consumers realize this.

Viewtiful Joe and Killer 7 (both Clover games) were terrible on the PS2.